Rodza - an amazing piece of work - I hope she gets a A+ for it.  Thank her heaps for her part in drawing attention to the problems industry is facing - it's good to get it out to as wider an audience as possible.

Well done!!  (I love the pitch at the end for you!)

Bloody funny Badger - I like that - I will read it again with that in mind.  A very well written piece - let us know her final mark for it!~

Well done, let me know if my prompts with a cricket bat are required.....

  Thanks guys for your compliments! This is Mrs Rodza responding (lol)

I'm glad you liked my script/Power-Point presentation. I tried to be as factually correct as possible.
I am very passionate about seeking justice in this industry and I am very grateful to the PGDF for their amazing work!!

I watched the  story on Campbell live last night and although Wal, Colleen and Alan did a great job,
I felt that Campbell Live could have got more into depth with the whole thing.. there are many more facts that need to be exposed and addressed.

However, it is a start and hopefully the more public awareness we can create, the better.
I have now sent through my speech and Power-point to Campbell Live as I feel it is a great chronological story of events and easy to grasp.

Haha Badger that is very funny and if I ever get the opportunity to present it to the Board, then you are more than welcome! haha

hi guys this today in `Stuff`
..Regulators step up checks of unlicensed Auckland plumbers.
The industry board is urging consumers to ask for plumbers' licence cards.
The industry board is urging consumers to ask for plumbers' licence cards.
Plumbing industry regulators plan to step up random checks of Auckland building sites because of widespread problems with unlicensed operators.
In the last 12 months the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board has prosecuted 20 operators in the region for working unlawfully.
It does regular random sweeps of workplaces and "invariably" finds unlicensed tradespeople on the job, chief executive Martin Sawyers said.
So far this year the board had conducted half a dozen licence checking operations in Auckland, and there were plans to increase that because of the scale of the problem, he said.
It was running a consumer campaign to urge property owners to "ask for the card" - the licence card that everyone authorised to undertake plumbing, gasfitting or drainlaying work must carry.
It also wanted to send a strong message to those working outside the rules.
"We are active, we are doing random sweeps, and we intend to prosecute those people we catch," Sawyers said.
The board's comments follow concerns from Auckland Council about shoddy work practices on construction sites around the city.
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Its building inspectors are currently failing around a third of inspections, and the council has appointed a person full time to investigate building complaints.
Both authorities believe the building boom is causing the trade to cut corners.
"We suspect (it's) because of the pressure, with the amount of work that needs to be done," Sawyers said.
The board was seeing a variety of problems, from tradespeople who were not qualified to do a certain piece of work, right through to cowboys with no qualifications at all.
In particular doing gasfitting work without the proper authority was a major risk, he said.
The board has successfully pursued 20 prosecutions through the Auckland District Court in the last year.
"Carrying out work without being licensed or otherwise authorised to do it carries a conviction, in the case of plumbing work. of a fine up to $10,000, and in the case of Gasfitting up to $50,000," Sawyers said.

"Obviously those penalties reflect the seriousness of it."
It was a problem throughout the country, and the board worked closely with local councils.
"Auckland Council are pretty proactive in terms of drawing matters to our attention," he said.
It was frustrating for the majority of operators who were properly qualified, and for that reason they were also active in letting the industry regulator know of sites where substandard practices were going on, Sawyers said.
 - Stuff.co.nz
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Lets take stock....

The Board have apparently made a total cock up of the register with, according to the latest figures over 8000 mistakes on the license data.

They have made a pigs ear of the gas cert system, fox-pro is more like pro-fux, they accepted in complete and dodgy certs, while pontificating about competence and standards and performance and fit and proper people, this is nothing short of hypocrisy.

They have been proven to be corrupt and willing to cover up for one of their mates at the site of an explosion that nearly killed someone, this is abominable.

All this done with over one million dollars paid to the Registrar over 4 years.....let that sink in......did we get value for money there?

$1,000,000.00....really? Because I have a bullmastiff that would have done the same standard of work for 6 cups of kibble per day and a place to take a shit in the back garden.

EVERY ONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT THIS, ARE YOU GOING TO BLINDLY BACK THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS?....... its madness.



LETS FACE FACTS.... ITS A JOKE AND THE JOKE IS ON US, NO MATTER WHICH WAY YOU LOOK AT IT....

These are some of the certs that the Board claimed to not have received or could not locate......then when I went to the gas suppliers and photo'd them...then they magically found them....


One of them they still claim not have received.....even though it appears on the web site........just like the cert 345138 for the explosion....


look at the gas leak test results.....empty and accepted by the board....

$1,000,000.00 bucks for this.......

You'll notice the gas test results are empty too, I got heaps of these....now its just a data entry problem if it not transferred across from the original.......but if it excepted with the original blank.....then that means there is no recorded test result.....which is what happened at the chipshop that nearly killed some one.....