300 million more dollars to re-repair botched Christchurch homes

A test case, set down to determine who is liable for botched EQC repairs, has been abandoned at the 11th hour. On August 26, the Christchurch High Court was due to hear about the Giblings, a Christchurch family who used their kiwisaver savings to purchase their first home only to find it had botched repairs that would cost them $300,000 to fix. In a shock announcement yesterday afternoon, new EQC Minister Grant Robertson, said the Giblings case would no longer go ahead. In its place, the Government announced a three hundred million dollar fund for homeowners like the Giblings also known as "the onsolds". There are at least 1000 onsold homeowners and the government also revealed it had already spent $450 million patching up botched repair jobs. Reporter Logan Church and cameraman Simon Rogers were at the announcement and asked Grant Robertson how the fix-it fund would work.