With regard to the Government's ‘Leaky Home' compensation, I would like to outline a correction to what seems to me to be a widely accepted statement by Government: that it is providing 25% funding for remedial work towards the repair of these buildings. GST will generate a return of 15% to the Government, so in reality, it is only reimbursing 10% of the homeowner's costs to rectify the problems, which were, to at least a considerable extent, generated by unwise relaxations of building codes by previous Governments. I would have expected more realistic compensation by Governments for the many poor, unfortunate homeowners who are really suffering from the effects.
I do not have this problem so write this from outside the square, so to speak.
Barry H Walker, Mount Maunganui.