Mr. Alan Baldwin:

Senator Murnane O'Connor mentioned several items, including CPD. In our statement we referred to how vitally important it is for members of CIRI to be provided with opportunities for further education, training and upskilling. I will stand corrected if my numbers are wrong but under the current CIRI system, senior management and supervisors are required to undertake 40 hours of CPD annually. Going down through levels of management it goes from 40 hours per annum to 20 hours per annum. There is an expectation that general operatives would undertake ten hours of CPD annually. It is fundamental.

In respect of fire safety, it is important that the committee recognises that historically much fire stopping would have been undertaken by unskilled labour. That is a high-risk area. It is unskilled, uneducated and unregistered. CIRI will move to regulate that and ensure that the people who undertake that work in future do so correctly and that they are provided with opportunities for CPD.

The Senator mentioned someone with a subsidence issue. In our statement we reaffirm the view that the current latent defects insurance model in the market has improved but I suspect in the instance the Senator gives that, going back some years, there were so many exclusions, the LDI was not worth the paper it was written on. We want to see greater change. I would encourage the committee to bring the key stakeholders in the insurance industry back and ask how their products have changed and what exclusions now exist. They have taken big steps to try to capture many of the workmanship issues that arise in every job. There will always be workmanship issues in every job that will give rise to claims being made against an insurance company providing LDI. That is accepted. Subsidence was an issue and there were plenty of providers giving insurance who excluded that.

On inspection and supervision, we have made a distinction on fire safety issues. It does come back to the person undertaking the work. Does Mr. Isdell want to add anything to that?