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The Government says its revamped leaky building service is hearing more claims.
Critics have accused the Government of taking no share in blame for the crisis. But Clayton Cosgrove, the Minister for Building and Construction, told an Institute of Building Surveyors conference in late September that a beefed-up system for resolving claims was working.
The Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2006 came into force in April and established the new Weathertight Homes Tribunal, he said. "We said the new system would ensure claims are resolved more quickly. And this is exactly what is occurring, with the time from registration to resolution being just 10 weeks.
"To give the bigger picture, by September 17, the Weathertight Services had received 5534 claims and completed 4745 assessments. Of those, 855 have been resolved through adjudication or mediation and another 2025 have been closed."
