Jimmy, Perhaps you could enlighten me here. If we follow the money and see what the respective motivations are I believe privatization is a major cause of dodgy approvals.
What I don’t understand is that prior to labor privatizing certification it was done by government/council officials. Council officials did the job and there was no incentive to cut corners. If council certifiers could do the job (and there is no evidence or reason to say otherwise) why is it that privatized certifiers can’t?
I feel that a major reason is that the financial interests of government/council officials were in doing their job properly. They had little or no (barring corruption) financial interest in cutting corners.
However private certifiers do have a financial incentive to increase numbers and get in the good books with developers as that could lead to more work and increased remuneration. I am sure there are many good and ethical private certifiers but how do you think they feel about losing work to others not so ethical ones?
By aligning private certifiers rewards with developers the problem was bound to happen.