The Queensland construction industry is on the edge of a cliff and will begin to progressively collapse from the start of July, according to a federal MP who has called on the state's Housing and Public Works Minister Mick de Brenni to resign.
Bill Hoffman, Sunshine Coast DailySubscriber only|June 19, 2019 3:04pm
THE Queensland construction industry is on the edge of a cliff and will begin to progressively collapse from the start of July, according to a federal MP who has called on the state's Housing and Public Works Minister Mick de Brenni to resign.
Former builder and construction sector barrister Andrew Wallace, the Member for Fisher, said without the provision of an exemption for flammable cladding professional indemnity insurers would withdraw from the market, leaving private building certifiers unable to continue with work critical to the industry's function.
Mr Wallace has demanded Minister Mick de Brenni publicly release a PwC report into the crisis tabled at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday of the Ministerial Construction Council.
He said his advice was that from July 2 insurers would no longer be writing the professional indemnity policies certifiers required as a condition of their Queensland Building and Construction and would be forced to progressively drop out of the industry as existing cover expired.
Mr Wallace said about a third of 300 private certifiers in the state would be affected from July 2.
Mr de Brenni did not directly respond to questions relating to the MP's concerns.
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