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What was the cost of the Kāinga Ora pilot project using drones to undertake condition inspections of paint and cladding and what information, if any, about the houses that had paint and cladding inspected in this way was recorded?

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Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  • What was the cost of the Kāinga Ora pilot project using drones to undertake condition inspections of paint and cladding and what information, if any, about the houses that had paint and cladding inspected in this way was recorded?

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Hon Chris Bishop

Member for Hutt South · National Party · Minister of Housing

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Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities advises me that the information from the pilot on paint and cladding inspections is recorded on the property file for that property. The pilot was cost neutral and funded from within existing maintenance budgets, using existing FTE to manage inspection and drone data assessments, and included 1,502 cladding inspections across the country.