The NSW government was slow to implement its own plan for identifying and rectifying buildings with potentially dangerous combustible cladding and even four years after announcing the plan, there was insufficient information to know whether all known affected buildings were safe or not.
The findings were part of an auditor general assessment that found numerous failings in processes the NSW government implemented 2017, within six weeks of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed 72 people.
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