Ms Armstrong said she was pleased with the ruling, which vindicated the board's action.

As chief executive and registrar, it was Mr Routhan's responsibility to monitor the process for checking gas certificates and after he left, the board had reviewed all gas certificates.

"We reiterate that Mr Routhan's allegations relating to unsafe gas installations have been fully investigated and discredited and we have confidence in our gas certification processes."

You do know Hazel, we actually did have an explosion.....covered by a very dodgy cert?

So how is it I could find a litany of huge problems...... like an unregistered cert with the carbon copies handed out (that blew up), 560 certs signed but blank for any muppet to fill in, missing/mislaid certs by the PGDB,  incomplete certs, twink and different colour inks on certs excepted by the PGDB,  paper certs that are different to the electronic fox-pro cert system, licenses handed out to people who hadn't sat an apprenticeship.....

Hazel has confidence in the gas certification system......really Hazel?..... You do know we are on about the gas SAFETY cert system?........ not the pile of magazines in the foyer.....FFS.

....this "fully investigated" investigation by PGDB in to its own mal-administration of the cert system.....well its like an artist looking for faults in his own painting that he is attempting to sell to us all....he ain't going to find anything wrong....or getting a surgeon to do the autopsy of someone who he is accused of actually putting on that autopsy table by malpractice, his own malpractice.

Then getting that surgeon to let us know what went wrong.... publishing his findings so we can "learn" what went wrong.

Is he going to?....... so he can be blamed, so he can blame himself...he just won't, he ain't never, ever going to.

That is why we need an independent, transparent, unbiased inquiry. For our industry to regain some of the respect and integrity that it had before these people got their claws in to it.....when it was run by honest trades people out of a town house in Lower Hutt, not some mirrored ivory tower in the capital, with newly installed security systems. The money spent on this mirrored luxury could have bought that town house ten fold.

The PGDB have past form for being incapable of judging them selves, just look at  the PGDB judging its own impartiality at my impartiality hearing .....to judge your own impartiality is a total oxymoronic misnomer, or in other words total bollox.

Impartial is......unbiased, unprejudiced, neutral, non-partisan, non-discriminatory, anti-discrimination, disinterested, uninvolved, uncommitted, detached, dispassionate, objective, open-minded, equitable, even-handed, fair, fair-minded.

Do you trust the PGDB to investigate its self, stand there and say...... hell yeah we granted a license to someone who blew that place up......an apprenticeship, nah we just had ONE oral exam (chat)...why? Oh we are all part of the same clubs, thought he was all good......the explosion? We'll look into that.......

So the surgeon gets out his rusty scalpel, no need to wipe the blood off because the blood of the cadaver is the same as the once patient....... it is the once trusting patient.....he wipes his grubby hands in his egg and red sauce strewn medical scrubs, clears his cigarette choked throat and goes looking for the truth........does he look for the truth for his report. ...how did this guy die of blood poisoning, or does he report ...............nothing to see here, natural causes......NEXT PLEASE.....

You have all been duped for decades and paid for the pleasure in $2 million illegally taken funds,  license fees, licenses that you trained for.... that are gifted to their mates......and certs you paid for that were misplaced and mal-administered by the PGDB.....run so badly that we are left with the worst gas cert system in NZ history, ever.....

You reckon they are just going to stand up and say.....oooops, my bad........are they f****, wake up.