hi guys/Rodza  (Its funny how I can re-build the brakes in my 39 year old holden) Don`t speak to soon!! cheers

hi guys/Rodza, (people die every day from things 100 times worse than plumbing that are virtually unregulated) yeah car accidents is just one example,cheers

I've been thru the list of courses for drainlaying and there are very few that are technical. Almost all are Health & Safety. How is one supposed to g et the technical points

How much can you learn, relearn and learn again over a career of say 30 years......yet another well thought out bag of crap imposed by the "experts".

It used to be, and had been for 100's if not 1000's of years that someone who was involved in a trade did an apprenticship, spent time as an improver....then through the experience gained became a master at his/her craft and then passed that knowledge on to his apprentices and improvers.....until someone saw a profit to be made.

I wonder how much CPD the imposers of CPD do, because from my experience the most incompetent people in our industry, who are in need of re-training, are those who think every one else needs it.

S**t still does, and always will roll down hill......sadly figuratively and literally.

I heard the Board were going to have their xmas doo in the tui brewery.....but couldn't get it organised.

Just keep renewing your health and safety policy , so the the providers keep enjoying the standard of living they have now become accustomed to, the local provider around here has a flasher fleet of vehicles than the government , all payed for by you and me , but then again we are much safer now aye ( yeah right ) I dont know about the rest of you but I have had enough of the bullshit , being self employed I tell them to get stuffed and find a real job , when they put the put health and safety personnel outside the fast food shops they can come and  talk to me , until then F/., off

I see on  my pgdb login that my exams from years past have been worth 16 points cpd - how the hell do all of these other up-skill courses claim to be on par or above that of sitting a gasfitting certifying exam?!?


f n crock


and sounds like the precedent has been set - complain about it loud enough and hard enough an you are exempt from the cpd requirement to re-license...  (not that its a legal requirement anyhow)

hmmm very interesting!

Hi guys/Rodza, I think the minister is too busy hiding somewhere to be bothered with your request where he can avoid our trades problems, he seems to have run out of ideas of how to deal with this dysfunctional board but is not going to admit it.  The last letter I sent to him he replied saying that he had passed it on to another department. As for the others, they will be getting worried that their master plan of huge wealth is falling apart, cheers