Mr. Terry Sheridan:

I am in total agreement with Senator Murnane O'Connor. Our brief is urban renewal and increasing housing supply and we need to come up with mechanisms to facilitate that. As Ms Neary outlined, the current building regulations are perhaps more focused on the standards for new builds but we want to clarify that those new-build standards do not always have to apply to conversions and existing structures. The objective is to bring clarity on that to property owners and developers and try to minimise as much as possible the barriers that exist.