South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:41): (676) My question is to the Minister for Planning. Minister, will the government commit to extending the liquidated builders customer support payment scheme, which closed on 29 January 2024, to reimburse the 63 homebuyers in the Casey South region who have lost their deposits due to Montego Homes going into liquidation? The domestic building insurance noncompliance laws have not been adequately audited by the government, which allowed Montego Homes to continue taking deposits without having appropriate insurance in place for deposit-holders. I happen to know from meeting some of those that came out last sitting week to actually protest on the steps of Parliament that one of these ladies who had purchased in my local area had only just paid her deposit in the middle of January this year. So we do want to know the answer to that question.