THE NSW housing minister has agreed a list of buildings which contain dangerous cladding should be made public.
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During state parliament estimates on Wednesday, shadow roads minister Peter Primrose asked water, housing and property minister Melinda Pavey if she believed the list of more than 400 buildings state- wide should be made public.
"Do you believe it reasonable that it is in the public interest that this should be disclosed?," Mr Primrose said.
To which Ms Pavey replied:"I think it is information that should be available, certainly."
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The state government has kept the list under wraps, citing arson, terrorism and financial harm to property owners as the reasons for the secrecy.
Responsibility for making the list public would fall to Tamworth MP and minister for innovation and better regulation Kevin Anderson, who has previously said works were under way to rectify the issue in some buildings.
Mr Anderson said the government had no plans to release the list of buildings to the public in the near future.
"We believe to release that on the back of emergency service, counter terrorism, police, fire and rescue advice which states that identifying individual buildings would expose them to a risk of arson and therefore public safety," he said.
"The upper house challenged that and asked the list be released in the public arena.
"There was a legal claim upheld by an independent legal arbiter, who was appointed by the Parliament, Keith Mason AC, who agreed that the list should not be published."
Labor's shadow minister for building reform, Yasmin Catley said the list of buildings which includes "schools, TAFEs, office blocks and hospitals" should be made public.
"It is essential for people to feel safe when they enter a hospital or a TAFE, yet this government is more interested in a cover-up than the safety of people visiting and working in public buildings like the Ultimo TAFE," Ms Catley said.
"We need the full list of public buildings which have this deadly product to be released, so that we can hold the government to account on the rectification and removal of all flammable cladding.