"\u003C!DOCTYPE html\u003E\u003Chtml xmlns:xlink=\u0022http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\u0022 xmlns:xsi=\u0022http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance\u0022 xmlns:mml=\u0022http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Chead\u003E\n    \u003CMETA http-equiv=\u0022Content-Type\u0022 content=\u0022text/html; charset=utf-16\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cmeta name=\u0022viewport\u0022 content=\u0022width=device-width, initial-scale=1\u0022\u003E\n  \u003C/head\u003E\n  \u003Cbody style=\u0022font-family:sans-serif; font-size:100%;\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022b6f0f60d0fb24df49c5a34971d87e3c7\u0022\u003ETHURSDAY, 2 JULY 2020\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000003\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u002232512ca0f992441e9d75f19c870db432\u0022\u003ETHURSDAY, 2 JULY 2020\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000002\u0022\u003EThe Speaker took the Chair at 2 p.m.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000004\u0022\u003EPrayers.\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000005\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022f0ac98770ed84829af5cabd3df075194\u0022\u003EBusiness Statement\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000007\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022a08d6a08d70b4e6997600b2308872441\u0022\u003EBusiness Statement\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u0022df436451a00d48f68cfab69ad7bd445a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000006\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022df436451a00d48f68cfab69ad7bd445a\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House):\u003C/span\u003E The House will next sit on Tuesday, 21 July, when it will consider the second readings of the Ng\u0101ti Hinerangi Claims Settlement Bill and the Infrastructure Funding and Financing Bill. The Business Committee has agreed that on the morning of Wednesday, 22 July, there\u2019ll be an extended sitting devoted to members\u2019 business. That afternoon, the New Zealand M\u0101ori Arts and Crafts Institute Vesting Bill will pass through its remaining stages.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000008\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003EI\u2019ve notified the Business Committee of my intention to move urgency on Wednesday, 22 July, as we continue to make up the time lost while the country was at COVID alert levels 3 and 4. The business to be included will largely consist of the remaining stages of bills currently listed on the Order Paper as being at committee stage or third reading, as well as some first readings. I expect that urgency will last into Friday or Saturday.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022 data-id=\u00223a1a44b4f54e4c4a8594141f6b418520\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000009\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223a1a44b4f54e4c4a8594141f6b418520\u0022\u003EHon GERRY BROWNLEE (National\u2014Ilam):\u003C/span\u003E Can the Leader of the House advise us as to whether or not he intends putting the Estimates debate into the urgency motion? That\u2019s an 11-hour debate. It would give an indication of the Government\u2019s need to get all those done in a hurry and also give us a fair idea of what they\u2019re not going to get done in the next few weeks.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u0022ddb3a614a1a447a48ffb6aec33cd89c4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000010\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022ddb3a614a1a447a48ffb6aec33cd89c4\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House):\u003C/span\u003E At this point, I\u2019m happy to tell the member that my expectation is that we will do the 11-hour Estimates debate in the second week back, after the forthcoming adjournment.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000011\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00227cc7a01458744d16bcaa41d1873751b2\u0022\u003EOral Questions\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000012\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00226c79a3bceddd4ded837e97d7d2a2bb57\u0022\u003EQuestions to Ministers\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000013\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022d68bab3fac83488aa9162b4da40b737f\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 1\u2014Prime Minister\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022 data-id=\u002226f743d0fda24fef852826955758f702\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000014\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E1. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002226f743d0fda24fef852826955758f702\u0022\u003EHon NIKKI KAYE (Deputy Leader\u2014National)\u003C/span\u003E to the Prime Minister: Is she confident the Government is delivering on its infrastructure commitments, particularly its commitment to light rail from the city to the airport in Auckland?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022 data-id=\u00224f95d984df294e95a4674615dd881186\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000015\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224f95d984df294e95a4674615dd881186\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister)\u003C/span\u003E on behalf of the Prime Minister: Yes, we are confident that this Government is delivering on infrastructure, including the $12 billion announced in January before COVID-19, the $4.6 billion spent so far on rail, and the $3 billion of infrastructure investments announced just yesterday. Our latest achievement was announced only this morning by the Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Regional Economic Development, Shane Jones: $40 million to develop a regional freight hub north-east of Palmerston North.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000016\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e1a49db7f8b749568844d39a662da51a\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: Does she agree with the reported comments of Green Party co-leader James Shaw that New Zealand First\u2019s killing off of Auckland light rail this term was a slap in the face of Aucklanders and breached the coalition agreement between Labour and New Zealand First; if not, why not?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000017\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228f7083d8dc9c49448e47696fcce3873a\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, Mr Shaw has many qualities, but being up to date on contractual law may not be his forte, because you\u2019ve got to be a party to a contract to insist upon its terms being referenced. That\u2019s why I\u2019m saying that, but it\u2019s not a criticism. There was an agreement between Labour and the Greens in which it\u2019s mentioned, but it\u2019s not mentioned in the coalition document that we signed up to. Now, that said, people are entitled to put their options, and in the New Zealand Herald today you see the other side of the story, which is widely being read by supporters of the National Party\u2014know where they must go to now.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000018\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022fda32edfb8084bc48a928334b6f31941\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Order! I am going to remind the Prime Minister to speak in the Prime Minister\u2019s voice.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000019\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dbaac12b-3efa-4d95-a08d-f0f637a48bab\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228c98d430a3ef4b03b7dcdc0fe8b4c3d9\u0022\u003EChl\u00F6e Swarbrick\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I\u2019m just seeking your guidance with regard to the statement by the Hon Nikki Kaye about the quotation from the Hon James Shaw. I\u2019m just seeking some clarity on what she is stipulating was actually the quoted text.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000020\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002298b15138a6544a5dbf4789ab57e8b2cb\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Well, it\u2019s probably\u2014no, I\u2019m not going to ask for it to be done again. My view is that we can have a look at it later on, but there\u2019s not going to be anything added to it. If the member is of the view that the quote was misleading, then there are other ways of taking that up, and doing it now is not one of them.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000021\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cf2e1a9bb07f4a9ebd3e553f1d507044\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: Does she agree with the Rt Hon Winston Peters, who referred to the agreement to begin work on Auckland light rail as \u201Cloose drafting\u201D, and is this why construction has not begun?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022bafb50dd13a5433b8a302697870c5e3f\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, the reality is that work on the light rail concept did begin. The Ministry of Transport asked for proposals. The transport Minister received them. They were consulted on. But, alas, we did not get agreement. Those are the facts.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000023\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228caeaa0bcfd64290bfd55cbde165542f\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: Is it her view that the Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s decision to oppose the light rail Cabinet paper last week was based on good faith and a no-surprises approach?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000024\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f5c232023613417aa84487ef5ad02383\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, such a statement about being part of a no-surprises approach demonstrates someone\u2019s lack of familiarity with the Cabinet Manual and what the no-surprises approach is about. Why on earth would a consultative document, which relates to a judgment on facts, be a matter of no surprises? Or is it a surprise to that member, for example, that, in terms of costings, that was not advised or being told? That member, by the way\u2014and I can say\u2014in July 2010, July 2011, and September 2011 made three separate steps with respect to light rail and did nothing about them whatsoever.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000025\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220c198086418a4952a18fceb140d66526\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: Is it correct that the cost of the NZ Infra proposal for light rail was as high as $10 billion?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000026\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022210610394a5144cfb372a99b4362e4d3\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, there is a secrecy provision inside the costings which does not enable us to disclose them. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000027\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022db405cf377c841a9a8bc9d48d3505a7d\u0022\u003EHon Member\u003C/span\u003E: Aww.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000028\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cc7b724e58f445609c30534db897e1ef\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: But before we say, \u201CAww, aww, aww,\u201D can I mention Transmission Gully, where the whole project has stopped. Now it looks like it\u2019s going to cost more to finish it than it\u2019s cost thus far. I\u2019d like to know who over there, including the former member Steven Joyce, did the fiscals, because it was amateur hour.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000029\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c44647bb3bb6493f875e4e5a7204cbac\u0022\u003EHon Grant Robertson\u003C/span\u003E: Referring to the primary question, can the Prime Minister confirm that the Government inherited a $5.9 billion hole in the Auckland Transport Plan?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000030\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b9cbffd34de8428b8a2bdb9f63469c46\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, alas, that is the truth. That\u2019s what we inherited, because they talked a big game but they never delivered.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000031\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e7b97e73ce7149e6a1d51d82e9c5c704\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: Does she agree with her Deputy Prime Minister that the light rail proposals would have cost untold billions and seriously obstructed Aucklanders moving around their city for years?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000032\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022aa43805c192b4ca9884ceda2b3bfdb0b\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, there have been attempts with respect to light rail led by that member in July 2010, July 2011, and September 2011, when she was presenting a petition to Parliament. Can I just propose to say this: that such a definitive, well worked-out, fiscally judged project that she says she supports\u2014would surely know what the cost is. Does she know what the cost is?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000033\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d4d4ad34d6784e20b34e1b56eb73a399\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Order!\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000034\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c962d5a53acb42febb42fa07eae7786d\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: Why won\u2019t the Government, after multiple requests from the Auckland Council, confirm which shovel-ready ready projects it is funding, so they can set their budget and their rates?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000035\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ae62bbb3d1f34a7a9a583be760bc1d48\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, that\u2019s a marvellous question, actually, because\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000036\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224c808ff6113d47b888ecf571e381bfae\u0022\u003EHon Gerry Brownlee\u003C/span\u003E: The shovels are still in the shed.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000037\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b50c9b261a2c40a6a41068bee36f6ab8\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: Well, I know something. That member\u2019s never seen a shovel\u2014ha, ha!\u2014and it shows. I mean, anybody that\u2019s done any physical work, they keep their shape all their lives.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000038\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220218fe843a084ec48e40bd0cd5dba6df\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Order! Order! That\u2019s\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000039\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002242694fc42be848a5ab074dab556ff3b2\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: Well, he started it.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000040\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f90b8e1793224b31bb0c846afd4dd08c\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Well, he might have started the interjections. He didn\u2019t take it down to that level. The Prime Minister will withdraw and apologise.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000041\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002239745c706c0c4b6f981241a1dfd64ac6\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: I withdraw and apologise. Can I answer the question though, Mr Speaker?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000042\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e6b4dc55-3561-49a8-a871-ae005354ef90\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223e5caab9f5f948649bd058e2213c552c\u0022\u003EHon Gerry Brownlee\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I feel obliged to say that I have kept my shape all my life.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000043\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ba4acddaf468412fb5a8f1fba5e38e60\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: I fear he\u2019s got me there. On behalf of the Prime Minister, with respect to these projects\u2014listen up\u2014$350 million for the improvements to the Wiri to Quay Park Corridor; $371 million to extend notification of Papakura to Pukekohe\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000044\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a68928ea-9dd8-4a30-8e2c-a0f49dfc8bea\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229647dd64c7aa4cd8a8f7556e1b2e326b\u0022\u003EHon Louise Upston\u003C/span\u003E: It\u2019s been done.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000045\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022604bb9ee6fe846829ba61098c0ca53ee\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: \u2014$211 million for the improvements to Wellington, Wairarapa, and Palmerston North networks\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000046\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a68928ea-9dd8-4a30-8e2c-a0f49dfc8bea\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b2f5150b29054dfd98aece7e4e61f2f6\u0022\u003EHon Louise Upston\u003C/span\u003E: It\u2019s been delivered.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000047\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f113b00d8aae42838a04e68405f679da\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member will resume his seat. Louise Upston, it\u2019s bad enough that you interject into four mikes at a time, but when you bring me into it, you are definitely disorderly, and you will cease interjecting this question time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000048\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a6c795f3d8a5446bb134386a8af1d0e9\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: \u2014$400 million for the Interislander ferry replacement; $247 million for the Drury railway stations; and $6.2 million for the Napier to Wairoa railway. Auckland is getting a stack of that money as well.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000049\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a8a3a356286d4fa9bb684dbbb235a8d1\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: What is the name of a number of infrastructure projects that she has announced and actually completed?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000050\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d14d701993b24a7bbed64759401a65d0\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, this question is impossible to fathom. What is the name of what?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000051\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226c7c341d3ebd4946a575bb663e85275d\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: What is the name of infrastructure projects that she has not only announced and completed?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000052\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228a6602cb4f44479b9bff72a5cd1cfced\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, infrastructural projects take years, but getting started is what we do, and we\u2019re getting started now. All around this country, from Invercargill to Kait\u0101ia, things are getting started.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000053\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227555111eb50a43e589c3779a518bb4b0\u0022\u003EJami-Lee Ross\u003C/span\u003E: Is ensuring long-term water supply for Auckland an infrastructure commitment for the Government, and, if so, will the Government heed the calls from Shane Jones and Nikki Kaye to include in their COVID fast-track bill the Watercare consent application?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000054\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221d4c1fd690f140f28e14bb41f8e941e4\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, I can answer that member by saying we\u2019re already on to it and very shortly we will have provided a solution.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000055\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022604113a72fdc4fd586b26586f6be3866\u0022\u003EJami-Lee Ross\u003C/span\u003E: Does that mean the Government will include in the COVID fast-track bill a Schedule 2 inclusion which would ensure the Watercare application for additional water for Auckland is a fast-track project under the bill?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000056\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c5ad930a15a742cf802a4bc1c6caa3bb\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, the intent being dealt with by David Parker is to cover the issue of concern that he\u2019s got. In fact, this Government has borrowed the slogan from President Truman, \u201CAction, this day.\u201D\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000057\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00222872530e32b9487ca130294c9bdd530c\u0022\u003EHon David Parker\u003C/span\u003E: Can the Prime Minister confirm that this week the Minister for the Environment called in the large long-term consent application for direct reference to a board of inquiry, which is a similar but not identical process to that which is in the fast-track bill, and also that there is an expectation that water for this summer will be made available by Hamilton City Council as well as the additional 25 million litres per day that has already been consented?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000058\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c563d20fb3234f54b8fe071ba3ce7500\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: On behalf of the Prime Minister, both of those propositions as shaped in the question can be answered in the affirmative.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000059\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2d10c1-43b7-41d9-9f5c-0c313f70e625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022dfc17c579804440894f2c47d5c7902a8\u0022\u003EHon Nikki Kaye\u003C/span\u003E: How many infrastructure projects have been announced and actually started under her Government?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000060\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002267536360a8dc4e849b49c933b4b23832\u0022\u003ERt Hon WINSTON PETERS\u003C/span\u003E: Actually, to use the biblical phrase, the number is legion, all around this country\u2014far too many for me to articulate today.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000061\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022bdad7bc5beb8498289f498ca8617fad3\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 2\u2014Education\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022a5f0fe84-01e8-4eb3-a590-0025017c4243\u0022 data-id=\u002235ef2a820d984a8dbd6350ef48e0d602\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000062\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a5f0fe84-01e8-4eb3-a590-0025017c4243\u0022\u003E2. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002235ef2a820d984a8dbd6350ef48e0d602\u0022\u003EMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader\u2014Green)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Education: How many children does he expect to benefit from the recently announced Government\u2019s free and healthy school lunches programme?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u00229f63aa5f0b074eca945658945d5b567d\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000063\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229f63aa5f0b074eca945658945d5b567d\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Education):\u003C/span\u003E Today, I announced that 18 schools in Otago and Southland with 3,000 students are joining the programme. This is on top of the 42 schools that are already taking part. Across New Zealand, we\u2019ll be expanding free and healthy lunches to around 200,000 New Zealand schoolchildren by the end of next year. When fully implemented, one in four schoolchildren in New Zealand will receive a free and healthy school lunch every day. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000064\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a5f0fe84-01e8-4eb3-a590-0025017c4243\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223685db18a6514f959c55f7acea6dd08f\u0022\u003EMarama Davidson\u003C/span\u003E: How will the expansion of this programme create jobs for local families and wh\u0101nau?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000065\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226473314557024a2b83743d6116cec9c9\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: It\u2019s estimated that around 2,000 jobs in local communities will be created from the expansion in Budget 2020, including jobs for around 30 people in Otago and Southland. This is based on what we know from the existing pilot. For example, the school lunches at Murupara Area School are delivered by Manawa Munchies, which is a business set up specifically for this purpose, which is employing three local people. Similar examples exist up and down the country.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000066\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a5f0fe84-01e8-4eb3-a590-0025017c4243\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cb85c97a2e50407ab8f02d9a751b6a0a\u0022\u003EMarama Davidson\u003C/span\u003E: What are the benefits of this programme to the students and the community as a whole?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000067\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ab417edf00c04801bead32a3d41ffe8a\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: Shortly after the programme was launched, the Prime Minister and I visited a school in Flaxmere where they had been delivering the programme for several weeks. The teachers there commented that the student behavioural issues in the school had declined, that the afternoon sessions were a much more productive time for learning, because the children had food in their stomachs. They reported that their breakfast programme had increased attendance because all of the stigma associated with eating food at school had gone down, and, as a result, the kids were healthier, they were happier, and they were learning more.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000068\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022fa1292bdc18e46d4a2f0c3d70c558347\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 3\u2014Finance\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022 data-id=\u0022e3829d0e4c1b49e3a9dabc39190c06bf\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000069\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022\u003E3. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e3829d0e4c1b49e3a9dabc39190c06bf\u0022\u003EHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Finance: What did he mean yesterday by his comment on the tax system that \u201Cby and large, it is fair and balanced\u201D, and does he think changes to the tax system will be required?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022 data-id=\u002266d777e8f47b4086a7f754fa7d5fe9ee\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000070\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002266d777e8f47b4086a7f754fa7d5fe9ee\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance):\u003C/span\u003E I meant to express my view that, by and large, the tax system is fair and balanced. As with all Governments, there have been areas where we have looked to improve fairness and balance\u2014for example, such as cancelling the tax cuts proposed by the previous Government which would have disproportionately benefited the wealthiest New Zealanders, and taking the decision to redirect that funding to low and middle income New Zealanders through the Families Package. The Government continues to work on changes to the tax system where we think they\u2019re required\u2014for example, on making sure multinationals pay their fair share. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000071\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227f992c27328049aea1afda1eee98c9bb\u0022\u003EHon Paul Goldsmith\u003C/span\u003E: Does he think some New Zealanders will need to pay tax at higher rates? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000072\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229bcdb128cfb64033b61a76527be8975d\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: The Government has made a commitment not to change the rates of income tax. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000073\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022045d638c75734f83b6cb913d68022199\u0022\u003EHon Paul Goldsmith\u003C/span\u003E: Who will pay for all the extra spending he announces every day? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000074\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221e4482ac33304aba996fbd85178b12fd\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: That is being paid for through the hard work of New Zealand taxpayers and through the ability of New Zealand to borrow against our very strong and robust balance sheet, and the fact that we came into this crisis with one of the lowest rates of debt in the world. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000075\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a9d934e1b3ce478baf10859b0b9d3b0f\u0022\u003EHon Paul Goldsmith\u003C/span\u003E: I might try that again: who will pay for all the extra spending he announces every day? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000076\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d48d2315cb254d3289022fecdd14fc39\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: Mr Speaker, I did just answer that question.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000077\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00225b7ea53f86e34806ad64c0fb547656a3\u0022\u003EHon Paul Goldsmith\u003C/span\u003E: Isn\u2019t it true that we all will pay, including our kids, and, if so, can he now assure people that every dollar he is spending is considered and focused on results? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000078\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224a09686c8d5b4005ba2beb910d2c5373\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: In answer to the last part of that question, absolutely. In answer to the middle part of that question, I think all members in the House can see the impact that happens when we don\u2019t invest in current generations now and in the moment. That\u2019s what happened in the late 1980s and early 1990s in New Zealand, and the scarring effect of children growing up in homes where their parents are unemployed or where their parents cannot afford to put food on the table is the thing that this Government is determined to avoid. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000079\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002253f86481-33c1-48b2-893b-c11cc0bd673d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022863ad4d718df45eaa637a01e3f878c46\u0022\u003EHon Paul Goldsmith\u003C/span\u003E: Has he had a report from the education Minister as to where the $87 million worth of modems sent to schools after they returned from lockdown has gone, and is that a good example of good quality spending? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000080\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002248b3a1b22b614408a040d3d2078bf0d5\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: The vast bulk of those modems went to support young New Zealanders to learn when they were in lockdown, to bridge the digital divide. A small number did not go where they were intended, but the vast bulk went to the exact purpose we wanted, which was to make sure that young New Zealanders could keep learning. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000081\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022bbded2ec-ac25-4a73-a380-3f4d87693084\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022be1e817721f54fcf91e0fd4b6975522e\u0022\u003EHon Stuart Nash\u003C/span\u003E: Has the Minister heard about the tax initiatives loss continuity and feasibility expenditure\u2014initiatives that the tax community and the business community have been asking for, for years, but only sorted by this Government? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000082\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022dbb5545e3e154b2cadaa2a867d6bc999\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: Yes, I have. Both of those initiatives have been championed by the very modest Minister of Revenue, who\u2019s done an excellent job in ensuring that New Zealanders pay a fair share of tax. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000083\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224643c192f0674f2a98b89ea6e7cbb30d\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Oh well, I would just remind the member about irony, but we\u2019ll go on to question No. 4. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000084\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00227a6863e36b6346d28c5d26232e8355fc\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 4\u2014Health\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022 data-id=\u00228fcf2f6dbed94d0da1abac81ba49dca6\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000085\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E4. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00228fcf2f6dbed94d0da1abac81ba49dca6\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Health: My question is to the Minister of Health, whom I welcome to the portfolio. Did any records held by the Ministry of Health on 17 June contain details of whether all 2,159 people who left managed isolation between 9 and 16 June received a test before they left managed isolation?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u00228a5216adcd2d4f1ca089eba9fe47d0d4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000086\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00228a5216adcd2d4f1ca089eba9fe47d0d4\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Health):\u003C/span\u003E I\u2019m advised by the Ministry of Health: no. The process to compile that information began on Wednesday, 17 June. All necessary information was available to the Ministry of Health on Saturday, 20 June. The Ministry of Health then commenced a comparison from the Healthline database against the lab testing database to determine which individuals could be confirmed as having had a test. It\u2019s important to note that the problem has now been fixed, and that all 2,159 returning New Zealanders completed their 14-day isolation stay, which is the safest way to ensure that there is no community transmission.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000087\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e9011ad93d48465cafc64cf7d8ecc064\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: So is it correct to say that health officials had no idea who of those 2,159 people were tested prior to departure, and that the first question they are asked when contacted is not, \u201CPlease have a test.\u201D but \u201CWas a test undertaken?\u201D\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d546e03638bf4ef48787baeeb82f9f29\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: That is clear from my answer that the Ministry of Health did not have that reassurance when those people left isolation. That is not an acceptable situation, and it has been fixed.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000089\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226d09d6b3c58d4dc192254dee9ec37b8b\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: In respect of \u201Chas it been fixed\u201D, are there still 367 people who have not been contacted to ask whether or not they had a test, as at this morning?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000090\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022733cbd2787684dd0b77dff638a44acc1\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: Those are approximately correct numbers. Of course, they are changing as more people are contacted. But I do want to point out that these people all completed 14 days of isolation. They have now been in the community for more than 14 days, and we have seen no evidence that there is any transmission within the community, despite the fact that New Zealand has one of the highest rates of testing in the world relative to the number of positive results.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000091\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00225e4042e26c12457c853d48cdf1927358\u0022\u003EHon Dr Megan Woods\u003C/span\u003E: Can the Minister confirm that he has been informed by the Minister responsible for managed isolation and quarantine that since 17 June, as well as now having direct batch data returned to the managed isolation facilities as well as the individualised test to notify of a negative day 12 test, there is now double verification of that batch data taking place?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000092\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002205483391b3944808989cac001167308b\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: Yes, I can confirm to the House that the issues that were identified have been fixed, and that very robust processes are in place.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000093\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002282d3a75727fb4984b82f4df7cdc87cc9\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: Then is it correct to say that if those 367 people are not successfully contacted by the Ministry of Health, the country will never know if they left managed isolation without having been tested?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000094\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a6cf2f7978534304b9d87a31bf3a55b2\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: It is possible that some of those people won\u2019t be able to be contacted. Whilst the Ministry of Health will make every effort to ensure that they are contacted, it is important to note that there is no evidence that any of the people who left managed isolation during that time have taken COVID-19 into the community.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000095\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c14719dcc46b46ab93bda85ad47c6c70\u0022\u003EHon Dr Megan Woods\u003C/span\u003E: Has the Minister seen any evidence or verification from health officials that a random homeless person wandered into a managed isolation facility before 17 June, and has the Opposition provided any evidence to that effect?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000096\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022624a4450cfae49249ee55f3ef5553d24\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: No. I\u2019m afraid to say no evidence has been produced to verify that claim. I am, of course, willing to accept that at any given point in time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000097\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022744df76237ce421cb87e1c92a6f54f0e\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: In respect of that previous question, how on earth would they know?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000098\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022be2e3d7566e341b6a041017fd9977de1\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: Because the officials went to detailed lengths to check security camera footage, to check the individual records, and there was no evidence that the member\u2019s claim had any veracity whatsoever.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000099\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220a5dbeaebef14476a573c652b27aea50\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: No. The member is referring to statements made in the House, and the member can\u2019t say that they lack veracity. I\u2019ll require the Minister to withdraw and apologise.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000100\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c2a67b163a9a4ae2bf023d85710127c9\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: I withdraw and apologise.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000101\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00221033216171494913a8ce03c0b88ef7dc\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 5\u2014Economic Development\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00226590faa0-f76b-4386-84f3-9b06296cc772\u0022 data-id=\u00227073d6c4fa9e47e7a070bddea95fd600\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000102\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226590faa0-f76b-4386-84f3-9b06296cc772\u0022\u003E5. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00227073d6c4fa9e47e7a070bddea95fd600\u0022\u003ETAMATI COFFEY (Labour\u2014Waiariki)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister for Economic Development: What action has the Government taken to help save jobs and protect incomes in the domestic events and screen sectors?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022cbc37df2-57ae-4536-94ed-a2e39eecd585\u0022 data-id=\u002251047783dd5942c0bc74ccf392a8ba76\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000103\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022cbc37df2-57ae-4536-94ed-a2e39eecd585\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002251047783dd5942c0bc74ccf392a8ba76\u0022\u003EHon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister for Economic Development):\u003C/span\u003E Yesterday, my colleagues the Hon Carmel Sepuloni, the Hon Kris Faafoi, and myself were pleased to announce a screen sector recovery package. We\u2019re injecting $73.4 million into New Zealand\u2019s domestic screen industry to help 230 screen productions with their COVID-19 - related extra costs and to save thousands of jobs. We\u2019re also investing a further $140 million in the screen production grant for international film productions, which employ thousands of New Zealand crew. Of this investment, $25 million has been reallocated to support New Zealand feature films. And, finally, I also announced yesterday a new $10 million fund for the domestic events sector to prevent the loss of existing events which contribute to regional economies.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000104\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226590faa0-f76b-4386-84f3-9b06296cc772\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b3fe685abfb943f7b543c13970d7f9b5\u0022\u003ETamati Coffey\u003C/span\u003E: How does the screen sector recovery package support investments that the Government has already made?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000105\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022cbc37df2-57ae-4536-94ed-a2e39eecd585\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223d08e6312f8f4276b0886e7e45b15a85\u0022\u003EHon PHIL TWYFORD\u003C/span\u003E: Well, $23.4 million will go into the screen production fund for additional COVID-related costs incurred by productions that NZ On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission have already invested in. The remaining $50 million has been reallocated to produce up to five feature films or limited-series screen productions. This will create jobs and opportunities.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000106\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226590faa0-f76b-4386-84f3-9b06296cc772\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229656b3d8e5884327b4fa4ea19257b837\u0022\u003ETamati Coffey\u003C/span\u003E: How does the screen production grant create jobs and boost our economy?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000107\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022cbc37df2-57ae-4536-94ed-a2e39eecd585\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cebeec8b73d748ee866019d2fdeaf01a\u0022\u003EHon PHIL TWYFORD\u003C/span\u003E: The screen production grant has allowed New Zealand to attract large international productions, which support local businesses, lead to the creation of spin-off businesses, and provide invaluable training for Kiwis, who go on to work in our world-class domestic screen productions. Without this rebate, we would simply not be able to compete with other, international locations. In the 2018-19 year, the screen production grant paid out $138 million and spurred $605 million of economic activity. The Film Commission estimates that, on average, 90 percent of the crew on international productions are New Zealanders, and last year the main live-action projects employed 3,400 people, and that doesn\u2019t include the visual effects projects, including the likes of Weta Digital, who alone employ 1,500 people.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000108\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022dacf1c5bc529486bbdac52961e76aa0b\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 6\u2014Infrastructure\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022 data-id=\u002268d3f320bbeb449c86f9a2adab004f59\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000109\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E6. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002268d3f320bbeb449c86f9a2adab004f59\u0022\u003ECHRIS BISHOP (National\u2014Hutt South)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister for Infrastructure: What criteria, if any, did the Government use to allocate the $239 million announced yesterday from the $3 billion allocated to infrastructure in the COVID-19 Recovery and Response Fund, and what explains the length of time between his announcement that the Government had had 1,924 submissions to the Infrastructure Industry Reference Group and the announcement yesterday?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022 data-id=\u0022826a2816ac7c4947b5b778058b22c48d\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000110\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022826a2816ac7c4947b5b778058b22c48d\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance) \u003C/span\u003Eon behalf of the Minister for Infrastructure: The $239 million represents a sample of the types of projects we will be supporting. The overall investment package we announced yesterday includes around $210 million for climate resilience and flood protection projects, $155 million for transformative energy projects, about $180 million for large-scale construction projects, and $50 million for enhanced regional digital connectivity. As for criteria, the group was asked to develop a pipeline of projects that were shovel-ready, meaning they could get under way within 12 months; preserved and created jobs; and had a national or regional benefit. As the member quite rightly points out, more than 1,900 submissions were received. Ministers received the initial Infrastructure Industry Reference Group report in mid-May. I believe the six weeks between then and yesterday is easily explained by the need to assess and prioritise the projects and move with alacrity and velocity.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000111\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221e66bd26e9094481a5dbea69013f569c\u0022\u003EChris Bishop\u003C/span\u003E: Why did the Infrastructure Commission not provide him with advice regarding the guidelines employed by the infrastructure reference group to assess the submissions it received, when surely doing jobs like that is exactly why the Infrastructure Commission was established in the first place?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000112\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ad5f86110964429381f20c22e939aa13\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: As I covered yesterday in the House, the Infrastructure Commission chair Alan Bollard was a member of the group, alongside Mark Binns, Brian Roche, Greg Miller, Rosie Mercer, and Andrew Crisp. They all represented different parts of both the private and public sector and they were all involved in the process.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000113\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022efab9d5e8a234dbebdf31f70a2ce6716\u0022\u003EChris Bishop\u003C/span\u003E: Why has Auckland Council written three times to the Government without reply, urging them to announce what of the 73 projects they put forward will be funded so they can finalise their budget?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000114\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228978ebd9613946e1ba167083c014e808\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: The question of why Auckland Council writes something is up to Auckland Council.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000115\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002294b32e32c78f48988ee3877786ea9d75\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Yeah, it is out of order, clearly.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000116\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228336cec50a7e4772b7f829496f644e01\u0022\u003EChris Bishop\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry, do you want me to reword it, Mr Speaker?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000117\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221b607ead21ae429e9638ec9223dd0cdd\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: You can have another supplementary if you want to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000118\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b13f6350d5a942aba244a43ff5ca99ae\u0022\u003EChris Bishop\u003C/span\u003E: Has he seen the comments from Peter Silcock from the civil contractors association, namely: \u201CWe need details in the form of specific projects and tenders coming to market ASAP, or we may see extensive job losses\u201D, and why has it taken the Government so long to announce this alleged pipeline?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000119\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00222b593522e01640fea8bae35f4cb91f68\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: I have seen those comments. I\u2019ve also seen the comments this morning from Gisborne about a massive win for the region with the funding there; also from Rotorua this morning about the shot in the arm for this region, with 1,000 new homes and 300 jobs. I\u2019ve seen the reports from the West Coast of $90 million being put in; $260 million in the Otago region\u2014and it goes on. There will always be a wide variety of views, but the regions are welcoming these announcements.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000120\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228a470ba54d16467fb25ec2e0a92e5cb2\u0022\u003EChris Bishop\u003C/span\u003E: How can the public have confidence in the figure of 20,000 jobs to be created, when the Government\u2019s own Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) data shows that the $3 billion PGF has created just 1,200 jobs in nearly three years?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000121\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226f019c9fe6c44b65a3eac6af8b6f9eb4\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019ll pass on to Mark Binns, Alan Bollard, Andrew Crisp, Rosie Mercer, and all of those people who were responsible for those estimates, the member\u2019s cynicism.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000122\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022762be85be6a04f9794e49a652b04c15e\u0022\u003EChris Bishop\u003C/span\u003E: Can he assure the House that the full list of infrastructure projects will be known within the next two weeks, or does he intend to drip-feed them out over the next 79 days?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000123\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b5d5e2893a114ba6afc045f44bd43910\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: That is the plan\u2014that they will be released as soon as we\u2019ve done all of the final due diligence on them. And I\u2019m sure the member will look forward to all of the announcements in the continuing headlines that we have seen today.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000124\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u002261d13a431cff44baa4b31a8a8c6bd7a6\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 7\u2014Employment\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022 data-id=\u0022444df52d82a0425aa9dbf34bfc54449b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000125\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E7. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022444df52d82a0425aa9dbf34bfc54449b\u0022\u003EDr SHANE RETI (National\u2014Whangarei)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Employment: How does the performance and capacity of his employment programmes help the thousands of New Zealanders who are unemployed due to the coronavirus outbreak?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022 data-id=\u0022f1ef71a5da054a329f3817ffdb6118ad\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000126\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f1ef71a5da054a329f3817ffdb6118ad\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment):\u003C/span\u003E First of all, congratulations to that member on his promotion in the National Party\u2014ng\u0101 mihi ki a koe. The Government has moved quickly to respond to the labour market impacts of COVID-19 by swiftly ramping up our employment and redeployment supports. Within my portfolio, we have seen a significant increase in capacity for a range of initiatives, including He Poutama Rangatahi, Mana in Mahi, and jobs and skills hubs. This increase in capacity will see, for instance, He Poutama Rangatahi now reaching up to 15,000 of our young people in need. My employment programmes are designed to help those who have been most marginalised from the labour market and face the biggest barriers to employment. Those are people who might have various complex needs, and it\u2019s not a simple job to support them into secure and rewarding work. However, our initiatives and investments are an all-of-Government project, because COVID-19 requires an all-of-Government response, and we\u2019re working together on this.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000127\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002292d71c611b95443a893a1da04dedf4aa\u0022\u003EDr Shane Reti\u003C/span\u003E: Can he confirm written question No. 12308 from two days ago that the Government\u2019s flagship employment programme, Mana in Mahi, has capacity for only 2,000 placements per year?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000128\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002274805c5e075a4c28a8efa580ce9e88ec\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: I can confirm that the aim is to get 2,000 placements over four years.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000129\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c462d91c308842c1824bc8af109b947e\u0022\u003EDr Shane Reti\u003C/span\u003E: If there are currently 40,000 unemployed people and his flagship employment programme can only enrol\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000130\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d1b625af5e9a4b17ab6535ef3698f7e5\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Order! Order! The member will ask the question in a straight manner and without the pejorative.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000131\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00222b0c574e7db84d68acd3a756643b05ac\u0022\u003EDr Shane Reti\u003C/span\u003E: If there are currently 40,000 unemployed people and his employment programme can only enrol 2,000 a year or less, how many unemployed New Zealanders cannot take up Mana in Mahi this year?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000132\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022bd09c898b0ba43b293bd92c9a84ed84e\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019ve said this before and I\u2019ll say it again: it\u2019s not just Mana in Mahi that is responsible for fixing the unemployment problems in this country. We just the other day announced a $2.6 billion infrastructure plan that will bring 20,000 more jobs to New Zealand\u201420,000 more jobs. On top of that\u2014our $1.1 billion programme in terms of the green economy, 11,000 jobs; $1.6 billion in terms of apprenticeship investments; 15,000 extra in terms of He Poutama Rangatahi. It\u2019s not just about Mana in Mahi, although the Opposition seems to be fixated on that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000133\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002295d25c8c4dc0447dac90546c58939985\u0022\u003EDr Shane Reti\u003C/span\u003E: Can he confirm his reply to the first question that Mana in Mahi will enrol 2,000 people over four years?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000134\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002283bada86d2ef4e0e819b98851657452e\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: That is the aim of Mana in Mahi. That\u2019s been our aim right from the start, and there is no problem that\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000135\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f4c91c7296d94219a14de1d467894b29\u0022\u003EBrett Hudson\u003C/span\u003E: They\u2019ve got no aspiration over there.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000136\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229b01923e53e54ca696957777495dbaac\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: Well, we all have aspirations. That is the goal, and we\u2019re on track at the moment. But I will say that it is a worry that the Opposition seem to have a problem with programmes with M\u0101ori names. A programme with a M\u0101ori name, Mr Reti\u2014you should know\u2014can provide for everyone.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221bba4f1790f546beb6ad9ad50fcb5109\u0022\u003ERt Hon Winston Peters\u003C/span\u003E: Can I ask the Minister as to whether or not, in these programmes that he is funding, there is any sense of pigeonholing or being paternal about the placement of M\u0101ori, for example, at 13 and 17\u2014specially reserved for that occasion and these events?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000138\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220ddde6c9519e498c8a36b459f3b2f783\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: No, it\u2019s not about being paternalistic, Minister, and thank you for the question. Mana in Mahi is open for everyone. It just has a M\u0101ori name. Could the National Party get that through their heads? Programmes with M\u0101ori names can fit for everyone. It\u2019s a sad indictment on that party that they don\u2019t understand that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000139\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f677db8b-66c5-4794-953c-bdf7aa425710\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223530925e0906442aa4380c9c40294634\u0022\u003EMarja Lubeck\u003C/span\u003E: Why was increasing capacity important to the Government\u2019s response to COVID-19?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000140\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c1909b4604ea48108c9b9ea8f862836d\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: In answer to the question, just as the Government has gone hard and early on our public health response to COVID-19, so have we gone hard and early on supporting those who face displacement or unemployment because of the global impact of this virus. One of the biggest and earliest responses was the wage subsidy scheme, which has supported over 1.5 million jobs and paid out over $11 billion. This has kept people in work and given employers the ability to get going again as we relaxed our public health restrictions. We have invested early in job creation through redeployment and supporting the creation of new jobs, especially in the regions. We\u2019ve increased capacity in our programmes, which has made it easier for people to undertake training\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000141\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f109e3b193684a73b1256f6547e8992c\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: OK, OK\u2014[Interruption] OK, we\u2019ve had enough. Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000142\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226caad630e0aa41a99b6e7ce46169ac16\u0022\u003EDr Shane Reti\u003C/span\u003E: Can he confirm written question No. 11043 that regional leadership skills groups have employed zero people to date, given they were established a year ago and he has stated in this House that they are one of his critical employment programmes?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000143\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f317ee7d-f040-44ec-8f2f-ad0a9f206d75\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002234b45d439b9a46ab89085542a1ab1eec\u0022\u003EHon WILLIE JACKSON\u003C/span\u003E: I think the member is getting confused with our skills hubs in Auckland, our Sector Workforce Engagement Programme hubs in Auckland, which have been going for some time. The regional skills hubs have just been announced, and of course no one has been employed. The essence and the main point of our regional skills hubs is for our leaderships to come together\u2014iwi leadership, industry leadership, union leadership\u2014and put forward a strategy and policy for those various regions. I\u2019m excited with the establishment of the regional skills hubs, and that member may want to play a part in terms of the development of the northern one.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000144\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u002248f51edab4774faf845443fcc14a35d2\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 8\u2014Sport and Recreation\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c21f4beb-20c4-4b12-bc6f-fdc931e2dc96\u0022 data-id=\u0022cba49fcbf34848e08b3b835a8844068a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000145\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c21f4beb-20c4-4b12-bc6f-fdc931e2dc96\u0022\u003E8. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022cba49fcbf34848e08b3b835a8844068a\u0022\u003EGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister for Sport and Recreation: What progress has been made on the implementation of the Government\u2019s Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation strategy?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022 data-id=\u002227befec3360b4766b9be83bd2982a7dd\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000146\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002227befec3360b4766b9be83bd2982a7dd\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister for Sport and Recreation):\u003C/span\u003E The Prime Minister and I launched the Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation strategy in October 2018. It\u2019s aimed at improving and increasing leadership, participation, and value and visibility. Since then, we have seen significant progress including $2.7 million of funding through High Performance Sport New Zealand to support women into leadership and elite coaching roles. The Sport New Zealand activation fund has invested in nine projects to lift participation and support young women to be physically active. And we have held the first New Zealand women and girls summit for sport and active recreation, and the next summit will be held in October this year. The strategy also sets a gender diversity target of 40 percent for boards funded through Sport New Zealand; previously it has sat at 27 percent. Many boards are making progress towards this and we will receive a final report shortly on where we have reached.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000147\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c21f4beb-20c4-4b12-bc6f-fdc931e2dc96\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e2f7870197ee4d52b14a079509b87f9d\u0022\u003EGinny Andersen\u003C/span\u003E: What recent announcements have been made that will support the women and girls in sport strategy?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000148\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00222d495eb7dc1b409da199d04f0aea0fbe\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: The announcement last week that New Zealand and Australia have been confirmed as joint hosts for the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup is a significant boost for women\u2019s sport. The Government has set aside up to $25 million to host the event. Of that, $14.2 million goes to New Zealand Football for direct support of the tournament. The remainder will ensure a seamless tournament is delivered. The opening match is proposed for Eden Park and a total of 29 matches are expected to be played in New Zealand with 35 to be played in Australia. This is one of the world\u2019s major sporting events. It presents an amazing opportunity for us to grow female participation in sport, create new female leaders, and further raise the visibility of women\u2019s sport in New Zealand and around the globe.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000149\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c21f4beb-20c4-4b12-bc6f-fdc931e2dc96\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229c23fda30bba41e184d85843e4d2fefb\u0022\u003EGinny Andersen\u003C/span\u003E: What other significant events will help increase leadership, participation, and value and visibility for women and girls in the sports sector?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000150\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00226007dc96-f459-4cdd-9972-4fde2c994088\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e1b1319a787e4a2b8fd9ced3375cffcc\u0022\u003EHon GRANT ROBERTSON\u003C/span\u003E: The 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup is the latest in a substantial line-up of international women\u2019s events, each providing a platform for women and girls in sport and active recreation to be enhanced. The ICC Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2021 is scheduled to be held from 6 February to 7 March, and the organisers have already begun developing a leverage and legacy plan with a strong focus on women in cricket at all levels. Likewise, the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2021 will be held in New Zealand in September and October. This also has a strong leverage and legacy plan under way. Off the pitch, New Zealand is currently the secretariat for the International Working Group on Women and Sport, the largest network on the globe dedicated to advancing sport by empowering women and girls, and we will be hosting the eighth International Working Group World Conference in 2022. Through all of these events, we have a tremendous platform for transformational change, and I am proud to work alongside so many passionate and willing partners who are committed to providing a lasting legacy for women and girls in sport and active recreation.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000151\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022cd4317afdbdb4b0e8abbb123c28d9c64\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 9\u2014Health\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022ee649aea-c6fa-4610-9fcf-5c4bb2d3cd33\u0022 data-id=\u0022d8457a79033f484cabe0d813a05ad3c9\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000152\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ee649aea-c6fa-4610-9fcf-5c4bb2d3cd33\u0022\u003E9. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d8457a79033f484cabe0d813a05ad3c9\u0022\u003EMATT DOOCEY (National\u2014Waimakariri)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Health: How much of the $1.9 billion allocated for mental health and drug addiction services in Budget 2019 has been committed for mental health and addiction treatment services, and how much, if any, of that allocation to mental health and addiction treatment services has been spent to date?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u0022b5f997821c744057bf62b0c51931f10e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000153\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022b5f997821c744057bf62b0c51931f10e\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Health):\u003C/span\u003E Of the $1.9 billion, around $1 billion is allocated to Vote Health services. Of the $150 million of Vote Health funding from the Budget 2019 mental health and wellbeing package that was available in 2019-20, approximately $125 million of that funding has been committed. As at the end of May 2020, of this $125 million, around $110 million has been spent.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000154\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ee649aea-c6fa-4610-9fcf-5c4bb2d3cd33\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022686e1bda6f974108850ee573558b0d8c\u0022\u003EMatt Doocey\u003C/span\u003E: In light of that answer, when the Government\u2019s own mental health inquiry indicative target is to increase access to mental health and addiction services from 3 percent to 20 percent of the population, what increased level of access is he expecting to deliver from the stated $125 million spent to date?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000155\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002276d02aa8e3f5468f9407b8e4631d8202\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: The Government\u2019s always been very clear that the funding allocated is for a four-year programme of work, that the spending profile of that is the smallest in the first year, and that it increases as additional capability and capacity is developed. Some of the big investments early on in the programme are around workforce development, for example. We can\u2019t provide better front-line services to New Zealanders if we don\u2019t have the workforce to be able to deliver that. So there is a heavy emphasis on that at the moment. But there are already improvements happening across a whole variety of initiatives. I\u2019ve got about 20 or 30 of them listed in front of me, and, if the member wants to ask me about any specific one of them, I\u2019ll give it my best crack at answering it.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000156\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ee649aea-c6fa-4610-9fcf-5c4bb2d3cd33\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ac00c5a48ad3445b822937446173cb9e\u0022\u003EMatt Doocey\u003C/span\u003E: In light of the answer of the roll-out of four years, after that four-year programme, if the Minister is going to spend $1 billion, what level of service is he expecting to deliver within that frame from the mental health inquiry of 3 percent to 20 percent?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000157\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002280464d8e598c4ed3a8f8a88728f59e78\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: It\u2019s interesting that the member\u2019s given up on the next election already. Of course, the overall level of funding will depend on who the Government is, and on this side of the House we\u2019ll let our record speak for itself.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000158\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ee649aea-c6fa-4610-9fcf-5c4bb2d3cd33\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b7fb3d7791fc4cff850cacdd3b8ba3e3\u0022\u003EMatt Doocey\u003C/span\u003E: The question was: under his own forecasting, when he allocated $1 billion to a four-year roll-out, if his own mental health inquiry said access needed to increase from 3 percent to 20 percent, what level of access is he expecting to reach after spending $1 billion after four years?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000159\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002233eb2d444f9f4cab96041ca38c8faa37\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: Of course, we\u2019ll get as close to that as we can.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000160\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ee649aea-c6fa-4610-9fcf-5c4bb2d3cd33\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224d9fd662fddf427caced57bb5d957a97\u0022\u003EMatt Doocey\u003C/span\u003E: In light of the previous Minister\u2019s answers and challenge to talk about one specific service, why, when asked written question No. 10111, \u201CHow much, if any, of the $8 million invested over four years for improving responses for up to 15,000 people a year who turn up at hospital emergency departments needing mental health support announced in Budget 2019,\u201D has not one dollar been spent to date delivering that service?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000161\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022100e359981994e4995b035f5d7a0456c\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: If the member wants an answer that specific regarding a written parliamentary question and answer given by the previous Minister of Health, I suggest he puts that down, and I\u2019d be happy to come back to him.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000162\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022216a90e8a4bf425d8fb8f6bf6e1cef4b\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 10\u2014Housing\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022 data-id=\u0022aedd33515ff946138f28f48a9a3e8146\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000163\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E10. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022aedd33515ff946138f28f48a9a3e8146\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS (National)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Housing: Have any developers undertaking construction of market homes approached the Government for an indemnity or underwrite that would provide additional financial assurance to their banks, and, if approaches of this sort have been made, what steps has the Government taken to ensure it applies fair and transparent criteria to assessing or granting these applications?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022 data-id=\u00226a3acca861344221af8aa83206fde477\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000164\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00226a3acca861344221af8aa83206fde477\u0022\u003EHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing):\u003C/span\u003E Yes. As I\u2019m sure the member is aware, the main mechanism under building the KiwiBuild programme is the underwrite provided to a developer for the KiwiBuild homes that are included in their housing projects. These projects will include market homes. There are well-documented, detailed, and well-established processes for these underwrites, which I don\u2019t propose to canvass in detail here, but I am satisfied with the due diligence that is undertaken.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000165\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e35cfd99c323414e903f846ac56576f1\u0022\u003ENicola Willis\u003C/span\u003E: Can she confirm that on 20 May this year, she was advised of a request by a private developer for a Crown underwrite for the construction of 49 open-market homes, and, if so, on what date did she agree to provide a Crown guarantee of $21 million for those market properties?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000166\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00222bd010ae50fa47e3966077a678d6c5b3\u0022\u003EHon Dr MEGAN WOODS\u003C/span\u003E: I don\u2019t have the specific dates, but I have confirmed to that member, in answer to written parliamentary questions, that an underwrite was received for the Monark development\u2014a request for further underwrite\u2014taking the underwrite from $19 million to $40 million, and, as has been well canvassed in this House on multiple occasions, that\u2019s because this development was in a category of one. It was a development where a substantial number of KiwiBuild properties had been sold prior to there being a financing and construction agreement in place\u2014a practice that has not been undertaken since December of last year.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000167\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b21d57924e074b68a31dfa515a34cd68\u0022\u003ENicola Willis\u003C/span\u003E: Does the Minister stand by her statement that without this Crown guarantee for the Monark project, \u201Cfurther delays would have risked the homes not being built\u201D; if so, will the Crown provide financial guarantees to other private developments where there is a risk that homes will not be built?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000168\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022fbd9e0e972b542d3b1ddf48c2a89d052\u0022\u003EHon Dr MEGAN WOODS\u003C/span\u003E: As I have consistently reminded this member, this was a development that was in a category of one. So when it came to assessing whether or not to extend the underwrite to the further properties, we only had to consider all of the properties in that category, and that was one. I am confused by that member. Is she now saying she supports the underwrite? Is it now her party\u2019s policy to continue this practice?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000169\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022032cc9140b10450c8bf74f46dcece7a1\u0022\u003ENicola Willis\u003C/span\u003E: Did the Minister have any input into the decision to exclude residential property development and investment projects from the Government\u2019s business finance guarantee scheme, and can she explain why they were excluded?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000170\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220b0ce13ccdba435f86beca46241bf7ea\u0022\u003EHon Dr MEGAN WOODS\u003C/span\u003E: In answer to the first part of the question, no.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000171\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002206cd164d48a74d52ad463912450fa132\u0022\u003ENicola Willis\u003C/span\u003E: Is it fair that the Monark development, in a category of one, received a $21 million Crown finance guarantee for 49 market homes, when hundreds of other residential property developers across the country may want a Crown guarantee but have no way of getting one?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000172\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002237a99b65-4919-4800-830d-3dd7c920d5cd\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229622d2206ab241bb96eb73b55be4e56e\u0022\u003EHon Dr MEGAN WOODS\u003C/span\u003E: Apart from looking forward to seeing the fully costed National Party policy to extend this underwrite guarantee to the hundreds of developers across the country, which is clearly a move from the position of opposing any underwrites under KiwiBuild, I am satisfied, and what I would like to remind that member is that there were two unsold market homes in that development. If the underwrite needs to be exercised on those two market homes, the underwrite will only be exercised at the KiwiBuild cap. And what the member might like to know is that through her publicity for this particular development, while 10 people have cancelled their contracts, 29 have entered into expressions of interest. So while that member may be looking to crash property developments in Wellington, we on this side of the House are backing them.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000173\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00225f0b280ff56f45b2a4106f774ea412aa\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 11\u2014Justice\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002202e74c40-9529-4e15-adc2-c032eadc2205\u0022 data-id=\u0022994c2d2022e3451f9921d73817e5b753\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000174\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002202e74c40-9529-4e15-adc2-c032eadc2205\u0022\u003E11. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022994c2d2022e3451f9921d73817e5b753\u0022\u003EGREG O\u2019CONNOR (Labour\u2014\u014Ch\u0101riu)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Justice: What recent announcements has he made regarding the Criminal Cases Review Commission?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022106966ef-8cc3-434a-9dbe-dd76b708c2a1\u0022 data-id=\u00224e0240134e8c4f55bb170403154412ed\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000175\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022106966ef-8cc3-434a-9dbe-dd76b708c2a1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224e0240134e8c4f55bb170403154412ed\u0022\u003EHon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Justice):\u003C/span\u003E Yesterday, I announced that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Te K\u0101hui T\u0101tari Ture has started work and can now independently investigate claimed miscarriages of justice. The CCRC is an independent body that will review criminal convictions and sentences where there is a claimed miscarriage of justice. It can refer cases back to the Court of Appeal, but it does not determine guilt or innocence. The CCRC will replace the referral power currently exercised by the Governor-General under section 406 of the Crimes Act 1961, which is part of the royal prerogative of mercy process. The CCRC is headed by the Chief Commissioner, Colin Carruthers QC, and he leads a board made up of Deputy Chief Commissioner Paula Rose as well as Kingi Snelgar, Tangi Utikere, Nigel Hampton QC, Professor Tracey McIntosh, and Dr Virginia Hope. The commission is based in Hamilton in order to demonstrate its independence from the traditional Government and judicial centres of Auckland and Wellington. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000176\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002202e74c40-9529-4e15-adc2-c032eadc2205\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022fdc7d579cbbd4a07b96688bc90abb5ae\u0022\u003EGreg O\u2019Connor\u003C/span\u003E: Why is the Criminal Cases Review Commission important? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000177\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022106966ef-8cc3-434a-9dbe-dd76b708c2a1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ca6ade58e9254a4399b5e8e26a20bdc7\u0022\u003EHon ANDREW LITTLE\u003C/span\u003E: Even though we have appeal rights and safeguards against unsafe convictions in this country, from time to time our justice system, frankly, gets things wrong. The design of the CCRC is based on international best practice and is an important safety valve against wrongful convictions. Anyone who believes they\u2019ve been wrongfully convicted or sentenced can now apply to the CCRC for a review of the case. The commission honours also a significant commitment in the 2017 Labour - New Zealand First coalition agreement, and it was very pleasing to see colleagues\u2014in particular, the honourable Fletcher Tabuteau\u2014at the event yesterday. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000178\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002202e74c40-9529-4e15-adc2-c032eadc2205\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224f4cfa887a1d423b88842ac72ad91321\u0022\u003EGreg O\u2019Connor\u003C/span\u003E: How will the Criminal Cases Review Commission improve our justice system? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000179\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022106966ef-8cc3-434a-9dbe-dd76b708c2a1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002236db9de8f86d4c7e9302ac091cd5524b\u0022\u003EHon ANDREW LITTLE\u003C/span\u003E: The Criminal Cases Review Commission will enable our justice system to address concerns expressed over a number of years about the independence, the timeliness, the quality, and the fairness of investigations into claimed miscarriages of justice. There will now be a dedicated resource, and it is likely that investigations into alleged miscarriages of justice will be conducted in a more timely way. The launch of the CCRC yesterday is a significant milestone in the development of New Zealand\u2019s justice system. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000180\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022efee2317f0814ae08eb8274aa14b005c\u0022\u003EQuestion No. 12\u2014Corrections\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002255d0b7a4-a2c9-4c38-9b77-475311a48a89\u0022 data-id=\u002227bc2ef988d9434e9d3f7989fbe9ef3a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000181\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002255d0b7a4-a2c9-4c38-9b77-475311a48a89\u0022\u003E12. \u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002227bc2ef988d9434e9d3f7989fbe9ef3a\u0022\u003ESIMEON BROWN (National\u2014Pakuranga)\u003C/span\u003E to the Minister of Corrections: How many individuals sentenced to community service have had hours remitted to date under the Epidemic Preparedness (Epidemic Management\u2014COVID-19\u2014Parole Act 2002 and Sentencing Act 2002) Notice 2020, and how many hours were remitted under this notice?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022 data-id=\u00229d9893f25bcc41189b2a74fc79958d0e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000182\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229d9893f25bcc41189b2a74fc79958d0e\u0022\u003EHon KELVIN DAVIS (Minister of Corrections):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Mr Speaker. At various alert levels, community work was unable to take place. During this time, 10,745 people were subject to a sentence of community work, with more than half of these sentences imposed for traffic offences and non-payment of fines. Corrections identified 5,576 people who had demonstrated compliance with their sentences during the month prior to lockdown and remitted on average between four to seven hours a week of community work per offender from 23 March to 5 June. This was in line with Section 67A of the Sentencing Act 2002. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000183\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002255d0b7a4-a2c9-4c38-9b77-475311a48a89\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c69fbaf03ade4e60a452c910d92af0ac\u0022\u003ESimeon Brown\u003C/span\u003E: How many times did the Department of Corrections use the alternative power in the epidemic notice to extend the time frame in which someone could complete their court-imposed community service and sentence instead of simply remitting hours of community service? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000184\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229a9246eb92f44a0990739d26fc2fa61c\u0022\u003EHon KELVIN DAVIS\u003C/span\u003E: Extending hours would have disadvantaged individuals for something outside of their control. It would have also created a backlog of hours for community Corrections to manage, with associated health and safety risks. And, of course, the health and safety of our Corrections staff is our top priority. The length of the lockdown period was unknown at the time these decisions were made.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000185\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002255d0b7a4-a2c9-4c38-9b77-475311a48a89\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221511e4f0c3414e10ac8eeb4d4410ca7a\u0022\u003ESimeon Brown\u003C/span\u003E: So why did he tell the House on 4 June 2020, \u201Cthe situation was made so that they could do their hours post-lockdown.\u201D, when, instead, hours were simply taken off their court-imposed sentence?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000186\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e2a849f717d74b2fb5676d911c5d3e20\u0022\u003EHon KELVIN DAVIS\u003C/span\u003E: In accordance with the provisions of the notice, people who had community work hours remitted are still to be required to complete a significant portion of the hours that they had been sentenced to, which can be up to 400 hours per person. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000187\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00223d49aeac-8adf-497b-9400-ab7bb077bb8d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227cbcdcc4c553413680edd2be82c9ff18\u0022\u003ERt Hon Winston Peters\u003C/span\u003E: Is the Minister saying that it would\u2019ve been totally unfair to expect someone in lockdown 3 and 4 to leave their home when they could not, because of the rules, and go out and do community service\u2014that that simple proposition is totally unjustified?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000188\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002213de86e731d1424a92788744b8aa31ed\u0022\u003EHon KELVIN DAVIS\u003C/span\u003E: Well, it was totally impossible for people to leave their homes in lockdown alert levels 4 and 3, so what I said in my previous answer was that we would have disadvantaged people for something that was totally out of their control. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000189\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022bbded2ec-ac25-4a73-a380-3f4d87693084\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002260f22ca8c2d344689d832deb875d8ac8\u0022\u003EHon Stuart Nash\u003C/span\u003E: Given the Minister has successfully reduced the prison population by over 13 percent, can he confirm that the crime rate has remained relatively stable, meaning that this Government has successfully reduced the prison population while keeping Kiwis and communities safe? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000190\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220d58c91763e34823a1046d44b526ec63\u0022\u003EHon KELVIN DAVIS\u003C/span\u003E: I can confirm that there are fewer people in prison. There are also fewer offenders in the community, at the same time that the crime rate has continued to plateau. So what this Government has done is made New Zealand a safer country in the few short years that we\u2019ve been in power. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000191\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022802874a3-deca-48b7-9d33-9087058892f5\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000192\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00221dbf2c41427a44ae8f62bf280c17895c\u0022\u003EUrgent Debates Declined\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000193\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022945fdd852b834d3ca41d7be138d6b62d\u0022\u003EHon Dr David Clark\u2014Ministerial Resignation\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022 data-id=\u00225051292727314183a9a0ec0675e084e0\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000194\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225051292727314183a9a0ec0675e084e0\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: I have received a letter from the Hon Michael Woodhouse seeking to debate, under Standing Order 389, the resignation of the Hon David Clark as a Minister. This is a particular case of recent occurrence that involves ministerial responsibility. Not all ministerial resignations will lead to an urgent debate\u2014Speaker\u2019s ruling 199/7, Hunt. I have permitted debates where ministerial probity has been a central issue, and where Ministers have been removed from their roles. I do not think Dr Clark\u2019s resignation reaches this threshold, and I\u2019m not convinced of the need to set aside the business of the House to debate\u2014which member was that? Which member made a noise then?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000195\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dc6c0f88-e781-476d-bca1-d1bf9b69302b\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221864d4b5c33542bfb369a1cc4c5b9d72\u0022\u003EHon Amy Adams\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I did; I was coughing. It was a reflex action.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000196\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220a815942af164175bba028bbc4c13055\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: I accept that member\u2019s word. I am not convinced of the need to set aside the business for the House to debate this matter today, therefore the application is declined.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022\u003EBills\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000197\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u00226a9c51cfccee4c82861c072d5e7ecba1\u0022\u003ESubordinate Legislation Confirmation Bill (No 5)\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000198\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022007ea497806449cb82adba0b6f825fbd\u0022\u003EFirst Reading\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u002295c1681582e1433689509fa59c591bb8\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000199\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002295c1681582e1433689509fa59c591bb8\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House):\u003C/span\u003E I move, That the Subordinate Legislation Confirmation Bill (No 5) be now read a first time. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000200\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003EBill read a first time. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000201\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003EBill referred to the Regulations Review Committee.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000202\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022d7e2e64c62b74b1d8afe245a3d95bcf4\u0022\u003EUrgency\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000204\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022339c9e6f889c436da27051814aed0e62\u0022\u003EUrgency\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022 data-id=\u00225c85be25a19a43759b8766e2f228800c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000203\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225c85be25a19a43759b8766e2f228800c\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House):\u003C/span\u003E I move that urgency be accorded the passing through the remaining stages of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track\u2014[Interruption]\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000205\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d2de5f94757043bc8bf488e91d6b784a\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Order! Order! The Government benches will resume their seats or leave the House\u2014the backbenches.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000206\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223d2936a4b0ba45a1af3ae14796577bf8\u0022\u003EHon CHRIS HIPKINS\u003C/span\u003E: Mr Speaker, I\u2019ll do that again. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000207\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003EI move, That urgency be accorded the passing through the remaining stages of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000208\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003EThis bill is a bill that I think is broadly supported. It\u2019s directly related to our COVID-19 response, and I think most members of the House want to see it passed as soon as possible.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000209\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00221dbd2811-8e58-4ffb-848d-31c0eaa9690a\u0022\u003EMotion agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022HpsHansard\u0022\u003E\n      \u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsProceedingHeading\u0022\u003EBills\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000210\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubjectHeading\u0022 id=\u0022d8ad511307394618ba38a99721f595cc\u0022\u003ECOVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000211\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022964794c955d44d3abcdceabd41e4faea\u0022\u003ESecond Reading\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00223513b8e5fbb9487282641375ec2cf400\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000212\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223513b8e5fbb9487282641375ec2cf400\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I move, That the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill be now read a second time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000213\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EFirstly, I want to thank the Environment Committee for its consideration of the 946 submissions made on the bill, and for their cooperation with the request of this House to do this through a truncated period. I\u2019m aware that they worked very long hours, including over the weekend, and I thank them for reporting an improved bill back to the House\u2014or an altered bill back to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000214\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThe COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill is a direct response to the effects of COVID-19 on the economy and employment in New Zealand. The bill seeks to establish a new fast-track resource consenting and designation process for infrastructure and development projects that can employ people. The bill speeds up processes while retaining environmental protections and respecting Treaty interests, including Treaty settlements. Accelerating projects nationwide will help restore economic growth and provide job opportunities for people who have lost their work. It would also help address New Zealand\u2019s infrastructure deficit, thereby improving long-term productivity.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000215\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThe projects chosen will, overall, support the transition to a low-emissions economy and improve resilience to climate change. The bill lists 12 named projects that will progress first and have a high certainty of being approved. These include water storage, housing, cycleway, rail upgrade, and roading projects. These are located across the country, from Kaikohe to Queenstown. Projects listed specifically in the legislation will be referred directly by Parliament to the expert consenting panel for decisions and to set any conditions.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000216\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThe committee has added another project to the list: the Queenstown arterials project. I welcome this addition as it will provide crucial jobs in a region hard hit by the economic effects of COVID-19, and indeed it\u2019s a project that\u2019s best carried out when Queenstown is not as busy as it normally is. The project involves upgrading Queenstown\u2019s transport network to improve roads, cycleways, and walkways, and help ease traffic gridlock. The Queenstown Lakes District Council note the project is expected to directly create up to 450 jobs over the two-year construction period, with up to 650 other jobs being created in support of the project indirectly through local economy services which will be supported by the project.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000217\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EWith the addition of the Queenstown project, there are now 12 substantive projects listed in the bill, and these will create an estimated 1,700 jobs. And this is just a start, because, in addition to the projects listed in the bill, additional projects are added through a second pathway, which allows many other projects, both public and private, to be submitted to the Minister for the Environment to enter the fast-track process. If the Minister agrees that a project should proceed to a panel, then by Order in Council the project is referred to an expert panel. That panel will consider consents and designations for projects, taking into account similar matters as would be considered under the Resource Management Act (RMA).\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000218\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EExpert consenting panels will be appointed by a sitting or retired Environment Court judge appointed as the panel convenor. That\u2019s likely to be Laurie Newhook, soon to retire from his role as principal Environment Court judge. Panels will have the expertise to enable the panel to consider the projects referred to them and to determine resource consents as well as designations. These panels of three to four people will be led by an Environment Court judge or similarly qualified person, and will include members nominated by the relevant local authorities and iwi authorities. The committee has made a useful clarification that if no nominations are received, the panel convenor must appoint a person with the appropriate skills and experience to be a member of the panel.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000219\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EDespite the need to fast track projects to support economic recovery, it\u2019s essential to ensure environmental outcomes will not be sacrificed at the expense of speed. So Part 2 of the RMA still applies to these projects, including to its central purpose to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources. In response to submissions, the committee has also strengthened the role of Part 2 of the RMA during a panel\u2019s consideration of projects. Treaty of Waitangi principles continue to apply, and the effect of Treaty settlements are also protected. I\u2019ll detail those protections in more detail in my third reading speech.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000220\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EBesides the fast-track consenting processes for listed and referred projects, the bill also enables some smaller-scale work on infrastructure to be carried out as permitted activities without the need for a resource consent. To begin with, these will be works on their existing infrastructure by KiwiRail and the New Zealand Transport Agency. K\u0101inga Ora, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, or any local authority may also access these provisions if conferred through an Order in Council. The committee has made a number of changes to improve the workability of this part of the bill and to uphold environmental protections, including ensuring that an activity is not permitted if it would be contrary to a water conservation order.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000221\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThe bill will self-repeal in two years, by which time the Government will be implementing its more comprehensive reform of the RMA, drawing on a report which is expected to be released soon.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000222\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EAs stated earlier, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. This is a bill of that vein. It\u2019s a direct response to help restore the economy and help create jobs sooner, which I think everyone in this House agrees with. In summary, this bill seeks to make processes faster but not to change in any substantial way either the environmental test or relevant Treaty provisions under the RMA or Treaty settlements. I commend the bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u002218f2deb78e4f4b79bbc7d880732c2603\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000223\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002218f2deb78e4f4b79bbc7d880732c2603\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Speaker. I\u2019m pleased to take a call on the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. I\u2019m going to say from the outset that National supports this bill. We supported it at first reading and we support it again today. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000224\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EI want to just start by thanking officials. I need to do this because they worked at breakneck speed over a very short period of time and they did an exceptional job. They did this on the back of another bill that we had, the log traders and forestry advisers bill, which we also did at breakneck speed over the course of a week. So they absolutely need to be acknowledged because they did a fantastic job. I think we met seven out of eight days on this bill\u2014so that just goes to show you how much hard work went into this bill\u2014including at 8 a.m. on a Saturday. So I do absolutely need to acknowledge them. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000225\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EI just want to start by saying we understand this bill is under urgency, and that\u2019s understandable. It\u2019s a little bit curious, though\u2014I just want to point out that it wasn\u2019t introduced under Budget urgency. Instead, under Budget urgency we got the log traders and forestry advisers bill. But here is a bill which actually, in its title and in its purpose, goes to the very heart of the problem that we\u2019re dealing with, that the Budget spent billions and billions of dollars on helping to improve our economy as we recover from COVID, yet it wasn\u2019t introduced under Budget urgency; we get it under normal urgency. It\u2019s just a strange anomaly that I wanted to point out because it is very confusing to us why this wasn\u2019t introduced under Budget urgency. This bill has the aim of supporting employment and boosting local economies by the acceleration of nationwide projects and activities, and what better bill to have introduced under Budget urgency?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000226\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThis bill is an acknowledgement that the Resource Management Act (RMA) is broken. The consent process is long, it\u2019s expensive, and it\u2019s open to appeal, which can see projects delayed, made far more costly, dragged out, and often not got off the ground at all. And in times of crisis like the Christchurch earthquake, like the Kaik\u014Dura earthquake, and again, at the moment, this bill and what we\u2019re putting in place will very much help our economy get back on track. Fast-track consenting is required for job growth. It is required to create legacy projects that have ongoing economic benefit. Like I say, we\u2019ve used similar legislation in the past and we support legislation today to assist our economy to recover from COVID-19. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000227\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThe bill achieves its purpose, as we heard from the Minister for the Environment, in three ways: by listing projects, 11 projects, under Schedule 2 of the bill; by having projects referred by the Minister to a panel; and allowing agencies like the New Zealand Transport Agency and KiwiRail to carry out specific work on existing infrastructure without the need for a resource consent. So works would then be limited to operation of, maintenance of, replacement of, and minor upgrades to existing infrastructure located in rail and road corridors. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000228\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EAt the first reading, I made the point that while we support the bill, and its intentions are worthy, this bill lacks vision. In fact, we said in our minority view after the select committee process that it is a wasted opportunity. The fact that there are only 11 projects listed in Schedule 2 means that there was an opportunity here to create some legacy projects that would have ongoing economic benefit for New Zealand that had great vision, and instead we got 11 projects of, for the most part, relatively small scale. While in themselves not bad projects and we agree with them, where was the vision from this Government to create long-lasting projects with ongoing economic value that we can look back on and say that out of the ashes of COVID-19 this is what we were left with: some fantastic legacy projects. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000229\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EWe had the opportunity, for example, to fast track the Katikati bypass, the Waikato Expressway extension, the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment, and many, many more projects. And we will take the opportunity today to put forward amendments by way of Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) to inject some vision into this bill. We\u2019ve got a number of them on the table. We will speak to them later. But it will be up to the National Party today to inject that vision and the real economic growth that will come from this bill by way of our amendments. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000230\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThis bill exemplifies\u2014I would say it\u2019s one of those bills that exemplify the very uncomfortable relationship between New Zealand First and the Greens. This was made very clear at the select committee process. There is a project that was listed in Schedule 2, a very good project. It was called the Kopenui Water Storage Reservoir at Kaikohe. We all know it as the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 dam project. In fact, the Minister in his speech talked about water storage projects being listed in Schedule 2. But, to be fair, when this bill came to us in the Environment Committee, there wasn\u2019t a water storage project. It was a hole in the ground. The reason that it wasn\u2019t a water storage project was because the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 dam, in fact, was only for the construction of the dam\u2014just a hole in the ground. It specifically said that it was not for water-related consents. So you could dig a hole in the ground, but you couldn\u2019t fill it full of water and you couldn\u2019t take the water out of it, so it wasn\u2019t a water storage project at all. It was a big, expensive hole in the ground. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000231\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003ENow, New Zealand First were very aggrieved by this because there was a fair amount, I suspect, of Provincial Growth Fund funding that went into these projects. And here we have a project in Schedule 2 that was just for a hole in the ground. Now, we know very well\u2014we can suspect where this came from and we could only imagine that it came by way of the Greens not wanting water storage projects.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000232\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003ENow, let me remind the House of the importance of this project. Not only is it for horticultural developments in the area and for iwi projects, it\u2019s also for potable water for Kaikohe. In the midst of a drought the likes of which they have not seen before they need drinking-water. And this was an extremely important project that the Greens clearly have got their little fingers all over by not allowing them to fill it full of water\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000233\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228e76fa669988467fae32b54788f7e75b\u0022\u003EHon Jacqui Dean\u003C/span\u003E: Shame.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000234\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ce83338fc9074e1ab6ed88e129b7b12e\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: \u2014or take water, which, as Jacqui Dean is saying, is absolutely shameful.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000235\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003ENow, I\u2019d just like to point out that the National Party came to the rescue at select committee because this would not have been changed in select committee to allow for the filling of the dam and the water takes out of the dam if it wasn\u2019t for the National Party, because when the amendments were put by Jenny Marcroft from the New Zealand First Party, the Greens abstained. They knew that they didn\u2019t have the numbers on that side to get this through and it was the National Party that came to the rescue for Kaikohe and for the people of Northland.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000236\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220df7e96ccfbd4028b7212b090cf1ee08\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: It was actually Matt King.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000237\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022bf9d540b4438485ba626b49a8b1c3c5c\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: It was. In fact, I do have to acknowledge Matt King, because the hard work on this was done by him in his electorate and fed down to us, and we came to the rescue. Matt King came to the rescue for the people of Kaikohe when it comes to this amendment. We made these changes so this consent will now go to the expert panel. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000238\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThe other thing that the National Party wanted to put through, because we heard from Mayor Goff in select committee and he made the very good submission that Auckland was in the midst of a drought like we have never seen before and there would be water restrictions for many, many months, perhaps years, to come\u2014he talked about the number of jobs that would be lost in Auckland because of this\u2014was an amendment to the select committee; we put it forward twice, actually. It was one that Nikki Kaye drafted. She\u2019d done a lot of work in this area. We put it to select committee to add the Auckland water take from the Waikato River to Schedule 2. It was voted down by all members of the Government: the Labour Party, the Greens, and New Zealand First all voted it down. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000239\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThat was on a Friday. Over the weekend, there were many reports in the media from Shane Jones backing this project, saying that he wanted to see it in Schedule 2, in fact. We thought, \u201CWell, this is great. We\u2019ve going to have the numbers in select committee to then add this very important project for Auckland to Schedule 2.\u201D So we on Monday, after the weekend and after the media, tried to put it forward again. I asked for leave and the chair of the committee did not grant it so we weren\u2019t able to vote on that. We do understand now that Minister Parker has called the project in under a different mechanism under the RMA. So he has very much bowed to the pressure of Nikki Kaye and Mayor Goff\u2014the very good work that Nikki Kaye\u2019s done on this. He\u2019s bowed to that pressure. He knows it\u2019s important thanks to the work of the National Party, again. We hope that the process that he\u2019s putting this through will work. If it doesn\u2019t, when we are next in Government after September, we will ensure that Auckland gets the water that it so desperately needs if that process doesn\u2019t work. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000240\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EI\u2019ll just finish by saying that I have a very good SOP also to push this out from two to five years, and I look forward to speaking to that at committee stage.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022 data-id=\u0022fab1f5e8e0194ab0909e3d6975fac23f\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000241\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022fab1f5e8e0194ab0909e3d6975fac23f\u0022\u003EDr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour\u2014Christchurch Central):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Madam Speaker; thank you very much. Look, I enjoyed that little flight of fancy of Erica Stanford, but also thanks very much for her hard work on the committee and for getting out of bed on a Saturday morning with the rest of us! Thank you very much! I do absolutely want to endorse her remarks in respect of the officials, though, who worked incredibly hard. I know the committee worked hard, but they worked much harder than we did, giving up their time with family and things over the weekends, and so on. I do really want to recognise that they went above and beyond to address the issues that were raised at select committee in this urgent piece of legislation.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000242\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003EI wanted to just recognise that there are three kinds of projects in this bill: listed projects, referred projects, and, kind of, work on infrastructure, which is maintenance and replacement. And the listed projects are the ones in the schedule and get all the kind of headlines, but the other projects are equally as important. Whilst there was a lot of attention around those listed projects, the Kopenui Dam is the obvious one but also the addition of the Queenstown project\u2014which, although a roading project, is actually about freeing up the inner city to make it much more livable, much more rideable, much more walkable; another good project.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000243\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003EAlso, I do just want to mention Auckland water briefly. Now, that has been referred to an expert panel, called in by the Minister and referred to an expert panel, a much better process because these listed projects essentially are consented by statute, and in respect of the proposal to take water from the Waikato River, that requires much more consultation before the consent is given. It\u2019s about whether, not how. But that can now be done and a long-term solution to that problem can be addressed. The other matter I\u2019ll touch on briefly in respect of the listed projects is the fact that Transpower came along and noted that they really needed some powers in there because some of their assets are going to be affected.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000244\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003EAlso I wanted to just touch on the projects which are repair and replacement. That\u2019s actually a large amount of work. What it does is in respect of KiwiRail and the New Zealand Transport Agency; it enables them to work on their assets without going to get consents for minor works. So rather than having to wait for months and months\u2014there\u2019s things like bridge replacements, retaining walls and culverts, resurfacing\u2014they\u2019ll be able to do work without getting consents.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000245\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003ENow, to all of those people who are emailing me pretty much as we speak\u2014I suspect friends of Eugenie Sage\u2014saying that climate change is not addressed in the bill, in fact, that\u2019s not entirely accurate. There\u2019s two things I\u2019d say about that. First, the purpose of the bill tracks, in some ways, the Resource Management Act, but does talk not only about supporting employment and New Zealand\u2019s economic recovery but also continuing to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources. In select committee, we did listen to submitters, and I want to recognise Chl\u00F6e Swarbrick, who was very insistent that we listened to everyone who wanted to be heard. So we did, across the course of the week, listen to everyone. And, actually, from those submissions, we made a significant amendment, I think, to clause 19. In particular, when talking about significant adverse environmental effects as a basis for declining a consent, we noted that this will include greenhouse gas emissions; so overtly recognising that at least one consideration\u2014not an exclusive consideration, but a highly relevant consideration\u2014is the carbon impact of any activity. So that\u2019s important as well.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000246\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003EI want to talk a little bit as well about the work with our Treaty partners. I know that not everyone thinks we\u2019ve got it perfectly right, but certainly we worked hard to make sure that all Treaty settlements were absolutely preserved, that partners to Treaty settlements were entitled to be robustly consulted, and that there would be proper consultation with Te Arawhiti in respect of any of these projects that went ahead.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000247\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003EThis is a piece of legislation which is being fast tracked, it\u2019s urgent, it has a sunset clause. I\u2019ve heard the Opposition say they want to see that extended from up to five years rather than two. I think we need to be very, very cautious with the kinds of wide-ranging and quite sweeping powers these panels will have. So thank you again to all of the officials. I think the committee\u2019s done a good job here, but I look forward to the rest of the debate in this House. Thank you, Madam Speaker.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022 data-id=\u002263cdf3f0f1eb4ec2afec4dce5aaf7e55\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000248\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002263cdf3f0f1eb4ec2afec4dce5aaf7e55\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY (National\u2014\u014Ctaki):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. We find ourselves, yet again, talking about the Resource Management Act (RMA). It appears that in the last few months, we\u2019ve spent a lot of time talking about this Act, and, indeed, in my time in Government, we\u2019ve spent quite a bit of time talking about the RMA as well. I want to acknowledge the good work that Nick Smith and Amy Adams did as Ministers for the Environment when they were in the John Key - led Government. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000249\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EThey made significant changes to the RMA, and the one that is dear to my heart is the allowance for Ministers to call in a project to a board of inquiry, and they have to conclude their findings within nine months, and the reason that that\u2019s dear to my heart is the K\u0101piti Expressway. That had been talked about for ever and a day. Steven Joyce, as the transport Minister, came along and said, \u201CWe\u2019re going to put four lanes here.\u201D As a result, that project was called in, because of the changes that the National Government made to the RMA, and now thousands of motorists\u2014about 24,000 vehicle movements a day\u2014are enjoying a road that is safe and high in productivity. It\u2019s connected communities, and I was talking to someone just yesterday who reminded me that all of the projects\u2014the roads of national significance\u2014have had no fatalities on them since they were built, and in my patch, unfortunately, lives were lost. So thank you to the National Government for getting on and speeding up the process and allowing the roads of national significance to occur. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000250\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EWhat\u2019s happened now? Well, look at my patch, up there in the Horowhenua, the northern end of the lovely K\u0101piti coast. The road has been built from Paraparaumu and Raumati up to Peka Peka, we\u2019re just about to drive on the next section from Peka Peka to \u014Ctaki, and we just need to conclude the next section, but what does the Minister of Transport, Phil Twyford, do? He delays, mucks around, and, unfortunately, never gets on and gets it done. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000251\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EBut infrastructure now is very topical, and that\u2019s what\u2019s covered in this bill. Suddenly, the Government realised that infrastructure needs to occur to ensure that jobs are created through this bill. So that section of the four-lane expressway has stalled and stalled and stalled, and it is now back on the drawing board. There would be an opportunity if the Government had a vision to include projects like this in Schedule 2, but, unfortunately, they haven\u2019t. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000252\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ENow, I sit on the Environment Committee. We heard from submitters in a very shortened select committee process, but we did get some good submissions in, and we\u2019re interested to see what happens with the retired Court of Appeal judge. In his report through to the Minister, Tony Randerson has done a wide-ranging review of the RMA. That now is sitting on the desk of the Minister for the Environment, the Hon David Parker, and it\u2019s just unfortunate that the Government has been very slow to get on and make changes to the RMA. We made changes in another bill recently, but they were really full of, I guess in my mind, sort of going backwards instead of going forward\u2014they were about repealing a lot of good work that was done by the National Government. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000253\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo we find ourselves in a very unusual situation right now. We\u2019ve got COVID-19 upon us and, as a result, Treasury and others are forecasting 140,000 jobs could be lost this year, which is a very significant number. The Government realises they haven\u2019t done the planning and due process to allow projects like the roads of national significance to get on and be built, so in a way they are sort of using COVID to look like they\u2019re being responsive to try and reduce the number of people that are signing up for the dole queue every day at the Ministry of Social Development. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000254\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EWe are supporting this bill because we need to, but in my mind, it lacks ambition. The projects are all about a couple of cycleways and a little bit of housing development. The project that Erica Stanford raised is one that the committee spent quite a bit of time talking about and deliberating on. That\u2019s the one at Kaikohe, or, as we know it, the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 water storage project, and I\u2019ve been up there and had a look at it when I was the Minister of Primary Industries. I support it, and it\u2019s great that the Government has finally come around and wants to work with iwi and get on and build a project that is going to sustain water for those in households, those in industry, and those involved directly in the agriculture and horticulture space. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000255\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo we support that project, but when we actually started reading this bill\u2014and it\u2019s about 80 pages long, with 264 clauses\u2014we went through it and we suddenly realised that this is about an earthworks consent to build a dam in Kaikohe, the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 dam. But hold on, where\u2019s the water? Where are the consents to fill the dam and actually extract for the dam? They\u2019re nowhere to be seen. The reason is that there was a hell of a debate\u2014and my contacts in the Government tell me it was incredibly robust, which means it was quite angry\u2014between the Greens and New Zealand First, so the reason that the water-take consent is not in here is because the coalition Government is starting to fracture and fall apart.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000256\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo the select committee\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000257\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002224ce2bcdb12f49e19582b10d58857bf4\u0022\u003EHon Eugenie Sage\u003C/span\u003E: Oh, nonsense. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000258\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002255891b6541734a129ea19a44de4d8ef1\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: Oh, yes it is. Just look at\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000259\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022031e3e88a4ba47949a56cb47d8bd15f0\u0022\u003EHon Eugenie Sage\u003C/span\u003E: Nonsense. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000260\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002231bfafe4b3e548718b07b640e7cfc9c3\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: Oh, the Minister of Conservation pipes up. She obviously hasn\u2019t seen what occurred this week with the Newshub investigation looking at cameras on the commercial fleet, and we know what\u2019s gone on there, because, suddenly, Minister Nash was recorded, and that is now all public. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000261\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo I think it\u2019s wrong for Minister Sage to say that it\u2019s all happy behind closed doors with the coalition. The reality is that we know that it\u2019s not and that it\u2019s falling apart. Just look at Newshub\u2019s investigation. Under a National Government, those cameras would be in place now. Over a thousand vessels would have them on board, and\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000262\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00221fd5dbf999af4be4b37d763e555024df\u0022\u003EDEPUTY SPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: And they\u2019re not in the bill\u2014they\u2019re not in the bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000263\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022bb1f8b7a79404cd68ca24612603dc8d1\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you. The reason I am saying that is because I was the Minister that changed the law. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000264\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EBut coming back to\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000265\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002206cad7c91b4542338df8495779ceb7ea\u0022\u003EDEPUTY SPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: To the bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000266\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002258fb342ffb98419cb1ef14f5f633bfa2\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: \u2014the bill now, I want to conclude on a couple of aspects. One is the two-year sunset clause in this bill. It\u2019s going to be repealed within two years, which means it\u2019s going, going, gone in two years. Now, we know that it takes a hell of a lot of time to get infrastructure projects ready to be consented or to be called in, and I have a concern that two years is not going to be long enough. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000267\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo we raised that in the select committee. We got pushback on that. It\u2019s included in our minority view. These are big, sizable projects\u2014not all of them in here, because some of them I think are pitiful\u2014but if the National Party is lucky enough to win the election, we would want to ensure that we had decent projects that actually had some asphalt going on the ground to ensure that it connected communities, lifted our productivity, and improved our safety. So this two-year sunset period that\u2019s going to be repealed over that time frame is, I think, short-sighted. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000268\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EThe other project that\u2019s listed in here that I do support is the upgrade of the Wellington Metro Rail Network, but when I delve into the detail, it\u2019s really about freight capacity with KiwRail at places in my electorate like Levin. Now, Levin has got a massive siding of land, and once upon a time, it was really busy and productive, so that land sits there available. KiwiRail want to make that more of a transport logistics hub, and I support that, so I think that is a positive part of this bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000269\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EThe only other comment that I\u2019d like to conclude with is to say that this type of legislation has been done before, and it\u2019s been proved to be very satisfactory. That was around the Canterbury earthquakes, and that\u2019s around Kaik\u014Dura, where we had the earthquake there. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000270\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EAlso, the one that is quite close to Parliament here is the Arras Tunnel, where, when the National Government was in power, we worked constructively across the Parliament to get that tunnel built. The unfortunate thing is we should have gone further and got the flyover around the Basin Reserve included in that piece of legislation as well, but I\u2019ll leave that debate for another day. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000271\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo the National Party supports this bill, with some reservations. We look forward to the committee stage, where we can really get into some of the detail. Thank you, Madam Speaker. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022 data-id=\u0022e354414e08954498b4239801212b5d49\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000272\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e354414e08954498b4239801212b5d49\u0022\u003EHon RON MARK (Minister of Defence):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise to make a short call in support of this legislation, legislation that\u2019s been worked on between the Hon Shane Jones and the Hon David Parker quite studiously. I want to join the chorus of thanks for the select committee for its diligence in the work and the speed and the pace, the hours that they put in, and for the constructive amendments that have been made with the support of the National members of that committee. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000273\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003EI think I did try to say in my last speech on the Resource Management Act (RMA)\u2014and the Hon Nathan Guy\u2019s quite right: we find ourselves discussing the RMA once again. Of course there\u2019s always going to be the political debate around it, but I think the comments that have been made once again confirm that the RMA has some serious flaws. There have been many attempts to change it, modify it, and improve it. I do remember Denis O\u2019Rourke, who put up numerous Supplementary Order Papers when the National Government made its attempt to better the RMA\u2014all of his Supplementary Order Papers were voted down. I think there were 13 hours of debate in this House. And, you know, when you\u2019re caught in a situation where none of your suggestions, your recommendations, are accepted by the Government of the day, it stands to reason you\u2019re probably going to vote against their legislation at the end of it. That could have been a different outcome; it wasn\u2019t. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000274\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003EI\u2019m hoping that in the future, the type of collaboration that we\u2019ve seen with the select committee process for this piece of legislation will continue, given the importance and significance of the infrastructure problems that we face going forward as a country and the need for us to build resilience into our communications, systems, and structures, and support local government who carry most of the burden. That\u2019s just the sad fact of it. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000275\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003ESo I sincerely thank the members of the committee for their work and for the constructive changes that they have supported. It\u2019s already been stated\u2014so I\u2019m not going to rotary hoe this same garden again\u2014that this bill is aimed at the COVID recovery. It\u2019s aimed at trying to get some shovel-ready projects under way. It\u2019s aimed at getting people employed where we\u2019ve got people who are going to be unemployed, and we know the numbers that are coming through, and it\u2019s about fast tracking. I know that a lot of attention has been focused on those specific projects which are covered off in the schedule. I guess, where I\u2019m really hopeful, looking forward, is in the track 2, track 3 space. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000276\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003EWhen we start talking about culverts and we start talking about bridges, I recall, as the Mayor of Carterton, asking for a review of our asset management programme, and I particularly wanted some attention around culverts and bridges. Now, being a rural council, a district council, it was quite astonishing for me to learn we had over 2,500, and Carterton\u2019s one of the smallest councils\u2014I think third to smallest council in the country. We had 2,500 bridges and culverts. And I know Jacqui Dean who\u2019s been in local government herself is nodding her head there. The cost of replacing or upgrading those by a little council with a very small rating base was astronomical. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000277\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003EWhat made the challenge even greater and the problem even more concerning was when we looked at the time when these bridges had been built and these roads had been laid down and the culverts installed, and most of them were over 100 years old. Most of them had been done during the Depression. So we were looking at not just failure, not just increased usage, not just increased loadings\u2014and the last Government increased the axle loadings on heavy vehicles; large numbers of logging trucks, large numbers of transporters moving through our area\u2014but we were dealing with the problem of block obsolescence. Because they were all built at the same time, their end of life was going to hit us all at the same time\u2014very much like the problems that the Defence Force faces with old platforms.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000278\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223cdf72c97a314b6795609adda56f08ca\u0022\u003EDEPUTY SPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Yep\u2014yep.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000279\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022bcc9e6e6338340d3ac2f4337e9449fb3\u0022\u003EHon RON MARK\u003C/span\u003E: So this part here, when we get into track 2, we get into track 3, I\u2019m hoping that under the Orders in Council, a lot of these projects will get the opportunity to see the light and to be considered and to be fast tracked. I\u2019d also like to think that under Provincial Growth Fund funding, when we get back here after the election, we\u2019ll be able to continue to fund some of these things as well. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000280\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003EThe other point that\u2019s been raised and discussed is the question around the sunset clause, the fact that the bill will self-repeal in two years. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see what happens with these changes. If this piece of legislation proves to be effective, if this piece of legislation proves to be something of worth, it\u2019s going to be interesting to see what a future Government who\u2019s come to power at that point in time does with that clause. I\u2019d like to think that the Parliament will keep an open mind. I\u2019d like to think that at that time, a post-implementation review might give the Parliament a steer. I\u2019d like to think that at that time, the changes that we\u2019re making in this legislation might be considered more widely as to whether or not it\u2019s appropriate in a wider review of the Resource Management Act, which is clearly going to happen no matter who is in power at the time. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000281\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002207dc4112-8a19-4dd6-a57c-878b47f8a9b6\u0022\u003EWith that, I\u2019d simply say New Zealand First supports the bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u00224cf780caa2574cfa95e500ec85413261\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000282\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224cf780caa2574cfa95e500ec85413261\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Speaker. National does support the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. We\u2019re now at the second reading, and our most excellent colleague Erica Stanford started out the debate for us in the second reading by thanking very sincerely the officials who had assisted and led the committee\u2014a bit of both, really\u2014through the very truncated consideration of this bill. As Erica Stanford mentioned, the committee met by Zoom every day bar one, which was Sunday, for the last week to get this bill back in reasonable shape, and a lot of credit needs to go to the officials, particularly as they had just immediately come off hard at the heels of the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Bill, which had, more or less, the same process. So our officials are working extraordinarily hard, and bill drafters; can\u2019t forget parliamentary counsel, who also have been working on this bill, and we do thank them, and we can\u2019t thank them enough\u2014I don\u2019t believe we can.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000283\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003ESo, yes, we consent to this bill. It is a bill very much in the form of the Christchurch Canterbury earthquakes recovery legislation and the Kaik\u014Dura recovery legislation, which allowed physical works to be done. There are a number of features in those suites of legislation which enabled both of those communities\u2014or all of those communities, because there are a number of small communities in Canterbury\u2014to find their feet. It was the physical works\u2014getting those physical infrastructure works going\u2014which not only addressed those infrastructure problems but gave the community heart. I would suggest that we are united in this House and we do support this bill, as I said. We\u2019ve united this country to see that work was being done without the delays which we all are frustrated by under the current provisions of the Resource Management Act (RMA) in terms of consenting, whereby projects can be in the consenting stage for a number of years. In fact, we have a good example right now of Auckland Council being, I think, fifth or sixth in line for their water-take consent from the Waikato Regional Council, and the regional council is saying, \u201CYou\u2019re in line, and it\u2019ll be years.\u201D So there\u2019s no argument that the delays in consenting for major projects, the like of which Auckland Council are experiencing\u2014there\u2019s no denying that there is an issue here in New Zealand with the Resource Management Act. It is frustrating. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000284\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EOn this side of the House, in the nine years we were in Government, we brought forward a number of RMA amendment bills to the House to achieve what this bill is also attempting to achieve\u2014which is a timely consideration of consents\u2014but we did not ever get the support of the then Opposition parties in this House, who are now, all of them, sitting on the other side in the Government and who are now, suddenly, so enthusiastic about RMA reform. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000285\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003ESo in this bill\u2014this very bill\u2014we have those elements of the RMA which have been demonstrated to work so very well in times of need\u2014earthquakes\u2014and now we have the same situation where we have a country, effectively, brought to its knees by a virus. The question then arises as to Schedule 2 of this bill, which contains the listed projects, and those are the 11 identified projects which are in the bill which will go straight to the RMA consenting panel for consideration for consent. They will have something like up to 20 to 25 days to come back with a decision. They can go back to the project promoters to ask for information. But, essentially, this is a very efficient process, which does provide some protections that sit in the RMA. So this bill fits nicely within the RMA.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000286\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EBut the question has to be asked, and I do hope the Minister, in the committee stage of this bill, will be prepared to answer questions\u2014questions such as: we know that fast tracking projects will be of benefit to infrastructure projects, and we have identified, with the Infrastructure Industry Reference Group, 1,924 submissions for projects. So that\u2019s nearly 2,000 projects that have been identified to the Government. They come with a combined value of $136 billion. So there\u2019s no shortage of projects out there. And there\u2019s more: I have some projects of my own that I would wish to promote through the process of this bill. So there\u2019s no shortage of infrastructure projects to be considered, potentially through the auspices of this Act once it has passed. So the question is: why are there only 11 identified in the bill itself. Those are the listed projects, and, of course, there is a mechanism, but it\u2019s a slightly longer mechanism for other projects to be referred to the consenting panel. So I think it is a question: why only 11?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000287\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EI think the answer really lies in the dysfunctional nature of this Government, where the coalition members and confidence and supply partners have such very fractious relationships and there is a fair degree of horse trading that has to go on. So we get infrastructure projects which are deemed so necessary to be included in Schedule 2, and yet, when you have a look at them, they are cycle trails. One just has to wonder at the benefit, in terms of the purpose of this bill, in getting infrastructure up and running in New Zealand. But that is a question for the Minister to answer in the next reading of this bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000288\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EThe next question I have is: where is the Infrastructure Commission in all of this? It was an issue that was raised in the first reading of this bill, and that is that the Government established the Infrastructure Commission only a few months ago, and yet here we have a whole other legislative process which has the function of identifying and fast tracking essential infrastructure projects with the purpose of building infrastructure and creating jobs. So what, then, for the Infrastructure Commission? Has that been set aside? Do they intend to repeal that? I don\u2019t know the answers to that. But, surely, any decent Government, any decent policy development process, should have cast itself around for what are the options for addressing this problem of COVID-19, and we need to get the country moving and we need to provide jobs, which we agree with. So one of the options surely could have been, and should have been, using the Infrastructure Commission, and possibly that could have been a part of this RMA fast-track consenting bill. I am surprised and a little mystified as to why it isn\u2019t, but, again, that is something that this committee can raise in the committee of the whole House, when Minister Parker is in the chair.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000289\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EI also note, just casting my mind forward, because it is interesting to do that, that there are a number of tabled amendments to be considered in the committee stage of this bill, and this is the opportunity for the Government to really show its commitment to infrastructure in New Zealand. I expect the Government, I expect Minister Parker and the Government\u2014all the parties in the Government: the Greens, New Zealand First, and Labour\u2014to support each and every one of these infrastructure projects, if they are to be true to the spirit of this legislation. So I\u2019m expecting great success in that regard with these tabled amendments which are now sitting before us on the Table. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000290\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EI have a number relating to my electorate, and, very quickly, I really very much would like to see the \u014Crari bridge double-laning in South Canterbury. That\u2019s a very worthy project. Now, if that could be dealt with in this fast-track consenting process, that would be great news to the locals, as would the Kakanui bridge renewal. So that\u2019s just two projects\u2014that\u2019s two bridge projects. We\u2019ve got infrastructure projects\u2014lots of jobs; good value to the locals. But there\u2019s also safety improvement projects. So I\u2019m going to put these to the Government, and I do hope that they meet with the Government\u2019s agreement.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022 data-id=\u0022af65018057754556af793a3cc48bd1e9\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000291\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022af65018057754556af793a3cc48bd1e9\u0022\u003EHon EUGENIE SAGE (Minister of Conservation):\u003C/span\u003E T\u0113n\u0101 koe, Madam Speaker. Pleased to take a call on the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. Sometimes I think the National Party doesn\u2019t understand MMP. The fact that we\u2019ve got three parties in Government, representing the breadth of views of New Zealanders, of course means that there are discussions and debate about significant legislation such as this bill. That strengthens the process of developing the legislation, because it means that the different perspectives go into drafting the bill and then amending it through the course of the Parliament, so it then ensures that it represents the wider spectrum of views of New Zealanders. So I make no apology for the fact that we are part of an effective Government, which really demonstrates MMP in action, and three parties are working together.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000292\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EThe Green Party has worked throughout the development of the bill to improve it, to strengthen it. I really acknowledge the work of environment Minister David Parker and the good faith negotiations that he has undertaken with us. I also acknowledge the really important contribution that submitters have made, because the Green Party was adamant that there needed to be a select committee process for this bill so that the public would have an opportunity to comment on it, because communities want to be able to influence the decisions that are made under the Resource Management Act which affect their neighbourhoods and the places that they care about. Public participation enables more information to be put in front of decision makers, and, again, that wider spectrum of views.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000293\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003ESo this fast-track bill does reduce the opportunities for full public participation, but it does enable a number of organisations to present their perspectives and their critique of projects to the expert consenting panel. I\u2019m pleased that in the Environment Committee this has been further expanded with the addition of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. Others have commended the work of officials. I would also really like to commend all of those individuals and organisations who worked through a weekend\u2014very short, compressed time period\u2014to analyse the bill and to make submissions, and the work that Green MP Chl\u00F6e Swarbrick did on the select committee to ensure that everyone who wanted to be heard had that opportunity, and the long hearings of the select committee to enable that to happen. As we have seen with the bill that has been reported back, there have been a number of further improvements in the light of those submissions.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000294\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EThe National Party has said that the Government lacks vision, and their response, their vision, is just to put a whole lot of Supplementary Order Papers seeking to have a number of other projects included in the schedule to the bill. This Government\u2019s vision in responding to the environmental and climate challenges of the time is to ensure, as a key part of our recovery to the economic insecurity caused by COVID, that we have a nature-based recovery, that we invest $1.1 billion in creating new nature-based jobs that help Papat\u016B\u0101nuku and ensure that people can bring home money to put food on the table and have that security of employment. That is part of our vision. So is this bill, because it ensures that while responding to COVID, while responding to the need to create jobs through these fast-tracked projects, we also recognise sustainable management. That\u2019s a key part of the purpose of the bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000295\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EIn the criteria that the Minister for the Environment has to consider when deciding whether projects should go on the fast track, those have been strengthened. As Duncan Webb noted, there was already a major criteria that projects have to contribute to New Zealand\u2019s efforts to mitigate climate change and transition more quickly to a low-emissions economy, and the impacts of reducing New Zealand\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions is all there in relation to that criteria. The select committee has strengthened it by including a specific reference to greenhouse gas emissions when the Minister comes to consider adverse environmental effects. One of the key areas where the bill was strengthened early on was ensuring that there was a strong commitment to Part 2, in terms of the decisions made by the Minister and by the expert consenting panel so that the environmental bottom lines that are part of the Resource Management Act (RMA) come across to this bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000296\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003ESo our concerns are around the constraints on public participation. While National is suggesting that this bill should supplant the RMA permanently, there is a significant constraint on local participation and decision-making by councils because, of course, decisions under the bill are made by the expert consenting panel within 25 to 50 days, rather than by councils elected to represent their communities. So access to justice is constrained, too, with the inability to appeal beyond the Court of Appeal. This bill is complex. So, like others, I really acknowledge the work of officials in taking the behemoth of the Resource Management Act, working out how this bill integrates with it, particularly the members of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and their legal drafting so that this bill does fit alongside the RMA. It changes the processes that are in the RMA but retains those key fundamental environmental bottom lines that are in Part 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000297\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EThe National speakers have queried why things like cycleways are part of the fast-tracked projects in the schedule. Those cycleways had significant benefits for sustainability, both in reducing emissions and in promoting the health of the population by ensuring that people can commute safely without being threatened by cars. So that\u2019s the sort of change that this Government wants in order to shift us to a low-emissions economy, to tackle the climate crisis, and to ensure that infrastructure projects take us in that direction and are not the big motorway projects, the roads of national significance that that party was so keen on when it was in Government, which increased emissions and created an enormous taking of funding away from things like active transport, cycleways, walking projects, and improved access around our cities.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000298\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EThe vision that this Government has for the Resource Management Act is to follow on from the recommendations of the Randerson review, which will be made public. That review, I hope, deals with the issue of spatial planning and infrastructure integration. We have a real deficit in infrastructure planning in Aotearoa. We have a deficit of investment in things like three waters, in things like effective transport, effective public transport. This Government is making that investment through the COVID response and recovery package and through the Provincial Growth Fund. We need our environmental planning legislation to be about good spatial planning, where we are planning to ensure that new housing development integrates with transport corridors. Where we put infrastructure affects how cities and towns develop. So that is our vision for environmental legislation which does that spatial planning and takes us to a low-emissions economy. So this bill is not the bill that will achieve that, but that will come with the results of the Randerson review when we get back into Government after 19 September to take that forward.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000299\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003ESo this bill, with its three tracks for projects, has had significant improvements through the select committee process in response to submissions, things like the ability of infrastructure agencies to do permitted activities, through clearance of vegetation in significant natural areas\u2014there\u2019ve been changes to things like that. Auckland water, which is a big issue, is now on a pathway that\u2019s under the existing Act through being called in by the Minister for the Environment. What National would have done was ram that through without taking into account the concerns of Waikato-Tainui. That will go through that more comprehensive process under the RMA, because it is critical that adverse environmental effects are considered properly. Because we\u2019ve seen with projects like the Clyde Dam, which was rammed through, the failure to really look at the geological characteristics there and the impacts that things like that have had on the functioning of that dam. Things that are done in haste where environmental effects aren\u2019t fully considered can have detrimental impacts further down the track, as happened under National with the way it wanted to ram through a lot of irrigation projects. So I\u2019m pleased to take a call on the bill. Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022 data-id=\u0022231f975add2e428c9b9115aaf426ecf6\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000300\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022231f975add2e428c9b9115aaf426ecf6\u0022\u003ECHRIS BISHOP (National\u2014Hutt South):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I do just want to respond to the previous member\u2019s comments about the roads of national significance (RONS). I want to assure the House that, when the National Party wins the election on 19 September, the RONS are coming back.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000301\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EIt always amazes me that the Green Party decries the roads of national significance, because Julie Anne Genter, who\u2019s the associate transport Minister and also the Green Party transport spokesperson, depending on which hat she\u2019s wearing or which website she\u2019s writing for\u2014or actually, frankly, which question time she\u2019s appearing in\u2014likes to talk about road safety a lot. They\u2019re the safest roads in the country. One person has died on a road of national significance. Nathan Guy said it was zero; it\u2019s actually one\u2014one person only. K\u0101piti Expressway; Transmission Gully, when we eventually get it open; Waterview; Victoria Park Tunnel; the Canterbury roading projects down on Andrew Falloon\u2019s patch, or close to there\u2014one person has died. They\u2019re the safest roads in the country.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000302\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EAnd they talk about housing. Eugenie Sage just talked about\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000303\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002258f935f1-6646-40ab-9d99-17029396850c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002254df46c56bba425c97ca54d3bb66f311\u0022\u003EHon Julie Anne Genter\u003C/span\u003E: P\u016Bhoi to Warkworth\u2014do you know how many people died because your party didn\u2019t improve the safety of that road?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000304\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224b8a5573caaf4738a2c37ce431ff4e63\u0022\u003ECHRIS BISHOP\u003C/span\u003E: OK. Well, you can get upset if you like, but one person has died on a road of national significance. They\u2019re the safest roads, and they expand housing growth.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000305\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EI want to comment on what Eugenie Sage said about housing, because it always amazes me that roads that connect our regions, that connect greenfield housing developments, like the road that the Government is building in the South, the expansion of State Highway 1 further south, that opens up greenfields housing developments\u2014that contributes to housing supply. You\u2019ve got to build the infrastructure to connect the housing, and actually the roads of national significance, four-lane expressways\u2014beautiful things\u2014they actually connect into housing. It always amazes me that the Greens don\u2019t support that. So, even on the grounds that they like to talk about being important in transport, they should support the RONS.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000306\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EI want to thank the Environment Committee for the hard work they have done on this bill, and particularly Erica Stanford and the team on the committee. They have done a great job. I couldn\u2019t sit on the committee for the bill, but I know they were sitting at all hours\u20148 o\u2019clock on a Saturday morning; particularly, can I say, with the weather that Wellington has had, and I want to apologise, sort of, to the House for the Wellington weather over the last couple of weeks. What a shocker. I know many of you will not have enjoyed that. So, sorry about that!\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000307\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003ELook, this bill is a good bill as far as it goes, right? But it\u2019s really an admission that the Resource Management Act (RMA) is broken. And, actually, we\u2019ve been saying that in the National Party for at least a decade, nigh on 20 years. The fact that we\u2019re having to sit\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000308\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022dbaac12b-3efa-4d95-a08d-f0f637a48bab\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227e7bd64f26b34fcfa65027e90d993673\u0022\u003EChl\u00F6e Swarbrick\u003C/span\u003E: How long were you in Government, Chris?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000309\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b51f0aa602924f1196ae8ce902477300\u0022\u003ECHRIS BISHOP\u003C/span\u003E: Well, I know the point you\u2019re making. We could never assemble the numbers to reform it properly. And, actually, you know, if we\u2019d had the chance, we would have done it properly. We could never assemble the numbers. And, actually, the fact that we\u2019re sitting here today, on the cusp of an election, in urgency, on Thursday afternoon, putting through a bill to get on with 11 projects, worthy as they are\u2014well, contemporaneously there\u2019s this reform process going through, led by Judge Randerson, which the Minister has kicked off, for yet another reform of the RMA, yet another consultation, yet another stakeholder advisory process, and reference groups, and getting everyone into a room to agree on the best way forward. All that stuff. That\u2019s happening contemporaneously with this. Doesn\u2019t that just indicate to you that the whole fundamental model is broken? It really is.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000310\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EEveryone agrees that we need to get on with infrastructure projects in New Zealand. There\u2019s not a person in the Parliament who wouldn\u2019t say that we have under-invested in infrastructure, probably for the last 15 or 20 years. No one would really disagree with that, and yet we have put in place barriers, self-made barriers, through the Resource Management Act, since 1990, to actually building that infrastructure. I\u2019ve just been corresponding with someone online about the P\u0113tone to Ngauranga cycle trail, which everyone in Wellington and Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt agrees we need, because you drive down State Highway 2 into town, from Lower Hutt into Wellington, and there\u2019s a tiny little track next to the railway line, in between the motorway, and it\u2019s filthy and it\u2019s filled with potholes and it\u2019s got nails along it. It\u2019s a rubbish piece of infrastructure, and if Julie Anne Genter was here she would, I know, agree with me on this. She would say that that should be the jewel in the crown of Wellington. It should be a beautiful vista that people ride along on their e-bikes, which I know a lot of people are taking up. People could run and walk along it into Wellington.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000311\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EWell, we\u2019re now in 2020. That project has been talked about for 50 years. We talked about it in Government in 2014, six years ago, and we\u2019re now in 2020 and it\u2019s going to be one of the projects brought forward to be fast-tracked. And the reason that has to be done is because, I\u2019m told, under the current Resource Management Act, structures that would take four years to consent\u2014four years for a project that pretty much everyone agrees we want. Everyone in Wellington agrees it\u2019s desired. The current cycleway is unsafe, it\u2019s dangerous, and it should be the jewel in the crown of Wellington. It should be a tourist attraction. It should incentivise people to get out of their cars, get on to their bikes or on to their e-bikes and cycle into town from Lower Hutt or Upper Hutt or from P\u0113tone, or for families to walk along the harbour on a nice summery day. Not right now; you probably wouldn\u2019t do it on a day like today, or any of the last month, but you\u2019d do it on a nice summery day. And it takes four years to consent? It\u2019s ridiculous. Everyone agrees it\u2019s ridiculous. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000312\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003ESo we\u2019re going to have to put it through in this bill, alongside a bunch of other projects like the papak\u0101inga network development, Britomart East upgrade to the City Rail Link project. I mean, again, there would be no one in Parliament who\u2019d think that was a bad idea. We need to do it. So let\u2019s just do it. Papakura to Pukekohe electrification\u2014that\u2019s been talked about for five years. We campaigned in the 2017 election on it, and the Labour Party campaigned on it as well, and we\u2019re here in 2020\u2014a railway line extension to Pukekohe to better cater to the fast-growing area of the south of Auckland and the Waikato, to allow people to get on a train from Pukekohe straight into Britomart and not have to get off at Papakura and then get on another train. Obviously that disincentivises people to get on the train in Pukekohe, because they\u2019ve got to get off at Papakura, get off their diesel train and get on an electric train. Obviously fewer people want to do that, so of course electrification makes sense. We\u2019ve been talking about it for five or six years, but consenting takes for ever.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000313\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EThe Resource Management Act is a self-made blockage against housing, against rail projects that make sense, against roading projects that unlock our greenfields development or help deal with congestion or improve safety, which everyone agrees we need to improve. So I just think, symbolically, the fact that we are here doing this just epitomises the failure of Parliament over the last 20 years, really, to deal with the Resource Management Act. And I have to say that, frankly, the Greens\u2014there is some deep irony in the Greens supporting this bill, because the Greens have been the biggest barrier in the last 20 years to the Resource Management Act. Simple changes, minor changes to reduce the interminable consultation, to speed up the process\u2014all of those changes have been opposed by the Green Party; not just opposed and they vote against them and go through the motions, but vociferously and voluminously. They\u2019ve run petitions against any changes to the Resource Management Act, and they\u2019ve had their fellow travellers in the wider environmental movements telling us that the end of the world is nigh. We\u2019ve had Geoffrey Palmer telling us that the model is fine, and we\u2019ve had endless opinion pieces from Sir Geoffrey and legal opinions about how everyone is wrong on the Resource Management Act other than him. Well, he\u2019s the guy who wrote it, so I think there may be a slight vested interest there and conflict of interest in relation to it.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000314\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003EThe simple reality is that if you look back over the last 20 years of New Zealand\u2014or the last 30 years, actually\u2014some of the biggest problems we\u2019re dealing with in New Zealand today, the legacy of those problems, can be sheeted back to the Resource Management Act: under-investment in infrastructure, not just roads. We are keen on roads in the National Party; not just roads but rail, public transport improvements, busways, cycle tracks, shared paths\u2014we\u2019ve under-invested in all of them, and the Resource Management Act bears a lot of the blame for it. Housing\u2014the average house in Auckland is a million dollars; ten times average median income. That\u2019s wrong, and the Resource Management Act bears a lot of the responsibility for that, because we have made it impossible in this country, or nearly impossible, to get on and build housing. That\u2019s not the sole cause of the housing problems in New Zealand, but it\u2019s a major contributing factor. Just building stuff, just living your life in your own home, on your own property\u2014we have made it near impossible to do things. And, again, the Resource Management Act bears a lot of the blame for that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000315\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002257e41e9d-285b-4fb3-847d-a63820ae7137\u0022\u003ESo, yes, we support this bill. Obviously, we support it. Yes, we want things added to it. But it is really symbolic and emblematic of the Resource Management Act being a major millstone around the neck of Governments of both stripes over the last 20 to 30 years. We need wholesale reform. That will come after 19 September. Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f677db8b-66c5-4794-953c-bdf7aa425710\u0022 data-id=\u0022c193e04837504ac7b049cd42656bfe2e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000316\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f677db8b-66c5-4794-953c-bdf7aa425710\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022c193e04837504ac7b049cd42656bfe2e\u0022\u003EMARJA LUBECK (Labour):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Speaker. That was a very long call to say that the other side of the House supports this bill. Let\u2019s put some positivity back into the debate, because this bill is actually a good bill. What I would like to do with my short call\u2014I would like to thank Minister Parker for bringing this bill to the House so that we will have the mechanisms in place to get some crucial infrastructure and other developments going. This will promote employment and, in turn, support New Zealand\u2019s recovery from COVID-19. I would also like to thank the Environment Committee, chaired by my indefatigable colleague Dr Duncan Webb, and I\u2019d like to thank the officials for their obviously tireless work on this bill. I commend it to the House. Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022 data-id=\u002285ddf01062544b9295af0304101ef78e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000317\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002285ddf01062544b9295af0304101ef78e\u0022\u003EANDREW FALLOON (National\u2014Rangitata):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Speaker. I was hoping that the Government member over there would want to speak a bit more about this bill. But look, it is a real pleasure to rise to support the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000318\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EEven though I do support it, I unfortunately do see it as inadequate. That is because, first of all, all it does is cherry-picks around 11 projects from around the country and does nothing actually for projects around the rest of the country which aren\u2019t given such gold-plated treatment. So, as has been pointed out on this side of the House this afternoon, and as members can see on the Table in front of us, there are a range of projects all around the country that would benefit from a fast-track consenting process and yet haven\u2019t been included in this bill. What would have been far better, actually, is if we, as my colleague Chris Bishop has alluded to, have not just a fast-track consenting process but actually fundamental reform of the Resource Management Act, which is, unfortunately, holding back so much development in this country. This bill is inadequate because it ignores large swaths of New Zealand. Of the 11 projects, the vast bulk of those are in the North Island; despite green-lighting projects, transport projects, particularly in Auckland, there is nothing in here in terms of transport projects for Canterbury, nothing for road safety at all.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000319\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003ENow, in the committee of the whole House stage later on tonight, I do intend to move two amendments to rectify some of those inadequacies. The first one of those is an amendment to include in this bill the road between Rolleston and Ashburton and to extend that to four lanes. So as part of the previous Government\u2019s roads of national significance programme that Chris Bishop has alluded to, four lanes was extended or rolled out from Christchurch to Rolleston, and now it\u2019s time to finish the job. According to NZTA\u2019s own statistics just a couple of years ago, that road between Ashburton and Christchurch is now the second most dangerous stretch of highway in the country for fatalities and serious injuries. And that needs to change.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000320\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EThis bill refers to the Papakura to Drury State Highway 1 roading upgrade. It refers to the need to improve safety on that important Auckland road. Yet the bill does nothing for one of the most dangerous roads in New Zealand, Ashburton to Christchurch, and that needs to change. Traffic volumes on that road have doubled over the last 20 years, and with growth around PrimePort in Timaru, also the Rolleston inland port, and of course, a thriving primary produce sector in mid- and South Canterbury, the road has become more congested and less safe. My colleague Chris Bishop pointed out the fact that there\u2019s been, I think, one fatality on the roads of national significance, the seven roads that were put in place by the previous Government. Well, in contrast to that, in the last three years there have been 10 people who\u2019ve lost their lives on the road between Ashburton and Christchurch, and that needs to change.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000321\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EInstead, unfortunately, that road was re-evaluated by the transport Minister, Phil Twyford, not long after he came into Government and as part of a $5 billion dollar cut to the State highway network, it was shelved. That money was instead put into Auckland cycle and rail projects, which makes it all the more incredible that we\u2019ve now, in recent weeks, just seen the Auckland light rail project shelved.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000322\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EThe second amendment I intend to move is for a second bridge over the Ashburton River. This is a project that the community wants and it would reduce congestion in the CBD. It\u2019s an important component of the Christchurch to Ashburton four-lane project, and that\u2019s been confirmed by NZTA, who have said that the four-lane highway should bring forward investment in a second bridge crossing. Now, the Government have announced a business case such as it is, but of course that comes on the heels of, I think, four previous business cases that have been done on the bridge, all recommending that it go ahead. Quite why we need a fifth case, I don\u2019t entirely know. That business case, of course, was funded by the Provincial Growth Fund from Shane Jones\u2014once again, creating more jobs for expensive consultants in Wellington than it does in the regions.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000323\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EMy amendment would bring forward this important project. Both projects\u2014the Ashburton to Christchurch four-lane highway, a second bridge over the Ashburton River\u2014would improve road safety. Both projects would create jobs, would create economic activity. I do hope that members across the House do support those important projects and make roads in Canterbury more safe.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000324\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022998b52d1bca04f1f82b3278bb8cec67b\u0022\u003EASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: The following is a split call. Jami-Lee Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022 data-id=\u002219827c58d29d4fc19c84152172319ae1\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000325\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002219827c58d29d4fc19c84152172319ae1\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I also rise to speak in favour of this bill and really echo some of the comments that have already been made about the fact that when we have natural disasters or we have significant economic events, it really highlights to this Parliament\u2014because every time it happens, the Parliament goes and changes the RMA. Those big events highlight that our Resource Management Act is broken. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000326\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EThe politics of resource management law changes are such that we can never achieve a parliamentary majority for streamlining the RMA in such a way where it is user-friendly and geared towards development and economic progress until we have such an issue like COVID-19 or the global financial crisis or the Kaik\u014Dura earthquakes come along. When those issues come along, then all of a sudden the politicians go, \u201CWhoa, we better protect jobs and we better do something for economic development. So let\u2019s set aside all of the RMA provisions which are held dear to a majority of the Parliament\u2014let\u2019s set them aside and move forward with economic development.\u201D It highlights the fact that if we just had an RMA in the first place that was fit for purpose, then we wouldn\u2019t need to be doing this type of work.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000327\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EBut the fact that we\u2019re here is good. The fact that we have this legislation is a positive improvement. If the need to create jobs and save the livelihoods of New Zealanders off the back of COVID-19 is the catalyst for doing this legislation, then good on the Parliament for doing just that. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000328\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI do share the view also that\u2019s been expressed that there should be more projects in this bill. I realise there were comments made\u2014I think the Minister of Defence made the comment that there\u2019s other tracks, a track 2 and a track 3. But if we realise already now that there are more projects that we could put in\u2014and I know New Zealand First has many projects that they\u2019ve got $3 billion of Provincial Growth Fund to fund\u2014they should be going in the bill right now. The very fact that the select committee put the Queenstown roading projects in the bill\u2014I\u2019m not sure, Hamish Walker, you must be very, very effective at lobbying. But the fact that the Queenstown roading projects went into the bill suggests the Parliament is open-minded to putting more stuff into the bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000329\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EThere are a number of Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) on the Table. I note the National Party\u2014every single local member seems to have come up with their own local project that\u2019s important to their electorate. I\u2019ve done the same by way of SOP, and I\u2019m sure the National Party, given that they\u2019re goodhearted people, will be supporting the people of Botany with SOPs that I\u2019ve put up, just as they\u2019ve been supporting their own local electorates. If they don\u2019t, then we\u2019ll know that they care about politics more than local electorates. But the fact that there are so few projects in this bill suggests that we do need to see some improvements. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000330\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI want to speak briefly in the two minutes that I have left about the Auckland water issue, because there was commentary both in the media and in the report from the select committee around the Auckland water issue. I suspect David Parker has done a very strategic move sideways in putting that particular issue out to the call-in provisions that he as the Minister has the ability to do. But the very fact that he\u2019s had to do that suggests we don\u2019t have an RMA fit for purpose that can deal with those big significant issues. But he hasn\u2019t actually come up with a solution which is fast enough, and we can do things faster if we were to put the Auckland water issue into this bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000331\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003ESee, the panel under this bill has to make decisions in 25 days. The call-in provisions under the RMA that the Minister has\u2014it takes nine months or so. If Auckland\u2019s water crisis is so bad that a majority of Parliament\u2014because the National Party and New Zealand First came out saying we should put that particular issue into the fast-track bill, and they can\u2019t deny it because Shane Jones put it out as Minister for Infrastructure. It was under his brand as Minister for Infrastructure. If a majority of Parliament says that is such an important issue that we should do something about in a fast-track way, let\u2019s just put it in this bill. The Minister\u2019s done a good thing in putting it out in the call-in process, but we can do things a lot faster by putting it in this bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000332\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI realise putting it in this bill would probably upset one of the coalition partners. But for goodness\u2019 sakes, Aucklanders getting access to drinking-water and being able to ensure that we have continuity of supply for our largest city in the country, surely that\u2019s something that a majority of votes in the Parliament should put politics aside for and put in place in this bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000333\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI note that the National Party deputy leader also put out a press release saying that they support something like that going into this particular bill. I have an SOP that would give effect to the very thing that the National Party deputy leader has said that she wants. I hope they support that as well. Otherwise, they are just like that big \u201Ch\u201D word that I\u2019m not allowed to say.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022 data-id=\u002206a38b63867041ce8f2349b9f1dd1e02\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000334\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022b398827c-6bf5-403e-90dc-ff03205302a5\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002206a38b63867041ce8f2349b9f1dd1e02\u0022\u003EHon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO (Minister for Pacific Peoples):\u003C/span\u003E At the helm of New Zealand\u2019s COVID-19 response is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and she is strongly supported by all parties on this side of the House. Her decisive and compassionate decision-making has kept all of us safe, and we will continue to work hard to keep COVID-19 at our borders while we work quickly and at pace to support our country\u2019s economic recovery and rebuild. For that reason, I commend this bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022 data-id=\u0022401e6a61a5b74c9b8bd8b24e331d49df\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000335\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022401e6a61a5b74c9b8bd8b24e331d49df\u0022\u003ELAWRENCE YULE (National\u2014Tukituki):\u003C/span\u003E It\u2019s my pleasure to take a call on this bill, the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill, and I do at the start want to acknowledge the work that has been done by everybody in this Parliament\u2014officials, Environment Committee members\u2014in getting through 136 submissions in a very short period of time. As has been said by previous speakers on this side, we do support this legislation, although we don\u2019t believe it goes far enough, and as Erica Stanford, my good colleague, has said, it probably should be in place for longer.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000336\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EThat being said, there are some issues that I wish to talk about. While we are accelerating projects or bringing them forward, and a decision needing to be made in around 25 days\u2014which is a massive improvement on what has traditionally been the case, where it can be years, if not decades\u2014it is important to understand what this legislation also does in a level that doesn\u2019t require consent. We do support the permitted activity status that has been given to the New Zealand Transport Agency, KiwiRail, K\u0101inga Ora, and councils to do minor work, but we shouldn\u2019t kid ourselves: as part of that, there will be some trade-offs, and some community members worried about small work who might\u2019ve previously had an ability to object won\u2019t have that. That being said, I think that\u2019s OK.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000337\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EI also acknowledge the fact that the previous National Government brought in the ability for call-in provisions. Those are provisions that are available for the Minister for the Environment at any stage, if something is in the national interest, to bring something to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and take it through a process that takes no more than nine months. If you want to look at what that can do and the success of that, one only needs to look at the projects that have been through that, and the Hon Nathan Guy took us through the K\u0101piti Expressway previously. In my view, unless the call-in provisions had been available to the Government, those types of projects would still be stalled in the starting blocks.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000338\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EThe call-in provision has been used by the Minister for Auckland water, and I do acknowledge the point that\u2019s just been made by Jami-Lee Ross previously that that is a nine-month process; a deal\u2019s being done with Hamilton City to give some short-term relief, but at the end of the day, that consent could\u2019ve been included in this bill. The Minister used the call-in provision\u2014that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s better than not using it, but the same issue could\u2019ve been dealt with in this bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000339\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EWe\u2019re also awaiting the Tony Randerson report, which various Ministers will have seen\u2014and I have no objection to them seeing; it\u2019s their report. But, fundamentally, that will change the Resource Management Act (RMA), I suspect, and I think there is cross-party agreement right across the Parliament that the RMA does need to change. So we are, in a sense, doing a knee-jerk reaction right now on the basis that we are looking after jobs and we want shovel-ready projects, and that is a laudable goal. My issue\u2014and I spoke about it in the first reading\u2014is I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re going far enough and quickly enough. We\u2019ve included a small number of projects\u2014and I understand there are second tranches, third and fourth tranches, but if you look at the projects that have been included right up\u2014and I\u2019m particularly critical of the housing ones, not of the projects themselves but of the scale of things that have been put in in the first part.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000340\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EOur side of the House also believes that this bill should not time out in two years\u2014that, actually, it should go for up to five, and I understand a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) will be submitted later that will do that. We say that because we have been, and I think many members of Parliament have been, frustrated at how long it takes to get these big projects up and running\u2014not only big projects, in fact; a lot of projects up and running. While it\u2019s important for everybody to have a say, the fact that everybody is having a say under the current RMA ends up costing the country, the community, and the very same people a lot of money, time, and effort. Yesterday or the day before, $3 billion of shovel-ready projects were announced. Many are going to be dripped out further in the lead-up to the election. Wouldn\u2019t it be good for some of those projects to be included in the schedule at this point so they don\u2019t have to be added at a later date by an Order in Council and further delayed? I suspect what we\u2019re going to get in the lead-up to the election is handing the cash around but no actual physical start for a long, long time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000341\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EI also want to comment on the local government aspect of this. This is a significant change for many. Many local authorities may want to have a say on some of these projects\u2014they may\u2014and they have an ability to, effectively, as a registered person in the process, but the conversation about which project should be advanced through this process versus which they would like to proceed is actually not, as I understand it, Minister\u2014and I\u2019ll come to it in the committee of the whole House\u2014a decision for them. It is a decision for you as the Minister at the outset. So when I look down the Schedule 2 projects, and when I understand the number of councils that are having conversations with Shane Jones and his fund and the finance Minister about shovel-ready projects, I hope there is alignment there. I hope that when the right hand gives out the money, the left hand is working out which projects can or cannot be included.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000342\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EThere is also the capacity issue. We know, and the Minister will know this, that the Environment Court has had capacity issues. A lot of processes get held up for capacity issues. When we add more and more things to the panel and the EPA and the process that\u2019s going to be followed, we have to have specialist panels and people that have the capacity to do this. Many people struggle with the complexity, and it\u2019ll take a certain type of person to be on those panels. So there is a balance between how many things you can put up versus how many things they\u2019re going to fix, and in my view, the list we\u2019ve already given does not actually translate into giving the most shovel-ready or urgent jobs; they happen to be a list that\u2019s available. Nineteen hundred and twenty-four projects were submitted to the Infrastructure Commission to look at, and I think that in that there are probably well over a hundred\u2014well over a hundred\u2014that would need fast-track consenting if you were going to get them shovel-ready in a time frame that\u2019ll make a difference to COVID-19. So I say to the Minister: if that\u2019s the scale of what we\u2019re trying to do, where is the capacity within the EPA or the panel to do that?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000343\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003ELastly, I haven\u2019t yet put an SOP in, but I do want to talk about the four-laning of the Napier to Hastings Expressway, for no other reason than this: that land is fully designated\u2014fully designated. The only thing that needs to occur is a couple of consents for some bridges and the money for the bridges. We are already wasting money on that part of the road because we\u2019re putting safety barriers and all sorts of things on the wrong alignment, because when it\u2019s four-lane, those safety barriers are in the wrong place. So I\u2019m watching $20 million, nearly, be spent on safety barriers on the wrong alignment because this Government is not aligning everything it does with what is the long-term solution. So when we look at these projects, we need to look at them holistically. That is a project that is shovel-ready, could be included here, fully designated, and if we make a decision about that quickly, we will stop wasting money.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000344\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003ESo we support this bill. We don\u2019t think it goes far enough, and I thank you for the opportunity to say my piece.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c0e0c86e-e14d-4daa-9bc8-1b5a3d7defeb\u0022 data-id=\u002201a08e03135642c5879f981393f286d0\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000345\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c0e0c86e-e14d-4daa-9bc8-1b5a3d7defeb\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002201a08e03135642c5879f981393f286d0\u0022\u003EHon POTO WILLIAMS (Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Speaker. About a week ago I joined you in Christchurch at Redcliffs School, where the children there referred to our Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, as the leader the whole world is wanting. They spoke about her calm and competent and comforting way that she led us through the health response to COVID-19. Now our leader Jacinda Ardern is leading us through the economic recovery response. To do that, we have got the most significant infrastructure bill this country has ever seen. The reason we have that is it will create jobs where, at this point in time, we know that there are some families who are finding it very distressing. So, on that note, I commend this bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000346\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c0e0c86e-e14d-4daa-9bc8-1b5a3d7defeb\u0022\u003EBill read a second time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000347\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022ff7b37068c5149e98b275a7179d560dd\u0022\u003EIn Committee\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022a8cab3e3-b023-4ce7-9f4b-2c4137029057\u0022 data-id=\u0022d9dde7e3d8564657a693870ae83038d1\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000348\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a8cab3e3-b023-4ce7-9f4b-2c4137029057\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d9dde7e3d8564657a693870ae83038d1\u0022\u003EKIRITAPU ALLAN (Assistant Whip\u2014Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I seek leave that the provisions of this bill be taken as one part.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022 data-id=\u002266a4e55a81e840c9a5eaf242d4d6f937\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000349\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002266a4e55a81e840c9a5eaf242d4d6f937\u0022\u003ETEMPORARY CHAIRPERSON (Dr Duncan Webb)\u003C/span\u003E: Leave is sought. Is there any objection? Right. There is objection. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000350\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00220a139d4440284cd99c6a7748adda271c\u0022\u003EPart 1  Preliminary provisions\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u00228847da2856154acbbcfcac7b57d8f02f\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000351\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00228847da2856154acbbcfcac7b57d8f02f\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Mr Chair. I\u2019m pleased to take a call in the committee stage. I want to talk to my Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 531. In my second reading speech, I alluded to the fact that I would be speaking to the issue of the sunset clause in this bill. In Part 1, clause 3 \u201CRepeal of this Act\u201D states: \u201C(1) This Act is repealed on the second anniversary of the date on which it receives the Royal assent.\u201D Now, my SOP is to take this out to five years. And the reason, that I want to do that\u2014and this side of the committee wishes to do that\u2014is because we heard from many submitters who made the point that the two-year provision simply isn\u2019t long enough. You will have heard my colleague Chris Bishop at second reading in his speech speak about the fact that it takes a considerable amount of time to get a project to the point where it is ready for resource consent. And I can talk to just one project in my electorate, the Glenvar Road project, which has taken actually about 20 years to get to the point where they\u2019re ready now to apply for resource consent. There are many more projects like that around. And we need to acknowledge the fact that if we are serious about creating jobs and serious about a post-COVID economic recovery, we need to extend the time out to five years. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000352\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EIt\u2019s been noted many times in this House by both sides, by both the Government and the Opposition, that the economic effects of COVID-19 will be felt for many, many years. We\u2019ve just borrowed $140 billion and in order to pay that back, we are going to need another rock star economy. And the way that we get there is, in part, through this bill\u2014by creating jobs and projects that will provide economic benefit for many, many years to come. The time frame of two years, in our opinion, is far too short, (a), to get projects to the point where they can apply for resource consent, but also the number of projects that we would see needing to go ahead in order to give us that rock star economy to get people employed, to pay back some of those billions of dollars that we\u2019ve borrowed. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000353\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EWe\u2019ve all acknowledged that the Resource Management Act (RMA) isn\u2019t doing what it should do and that\u2019s why we\u2019ve had to do this a number of times, put these fast-track consenting bills in place, and this is an example of that again. It\u2019s been mentioned that there is the Randerson report that\u2019s coming down the pipeline and that will make some changes, but we\u2019ve had this Government now for three years and they haven\u2019t made a significant RMA reform to get us to a place where we can get projects under way that are going to assist our economy to recover from COVID-19, and I doubt whether or not we\u2019re going to get that in the next term of Government after the Randerson report, given we know on this side of the House how very difficult it is to get the numbers to reform the RMA. I think this Government have realised that as well\u2014how difficult it is to get, in an MMP environment, the votes to be able to push it through. So acknowledging how difficult it is to reform the RMA\u2014and that\u2019s acknowledged across the House\u2014two years is not long enough for us to get projects under way to help our economy post-COVID. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000354\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003ESo this SOP will seek to move that two years to five years. I would invite the comments from the Minister in the chair, Minister Parker, on his opinion and what advice he\u2019s had; why he came up with two years. Perhaps he may support an extension of that out to five years, given the fact that he knows how very difficult it is to reform the RMA, and how we need this bill to help with our economic recovery. I\u2019d be pleased to hear his comments on that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u0022bbf520f725c54d448e44d43237e18bde\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000355\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022bbf520f725c54d448e44d43237e18bde\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Just before I call the Minister for the Environment, could I say that the member who\u2019s just resumed her seat, while speaking very appropriately to the bill, has reverted to the old way of committee stage debate and had her target firmly set at five minutes. That\u2019s not the agreement of the House on how we do committee stage debate any more. We\u2019re having more of a conversational debate, so the member would ask specific questions and the Minister is expected to answer them and the member can then expect to get another call if she has further questions.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00224c6a1e48da5b44b3b4ecb0cd40a175e9\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000356\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224c6a1e48da5b44b3b4ecb0cd40a175e9\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Responding to the questions raised by Erica Stanford, the two-year period has been chosen because we expect by then that we should be through the worst of COVID, the economic response. The effect of the provisions that are put through to the panel under referred projects during that two-year period will, of course, be a lot longer than that two-year period, both because proposals that are put through the second track, which is by Order in Council to these panels, will still proceed through those panels even after the two-year period if they started before that two-year period expired. And also, the actual projects, once commenced, will often take much longer than two years\u2014some of these large projects.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000357\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of the question as to why only two years, this bill really does\u2014and Lawrence Yule commented on this earlier\u2014take powers away from local authorities and gives them to a panel set up by local government, removes appeal rights except on matters of law or judicial review to the High Court. So it does amount to a significant truncation of citizens\u2019 ordinary rights and local authorities\u2019 ordinary rights and we thought that whilst that\u2019s justified for a period of two years, those extraordinary overrides are not appropriate long term. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000358\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of why it was that the last Government couldn\u2019t overcome the difficulties they saw in the Resource Management Act (RMA), I\u2019ve sort of summed up my view of the RMA as: it takes too long, costs too much, and hasn\u2019t protected the environment. The National Party\u2019s proposition in their last term of Government was to cut through length and cost but to undermine the environmental protections that are in the RMA, and we didn\u2019t think that that was appropriate. It\u2019s notable that the coalition Government of the Labour Party, New Zealand First, supported by the Greens has managed to bring forward and pass an RMA amendment bill, to agree, largely, this bill; and commit us to the Randerson review terms of reference.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022 data-id=\u00224bc9e2e5a4bf455295bb6dbbca67b6eb\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000359\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224bc9e2e5a4bf455295bb6dbbca67b6eb\u0022\u003EHon Dr NICK SMITH (National\u2014Nelson):\u003C/span\u003E In debating Part 1 of this COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill, I\u2019d like to ask the Minister why we would not include the most significant project for my constituency of Nelson. People know the geography of my community. The Nelson City sits right at the northern end of the region. We have 100,000 people. We have about 10,000 people living north of Nelson City. We have about 90,000 people living to the south. A huge issue has been efficiently getting people from Stoke into Nelson City. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000360\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003EI\u2019m proud that over the last 30 years we progressively built the Stoke bypass, a $130 million project that was completed, approved, by the previous Bolger-Shipley Government. We had Queen Elizabeth II Drive, which is to the north of Nelson\u2014many would have tripped on that part of the route. And we also have the Richmond Deviation that goes back to the 1980s. So we\u2019ve got a roading network in Nelson where three-quarters of the job has been done, but this crucial link has not been constructed. It\u2019s about a $200 million project. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000361\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003ETo outline its economic significance, I would point out to the House that over the last 20 years, retail sales in Richmond have doubled. Over the same period, retail sales in Nelson City have been static\u2014have not increased at all. That is largely as a consequence of the roading route into Nelson City being so congested and jammed. Every morning, past my own home, from about quarter past 7 in the morning to about quarter past 9, the road is jammed, and exactly the same occurs every afternoon.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000362\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003ENow, why it\u2019s so economically significant is because the retail sector in Nelson has never had as hard a period as the last three months. There are over 30 stores in Nelson that have surrendered their lease; they\u2019ve closed. If we really are, with this COVID-19 recovery bill, serious about ensuring the recovery of that city, that piece of transport infrastructure is absolutely crucial. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000363\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003EThere\u2019s also a huge environmental benefit from it. Anybody who has been to Nelson would know the gorgeous Rocks Road waterfront. I am rather parochial, but I even think many others would recognise it as one of the most beautiful waterfronts in New Zealand. There\u2019s actually a very strong consensus in Nelson that it should be a walking and cycling boulevard. But that is only possible\u2014only possible\u2014if we deal with the issue of the State highway. While I agree with my colleague James Shaw from the Green Party that, indeed, it should be a walking and cycling boulevard, that will never be practicable while you\u2019ve got 4,000 trucks and 18,000 other vehicles. That can only be achieved by the inland route being constructed, and it is the most important infrastructure project for Nelson. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000364\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003ENow, just yesterday, the Government increased the road-user charges and petrol taxes for my community. It\u2019s estimated that we are now contributing over $100 million a year from the Nelson-Tasman region to the road transport fund. We have, over the last three years, seen the Southern Link project cancelled, we\u2019ve seen even a basic sealing project in our region cancelled, and that is why we are so keen to see this project advanced. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000365\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003EThat is why to Schedule 2, which we are debating as part of Part 1 of this bill, there\u2019s an amendment in my name\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000366\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227af99b85114b49f78de248f3988de6fa\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019m sorry to interrupt the member, but my understanding is that Schedule 2 is part of Part 2, so we look forward to your contribution when we\u2019re debating Part 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000367\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022bccdbf5d5be4413e8be1429e7be074f2\u0022\u003EHon Dr NICK SMITH\u003C/span\u003E: Could I just refer to clause 5. Clause 5, under Part 1, specifically refers to Schedule 2, and my amendment is to Schedule 2. We do not debate the Schedules separately. My understanding\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000368\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a6518ed3e6484573bf611fa016989830\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: We\u2019re debating Schedule 2 under Part 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000369\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223af45fa082584b678f6c53a5de90520d\u0022\u003EHon Dr NICK SMITH\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019m sorry?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000370\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c5c4d52ce00446e4b35a41e2ebc07e5c\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: We\u2019re debating Schedule 2 under Part 2, and you\u2019re welcome to take a call then.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000371\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c284c82618254861a0acc36436e228f4\u0022\u003EHon Dr NICK SMITH\u003C/span\u003E: Can I just get clarity that if I look at Part 1, clause 5 specifically mentions\u2014in clause 5, subclause (4)\u2014Schedule 2. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000372\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d03d9a19f6624826b745e643eb8ebe30\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Schedule 2 will be debated in Part 2. We\u2019re happy to have that debate later.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000373\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e978865e-57e5-41d6-a7f6-b49daae78630\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022dc4e49d0fe3a453db2bc987ccdfa8506\u0022\u003EHon Dr NICK SMITH\u003C/span\u003E: Well, I would just indicate very strong support for the amendment that is in my name to include that project. If we\u2019re serious about this COVID-19 recovery bill working for the community of Nelson, that is the project that is so crucial.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u002244b9f216dc204ee090dcd562b8092b78\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000374\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002244b9f216dc204ee090dcd562b8092b78\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you. The member\u2019s time has expired. Can I just remind the member of the contribution I made after Erica Stanford\u2019s debate. The Hon Dr Nick Smith has reverted to the old way of committee stage debate. That is not the agreement of the House; the agreement of the House is that we have a conversation between members who have questions to raise and the Minister. Obviously, when you have a Supplementary Order Paper, a contribution on that is valid, but five minutes is not a target any more in the committee stage of debate. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u00223c907e466eb0428881f8a8cfb290cf4e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000375\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223c907e466eb0428881f8a8cfb290cf4e\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I do have a question for the Minister in the Chair, the Hon David Parker, and it\u2019s around Schedule 3 in Part 1, which is around referred projects: requirements for referral order. I want to ask a few questions now\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000376\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002212f49013ed4e435f9c42773ce422443f\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry to interrupt the member. Schedule 3 is part of Part 2, and the member will get a call on Part 2 so that she can make that contribution on Schedule 3. Would you like to speak to clauses 3 to 13, or Schedule 1?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000377\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c7356db3abbd4c61be48d2633dd0d044\u0022\u003EHon Jacqui Dean\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. I\u2019d like to raise a point of order because I simply don\u2019t understand, which clearly isn\u2019t a point of order\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000378\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b8c9e4a12f50499c899adb2222ace888\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: That\u2019s right. Not understanding the layout of legislation is not a point of order, so I\u2019d ask the member to resume her seat.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u00225f215b65cc914060a0b3420207701f98\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000379\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225f215b65cc914060a0b3420207701f98\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. In the spirit of the back and forth debate, I would like to ask the Minister some questions about some comments that he made in response to my first call, where he said that in two years we will be through the worst of this, which I find extraordinary, given the way the world is going and the fact that we\u2019ve borrowed so much money. How he thinks that in two years we\u2019ll be through the worst of this, and why a two-year sunset clause on this bill would fit with his expectations that we\u2019re going to be through the worst of this in two years\u2014it seems astounding to me that we\u2019ve borrowed $140 billion and in two years we\u2019re going to be in such a great economic state that we won\u2019t need to fast track these projects any more. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000380\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EBut I guess the question I\u2019d like him to answer is: given that comment, how many projects does he expect to go through this process? How many would he expect in two years would be referred to the panel? I\u2019ve got some more questions, but, in the spirit, I\u2019ll let him answer that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00229b04e6b0059442178ca5a2508b5ba564\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000381\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229b04e6b0059442178ca5a2508b5ba564\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Well, that will depend on the number of projects that come forward and are referred through to panels. It\u2019ll be a significant number. It\u2019ll be larger than the initial tranche of listed projects, which is the first track. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000382\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn terms of why I think that it is likely that the first two years of post-COVID will be the worst, that\u2019s because that\u2019s Treasury\u2019s projection.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u002286a41c599a5f45eeb657e8f697eba62b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000383\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002286a41c599a5f45eeb657e8f697eba62b\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E I wanted to speak to clause 4 in Part 1\u2014the purpose of the bill. I want to ask the Minister in the chair, the Hon David Parker: given the purpose of the bill\u2014the purpose being to urgently promote employment to support New Zealand\u2019s recovery\u2014given that, why was it that only 11 projects were listed in Schedule 2? This is going to the purpose in Part 1. Why was it that only 11 projects were put in to go straight through to the panel? How did they come up with these 11 projects? Why was it that these specific ones were selected? How many jobs will be created from these 11 projects? And what sort of economic analysis has been done on those projects to see whether or not they fit the purpose of the bill?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000384\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThe concern that we have on this side of the House is, in fact, that the ongoing economic benefits from some of these projects isn\u2019t that great, and I\u2019d be very keen for the Minister to answer the question on what sort of analysis has been done and why these projects, these 11 projects, were listed ahead of the many other projects\u2014very good projects\u2014that could be\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000385\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a8cab3e3-b023-4ce7-9f4b-2c4137029057\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e2e578939aee4d52b0b276f45296d98e\u0022\u003EKiritapu Allan\u003C/span\u003E: That\u2019s Schedule 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000386\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f436da02aead49a3a6d6030bea263437\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: No, it\u2019s to go to the purpose of the bill, which is in Part 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000387\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a8cab3e3-b023-4ce7-9f4b-2c4137029057\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228267caca6d5a4f4aba0185295bd500ca\u0022\u003EKiritapu Allan\u003C/span\u003E: Definitely in Schedule 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000388\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223d11c7cc121f4222ae033f140d7c1321\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: Don\u2019t do the Chair\u2019s job. Let her rule, thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000389\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022442727d3eac6499cb51bffd080eed1a7\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you. Thank you both for your assistance. The member was quite specific in referring to the purpose of the bill. She is now referring to something that is outside the scope of this debate, but she very cleverly managed to work it into the purpose of the bill, so I\u2019m giving her the benefit of the doubt.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000390\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c6ed8bb3b4eb444fba0cb2e799c38520\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you. I will sit down in a minute, but thank you, Madam Chair, for that kind comment.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000391\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EBut I am interested in why 11 projects\u2014how were they selected, why were those ones come up with rather than other ones, and what was the economic value, the ongoing economic value? What was the analysis done around those, compared to many, many other projects that were not selected?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022cd2ea8c478404f7abf87cb941b1a6231\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000392\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022cd2ea8c478404f7abf87cb941b1a6231\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. The estimated number of direct jobs from the first 12 projects is 1,700 jobs. There will be indirect benefits as well, with flow-on effects, of course, of the money that is spent into the economy on those 1,700 jobs, most notably through wages being spent in the local economy but also contractors employing local repair people, etc.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000393\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EAs to the question of how many projects do you put in, that\u2019s a fair question. The Government was of the view that if we put too many projects in at the start, we choke the system and you won\u2019t get anything out quickly, and we thought that it was desirable to get some projects out quickly. That\u2019s the reason why we haven\u2019t thrown everything in.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000394\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EAlso, in respect of the projects that you do put in, there is a degree of effort required to make sure that they\u2019re appropriate for the first fast track, which the panel has limited rights to turn down. Not every project that is suitable for the second track, on referral, where there are broader rights of turning down, is suitable for the first track. That requires an assessment that is reasonably complex and, in itself, takes time. If we put too many projects through that, we would have actually slowed the passage of this legislation.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000395\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EAnd how does that happen, in terms of the choice? It\u2019s a choice that was made by Cabinet after advice from the Ministry for the Environment, after advice from various agencies, including the likes of the New Zealand Transport Agency.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000396\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022aa46a5d96aa245e184c0530fe763afe0\u0022\u003EAndrew Falloon\u003C/span\u003E: Madam Chair?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000397\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b3dbbde62d824f809d23f5467ec46598\u0022\u003EErica Stanford\u003C/span\u003E: Madam Chair?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u0022b8b84008d3a74796977138a49a857fd7\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000398\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022b8b84008d3a74796977138a49a857fd7\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Andrew Falloon.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022 data-id=\u00229e3ef177de3043c2a5c5a13178e09e7e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000399\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229e3ef177de3043c2a5c5a13178e09e7e\u0022\u003EANDREW FALLOON (National\u2014Rangitata):\u003C/span\u003E My apologies to my colleague Erica Stanford, Madam Chair, but I do have a few questions just to follow up on some of the Minister\u2019s comments and they do relate to clause 7 of the bill, which refers to listed projects. I\u2019m not going to go into those projects, because you\u2019ve made your points very clear on that. But I do want to ask the Minister, following on from some of Erica Stanford\u2019s points, in relation to how those projects were selected, because it\u2019s certainly been noticed by members on this side of the House, and I\u2019m sure by members across the House, that the initial list, which the Minister referred to in his comments just previously, skews very heavily towards the North Island rather than the South Island. So my questions to the Minister are: who did he ask\u2014who did he consult with in coming up with those listed projects that are referred to in clause 7 of the bill? Did he, for example, discuss it with local authorities? Did he approach, for example, pan-mayoral groups, for example the Canterbury Mayoral Forum?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000400\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228a2d90fe0a0846e3b8f6054ec1be5001\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry to interrupt the member. That wasn\u2019t nearly as clever as your colleague. You could take a call in Part 2 if you would like to discuss the contribution that you\u2019re making now or you could direct your contribution now to Part 1, which we\u2019re debating.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000401\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002267ee7cf3290847ef99c5d4b6fcf6dddf\u0022\u003EANDREW FALLOON\u003C/span\u003E: Happy to move on to clause 12, which is the RMA aspect, which is the relationship between this bill and the Resource Management Act. Some comments were made earlier in the debate, in the first reading, which was in relation to why we\u2019re not considering wider RMA reform at this time. Certainly\u2014and I\u2019m not going to go into the projects, of course\u2014there are a range of projects across the country that could be considered as part of this bill. So I want to ask the Minister: was wider RMA reform considered rather than ramming through a bill which focuses only on a small number of projects for now and then, obviously some further projects later on? Was wider RMA reform considered that would have enabled any range of projects, some of which we don\u2019t even know about at this stage? So there\u2019s obviously a list of projects that we on this side of the House would like to see progress. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s other projects that members on the other side of the House would like to see progressed as well. And so my question for the Minister is: was wider RMA considered?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000402\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EBecause what I worry about, when we discuss the RMA, actually is it\u2019s not so much about the projects that we know about that are declined; it\u2019s often about the projects that we don\u2019t even know about. Because there\u2019s a whole range of things. People get put off by the RMA. It\u2019s a time-consuming, laborious, and costly process to go through often. And so there\u2019s a range of projects that might even never be proposed because people are put off by the RMA and the huge impediments it puts in place. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000403\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022ed2de46a-9047-4bfe-92c8-5f14fd415dfb\u0022\u003EAnd so my question to the Minister, which I hope he\u2019ll address, is: was wider RMA reform considered or did he just decide to progress the COVID-19 recovery bill faster, a consenting bill, with a small range of projects, accepting, of course, that there\u2019s a process to go through for additional projects, but did he at any point consider wider RMA reform? If he did, why did he discount that? And if he is perhaps looking at wider RMA reform, can he perhaps go into some of the detail of that about what we might see in future? Thank you. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022165575c7333d4d148bec491536783e35\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000404\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022165575c7333d4d148bec491536783e35\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E In respect of the issue as to wider Resource Management Act (RMA) reform, the member will be aware that in the last couple of weeks we\u2019ve already passed a significant reform to the RMA. Unlike most of the prior reforms of the RMA over the last 15 years or so, it didn\u2019t add much to the overall length of the RMA because it stripped out some of the verbiage that had been put in by the last Government, particularly in respect of the so-called collaborative planning process, which is meant to be sort of a collaborative, consensual process and was so overregulated by codification by the last Government that they added many tens of pages to the length of the RMA that the process was never used. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000405\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022173a9bc0d7be43b58ae7406602aa502a\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: Think of the 48th Parliament\u2014800-page SOPs.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000406\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002298f431f303c94eee9cb8f51d4ac9486c\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: 800-page Supplementary Order Papers?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000407\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ef703533533f4c10b3cc8475698919ff\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: The Minister was the author of an 800-page SOP.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000408\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022610af634c72946f6b5cb1fffaa02c159\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Can we just get back to the debate on this part, please.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000409\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002200d30d6ee8be4390af5611b019f4692e\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you, Madam Chair. In respect of the wider RMA reform, it is complex and you couldn\u2019t do it through a short-term process. And if you did, it would be quite inappropriate to push it through in a shortcut process such as this, which had a very limited select committee period, and that would cut across the rights of many people to have a say in legislation like this in a more fulsome way. So it would not be able to be done in practice properly and it would also be a poor process. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000410\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EWhilst I\u2019m on my feet, if I could mention my two SOPs on this part of the bill. There is a list of technical amendments, which I won\u2019t go through in detail; they truly are technical. There\u2019s also a second Supplementary Order Paper in my name, SOP 534.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000411\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002253e0cae9c8ea446aac0d074713e136be\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: Four\u2014that\u2019s an interesting one. What\u2019s gone on there?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000412\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022eb38dc4d6c31450180b4aeaaf972afb2\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: SOP 534 is easily explained by reference to page 3 of the bill, as reported back from select committee, which shows struck-out language, which says that under the Act \u201Call persons performing functions and exercising powers under it must act in a manner that is consistent with (a) the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi; and (b) Treaty settlements.\u201D The Treaty settlements subset is covered elsewhere in the bill as well. But that was replaced with the wording in the existing Act, which is \u201C[For the purposes of this Act] all persons exercising functions and powers under it \u2026 must take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi\u201D. That was the form that came out of the select committee. We prefer the earlier form and therefore we\u2019ve promoted a Supplementary Order Paper for the benefit of the House to consider, in my name, which would restore section 6 to the form in which it went to select committee rather than came out of select committee, with some other consequential amendments.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022 data-id=\u002259650c5079b047ba9f8c6092cf7eb792\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000413\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002259650c5079b047ba9f8c6092cf7eb792\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I was going to open the batting on Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 534, and Minister David Parker has pretty much done it for us, but I believe his explanation leaves more questions than answers. Firstly, it\u2019s about select committee process, because the reality is the Environment Committee, in its consideration of this bill\u2014a committee that had a reasonably good number of Government members on it, who\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000414\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229381d08f90bf46cdb658ca88711988e6\u0022\u003EErica Stanford\u003C/span\u003E: A majority. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000415\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a87ccc6ea515400dbc5c4676633325ba\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE\u003C/span\u003E: A majority\u2014thank you, Mrs Stanford. That is a significant development. I don\u2019t believe I have ever seen a Minister overrule a Government-majority select committee in its careful deliberations on an amendment in this way, and, indeed, the House confirmed those changes in its consideration of the bill at its second reading. So I\u2019m fascinated to know why it is that the Minister felt that the select committee process was somehow suboptimal and whether that\u2019s a dispositional or situational trait that he might have. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000416\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003EBut, secondly, I don\u2019t believe that his explanation of why we are considering reverting back to the original wording of the bill is adequate. We have Treaty of Waitangi legislation and principles that are clearly articulated in clause 6 as it was reported back to the House, and the Minister\u2019s not happy with that. So he\u2019s going to ask the House to do the opposite of what it just did half an hour ago at second reading, and it\u2019s doubled down on that, because it\u2019s adding a number of other clauses into it which continue to refer back to section 6\u2014it will be\u2014through clause 34 and its schedules. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000417\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003ESo I don\u2019t, frankly, Minister, think that the explanation is yet adequate enough for the committee to understand and consider whether SOP 534 should be supported. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00229d10c4051f5d4a46be4ce173f374f9d3\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000418\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229d10c4051f5d4a46be4ce173f374f9d3\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Well, the explanation is pretty simple, and I\u2019ve already given it. We\u2019ve preferred the wording that went into select committee over that which went out, and whichever way it falls, we\u2019re confident that Treaty interests and settlements will be protected. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022 data-id=\u002284435b6fe895471c921236c8813cf86a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000419\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002284435b6fe895471c921236c8813cf86a\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. Actually, the Minister referencing his Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) actually piqued my interest, and I went and had a look at the clause he mentioned. I also looked up section 8 of the Resource Management Act (RMA), and the Minister did rightly, in his earlier contribution, point out that the Environment Committee adopted wording which mirrors what the RMA currently has. The original bill and the Minister\u2019s SOP uses wording which is more stringent, and it is a higher test that the panels will have to take into account.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000420\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003ESo I guess my concern and question for the Minister is, given that this bill removes the substantive appeals process that normally is in place under the RMA and it still provides for appeals on points of law and judicial reviews, which\u2014Madam Chair, it is in Part 1; it\u2019s clause 13. I see you looking at me. Given that the only real way in which a challenger could challenge a project like this, and given there are some meaty issues in some of the projects around water, and given the strong views held by iwi in this country over the issues of water and the use of water, the way in which the Minister\u2019s SOP changes the dynamic in relation to the consideration of the Treaty of Waitangi\u2014where panels don\u2019t just have to give consideration to the principles; they have to act in a manner that\u2019s consistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi\u2014it almost sets up a situation where the more stringent wording that will be in this Act versus the more relaxed wording under the RMA\u2014challengers to any of the projects could simply use a High Court attack on the panel\u2019s decision on the basis of Treaty of Waitangi principles.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000421\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EAnd whereas the panel would previously have had to just give consideration to the principles, they now have to act in a manner that\u2019s consistent with the principles. So by strengthening the wording here, making it more difficult for a panel to make decisions in line with the Treaty of Waitangi, and given the only appeal provision is on points of law, we will see what might have otherwise been substantive appeals on the whole project now reverting and becoming appeals on points of law relating to this Treaty of Waitangi clause, in the manner to attack projects that interest groups that have significant views on these projects relating to Treaty of Waitangi principles may wish to exercise.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000422\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003ESo I wonder if the Minister has received advice or adequately considered that by making these provisions more difficult for panels to meet, he\u2019s actually almost setting himself up to see projects defeated on High Court appeals using the Treaty clause, which is now more stricter than the RMA.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022c0a72a123aaf497e817a1191c78de8cc\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000423\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022c0a72a123aaf497e817a1191c78de8cc\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I don\u2019t think that is the effect of this. In respect of Treaty settlements, the issue does come up under Part 2. I\u2019m not going to address it, but the member might want, in preparation for that, to look at clause 32(1)(b) of Schedule 6.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022 data-id=\u0022f12fecc876a8412684afa347b2a7d366\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000424\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f12fecc876a8412684afa347b2a7d366\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY (National\u2014\u014Ctaki):\u003C/span\u003E Thanks, Madam Chair. It\u2019s just worthwhile going back to an issue that was raised by the Hon Michael Woodhouse, and in fact I was in the select committee on this day when we talked about\u2014this is to do with clause 6 of Part 1, Treaty of Waitangi. So in the bill that was proposed, first reading moved, second passed, went into the select committee, the wording was: \u201CIn achieving the purpose of the Act, all persons performing functions and exercising powers under it must act in a manner that is consistent with\u2014(a) the principles of Treaty of Waitangi; and (b) Treaty settlements.\u201D And Jenny Marcroft, who is a New Zealand First member, proposed a change which aligns with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and it reads, \u201CIn achieving the purpose of this Act, all persons exercising functions and powers under it, in relation to managing the use, development, and protection of natural and physical resources, must take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi\u201D. The committee, by majority, everyone\u2014in fact, I\u2019ve got the minutes here. Eight members voted for that: Labour members, Duncan Webb as the chair, Scott Simpson, Liz Craig, Jacqui Dean, myself, Jenny Marcroft, Erica Stanford, Angie Warren-Clark all voted for that. One member, Chl\u00F6e Swarbrick, voted against it, and she\u2019s nodding her head confirming that so the minutes are true, accurate, and correct. So what I find a bit offensive is that the Minister now has a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP)\u2014numbered 534, he\u2019s just spoken about it\u2014reinserting the words back in, effectively riding roughshod over the Labour members. And the chair of the committee, Duncan Webb, may wish to take a call\u2014I see over the other side of the House he\u2019s got his head down at the moment. Something\u2019s amiss here, that the Labour members of the Environment Committee voted for this clause to be taken out and voted with National and New Zealand First; now the Minister is proposing in SOP 534 to effectively change it back, as the wording was.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000425\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EWhat I\u2019m interested in trying to understand\u2014and the Minister in his address before said he could live with actually both, but he prefers the one that\u2019s his SOP and the original wording of the bill. What I\u2019m keen to understand is what changed. Does the chair of the Environment Committee not talk to the Minister for the Environment, the Hon David Parker, about this bill and how it\u2019s progressing through the committee? I just can\u2019t fathom that the Labour members voted with New Zealand First and National to change this, and now we have an SOP that proposes changing it back, and I can\u2019t understand why on earth there wasn\u2019t open communication between the Minister and, particularly, the chair of the committee, Dr Duncan Webb. We\u2019ve had numerous examples over the last month where the support parties of the coalition Government are starting to fracture. Is this another example whereby the coalition Government, left hand, right hand, hands in the middle coming together are not talking to one another?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000426\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022aa6165b4ef80439fbf4939f96b2d6f89\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Could I just remind the Hon Nathan Guy that this is not the old style of committee stage debate. This is a conversation with the Minister, and I can\u2019t hear much conversation and I can\u2019t hear many questions. So if you could move to the new style of debate where five minutes is not a target.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000427\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d88488c85d0a448aa68eaa07624dc66c\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: Yes, thank you for reminding me of that. I actually quite like the new style, too, because this is not the first question that I\u2019ll have, even though I\u2019ve been here 15 years. I think the new style is great, because it really means that the Minister in the chair has to be accountable, open, and transparent, which is back to the Speech from the Throne.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000428\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003ESo I guess my substantial question is: why was there a change between the way Government members voted in the Environment Committee about the Treaty of Waitangi clause; why did they do that? And now they\u2019re being asked to vote for something that is different.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022d8d0620be09a4a54926d877e9ca92423\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000429\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d8d0620be09a4a54926d877e9ca92423\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The select committee acted appropriately. No one has done anything wrong here. It\u2019s up for the committee to decide whether they vote through the Supplementary Order Paper that I\u2019ve proposed or not.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022 data-id=\u002255787e20da7449e5b61daeb4e3a6557d\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000430\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002255787e20da7449e5b61daeb4e3a6557d\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS (National):\u003C/span\u003E Madam Chair\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000431\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002201e5aad9cbf240f2890d5d6ecdfad77e\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: Lucky the list ranking\u2019s been done!\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000432\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d46580990c2a4b249b89a3ee7aac07c0\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS\u003C/span\u003E: Well, it just explains why he wasn\u2019t considered as the Minister of Health. My questions for the Minister\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000433\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022da8ade9dfe144dbd94a59e5184701377\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry to interrupt the member. That\u2019s a really unhelpful, unparliamentary way of starting a debate, which is meant to be a conversation\u2014could the member resume her seat, please\u2014with the Minister, not a cheap shot at other people. Nicola Willis\u2014second attempt.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000434\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002226770b115d1d4155852d70bfbbcd91c8\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS\u003C/span\u003E: Madam Chair, my questions to the Minister relate particularly to clause 12, \u201CRelationship between this Act and Resource Management Act 1991\u201D. And I build on questions that my, in your words, clever colleague Erica Stanford put to the Minister and that I\u2019d just appreciate some more detail on. What they go to is the way that this bill interacts with the Resource Management Act (RMA). The Minister has shared with this House and with the New Zealand public that he has under way a working group to reform the Resource Management Act, recognising some of its flaws. I think there\u2019s general agreement across the House that the RMA is responsible for delaying much-needed developments in New Zealand.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000435\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003ESo my question is: given that admission\u2014that the RMA has these significant flaws\u2014and given the intent of this bill and this particular clause, in particular, to fast track projects and carve them out of that RMA process, has the Minister given thought to allowing this bill to continue beyond two years and, instead, to allow this bill to be in place for so long as it takes for reform of the Resource Management Act to have occurred? It seems to me that there is an opportunity here to fast track much-needed development across New Zealand, not just restrictive to the 13 special projects in this bill but to include the many housing developments that we need in this country\u2014to include, for example, the roading projects that are so desperately needed in Wellington and the transport projects that are needed throughout the country. So my question to the Minister is: on what basis will this interact with the Resource Management Act and whether or not he has given consideration to that relationship?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000436\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003EI am also interested, if I can just take this opportunity for the back and forth, to ask the Minister on what basis he has defined the difference between the listed projects and the referred projects, and I ask that with reference to his earlier answer that he felt that if too many projects were listed, that could overwhelm the authority\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000437\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022246c3c585ad549d0b821864b85e0926b\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: That\u2019s a very good question to make on Part 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000438\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b2680ab48b50466f9378540f86441c7f\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS\u003C/span\u003E: Well, I\u2019m referring, Madam Chair, to clause 12, \u201CListed projects and referred projects\u201D\u2014Part 1, clause 12 of the bill\u2014which specifically outlines the processes that relate to listed projects and referred projects. My question for the Minister is simple, and I\u2019ll take my chair in a minute and sit down, but I simply want to ask why it is that he is confident that this authority won\u2019t be overwhelmed with referred projects. Because I put it to you, Minister and Madam Chair, that there are hundreds of projects in New Zealand that would like to avoid the delays and costs of the Resource Management Act and that would likely wish to be referred to this Act instead. Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00226f58fb3885a74fe8b7217ca7e53ba27e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000439\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00226f58fb3885a74fe8b7217ca7e53ba27e\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Just referring to those questions, this amendment bill does not seek to undermine environmental standards; it seeks to retain them, and the references here to the Resource Management Act, cross-referenced through other clauses of the bill, achieve that outcome. In respect of how many projects could be referred before the system would be choked up\u2014or \u201CCouldn\u2019t it be choked up by referred projects?\u201D\u2014of course, that\u2019s the very reason that the Government has retained control over how many projects are referred. The Government controls the number of projects that go through by virtue of the Order in Council process that applies to referred projects.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022 data-id=\u00225d0eec0a7b3b469396109c55b0c3bbc8\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000440\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225d0eec0a7b3b469396109c55b0c3bbc8\u0022\u003EHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Associate Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Madam Chair, thank you for the opportunity to make a contribution to this bill. I\u2019m really mindful of the thorough consideration of the Environment Committee and just wanted to\u2014in relation to Supplementary Order Paper 534, which has been tabled, in relation to re-inserting section 6 but, more importantly, the intent of the provision that had always remained core to your aspiration\u2014ask if the Minister could clarify the level of aspiration from iwi who want to take a proactive role in the economic recovery of this country and leverage their Treaty settlements to be able to do that. I\u2019m wondering, Minister, what type of conversation you have heard in terms of the level of aspiration which led to the reason why the provision of Treaty settlements was such a strong consideration. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000441\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EI am aware, like you, Minister, that there were a number of iwi who participated in the response during the COVID period and, at the same time, have given their own thought to the way in which recovery, by region, by sub-region, with their inclusion, might well be a total sum benefit to the creation of jobs and the opportunities that arise at a regional level. So I\u2019m really keen to ensure that without a shadow of a doubt, the legislation as you had intended it was designed to enable\u2014[Interruption] The legislation, as the Minister had designed it, was to ensure that there would be a positive\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ef15acc18a9e498bb9deb41059890a31\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: There should have been open communication between the Government.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000443\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cdec6bdd491149c9b4548dba030eeb3a\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: I don\u2019t think bellowing like that is very helpful.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000444\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002292a09a5425ad458db893b7400b855c95\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: This is my normal voice.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000445\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223ebb111792964167abb3965b8eac8ff9\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Well, could you turn it down, please.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000446\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b5f3fbc91aee47dab0b849a823bc93b8\u0022\u003EHon NANAIA MAHUTA\u003C/span\u003E: The legislation, Minister, that you had intended, in so far as it related to the contribution of iwi would enable economic growth and recovery and actually create the type of environment where, with the assurance of the protection that the legislation would not cut across Treaty settlements, yet it would enable a more productive conversation by region, by sub-region, about the way in which iwi could contribute to economic recovery that would see the creation of jobs, that would also see the protection of the environment, and that would be a more proactive, productive way of trying to initiate that type of focus and conversation at a local level.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022a08c20d552594495b22f6f079bcc0dc2\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000447\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022a08c20d552594495b22f6f079bcc0dc2\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The intention of this legislation is to support the recovery of New Zealand. I think just about every group in New Zealand recognises that the economic challenges we face as a consequence of the disruption that\u2019s been caused by the COVID disease is significant. It\u2019s pleasing to me that all sectors of society, including iwi groups, want to contribute to that. The member will be aware that\u2014well, I\u2019m not allowed to refer to the listed projects, because they come from a schedule, but we can debate that when it comes.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000448\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of protection of Treaty interests, the bill endeavours to do that. We are promoting\u2014or I am promoting\u2014Supplementary Order Paper 534, in respect of the original language in that regard. But, either way, I believe Treaty interests are properly protected.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u00226780877e3c9948bfb65648f6bc533c04\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000449\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00226780877e3c9948bfb65648f6bc533c04\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E The question I have for the Minister in Part 1 refers to the repeal of the Act on the second anniversary of the date on which it receives Royal assent. Under the provisions relating to this we read that the consenting panel will continue its duties after the repeal of this Act until the matters set out before it are dealt with. So the questions I have around that are: how long does the Minister anticipate that that provision and that function of the consenting panel will continue? That is one question.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022ce1460c8a1a944e9bc96ceb6fcd19ebf\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000450\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022ce1460c8a1a944e9bc96ceb6fcd19ebf\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E There are statutory periods for the different steps that the panel takes in respect of referred projects. There is written commentary that\u2019s required or asked for from a listed group of representative bodies. That\u2019s in the next part of the bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u0022f1a3b619d18449d891bb1829e5b1defa\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000451\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f1a3b619d18449d891bb1829e5b1defa\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E Further to that, could the Minister detail\u2014I understand that the statutory time frames, they are set out in the bill, soon to become the Act, and I agree with the Minister around the process around that. My question, really, is around what consideration in the drafting of this bill was given to what could be a considerable number of applications sitting before the consenting panel at, I presume, different stages. So I guess my question is now twofold: firstly, how many projects does the Minister anticipate being before the consenting panel, and what advice has he received on what those numbers might potentially be? Then, secondly, going back to my earlier question: how long, subsequent to the repeal of the Act, does he expect the consenting panel to be still conducting its business?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022ffb3a4e516fe4968aa00c46c4cb94ded\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000452\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022ffb3a4e516fe4968aa00c46c4cb94ded\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E In respect of the second part of that question, I can\u2019t give an exact answer, but I would expect it would be less than a year. In respect of the first question as to how many projects, we really don\u2019t know. A lot of the questions or the uncertainties arise not just from consenting, they rise from consenting under other legislation\u2014Building Act, Public Works Act\u2014they also depend upon which projects have been funded. Because of those uncertainties, we\u2019ve designed this in a way that a number of panels can be set up by the panel convenor, who\u2019s likely to be the existing head Environment Court Judge Newhook. It\u2019s his responsibility to set up the number of panels that are required.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022 data-id=\u00223b43f77239284b3287c9bb5afbec8773\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000453\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223b43f77239284b3287c9bb5afbec8773\u0022\u003ELAWRENCE YULE (National\u2014Tukituki):\u003C/span\u003E Just a technical question for the Minister on permitted activities. Minister, if you go to clause 12(3B)(b), you talk about permitted activities and associated permitted activities and the standards for them. It says that the exemptions that are under Schedule 4 shall not override or replace any other national environmental standards or any condition that applies to an existing resource consent or designation. I understand that, Minister. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000454\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EBut when you have an interaction between, say, a territorial authority and a regional authority\u2014and I\u2019ll give you an example. A regional council may have a plan or a set of performance standards on what you can do and not do in a riverbed, as an example. I can\u2019t see how that is provided for in this bill. So, in other words, the performance standards associated with permitted activities in this bill may actually be more liberal than the regional plan allows for activities in waterways. So the interaction between those two I can\u2019t\u2014because it\u2019s not listed there as part of a regional plan or another thing for a regional council. I can\u2019t see how you\u2019re not saying that those provisions are actually overridden, and I would like the Minister to clarify how that\u2019s protected. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000455\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003EI understand what you\u2019re saying in those two clauses\u2014that this cannot supersede consent conditions or a national standard\u2014but a regional plan or performance standards from a regional authority is not included. How\u2019s that issue protected? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022ddc9907dc50c44c68b626ab7650b5630\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000456\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022ddc9907dc50c44c68b626ab7650b5630\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Schedule 4 lists the various standards that would apply to permitted activity at Part 1 of that schedule, which starts from clause 4 of Schedule 4. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u0022c69729ae002b481fb8a39154a8808f42\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000457\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022c69729ae002b481fb8a39154a8808f42\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Which is in the next debate. So people, I know\u2014I can feel that people are keen to move on to Part 2, and the way to get to that is to stop taking calls on Part 1. If you continue taking calls on Part 1, could you please address Part 1. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u002270f49e12d5af4d1e87c9fa9ae908c112\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000458\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002270f49e12d5af4d1e87c9fa9ae908c112\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E Oh, thank you, Madam Chair. I was in the middle of a conversation with the Minister in the chair, David Parker, around the provision whereby the Act is repealed on the second anniversary of the date at which it receives Royal assent. My question now to the Minister goes to\u2014and I have several questions, but I will take them one at a time\u2014the Minister\u2019s answer to my previous question, where he told the committee that he really had no idea how many applications would be before the hearings panels. My question to the Minister is: what work was done in the development of this bill, in the drafting and the policy work prior to the bill hitting the committee and the House, on the estimation of the number of infrastructure projects\u2014not the listed but the referred projects\u2014that may potentially be referred to the panel? I want to understand the lack of certainty the Minister has on just how large the workload will be, because please reassure me and other members that policy work was done and that the Minister has a better handle on just, you know, round-figure numbers of consents that might apply to be considered as part of this process.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00223b551bde270b440ba058123f2b54c60a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000459\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223b551bde270b440ba058123f2b54c60a\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I did have discussions with officials as to whether we could identify a more specific figure. We concluded that it was impossible to do so, partly because there are so many variables involved\u2014including the funding and whether people choose to use another process track; people aren\u2019t forced to come forward for this. A lot of the projects that are to be done over the next few years, some of them will be relatively uncontentious and they\u2019ll be easily consented through district councils, and they\u2019ll probably still go through that route because it might be cheaper. So, for those reasons, we decided that it really wasn\u2019t worth spending any more time and effort on trying to come up with an accurate figure. We\u2019ll just deal with the applications as they come in. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022 data-id=\u002259ca045d610b4f21a975497e6c25b5d4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000460\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002259ca045d610b4f21a975497e6c25b5d4\u0022\u003ELAWRENCE YULE (National\u2014Tukituki):\u003C/span\u003E I raise a point of order, Madam Chair. In your last ruling\u2014or it wasn\u2019t a ruling\u2014you suggested I shouldn\u2019t carry on with clause 4 of Schedule 4. I actually wasn\u2019t intending to talk about clause 4. I wanted to talk about why regional plans weren\u2019t included in subparagraph (i), and I\u2019d seek your guidance as to how I would handle that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u002205b2a0fb32e84df084d960fd41401b9c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000461\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002205b2a0fb32e84df084d960fd41401b9c\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: As long as your contribution is relevant to the part that you\u2019re talking to, it will be acceptable.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022 data-id=\u0022b001527e62c14c1f82c57df5297ba335\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000462\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220c51564f-6c6e-45cc-adab-f15b6c831fce\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022b001527e62c14c1f82c57df5297ba335\u0022\u003ELAWRENCE YULE (National\u2014Tukituki):\u003C/span\u003E So I come back to what I was trying to allude to, maybe not as succinctly as I should have. But under Part 1, clause 12(3B)(b)(ii), \u201Cany conditions that apply to an existing resource consent or designation.\u201D, my simple question to the Minister is: why are regional plans not also included in that provision, in that particular piece?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00222154b1b19bf84fb8a32174814adf1486\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000463\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00222154b1b19bf84fb8a32174814adf1486\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Officials can correct me if I\u2019ve got this wrong, but my understanding is that what that\u2019s referring to is existing designations or existing consents and the conditions or designation conditions which sit therein. They sit in the designation or the consent, not in the plan. References to regional plans and district plans where they are relevant are found in later parts of the Act, and they would be relevant to panel considerations in respect of a referred application, for example.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022a8cab3e3-b023-4ce7-9f4b-2c4137029057\u0022 data-id=\u002240079f44159840508770e17a90793429\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000464\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a8cab3e3-b023-4ce7-9f4b-2c4137029057\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002240079f44159840508770e17a90793429\u0022\u003EKIRITAPU ALLAN (Assistant Whip\u2014Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I move, That the question be now put.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022ba715cc8bb9d4c6db7e9e501aecc0c13\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the question be now put.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 40\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 40.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EMotion agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000465\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 534 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Part 1 be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00229d266b673de34bc9909d3d38ffc8bea1\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 54\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 51\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 40; New Zealand First 9; ACT New Zealand 1; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000466\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 531 in the name of Erica Stanford be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022d703b051849a4312be3654b22cc23ac7\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 41\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 40; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 63\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000467\u0022\u003EPart 1 as amended agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000468\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022613fb5333f824fd5871eb8db3e9ba67a\u0022\u003EPart 2  Fast-track consenting\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u0022dd74b4f788e34b56983853f435578af8\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000469\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022dd74b4f788e34b56983853f435578af8\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: We move now to Part 2, the debate on clauses 14 to 35 and Schedules 2 to 6. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u002222a921855b5a494b87fb2ee81ba321b4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000470\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002222a921855b5a494b87fb2ee81ba321b4\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to speak to Part 2. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000471\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223ef95963b92c45168f446c10aaf1a76c\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Good. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000472\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022688eb82f89d94f7399070ccb1297de54\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: The specific part I want to talk about is clause 16, \u201CWho makes referral decisions\u201D. It says in this that\u2014and I brought this up very early on in the select committee process, just after the officials gave us some advice on this\u2014the \u201CDecisions under this subpart that relate to the referral of a project to an expert consenting panel must be made\u2014(a) jointly by the Minister for the Environment and the Minister of Conservation, if any part of the project would occur in the coastal marine area;\u201D. So I want to ask the Minister what happens if there is disagreement, and the reason I want to ask him that question is because we have seen over the last couple of years quite a fractured relationship between the Greens and Labour, and between the two Ministers, in fact, over many different projects. In fact, I think that the relationship between the two Ministers probably wouldn\u2019t be described as being great. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000473\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003ESo, given that, I\u2019d just like to know whether, if the two Ministers come head to head over something\u2014for example, let\u2019s take king salmon. They want to increase the number of farms and perhaps put them in different areas. It\u2019s a very, very good project with excellent economic benefits to New Zealand with a far better return, say, than dairy. The Minister for the Environment is all in favour of it and the Minister of Conservation comes along and says no. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000474\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003ENow, the reason that I\u2019m putting this forward is because this very situation happens so many times with the Green Party, who decide for many things that they\u2019d like to go backwards or do nothing or hold the status quo because that\u2019s the way they think, and I understand the Minister in the chair is far more progressive when it comes to these issues. So I can foresee issues like cameras on fishing boats, Campbell Island, or the Kermadecs, where you\u2019ve got this fractious relationship, and I can see in this bill here, under clause 16, where the Minister for the Environment and the Minister of Conservation come head to head over what would be an extremely good project like the king salmon one I mentioned. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000475\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThere\u2019ll be many others that will involve the coastal marine area where the Minister of Conservation disagrees, and yet perhaps the rest of the Government thinks that it\u2019s a good project. I just wanted to know what sort of process will be gone through in order to come out with some good decisions, because what I can foresee is that in the coastal marine area, we just won\u2019t get anything because we know very well what the Green Party is like. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022737126c1558d4a2ba774000701fe2531\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000476\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022737126c1558d4a2ba774000701fe2531\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The member Erica Stanford is correct that if it is in the coastal marine area, then concurrence is required between both Ministers. That\u2019s the same proposition that\u2019s used in respect of the formation of marine reserves, where you need to have agreement between the Minister of Conservation and the Minister of Fisheries. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022 data-id=\u0022e3cb4366e80a4a71833227e4cda69f46\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000477\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e3cb4366e80a4a71833227e4cda69f46\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS (National):\u003C/span\u003E I wish to ask the Minister questions about specific projects that are omitted from this bill and that I believe would be of significant value not only to Wellingtonians but to New Zealand as a whole. Those projects are outlined in Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) that I have tabled in Parliament, and they relate to the Mount Victoria tunnel, they relate to the Terrace tunnel, unblocking the Basin Reserve, and undergrounding roading at Karo Drive.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000478\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003EThe reason these projects are appropriate for fast tracking is that they have been discussed and consulted on in Wellington for not weeks, not months, but years. They were subject to extensive public engagement as part of the Let\u2019s Get Wellington Moving process, which brought together local government, central government, and members of the public. They were broadly agreed to as significant priority infrastructure projects that were required to unblock traffic in the city and get it moving, that were required to ensure that we had the modern transport amenities that are expected in a growing city. They are projects that will allow not only for road traffic to move faster and to reduce the commuting time for Wellingtonians but they are also projects that will facilitate safer cycling and walking, and they are projects that will facilitate more reliable and more timely bus services\u2014something that this city dearly needs.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000479\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003EI accept the Government\u2019s position that it has selected projects that it believes are of priority in the fast tracking of this bill. I would put to this House that these are absolutely the sorts of projects that the Government should be prioritising for fast track, because they are projects that have already been broadly agreed to, they are projects that would create hundreds of jobs because their construction would require the involvement of engineers, builders, and many others, and they are projects that are needed for the ongoing growth of Wellington and that would therefore contribute to this country. So I ask the Minister: why would you not support the inclusion of my SOPs and these four very significant transport projects?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022711a5529fe834f15873a931ed0a48f44\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000480\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022711a5529fe834f15873a931ed0a48f44\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The answer that I am about to give applies, really, to a lot of the other projects that are suggested in other Supplementary Order Papers. Their non-inclusion isn\u2019t to say that they\u2019re not worthy. They can be considered as referenced projects through the Order in Council route. We chose 12 projects spread throughout the country\u2014some in this region. Those were not the ones that were chosen, but they can be referred by applicants, through the referral process, for consideration by the Minister for the Environment as to whether, by Order in Council, they should be put to a panel.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022 data-id=\u0022cbd1061a209647d9a17c3927900b08ac\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000481\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022cbd1061a209647d9a17c3927900b08ac\u0022\u003EMICHAEL WOOD (Senior Whip\u2014Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. I bring to your attention Standing Order 330(1), and this Standing Order\u2014I\u2019ll quote quite directly from it\u2014it requires that \u201CAny member intending to propose an amendment which may have an impact on the Government\u2019s fiscal aggregates, or to move a change to a Vote, must give notice of the amendment or change by lodging it with the Clerk at least 24 hours before the House meets on the day on which the amendment is to be proposed or the change is to be moved.\u201D The point I ask you to consider is that many of the amendments referred to by Nicola Willis in her contribution were amendments which clearly do have an impact on the Government\u2019s fiscal position but were none the less tabled as recently as this afternoon.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000482\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002277acdba79266490781f7e5c8a27def8c\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: Speaking to the point of order.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u002251e53b4ddcb5424c999b80f4c5b39e28\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000483\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002251e53b4ddcb5424c999b80f4c5b39e28\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: So can we just see if I can get it right first go, and then I\u2019m happy to take your advice or your contribution after this. So if the member refers to Standing Order 330(3) and reflects on the process that this bill has gone through, there hasn\u2019t been an opportunity for the further Standing Order to be met, which is why it says, \u201CThis Standing Order applies in respect to an amendment to a bill only when the bill is set down for consideration and committee on the next sitting day.\u201D We moved straight to committee stage from the second reading. Did I get that right, Mr van de Molen? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000484\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227f85674070a6445593eae25e0895cd0b\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: Absolutely.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000485\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224522203f4b70471fb5b0cb88b2febb42\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Perfect. We\u2019re in agreement.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022 data-id=\u0022baff035acbdf4cfaa54bc6bdd8856254\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000486\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022baff035acbdf4cfaa54bc6bdd8856254\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS (National):\u003C/span\u003E The Minister David Parker has just set out his view that the four projects I have referred to in my amendment could still be considered for fast track under this legislation. So I want to ask the Minister a very direct question and I expect a direct answer. Will the Government allow these projects to progress under the fast-track mechanisms of this bill if they are referred by Order in Council?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022d8d7132444c142c0b1153788bc6bb429\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000487\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d8d7132444c142c0b1153788bc6bb429\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E That would be a decision that I would be required to take in accordance with the bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022 data-id=\u00225b21651724a54579af153a4fa59adee2\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000488\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225b21651724a54579af153a4fa59adee2\u0022\u003ENICOLA WILLIS (National):\u003C/span\u003E My question to the Minister is: does he at this stage believe that those are the sorts of projects we could expect to receive in Order in Council and that would be progressed under this bill? Because the significance of this is that, actually, New Zealanders around the country are asking \u201CWhat sorts of projects are actually going to be referred under this legislation?\u201D Is this fast tracking just Shane Jones\u2019 special projects, or are these projects that have broader support across our community? Will these projects need to get the agreement of the Greens, who oppose, for example, a second Mount Victoria tunnel, or are these projects that will actually be assessed against national good criteria and that will be projects that will advance regional benefit?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000489\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f12da0af-dc73-4870-8f77-1d50a75eb44c\u0022\u003ESo I put to the Minister: would he expect projects to be agreed to if they do not have the support of other Government partners, such as the Green Party?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022509dafe39cd64c80908ee07a6950379f\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000490\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022509dafe39cd64c80908ee07a6950379f\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The answer to the member\u2019s question about whether the projects of the sorts that she has described would be suitable for consideration for referral by Order in Council is yes.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022 data-id=\u0022351762252de44ddc800787127571bd25\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000491\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022351762252de44ddc800787127571bd25\u0022\u003EHon JAMES SHAW (Minister for Climate Change):\u003C/span\u003E I\u2019d just like to ask the Minister for the Environment about\u2014some of the feedback that occurred during consultation on the bill and in the select committee stages was strongly asking for an environmental bottom-line, and I understand that the Minister has included that in the bill, but I\u2019m just seeking clarification. I believe that the clause is\u2014clause 11 in Schedule 6, \u201CMatters to be covered in assessment of environmental effects\u201D, states, \u201CThe assessment of an activity\u2019s effects on the environment under clause 9(4) must cover the following matters:\u201D, and then it lists a series of matters. I just wanted to ask if that is the Minister\u2019s understanding\u2014that that is the environmental bottom-line clause that was being looked for\u2014or are there other clauses in Part 2 that I\u2019ve missed?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00225898780df56f4a548c64ba9324d442e5\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000492\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225898780df56f4a548c64ba9324d442e5\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E That\u2019s one of them. There are quite similar clauses in respect of notices of requirements as well as consent applications. Referring to referred projects, I could give an example of clause 13(4) of Schedule 6, which describes the documents that the panel has to assess an application against, and that lists \u201C(a) a national policy statement: (b) \u2026 coastal policy statement: (c) a regional policy statement or proposed regional policy statement: (d) a plan or proposed plan: (e) a planning document recognised by a relevant iwi authority and lodged with a local authority.\u201D So that\u2019s how those are brought to bear. Then there are also more general references to Part 2 of the Resource Management Act in related clauses as well. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022 data-id=\u002205ad320c75574c3ca566ff3616df29b8\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000493\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002205ad320c75574c3ca566ff3616df29b8\u0022\u003EDr SHANE RETI (National\u2014Whangarei):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. It\u2019s a pleasure to speak to this bill. I want to start by speaking to a particular project under Schedule 2, and I want to explain just a little bit to join a few dots as to why I\u2019ve chosen this project, of several, to lead off here this afternoon. This is the Ruak\u0101k\u0101 recreational facility project. Why I\u2019m leading off with this is because in discussion with the Clerk, with a view to what the voting might look like when we come to the ends of things, I was mindful under the reform of vocational education how there was a sample taken and they were aggregated together. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000494\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003ESo I\u2019ve chosen this project to lead, specifically, for several reasons. First of all, it will demonstrate that it\u2019s quite different to the others I\u2019m speaking to. Secondly, this is a project that was actually announced the day before yesterday, and so it is highly likely, and our understanding is, that various parties across the Chamber will actually vote for it, therefore proving the point that the projects that we vote for tonight\u2014it will not necessarily be by default that it will be a no for all these projects; therefore, the view of the committee of the whole House cannot be predetermined; therefore, individual voting.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000495\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003ESo if I can then speak to, please, the Ruak\u0101k\u0101 recreational facility project, I\u2019ll give a very brief summary and then three very short questions to the Minister, if I can. This is a project that came to me in 2018, I believe, and it\u2019s a very important facility at Ruak\u0101k\u0101. Ruak\u0101k\u0101\u2019s having substantial growth. It\u2019s out in Bream Bay. I actually believe my colleagues in New Zealand First may be the ones who are particularly supporting this, and I commend them for it. It\u2019s an excellent project. This project will remove the existing squash and, I think, its soccer rooms, and replace it with a facility that will have multiple uses by the community\u2014not just sporting but for other uses as well.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000496\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003ESo in that very general background, if I could pose three questions to the Minister. The first is: is he aware that the Government announced this project as one of their infrastructure projects yesterday, actually?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00225fe2540e538e4d8fa86636159d4cf670\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000497\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00225fe2540e538e4d8fa86636159d4cf670\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I\u2019m unsure whether that project needs a resource consent or a Building Act consent. That\u2019s one of the reasons why you\u2019ve got to be a bit careful that we don\u2019t just put these things in on the floor, because they might not be appropriate for inclusion. None the less, it could be appropriately considered through the reference track via Order in Council.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022 data-id=\u0022fa55268a799649789994b5d2db2f0052\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000498\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022fa55268a799649789994b5d2db2f0052\u0022\u003EDr SHANE RETI (National\u2014Whangarei):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you. My second question is: has he seen the thousands of letters of support for this project, including from the local MP on 29 August 2013?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000499\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022807d8b482d1641498bbe85214cfde44a\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Are you going to identify the local member of Parliament?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000500\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226ecd9125f3e640789838cb7cb4f9399b\u0022\u003EDr SHANE RETI\u003C/span\u003E: Yes. That\u2019s actually myself, Madam Chair.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000501\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ce0b73e724a54714a744765e0cc92e00\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Oh, thank you, Dr Reti.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022d70c592885604d26b3a57dac2b5cee91\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000502\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d70c592885604d26b3a57dac2b5cee91\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E No, I haven\u2019t seen it. But knowing the member, I\u2019m sure the grammar was good.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022 data-id=\u00221c27fc44d6f74fe08f05811c6f0c704b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000503\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00221c27fc44d6f74fe08f05811c6f0c704b\u0022\u003EDr SHANE RETI (National\u2014Whangarei):\u003C/span\u003E You\u2019re very kind. Thank you. My final question on this: does he agree that Bream Bay is an area of growth, and that the facility would be a multi-function facility with broad benefit across the community and might fit in with the goals and aims of the Government overall?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022c1cf206a4c334f98bc67c026e6088fb0\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000504\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022c1cf206a4c334f98bc67c026e6088fb0\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E If the Government\u2019s agreed to fund the project, I think that indicates the Government thinks it\u2019s a good one.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00225b6b1d74-9e5e-42ba-a922-85b0ea7f5ab6\u0022 data-id=\u002295397b8a1fb244df9ef28ce4bfcd241a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000505\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00225b6b1d74-9e5e-42ba-a922-85b0ea7f5ab6\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002295397b8a1fb244df9ef28ce4bfcd241a\u0022\u003ESIMON O\u2019CONNOR (National\u2014T\u0101maki):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I won\u2019t hold the Minister in the chair, David Parker, for long; I know there are a number of people raising issues. Fundamentally, fast-tracking of some projects is a really positive thing. I think Schedule 2 outlining up to 11 projects is positive. I suppose, as context, for me, Minister, I would be keen to see that to be more ambitious, when we\u2019re looking at\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000506\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002211855bc7cfd94ccea392057f93a6d385\u0022\u003EHon David Parker\u003C/span\u003E: 12.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000507\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00225b6b1d74-9e5e-42ba-a922-85b0ea7f5ab6\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229c069ab203214ea59f0aec8ac2513e1b\u0022\u003ESIMON O\u2019CONNOR\u003C/span\u003E: 12 now? Oh, well, we\u2019ve gone apostolic\u2014that\u2019s not a bad thing. We\u2019re up to 12 now. I\u2019m ambitious further, though, Minister, that we might get to 13 with your support tonight.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000508\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00225b6b1d74-9e5e-42ba-a922-85b0ea7f5ab6\u0022\u003EIn my own electorate of T\u0101maki\u2014you\u2019ll know it well; I know you\u2019ve visited Auckland\u2014a significant project there has been pushed by myself and with the support of the local board to develop, and it has developed, a master plan to have T\u0101maki Drive completely and comprehensively upgraded. I am optimistic, I would hope, for your support, because not only is it a road of local significance but also regional and national significance. I\u2019m sure of great interest to the Greens is that T\u0101maki Drive is very popular for walking, for other forms of recreation\u2014cycling, and so forth. As the Minister, I\u2019d hope you would appreciate it\u2019s underdeveloped or needs further support.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000509\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00225b6b1d74-9e5e-42ba-a922-85b0ea7f5ab6\u0022\u003ESo I would like to see if the Minister would support my call, and that of my local constituents, to have a comprehensive upgrade of T\u0101maki Drive so that it can be used by all\u2014not just the locals but by the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, who visit. Most importantly, it\u2019s to support something which is a safety upgrade. Ultimately, it\u2019s a shared area. Obviously, for those who cycle, who walk, and who ride scooters and cars, it\u2019s become relatively unsafe. So I see this as a very positive project for the area, but one, as I say, that also has regional and national significance.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00221e483a1800f44a82b19ea53b79a67f27\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000510\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00221e483a1800f44a82b19ea53b79a67f27\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I repeat an earlier answer: we believe that the make-up of the list of 12 projects already listed is appropriate. We don\u2019t want to overrun the system with too many projects at the start. We will, though, quickly receive other applications to consider under the second tract of referral via Order in Council.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022 data-id=\u002248d5b6d4dba4453baf749b56cf000606\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000511\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002248d5b6d4dba4453baf749b56cf000606\u0022\u003EBRETT HUDSON (National):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you Madam Chair. The questions to the Minister, then, are around the 12 projects that have been listed. Given that this bill is about fast tracking consent but doesn\u2019t formally guarantee funding for the projects that may go through this process, why limit it to 12? There\u2019s ample scope for many projects across the country to benefit from this, particularly as we\u2019ve heard contributions this afternoon about current Resource Management Act process, and I draw the Minister\u2019s attention to Mr Bishop\u2019s comments about the shared cycleway and walkway between P\u0113tone and Ngauranga, which was forecast to take four years, at least, through the consenting process\u2014so many other projects that might benefit from that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000512\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003EI draw his attention specifically to my tabled amendment seeking to add the P\u0113tone to Grenada link road into the schedule. If the Minister continues an answer that he wants to limit that, then I would add a supplementary question: will he, under the criteria I\u2019m about to set out, in his bill, support that particular link road if an application for a referral were made?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000513\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c3ed390600d74935aa24275c0c4af012\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry to interrupt the member, but can I just advise the committee that if members are going to repeat the question with a different insertion in it\u2014so you\u2019re just saying your project instead of the project that\u2019s just been replied to, and the Minister would therefore be giving exactly the same response\u2014I will view that as repetitious.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000514\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223da2e1a4508d42ebbf69c31819652a9b\u0022\u003EBRETT HUDSON\u003C/span\u003E: Madam Chair, I can tell you I\u2019m going to use the specific criteria set out in clause 19, which are the criteria under which the project would help to achieve the purpose of the Act, and to show that that particular amendment\u2014in my view, and I\u2019m hoping the Minister might well agree, even tonight\u2014meets the conditions that are set down so strongly that if it were not to be part of Schedule 2 today, the Minister might signal his willingness to accept a referral application.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000515\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003EFor instance, 19(d)(ix) talks about resilience, and particularly the management of risks from natural hazards. So the Minister is probably aware, just the other night, of a five-hour delay, impacting about 46,000 vehicles, from a small slip on the highway between Ngauranga and P\u0113tone. In fact, one of the key purposes of this link road is to provide transport resilience to the Wellington area, particularly for such hazards and potential impacts of climate change in the future.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000516\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003EI also note that in 19(d)(iv) it talks about increasing productivity. This road is forecast to take up to 25,000 vehicle movements per day off the Wellington motorway. At its inception it was talked about improving productivity through a direct link between Porirua and the northern parts of \u014Ch\u0101riu to the Lower Hutt valley and vice versa. It\u2019s assessed that it would reduce 10 minutes each way from those journeys. It would also have taken 25,000 vehicle movements a day off the current Northern Motorway. It would therefore improve\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000517\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228e81a148663e414ea1099eca621db585\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry to interrupt the member again. The member is being\u2014could you please resume your seat. The member is being quite defiant on the contribution that I made to him just a couple of minutes ago. The Minister has been asked that question, has answered it by advocating and inserting a new title. It is repetitious, and I\u2019d ask the member to either ask a new question or recall the answer to his question that the Minister has given on several occasions already in this debate.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000518\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c823058310ae4f0199056f37c15b8a9c\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. I think the concern we have here on this side is that this comes to the nature of the bill around the breadth of the projects, and whilst it may be in relation to a similar type of question, actually, the projects themselves are very diverse and represent a significantly different range of considerations for each project, and\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000519\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ffe80040ffee4370939e0d4ebddc518f\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: What\u2019s the point of order, Mr van de Molen?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000520\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227591ad9bc726447c8919f266acb5b9f8\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: Well, my point of order is that Mr Hudson is asking the Minister about a different project, and whilst it relates in Part 2\u2014that schedule, of course\u2014it is an entirely different consideration, and so therefore the range of amendments should be debatable.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000521\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223e0d7c58ac2b4a51882576d2b20d2169\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: I disagree and I\u2019ve already ruled on that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000522\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f435f5da51d14be7b5de575c6d9f3711\u0022\u003EBRETT HUDSON\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you, Madam Chair. My point of the question to the Minister is that I\u2019m seeking to ascertain, given the position he\u2019s taken so far on the restriction of projects to be included under Schedule 2, a clear sense of how the mechanisms of this bill would work. I\u2019m giving a detailed example, for the benefit of the Minister in the Chamber, of a project that meets so many of the criteria set down for a potential application for referral. I\u2019m very keen to understand from the Minister just how automatic it might be for a project that strongly meets those to actually make it through. Now, the project itself also unlocks housing developments\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u0022e31726086e56403099691d38ebd9ea26\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000523\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e31726086e56403099691d38ebd9ea26\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: The member\u2019s time has expired.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022eede041dd1db411f9195c935f895947d\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000524\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022eede041dd1db411f9195c935f895947d\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Clause 19 of Part 2 does make it clear that in respect of the decision as to whether to refer projects through to the panel in addition to the listed ones, the general purpose of the legislation is to bring forward employment. But economic effects, the project\u2019s effect on social and cultural wellbeing, whether the project would be likely to progress fast\u2014there\u2019s no sense putting something through this process if it was going to go through pretty quickly anyway through a council\u2014whether the project can result in a public benefit of generation of employment, increasing housing supply, contributing to well-functioning urban environments, providing infrastructure in order to improve economic, employment, and environmental outcomes, improving environmental outcomes that are listed, minimising waste, mitigating climate change, promoting historic heritage, strengthening economic, environmental, and social resilience\u2014there\u2019s a long list there, which does give a wide ambit of things to be taken into account by the Minister. The primary issue, though, still will be whether it will bring forward employment.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022 data-id=\u00229005786ce8994057873ce0bab725e8a4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000525\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229005786ce8994057873ce0bab725e8a4\u0022\u003EHon EUGENIE SAGE (Minister of Conservation):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I am puzzled because of what I\u2019m hearing from the National Opposition, with all of these Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) seeking to put forward their particular pet projects. Then the bill sets out very clearly\u2014as the Minister has enunciated\u2014the criteria by which the Minister for the Environment will consider whether a project goes on the fast track. That is the process in the bill, which will become the law.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000526\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EWhat the National members seem to be seeking with their questions is for the Minister to risk judicial review and predetermination by giving an answer now of which projects are likely to succeed against these criteria. I am puzzled, because all of the members should be in the House long enough to know that no Minister would risk that by saying, \u201CYes, I will approve. No, I won\u2019t approve.\u201D to particular projects that they are promoting. The Green Party will not be supporting any of National\u2019s SOPs to add projects to the schedule, because the process is there, the criteria are there. If the projects come, they can be considered by the Minister against those criteria, or, alternatively, they can go through the usual process under the Resource Management Act.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022 data-id=\u00224f3145c990f0426ba245df1c10518391\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000527\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f7fc7ac3-5ce1-43ca-8cd6-dbb0941bf3ae\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224f3145c990f0426ba245df1c10518391\u0022\u003EDr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour\u2014Christchurch Central):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wonder if the Minister might help us. I\u2019ve had the opportunity to look through the numerous Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) and they seem to fall into a number of categories. Some seem to be pretty run of the mill work, such as a college upgrade; others, a little more substantial, such as the busway and flyover that is in SOP 532. Some are sort of traffic upgrades, such as, I think, Nicky Wagner SOP\u2019s here for a traffic lights and bridge upgrade in Marshland Road. I was just wondering if perhaps the Minister could just indicate that most of these SOPs would fit either into a referral or, indeed, under the existing works provision. Yet a third category would probably all manage to be addressed under the Resource Management Act\u2019s ordinary provisions. It just strikes me that none of these really meet or come anywhere near the threshold of needing to be listed in the way that perhaps some of the members on the other side are suggesting.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00226d4cab0825954d7c8af76a9f4690e09d\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000528\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00226d4cab0825954d7c8af76a9f4690e09d\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I would agree. I think it\u2019s good that the member refers to the permitted activity route here. I was talking to the KiwiRail chief executive, who thought that most of the jobs of this that will come through fastest are actually those which are permitted activities in existing rail lines and road lines of the New Zealand Transport Agency. There will be a myriad of smaller projects that are, by this legislation, made permitted activities. There are standards in the legislation that require dust, for example, to be mitigated, and prohibitions on going into the marine area, for example, on a permitted activity basis. But I think we\u2019ve got the balance right between the listed projects, the referred projects, and the permitted activities.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022 data-id=\u0022fe5a0b2b5faa4d2f96fab797afba5e0b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000529\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022fe5a0b2b5faa4d2f96fab797afba5e0b\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY (National\u2014\u014Ctaki):\u003C/span\u003E Part 2 is all about fast tracking, and I will use my inside voice\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000530\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220093c4cd4ade4452bf8173087ee2c733\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: The microphone is working\u2014the microphone\u2019s working.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000531\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002232f5f80fe27b484d812fed67c4044d33\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: It is; it\u2019s an open and live mike, yes\u2014inside voice required. Part 2 is all about fast tracking, as I said, but you may not have heard that!\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000532\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EI want to focus specifically on clause 16(1), which is about referrals of a project requiring ministerial sign-off by the Minister for the Environment and the Minister of Conservation. So I\u2019m particularly interested\u2014and we transgressed this in the committee stage, or the whole committee\u2014because we\u2019ve got a time frame on the panel, and it\u2019s roughly about two months, give or take, that the panel has to make a decision.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000533\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EThere\u2019s no time frame on Ministers. So you could end up in a situation where you have a Minister\u2014let\u2019s say the Minister currently in the chair from the Labour Party and the Minister of Conversation from the Green Party. Now, both of those Ministers may not necessarily agree to the specific project that\u2019s being requested to be called in, and it relates to coastal marine area, this one. So what safeguards can the Minister or what reassurance can the Minister give the committee that there won\u2019t be filibustering going on between one Minister, who might be from a different political party but still in Government, who requests more and more information from officials to slow down the process, when this whole bill is about fast tracking and securing jobs and growing our economy?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000534\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EI have a real concern that you could have an example\u2014and we saw it with different Ministers over the last 12, 18 months with the Waih\u012B mine, where one Minister agreed and the other Minister didn\u2019t. So I\u2019m concerned that this clause here about referrals of projects, clause 16(1), where\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000535\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a4e55fd63a9a4fb884225a5ffcd854e0\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019m really sorry to interrupt the member. The time has come for the dinner break. The House will continue this debate at 7.30 p.m.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000536\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003ESitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000537\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224e3c1bb49091465ebf0e82e2fcd31aa5\u0022\u003EHon NATHAN GUY\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you, Madam Chair. I hope you\u2019ve had a good dinner like I did with my lovely family. Anyway, now talking about this bill that we are debating this evening, which, to remind those listeners, is the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000538\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EI had a question that I\u2019d like to put to the Minister and I\u2019ll just recap on that. He\u2019s one of the brighter ones in Cabinet, so I\u2019m sure he\u2019s taken it down, but just in case he\u2019s forgotten during the dinner break, it was around Part 2, clause 16(1), around whether, if there was a delay at all, hypothetically, between the Minister for the Environment and the Minister of Conservation around, basically, getting agreement on a coastal marine area, what safeguards would the applicant\u2014might be the council, might be a particular industry, private company\u2014have that that process didn\u2019t take forever and a day? And if one Minister\u2014let\u2019s take an example at the moment. We have a live example. Minister Sage is Minister of Conservation from the Green Party, and Minister Parker from the Labour Party\u2014let\u2019s say that they don\u2019t agree. So I would be concerned and keen to hear from the Minister what safeguards would be in place to ensure that one Minister just didn\u2019t continue to get more advice and more advice to slow down this process.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000539\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003EWe\u2019ve had an example of that occurring reasonably recently, where Ministers didn\u2019t agree, and that was to do with the OceanaGold application to take over a farm\u2014what\u2019s commonly called the Waih\u012B mine up North, where they wanted to put tailings on a particular farm, from my memory, and Ministers didn\u2019t agree. So I\u2019m keen to hear from the Minister in the chair, the Hon David Parker, what assurance he can give myself and others in the Parliament this evening that this fast-track bill won\u2019t be delayed unnecessarily if one Minister doesn\u2019t agree, continuing to go backwards and forwards to get more advice and, actually, slowing down what we all want, which is jobs in our communities on the back of COVID-19? Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00220b127ba2334843dfb21f8551d6ad3e7c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000540\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220b127ba2334843dfb21f8551d6ad3e7c\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you. There is concurrence required between the Ministers of Conversation and for the Environment in respect of a proposal in the marine area. The member will be aware that there\u2019s precedent for that, and he would have had experience from when he had fisheries responsibility in respect of various other things that have happened in the marine space that require concurrence between the Minister of Fisheries and the Minister of Conservation. But in respect of these, I don\u2019t think many applications are actually going to be in the marine area, but some will be. The way in which\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000541\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002271010fde15054d2b8e4b198f41631e4b\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: You could have a salmon farm one. That\u2019s a live example\u2014farm switch.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000542\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b4ace6d8d8984ebd9238dbf3bfee412f\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: The way in which the Government is able to reach conclusions around those areas is actually illustrated in this very bill, where at page 38 there\u2019s a map of one of the projects that\u2019s in the listed projects, which is Picton Harbour, which includes areas in the marine area where parties in the Government have been able to agree that that\u2019s an appropriate project for listing.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000543\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of time lines more generally\u2014sorry, so with\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000544\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002215ea14df91464c448a7836eff8a41564\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: It was more about two Ministers not agreeing and one filibustering, taking forever, and seeking advice.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000545\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226e52cf9322b34453b706c00384670af5\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: Well, with concurrence, it\u2019s always possible for one Minister to withhold their agreement\u2014it\u2019s always been the case. So there is no time limit around that. But more generally, there\u2019s a list of other Ministers that I, as Minister for the Environment, have to consult with, and they are listed\u2014I just had it there but I\u2019ve managed to turn the page\u2014and there is a 10 working-day period. For the listeners, this is on page 17, in clause 21(6). It says I\u2019ve got to consult with the various Ministers listed there, and they\u2019ve got 10 working days to reply. If they don\u2019t, I can proceed anyway. If they do so late, well, so long as I haven\u2019t taken my decision, I can receive their input late, but if I\u2019ve already made by decision, it\u2019s too late.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u0022bd769b742e20407790d2755662ece995\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000546\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022bd769b742e20407790d2755662ece995\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to ask David Parker, the Minister in the chair, about a specific project in Schedule 2. I want to ask him about what happened to Ng\u0101wh\u0101. The reason I want to ask him what happened to this is because it goes to the Minister when he makes his decisions for referring projects down the line. I want to understand why it was that we ended up with a project in Schedule 2 in his bill that was purely for a hole to be dug in the ground for what he himself said earlier was a water storage project, but, in fact, it wasn\u2019t, because it was just a hole in the ground. What I\u2019m after is what went wrong\u2014why was it that the Minister didn\u2019t include the water or the water-take consents in that? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000547\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EWhat I\u2019m trying to understand is his thinking when it comes to referring projects down the line, because, no doubt, there will be water storage projects that will want to be referred. I know Dargaville is in a similar situation, and there will be other places around the country as well that will want to put projects to the Minister for him to refer, and I\u2019m keen to get an understanding of what went wrong. We fixed it up in the Environment Committee. The National Party helped Jenny Marcroft with her amendment, because they didn\u2019t have the support of the Greens, and we helped them get that through. It\u2019s very, very important for the people of Kaikohe. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000548\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EBut what I\u2019m trying to understand here is what happened? Why did the Minister leave out those consents and then change his mind at select committee? Like I said, I\u2019m only trying to understand that so I can understand more about projects that get referred, and I\u2019ve got some more questions. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00227deee069c6a343839ad22dabfb885243\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000549\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00227deee069c6a343839ad22dabfb885243\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I\u2019m happy to answer that question. At the point that it went to select committee, we didn\u2019t have agreement from the Green Party for the inclusion of water. The New Zealand First Party and the Labour Party thought water should be included, but at that stage, the Green Party weren\u2019t convinced. They sought more information. We obtained an assessment of the environmental effects. On that basis, they thought it was appropriate that the Kaikohe water project be included, and therefore the select committee chose to do so, which is why it\u2019s now listed in the schedule. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u00220dac8b752988401fa4e17de2feb836e2\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000550\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220dac8b752988401fa4e17de2feb836e2\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E I think you can, then, understand our point, the point that Michael Woodhouse\u2014not Michael Woodhouse, sorry\u2014Nathan Guy was making before, which was about when there are going to be projects referred that include around the coastal marine area, there is going to be\u2014[Interruption]\u2014it\u2019s late\u2014potential conflicts between the two Ministers. As he mentioned, there can be delays, as we\u2019ve already seen in the bill, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re concerned about. But I\u2019ll carry on because I think I\u2019ve made that point. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000551\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EI want to go back to what the Minister said earlier about not wanting to choke the system, which goes a way to explaining, I guess, in the mind of the Minister, that he understands that there are a number of projects that could be put in Schedule 2, more than the 11 that were put there. I guess I want to ask him, if he knows that there were a number of projects that could be in Schedule 2, and if we are in such a dire economic state and we need to stimulate the economy and stimulate job growth\u2014and he knows that there are a number of projects\u2014why didn\u2019t he, in that case, make extra capacity? Given that we\u2019re in the worst economic situation of our lifetimes and he knows that there are lots of projects that could have been included but that he didn\u2019t include because he said that he didn\u2019t want to choke the system, why didn\u2019t he just build extra capacity? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000552\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThen he went on to say that there are a number of panels that could have been convened. Well, if that\u2019s the case, why not put more projects in? \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000553\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EWhat we\u2019ve been saying the whole way along, Minister, is that this is a wasted opportunity. These 11 projects, they\u2019re not terrible on their own; in fact, some of them are quite good. But they don\u2019t offer any significant economic value down the track. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000554\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EI mean, I asked him earlier, and he didn\u2019t answer the question. We\u2019ve got the northern sky path in there, which is a great project\u2014happy with that. But when you put it up against something like a second Mount Victoria tunnel or a motorway extension, or something that\u2019s going to offer significant economic value down the track and significant economic returns, other than just, you know, the SkyPath\u2014which is good, and we\u2019re all in favour of it, but as I think people have pointed out, it lets people of Takapuna get in their lycra and cycle across the bridge. Those two things aren\u2019t\u2014it\u2019s difficult to see why he\u2019s put in the Northern Pathway and not another project, which we\u2019ve got many of on the Table, that would give us significant economic value. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000555\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThe question I asked earlier\u2014the question that he hasn\u2019t answered\u2014is how did he come to the decision on these 11 projects and not on some of these projects, which would deliver significant economic value and significantly more jobs? As the Minister mentioned earlier, all of these projects together are only 1,700 jobs. I know there are wider jobs that will be created, but it\u2019s actually 1,700. That\u2019s not that many. That\u2019s fewer jobs than Air New Zealand has lost. So I\u2019m really keen to get the Minister to answer how he came to those Schedule 2 projects, why they\u2019re in there, and why some of these ones that have significant economic value and far more jobs weren\u2019t included. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022b04ace1467914dfcb0dffcedeee7d2c3\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000556\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022b04ace1467914dfcb0dffcedeee7d2c3\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I am happy to say that the reason for that can be seen in the contrast between the discretion that the panel has in respect of listed projects compared with other projects. If members care to refer to clause 32 of Schedule 6 on page 95 of the bill, you\u2019ll see that the panel can decline a listed project on only two grounds: one, which is at subclause (1)(a), says that \u201Cthe panel considers that the granting of a resource consent or confirming or modifying a notice of requirement, with our without conditions, would be inconsistent with any national policy statement, including a \u2026 coastal policy statement;\u201D or \u201C(b) \u2026 the panel considers that granting a resource consent or confirming or modifying a notice of requirement, with or without conditions, would be inconsistent with any Treaty settlement.\u201D So those are the only two bases upon which a listed project can be turned down. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000557\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EWe were not and are not confident enough. We haven\u2019t gone into each of these very worthy projects that might be put forward by way of list. We haven\u2019t gone through them enough in this preliminary process to conclude that that should be the limits of the ability of the panel to turn them down. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000558\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EWe were satisfied in respect of those listed projects that are in Schedule 2, based on advice that we had from the ministry, that they were appropriate for that limited discretion to turn down, but that\u2019s not true in respect of all of the other listed projects, and if the members in the committee\u2014I think most members would agree that the panel needs more discretion than that. Otherwise, in effect, this bill would be consenting a whole raft of process without any adequate consideration of the environmental effects. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022 data-id=\u0022f23c9a4f441c421f9ae7c610ce8f3741\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000559\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f23c9a4f441c421f9ae7c610ce8f3741\u0022\u003EHon JAMES SHAW (Minister for Climate Change):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to ask the Minister for the Environment a question about clause 19, \u201CWhether project helps to achieve purpose of Act\u201D. Before I asked the Minister about how Part 2 of the Resource Management Act was being reflected in the decisions of the panel; this one is more at the upfront stage when the Minister is choosing to refer something up to a panel. The second line says, \u201Cthe Minister may have regard to the following matters, assessed at whatever level of detail the Minister considers appropriate,\u201D and then there\u2019s a whole series of things there\u2014which are great. But I just wanted ask about the effect of the word \u201Cmay\u201D as opposed to \u201Cmust\u201D\u2014the level of discretion that the Minister has about whether or not to pay attention to those kinds of environmental and other considerations.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u002239c46024ed594440b2f660c7cc64cf9c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000560\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002239c46024ed594440b2f660c7cc64cf9c\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The Minister\u2019s exercising a discretion as to whether to refer through Order in Council projects to the panel. That exercise of discretion isn\u2019t the depth of inquiry that you would expect the panel would conduct when they receive a detailed application. Indeed, the level of application that will be before the Minister is a lot more superficial. None the less, you can envisage it being of interest to the Minister to have a decent summary of what\u2019s being proposed and a range of factors that the Minister could take into account if the Minister thought them relevant. An example that I\u2019ve previously given in the House is that if someone wanted to build a coal-fired power station I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be putting it through this process.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000561\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002251954f3b604946f390f633fa20e0a2d4\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: Then don\u2019t. It\u2019s not on the list. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000562\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ced9d0a50fb9479e9bdef19a516115ad\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: No, but if it was a referred project I wouldn\u2019t be putting it through this list\u2014and the member\u2019s question is about referred projects\u2014because I have no discretion in respect of the Schedule 2 process because they\u2019re put through by Parliament and not by the Minister and discretion.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000563\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of the only mandatory considerations, they\u2019re set out in clause 18(2)(a) and (b), which says, \u201CThe project must not include any of the following activities\u201D: an activity that\u2019s a prohibited activity under the Resource Management Act, regulations made under that Act, or a plan or proposed plan; an activity that would occur on land returned under a Treaty settlement where there hasn\u2019t been an agreement by the relevant landowner; and then in subclause (c) an activity that would occur in the takutai moana Act and there hasn\u2019t been agreement in writing. So those are the mandatory prohibitions, but otherwise it\u2019s a matter of discretion, noting that the fact that I put it through there, if I was the Minister for the Environment at the time this was done, doesn\u2019t mean that it would necessarily get an approval, although I suspect most of them will.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022 data-id=\u0022c85101244a3242ce9a776f9366e28ba5\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000564\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022c85101244a3242ce9a776f9366e28ba5\u0022\u003EHon JAMES SHAW (Minister for Climate Change):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you. Then a follow-up question, because in clause 21(6) there\u2019s a list of Ministers who the Minister for the Environment has to consult with\u2014either \u201Cmust\u201D or \u201Cmay\u201D consult with. So I just wanted to get a sense of, given the level of information that you would expect to receive about an application for referral, recognising that it\u2019s going to be thinner than the eventual actual application to the panel, would the Minister\u2014or is the construct or the effect of the legislation to then have those Ministers act as a sort of a, you know, safeguard or a way of sort of providing the Minister for the Environment with information that would be pertinent to those considerations that they may consider under clause 19?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022b3b0c2cd68744b3e985db74ce0a5ee48\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000565\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022b3b0c2cd68744b3e985db74ce0a5ee48\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Yes, those Ministers that are listed at clause 21(6) would have 10 working days to give me their views. Some will, on occasions, be positive; some will be negative. If you take the first one, the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, in respect of an application for a motorway that was going to adversely affect some historic heritage, might say, \u201COh, I\u2019m not sure about this.\u201D or \u201CPlease be careful that you work round this with conditions.\u201D Or the Minister of Housing might come back and say, \u201CYeah, this is great. We need more houses. Push this one through.\u201D So they would give their opinions to me and I take their opinions into account, but it\u2019s my decision in the end, as Minister for the Environment, as to whether to refer more projects. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u002241ca120a2c5646f0a5dffb66e95528f2\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000566\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002241ca120a2c5646f0a5dffb66e95528f2\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E Oh thank you, Madam Chair.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000567\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022056b01bfe1c3482fab36dcd7ca2e4b4d\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: This will be a great call.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000568\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022729f3966e62a4c3a9fb08e6b7e204db6\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN\u003C/span\u003E: Yeah. So I just have a question for the Minister, a clarification really, because he made several statements earlier in this debate which don\u2019t seem to line up, as far as I can see. The first statement that the Minister made was in reference to a question that I had posed to him around his estimation of the number of projects that would approach for referral into the fast-track process. The Minister, in answer to several questions, said it was, effectively\u2014and forgive me if I paraphrase, Minister, but I think the answer, essentially, was that it is hard to tell; there are a number of tracks that consent applications can go down, but it, essentially, is hard to tell the number of applications that might come to the panel for referral. As part of that answer, the Minister said that the chair of the panel always has the opportunity to increase the number of panels to hear applications, which is logical, and, yes indeed, it\u2019s in the bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000569\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EThen, in terms of Part 2, there was a conversation, quite a lengthy conversation, around referred projects, and members, I hope, throughout the House have a number of Supplementary Order Papers tabled, and also not tabled, where they are proposing a number of projects to be inserted into the bill into Schedule 2. One of the comments the Minister made at that time with regards to those referred projects and why he didn\u2019t feel he could support them\u2014paraphrasing again, Minister; forgive me if I haven\u2019t got it quite right. But the comment he made at that time was \u201CWe don\u2019t want to overrun the system.\u201D So my question is: which is it to be? Is the system being geared up to deal with all-comers, or is there going to be some other filter residing in the Minister\u2019s office that we are unaware of?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022e70fe21b2748455f8ed1c5111b98d21e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000570\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e70fe21b2748455f8ed1c5111b98d21e\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E It is a bit of both. I don\u2019t want to clog the system up at the start while we get it up and running. I\u2019ve got great confidence in Judge Newhook to run an efficient ship. He\u2019s done it very well as the head Environment Court Judge for the last few years, and he\u2019s going to be setting this up. But I do want it to get a way on rather than trying to manage too many things at the start. But there are other complications in some of these projects. You know, some of these roading projects that I don\u2019t know the detail of, they\u2019ll involve the acquisition of land that\u2019s not owned by the roading authority, and that, in the end, will probably be the cause of delay, not planning issues. Now, this doesn\u2019t change the Public Works Act, so there would be little point putting things on a fast track through the fast-track Resource Management Act processes here if they didn\u2019t have the land on which to do it. So, you know, there are those sorts of complications that we want to have a check on as projects come into the system.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000571\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EI think I\u2019ve referred pretty well to the roading projects and bridges and other transport projects, but I don\u2019t feel I have addressed Jami-Lee Ross\u2019s amendment in respect of Auckland water, and I do want to take some time to explain why the Labour Party will not be voting for that Supplementary Order Paper. Now, the issues in respect of Auckland\u2019s water are serious. They have had a large application for 200 million litres per day extra out of the Waikato River. They already take 150 million litres a day. They\u2019ve, in addition to that, recently had a consent for 25 million litres per day for winter water, when the flow in the river is higher, and they\u2019re midway through and just about completed a transfer of 25 million litres per day summer water\u2014it\u2019s not quite summer water; it\u2019s additional water at lower flows\u2014as a transfer from the Hamilton District Council.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000572\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EOnce they get that water, they will have as much water as they can use for the next year or so. Indeed, they haven\u2019t completed yet the upgrade to their pumping infrastructure out of the Waikato River to use that full 25 million litres per day. When they do, that will enable them to reduce the draw-down of their reservoirs, reserving more of their reservoirs for next year. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000573\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220e8839fdf9a543b6b2c3288770a967d7\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: What\u2019s the cost of that, Minister, that water?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000574\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cc5b9bfa89954332afc38febf870488e\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: The cost of that water is nil in terms of the water. The cost of pumping it and treating it makes it the most expensive water that Auckland already uses; a multiple of times more expensive than the water they draw from the reservoirs. That was a point made by Mayor Goff at a meeting I was at yesterday. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000575\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00224aeaaec81b754d3094b685286a679c1f\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: Is there a payment to iwi?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000576\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ae6b31bf0133448697c9e916be15f2b1\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: No, there is not a payment of iwi for the water\u2014 \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000577\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002223de6bd3-0482-495d-88f4-7cc3f75d8442\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228c86280ba6a044d8b8b0c298b8e987f4\u0022\u003EHon Nathan Guy\u003C/span\u003E: Of any kind?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000578\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d8e1d7c61c264d48819345ccd6f8258b\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: Of no kind. The Waikato River Authority eschewed the idea of paying for the water, although there is an acknowledgment that if Auckland\u2019s taking from the Waikato region, they should contribute something back to the environmental projects in the area, which is likely to come to the Waikato River Authority and be matched one for one by extra spending on environmental outcomes by the Waikato River Authority. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000579\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIf I come back to the issue of the 200 million litres per day consent, in our view that\u2019s not something that should be listed. That\u2019s, essentially, forced through as a listed project for a number of reasons. One is it\u2019s actually not clear that it\u2019s the right outcome. In fact, I think the likely outcome for Auckland is that they will get the extra 25 million litres per day all year round. They\u2019ll probably get another amount between 50 million and 100 million litres extra per day of winter water when the flow is higher. But the question as to whether they should get that amount additional in respect of when the river flows are lower is a difficult question, because it comes at the cost of the people in the Waikato catchment, comes at the cost of farmers, comes at the cost of other commercial users. And in respect of farmers, it disproportionately comes at the cost of M\u0101ori owners of underdeveloped M\u0101ori land in the Waikato catchment. I think it would be unwise of this House to push that consent through this route. It is complex. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve called that particular application in and put it to a called-in panel, board of inquiry, through the Environmental Protection Authority, and Auckland Council is happy with that outcome; so are the Waikato Regional Council and so are iwi.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000580\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThere is a further complication in respect of that relating to Treaty issues, because, of course, the Waikato River Authority was set up as a consequence of various Treaty claims by iwi that have been settled on different parts of the river\u2014initially Waikato-Tainui and then other tribes with relationships to the river, higher in the river\u2014and there would be a danger of creating a real hurt amongst the Treaty partner if we were to rush and override their interests here. So that\u2019s why we won\u2019t be supporting that particular SOP, even though we agree that it is important to get extra water for Auckland. I make the final point again that even if we did that, we actually wouldn\u2019t be giving them additional water that they could use, because they haven\u2019t got the infrastructure to use more than the 25 million litres per day extra that is coming to them.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000581\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cd835ebb07844afba305941b71e6cac8\u0022\u003EJami-Lee Ross\u003C/span\u003E: Madam Chair?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022 data-id=\u0022b729f3d59b4b4d6091f03b5cc4045391\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000582\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022b729f3d59b4b4d6091f03b5cc4045391\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019ll allow Jami-Lee Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022 data-id=\u0022259c0ba77bc141ec9ea3b6cd0bd4d777\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000583\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022259c0ba77bc141ec9ea3b6cd0bd4d777\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I think there are three issues there which I hope I may be able to respond to the Minister on: firstly, whether it\u2019s the appropriate mechanism\u2014I can ask questions to get it in line, Madam Chair.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000584\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022b6ff4bd7840a4a5b9d29cdf2058239f8\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: You can ask questions, yes. The Minister\u2019s in the chair.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000585\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00227cc48c05b4dc49839c651cc423b799e7\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS\u003C/span\u003E: You lost my train of thought. The questions I\u2019d like to put to the Minister on the three issues he raised were whether this is the appropriate process, whether Auckland should take as much as they\u2019re asking for, and also whether the Treaty issues can be overcome in this particular legislation.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000586\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI guess the first question to the Minister, on whether this is the appropriate process or not and why he came to the view that he did, is around the certainty that the different processes provide. Unless I\u2019ve got this absolutely wrong, my understanding\u2014the Minister can answer for me\u2014is that this bill gives far greater certainty to any applicants or local authorities that are included in this legislation, because the streamlining process, which is all designed around ensuring there\u2019s greater economic opportunity and greater job creation, gives far greater certainty of outcome than the call-in process. Am I wrong in thinking that the call-in process still has far more checks and balances and far more hoops that applicants have to jump through when it comes to applying for things, and therefore this process does give the Auckland Council more certainty? That\u2019s the very reason why Mayor Goff made the submission that he did to the Environment Committee in the first place.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000587\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EThe second point, or question, I want to ask is around the actual\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000588\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00226f1263c1817547048ac3214a62fa0dd8\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: Can we have them one at a time?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000589\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229a7b5da1d28541cabd888cddaf138b71\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS\u003C/span\u003E: Do I get more opportunities?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000590\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d06776a7e50345518155c701137e7542\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: Yeah, you will.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000591\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d404ded61e224bfbbcc54749802b25ae\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS\u003C/span\u003E: OK. Great.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00224543a7869fba44e1882f13977bf0a48a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000592\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224543a7869fba44e1882f13977bf0a48a\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Well, I suppose, again, it\u2019s not a cut and dry answer for that, because page 95 of the bill, at clause 32 of Schedule 6, says that a panel may decline a consent application or a notice of requirement for a listed project if the panel considers the granting of a consent or confirming or modifying a notice of requirement would be inconsistent with any Treaty settlement. That issue would still have been before this panel, so it could have turned it down. So there wouldn\u2019t have been absolute certainty. But the member is right that Resource Management Act Part 2 considerations about what is the right balance outside of Treaty considerations would have been beyond the purview of the panel, and I don\u2019t think that would be right in respect of this particular application. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000593\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EI think what Auckland needs is security of the water it needs for the facility that it\u2019s expanding at the moment, which can pump 25 million litres per day extra, which they\u2019re going to get. They may need some other winter water for next year, by which time they may have invested in more water infrastructure, and it\u2019s likely that they\u2019ll have the consent for that, without me calling it in and without this panel hearing it, within the next two weeks, which is faster than this would handle it. In respect of the summer water over and above that, that\u2019s a very contentious issue, and it shouldn\u2019t be dealt with via this process.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022 data-id=\u0022942d01cc5ae24bcda568b496e67874e4\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000594\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022942d01cc5ae24bcda568b496e67874e4\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany):\u003C/span\u003E I realise that the capacity and how much Auckland needs is a contentious issue that he raises, but I say to him\u2014I ask the Minister\u2014why is he, effectively, criticising the Auckland Council for requesting 200 million litres of water a day when we say to local authorities all the time, \u201CForward plan. Go and make sure you\u2019ve got your plans ready for future growth and future capacity.\u201D? Let\u2019s bear in mind that Watercare applied for this seven years ago. Seven years ago they were projecting their long-term need was going to be 200 million litres a day. They\u2019ve fronted up seven years later to the select committee and said, \u201CWe need 200 million litres. Put this in the fast-track consenting bill so we can actually get the opportunity.\u201D\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000595\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EWhy now do we question whether the Auckland Council is doing what probably is normally the appropriate thing in forward planning over the amount of water that they need? It seems like it\u2019s far too picky and criticising the council unnecessarily when they\u2019re actually putting their hands up and saying, \u201COur city is growing. Our infrastructure is not up to scratch. We need to do something about it. We want to put in a consent for 200 million litres.\u201D Because the problem they may have is that, if they get their extra 25 or extra 50 and then in five or 10 years\u2019 time they come back and go, \u201CAh, we need more again.\u201D, we have to wait another seven years or hope that a Minister calls it in. Why is he now criticising the Auckland Council for trying to do the right thing and forward plan?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00229550c21ff77c42e29ca4fda3e809bee0\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000596\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229550c21ff77c42e29ca4fda3e809bee0\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Well, I haven\u2019t criticised them; I\u2019m just saying that they\u2019re not necessarily right to get it all from this source. I think that there\u2019s been great progress made in the last couple of weeks, maybe in part because of the pressure that was brought upon the system by Mayor Goff\u2019s application through this process, that\u2019s true\u2014that that\u2019s sort of triggered a conversation. It\u2019s also had a bit of pushback, which has triggered some other conversations which needed to be had. I think we\u2019re on the way to solving these issues, to the extent that they can be solved, and I make the point again that Auckland this summer will have no more capacity to pump than the 25 million litres per day extra that they already have in respect of winter and will get for summer.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000597\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThe final point that the member made is that they might come back for more and say they need more in the future. Well, that\u2019s possible, but every additional amount that they take from the river, assuming that the current minimum flow regime is proper\u2014and we\u2019re in no position to judge that here\u2014comes at the cost of someone else who wants that water. There is a feeling within the Waikato region that, although they want to help Auckland, they don\u2019t want to go so far as to prejudice either the river or their own commercial or municipal interests long term. I think it\u2019s very interesting that this conversation has opened up the reality that already the water that they take from the Waikato River includes treated waste water from the Hamilton and other towns that lie along the banks of the Waikato River. Therefore, effectively, the water that Auckland is taking at the bottom of the river and treating, once it\u2019s pumped to Auckland, includes treated waste water.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000598\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EI think, once people think about that, they might actually be able to contemplate that they need to do more with the large amount of waste water that is already treated in Auckland and discharged to the Manukau but could be treated to a higher standard and recycled. I suspect that\u2019s part of the answer long term for Auckland, and I don\u2019t think, within the 10- to 15-day period for submissions that would have been enabled if that was a listed project under this particular piece of legislation, those very complex issues could have been properly sorted through.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022 data-id=\u0022fde4718fe8bd45f5850ba2c682393ca7\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000599\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022fde4718fe8bd45f5850ba2c682393ca7\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. The final question and point that arose out of the Minister\u2019s first response is around the way in which this bill treats the Treaty requirements in the Treaty clause. I realise the Minister\u2019s Supplementary Order Paper (SOP), which was part of Part 1, also has an interaction with Part 2. The reason I\u2019m raising that now, under Part 2, is because Schedule 6, clause 42 is around appeal rights. Paragraph 42(1)(e) provides that \u201Cany person who has an interest in the decision appealed against that is greater than that of the general public.\u201D\u2014meaning that, if there was an SOP that went in around the Auckland water issue or other water-related projects that might be referred by the Minister or might already be in the Schedule, how does the Minister see this particular part of the Schedule interacting with the previous decision of the committee around the Treaty clause, whereby, effectively, now the committee has set up, by including the stringent Treaty clause, where decisions must be consistent with principles of the Treaty of Waitangi\u2014has opened up, under Schedule 6, clause 42, the ability for an iwi, say, that has a greater interest in a project over and above members of the public, to in fact challenge these consents and hold them up by doing a point of law appeal because they\u2019re of the view that a panel made a decision that was not consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000600\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003ESo my question to the Minister is: why has he chosen this series of appeal rights and this series of decisions around the Treaty clause when I\u2019m sure, given his extensive legal knowledge, particularly as Attorney-General, he will know that these clauses, the way they will interact, will, in fact, open up the door for appeals against these projects which is over and above what the Resource Management Act (RMA) already allows? Why has he said, effectively, here\u2019s the set of projects\u2014here\u2019s this legislation that we think is important and it\u2019s going to fast track things\u2014but, by the way, we\u2019re going to put some extra clauses in there which means they could, ultimately, be challenges and slowed down more than they otherwise would, because now this law will have more stringent RMA Treaty provisions than the normal RMA does? How does he see that interacting in the future?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00220f2b3a73506e4164ad20853a738a0e4b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000601\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220f2b3a73506e4164ad20853a738a0e4b\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E In respect of the Auckland water project, well, I don\u2019t think it will have any effect. We have been working through those issues over recent months with Auckland Council, Waikato Regional Council, and others. But, in respect of the broader point\u2014because they won\u2019t be listed in the Act; assuming that the Supplementary Order Paper isn\u2019t voted up, which is a choice for the committee, not for me\u2014with respect, the member is incorrect that appeal rights are going to be broader than they would be under the existing legislative framework, because, under the existing legislative framework, you have an appeal on the facts; here there are appeals limited to points of law and/or judicial review. If you wish to bring judicial review as well as an appeal on the point of law, you have to go to the court, and unless the court allows you to argue those separately, which I don\u2019t think they normally would, they have to be heard together. So it\u2019s an appeal on points of law and judicial review.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022 data-id=\u0022d2b027ecc6134b14a8410c9f007f4149\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000602\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d2b027ecc6134b14a8410c9f007f4149\u0022\u003EHon NANAIA MAHUTA (Associate Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Can the Minister clarify, irrespective of clause 6 of this bill, whether in the case of the Waikato River and any take from the Waikato River, its own Waikato River Treaty settlement has clause provisions which would need any other regions, such as Auckland, for example, to take account of Te Ture Whaimana?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000603\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EAlso, can the Minister clarify in relation to the conversations between regions around the recycled use of waste water what types of conversations would need to take place between M\u0101ori and the council, for example, around those types of issues, and are you aware of any positive conversation in that respect?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000604\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00220e7e8da2-a6a1-41bb-aeb0-a49be255a293\u0022\u003EPerhaps also, Minister, could you clarify, in terms of the seasonal winter take being made available immediately, whether that improves the resilience of Auckland\u2019s water needs in the next summer months as it seeks to increase the dam capacity that is available to Auckland?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000605\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ff45d48620c94edf976c1a73347df476\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: I think the Minister could answer the first and the third, but I think the second question is far beyond the scope of Part 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00223f75cde7306748f3ab1eaa93cb398796\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000606\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00223f75cde7306748f3ab1eaa93cb398796\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E In respect of the last point, yes, I confirm. We\u2019ve recently had a discussion about those additional consents for water to get Auckland through the forthcoming summer and perhaps the summer after through additional water, particularly in winter months.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000607\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of the need to take into account the plan that underlies the Waikato River Authority, the member is correct that that would be required to be taken into account. It\u2019s interesting, you know\u2014I think members would be interested to know\u2014that that is such a central thing for members of the iwi that are in the Waikato River Authority, that Parliament agreed that they would have a right of representation in respective panels that are set up to call in consents that affect the Waikato River. So the call-in process that I exercised earlier in the week requires the Government or the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)\u2014I\u2019m not sure whether it\u2019s the EPA now or the Government; one of us\u2014to accept a nomination to that board of three or five. We\u2019ve got a choice. If it\u2019s a board of three, one of them is a nominee of the Waikato River Authority, and if it\u2019s a board of five, two of them are.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022 data-id=\u00224b63d298a1284c77a236cad35a3651b5\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000608\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224b63d298a1284c77a236cad35a3651b5\u0022\u003EDr SHANE RETI (National\u2014Whangarei):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. Previously, Minister Parker reiterated the criteria for the selection of some of these projects, and I\u2019m just concerned that there may be something missing in those criteria which he identified. I particularly want to comment on his last statement that his number one criteria for project selection was bringing forward employment. I want to give a few examples of projects that may miss out on that, and then seek some explanation why and if it\u2019s actually taken into account, because I don\u2019t see it, actually, in the criteria he gave. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000609\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003ENow, these are all projects in Whangarei that came to me already pre-screened by Whangarei District Council and commissioners. So, you know, we could talk about our favourite projects; I support them in the first instance because they come to me at the request of the community, and I use them by way of example to then point out the particular hole which I don\u2019t think the Minister has addressed. The construction of a marina is a key factor for Whangarei District Council. We have Hurupaki School which is needing an upgrade, and Green Bay School which is needing an upgrade. We have the Springs Flat roundabout that needs to be done. It\u2019s quite different to some of the other things we\u2019ve talked about tonight, but it was already agreed by the New Zealand Transport Agency. As the Minister said, the land is already purchased; it\u2019s just the consenting, which this bill is to help. Green Bay High School also has an upgrade, and there are some of the roading changes in Whangarei which are conducive to bringing traffic towards the Hundertwasser Wairau M\u0101ori Art Centre, which is a project that both this Government and the previous have worked very hard on. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000610\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022861a1798-a396-4a6c-b9e2-7d2f15d4a001\u0022\u003ENow, here\u2019s the hole that I\u2019m concerned about. I look at the criteria that the Minister listed, and I look at these projects put forward for Whangarei, and I say, \u201CBut what is our current unemployment rate?\u201D, because the Minister has said that his number one agenda is to bring forward employment. I\u2019m seeking to ask whether he will take into account the fact that while everyone is all very worried about double-digit unemployment, Whangarei hit that months ago. We tend to go down fast and rise slowly, so the dreaded double-digit unemployment is already with us. We lead the regions, unfortunately, in that race to the bottom; it\u2019s the nature of our economy, tourism particularly being hit. So I\u2019m asking him: with these projects that I\u2019ve highlighted here that are important to the Whangarei economy\u2014and the Northland economy, I would add\u2014I did not see in the criteria that he mentioned any context of the level of unemployment in the particular regions that the projects may be positioned towards. So I\u2019m seeking some reassurance from him: are these projects within the scope of the criteria, or not?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u002219b4a9ebe5d9451a90e681df02e20230\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000611\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002219b4a9ebe5d9451a90e681df02e20230\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E In respect of the school upgrades, I\u2019d be very surprised if they need a resource consent. I would have thought the designation that already applied to an existing school site would allow modifications to a building without a new resource consent. On occasions, that might be different. If that was the case, and it wasn\u2019t going to just sail through\u2014I suspect it would sail through, normally, very cheaply and quickly, without recourse to this sort of legislation. I would be surprised if those projects actually need a resource consent. They\u2019ll need a building consent, but they won\u2019t need a resource consent, in a lot of cases.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000612\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EIn respect of roundabouts, if members wish to look at the list of permitted activities, this is the third track. This is works that have been permitted in rail and road lines owned by the rail or road operator\u2014the New Zealand Transport Agency or KiwiRail. Permitted activities include, at clause 11(2) of Schedule 4, safety upgrades of level crossings, roundabouts, and the like. So it may well be that that\u2019s already a permitted activity. If it\u2019s not a permitted activity, then it may well be that under the relevant district plan it\u2019s already something that\u2019s easily allowed. If it\u2019s neither of those things, then application could be made to the Government for progressing that as a preferred project by Order in Council. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022 data-id=\u0022694c8b7d1e1e46acba877d33f476c2e1\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000613\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022694c8b7d1e1e46acba877d33f476c2e1\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. The three projects that are the subject of tabled amendments in my name would require a resource consent. Before I ask the Minister in the chair, David Parker, to comment on the merits of those as listed projects, I just want to check something that he said in response to the Hon Jacqui Dean about why there were only 11 listed projects in Schedule 2. In his answer, he referred to clause 32 on page 95, in the sense that there are very narrow grounds for declining them and therefore the Government had to be cautious in the projects that it put in. I\u2019m paraphrasing; I don\u2019t want to misunderstand him\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000614\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229279143b0bc543dca6a65665961e1213\u0022\u003EHon David Parker\u003C/span\u003E: Yeah, that\u2019s fair enough\u2014yeah.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000615\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223c9abb466cb34e3abb74698e227f3635\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE\u003C/span\u003E: The Minister\u2019s acknowledging that I\u2019ve got that right. Well, it strikes me that that\u2019s a circular argument, because the very criteria that are grounds for the declining of a consent application are also set by this legislation and by the Government. So, therefore, in order to broaden the number of projects that could come into the schedule, the Government was free to broaden the criteria for declining. Now, I completely understand why one would need to be cautious about that, but if I could also ask this question: it strikes me that these listed projects are likely to tick the boxes when it comes to clauses 32(1)(a) and (b). I doubt that the Government would\u2019ve put any of the projects in if they were subject to Treaty claims, or inconsistent with settlements, rather, or if they were in conflict with a national policy statement. Would that also be true?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u002280e1dcf0715c40cfbf0ae3c930296b13\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000616\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002280e1dcf0715c40cfbf0ae3c930296b13\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E If it were obviously so, we would not have put them in, but it is also true that we haven\u2019t gone into these in the detail that a panel will once they receive a full application. So it remains possible that notwithstanding that we don\u2019t have that understanding of them at the moment, there are aspects of them that could infringe those provisions and therefore, on that basis, could and should be turned down\u2014but not so far as I\u2019m aware, based on my current knowledge.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022 data-id=\u00229957000025d748d9a335d3fd38ab454a\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000617\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00229957000025d748d9a335d3fd38ab454a\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Minister. I would then make the point that there is an opportunity here. So, firstly, not all 11 necessarily could get through the process as set out in the bill when it becomes law, and therefore there is an opportunity to expand the number of projects, comfortable that even if they\u2019re on the schedule, they may not get through, but if they\u2019re not on the schedule, they\u2019ll never get through as listed projects. Indeed, to be able to do that, we would need to come back to the House and amend primary legislation in order to add to the list. Now, the National Party believes this process has merit. We have passed legislation ourselves that provides for a fast-track consenting process through things like special housing areas and so on. So we\u2019re not averse to the process, but I\u2019m just surprised that it\u2019s so narrow.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000618\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003ENow, I want to come to the three projects\u2014and test the merits or otherwise of that with the Minister\u2014that are subject to tabled amendments in my name. The Minister quite rightly refers to clauses 19 and 20, I believe\u2014no. What was it, Minister, in terms of the criteria for getting through? Oh, yes, it was, clauses 19 and 20 on pages 14 and 15. I simply ask the Minister whether, in his view, the Dunedin Hospital redevelopment project, which has been the subject of a painfully slow development process\u2014the indicative business case was approved by the previous Government in April 2017, and three years and two months later, we still haven\u2019t had any word that the detailed business case has even gone to Cabinet, much less approved. I would believe that, actually, that project ticked many of the boxes that are laid out in clauses 19 and 20 in terms of the social and cultural wellbeing of the community that it will serve. I just wonder if the Minister could comment on why, if that is the case, such an amendment lacks merit for inclusion in Schedule 2.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00222d6ff297bd79480e9b14d6cd76ac2f68\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000619\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00222d6ff297bd79480e9b14d6cd76ac2f68\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E In respect of the Dunedin Hospital project, that certainly could be considered as a referred project. I\u2019m not sure they\u2019ve done all their land acquisition yet. In fact, I think\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000620\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00225f21a644b06841dbaf21f4ffcc57cd05\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: They\u2019re nearly done. I think there\u2019s one more title to go\u2014one to go.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000621\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e422b80c515d448c81520e0302d561a2\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: They\u2019re nearly done. So maybe that\u2019s the answer: once they\u2019ve done their land acquisition and they know where they can build the hospital, they can\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000622\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229d5ca81bed9e47fc98ab03457bd88168\u0022\u003EHon Michael Woodhouse\u003C/span\u003E: It\u2019s not a reason not to put it on the schedule, though.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000623\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002205b2e67d6cf04a7a83c6a5fd0891b74f\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: Well, yes, it is. It is a reason not to put it on the schedule, with respect, because until you know what land you\u2019re going to build it on, you can\u2019t apply for a resource consent to build it on your land.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022 data-id=\u0022515df1cd74734f46822468964624151e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000624\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022c83012b4-3939-4753-80fc-1956a3e2bd1e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022515df1cd74734f46822468964624151e\u0022\u003EHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National):\u003C/span\u003E I\u2019ll just finish on that point, then. This does somewhat undermine the utility of this legislation when it\u2019s passed, if indeed absolutely everything has to be wrapped up in a bow before it goes through a fast-track consenting process. The train is on the track, and what the Minister has just said is that absolutely all of the carriage needs to be hooked up, all of the coal is in the boiler and we\u2019re ready to go, the passengers are on the train, and only then are we going to set off. This, if I use that metaphor, strikes me as an opportunity to put those projects into the schedule, such as the very worthy Dunedin Hospital project, which runs the risk of a longstanding delay if it cannot be subject to some kind of efficient process for consenting. Yet what the Minister has just said is everything, lock, stock, and barrel, needs to be completed before it comes on the schedule. That rather undermines, I think, the benefit of this and reinforces the point that National Party members are, through their tabled amendments, making: that, actually, not only is this good for now but it could be an enduring practice in a post-COVID world to get some of these stimulus projects up and going.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u002209b56a98030a4cbe88f6e62275ec58d9\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000625\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002209b56a98030a4cbe88f6e62275ec58d9\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Well, I\u2019m pleased to inform members that staged projects are actually permitted through this. You can apply for stages of a project. So if the applicant in that case wanted to bring forward an interim application in respect of the parcels of land that they already had control of but didn\u2019t have it all under control and weren\u2019t sure where they wanted to put the later stages, they could come and seek, through the Order in Council process, for that to go to panels in stages. Again, I\u2019m not sure in that case how difficult it\u2019s going to be to consent that hospital. I know that area well; it\u2019s on the old Cadbury\u2019s site, most of it, and that\u2019s already got a big building on it. It may well be that they don\u2019t need a resource consent like this because it\u2019s something that\u2019ll fly through council in no time flat.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022676b0bc5-331b-4818-b261-ecf892d0bf23\u0022 data-id=\u0022633d06f822004a34b4de0f58a5eb0ec9\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000626\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022676b0bc5-331b-4818-b261-ecf892d0bf23\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022633d06f822004a34b4de0f58a5eb0ec9\u0022\u003EJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. Pleasure to just make a quick comment, if I may, just noting the various Supplementary Order Papers from the National members opposite, wanting to add in projects to Schedule 2. I\u2019d just really like to let the Chamber know that the Government and New Zealand First, part of that Government, will not be supporting these. We think they\u2019ll clog up the system, and that they might be worthy projects to go through the fast-track process, but not being listed in the bill, and we just feel that this bill is not the place to do this.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022 data-id=\u0022598b59f91ba54eff8df819a15a6ee880\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000627\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002203fd985b-4fb8-4111-ba38-5033a254d962\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022598b59f91ba54eff8df819a15a6ee880\u0022\u003EBRETT HUDSON (National):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Madam Chair. I\u2019d like to draw attention to clause 23, what will become section 23, particularly clause 23(2), which states \u201CThe Minister may decline an application for any other reason, whether or not the project meets the referral criteria.\u201D Now, accepting the fact that if the project traverses one of the mandatory declination criteria it can\u2019t be approved, but setting that aside as a given, this clause gives near absolute discretion to the Minister to decline an application, even if that application were to tick every box\u2014and I mean every single criteria under clause 19. So I\u2019d like to hear from the Minister, well, one, does he agree that the wording, as it stands, does confer that near absolute discretion? Secondly, what justification\u2014does he believe that this is reasonable in a bill of this nature? And thirdly, just because it\u2019s so related, does that, therefore, mean that the criteria in clause 19, because they\u2019re not determinative of a decision, are actually not necessary in primary legislation anyway? Because if meeting them doesn\u2019t mandate a positive decision, why have them in there?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022ce6fb3a2fad347b88bc687d52c8b70e0\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000628\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022ce6fb3a2fad347b88bc687d52c8b70e0\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E The discretion to put things through to a panel or not is a broad one. The consequences of the Government of the day, through their Minister for the Environment, making unwise decisions so that we get held to account through this place, through hearings that we have at select committee, and through the media\u2014that\u2019s the effect of it. The other way that you could do it is just say wave everything through\u2014didn\u2019t think that was the right answer\u2014or have a very rigid set of criteria, which we didn\u2019t think the right answer because they might be wrong and too rigid.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022 data-id=\u0022f9baac6393fd4e38957c3e942b529c1f\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000629\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f9baac6393fd4e38957c3e942b529c1f\u0022\u003EMICHAEL WOOD (Senior Whip\u2014Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I move, That the question be now put.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00220ae003ad2c704a1589602f386558c02e\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the question be now put.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 63\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EMotion agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000630\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Papers 533 and 534 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Part 2 be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000631\u0022\u003EAmendments agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000632\u0022\u003EPart 2 as amended agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000633\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u002206d10d40399144f4be4a068205c186ef\u0022\u003ESchedule 1\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000634\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper number 533 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Schedule 1 be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000635\u0022\u003EAmendment agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000636\u0022\u003ESchedule 1 as amended agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000637\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00221cc5afc9c22046d685dc742f31456c59\u0022\u003ESchedule 2\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022 data-id=\u0022f2272c050edf4f788a5d32f9b22580af\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000638\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022f2272c050edf4f788a5d32f9b22580af\u0022\u003EMICHAEL WOOD (Senior Whip\u2014Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. Just as we approach voting on Schedule 2 of the bill, I just draw the Chair\u2019s attention to Standing Orders 307(4) and (5) and ask for your consideration and views about the appropriateness of grouping together and testing some of the amendments that have been put forward in this schedule, given the similarity of many of the amendments. It\u2019s my view that the committee is unlikely to support them, and that testing might be helpful in terms of the committee understanding whether they do have the support of the committee.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022 data-id=\u002280314a172b1c4b9d9090e2beebb7e0ff\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000639\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002280314a172b1c4b9d9090e2beebb7e0ff\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: Look, I thank the member for drawing that Standing Order to our attention. I can say that I have given that some consideration. The difficulty that we have is that some of the amendments\u2014well, the amendments in themselves cover quite different areas of the country and projects and types of projects, and we might find that there is a difference around the committee of support for different projects. The difficulty of trying to group any of those projects in a meaningful way might obviate some of that support. So I am ruling that I will not be grouping them.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022 data-id=\u00221f7a00b4e33f4e388181c2b1bdaf276e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000640\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00227c215736-b512-41de-8f0c-6c5543fcfce7\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00221f7a00b4e33f4e388181c2b1bdaf276e\u0022\u003EHon JAMES SHAW (Minister for Climate Change): \u003C/span\u003EI raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. Well, the Minister in the chair, the Hon David Parker, said earlier during the debate that the Labour Party would not be supporting any of the Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) that contained additional projects to be inserted into the primary legislation. And given the numbers in the committee, that would suggest that all of those SOPs are going to fail. So I would propose, actually, that what Mr Woodhouse is\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022 data-id=\u00224951fa7fad914a058a8247c11e487558\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000641\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00224951fa7fad914a058a8247c11e487558\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: There is no Standing Order that would support the Chair taking such a position. Actually, Parliament makes the decision. That\u2019s the difficulty. OK, let\u2019s get on with it.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000642\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022439ac98bdf9e4f00ab42ad7779292cbd\u0022\u003EMichael Wood\u003C/span\u003E: Speaking to the point of order, if I may\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000643\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022ef10997e670a4d23a8ca3b702bc8004c\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: There is no point of order. You raised a point of order; I\u2019ve ruled. That was not a point of order, because there is no Standing Order that would cover that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022 data-id=\u0022e6fd15858a3543b1881f18b93a2ae888\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000644\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022098b8334-57f8-4062-bac6-bfbc3474e88e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e6fd15858a3543b1881f18b93a2ae888\u0022\u003EMICHAEL WOOD (Senior Whip\u2014Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. It is a fresh point of order, in that case, and I accept the previous ruling, and the point that you made in that previous ruling was a valid one, which is that many of the projects are in different parts of the country, so this may attract different support across the Chamber. That being the case, one way through which is consistent with Standing Order 307(4) would be for the amendments to be taken by member, noting that the amendments that have been put by members do tend to be concentrated in a particular area. So they\u2019re taken member by member; that would deal with that point, and I ask for your consideration.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022 data-id=\u0022d0373d7dbbcd42d6b00b813d2c4accae\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000645\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d0373d7dbbcd42d6b00b813d2c4accae\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: Again, I understand that and I have given that some thought. For some members, it\u2019s easier than others, but, again, there is a variety of types. You know, normally the Standing Order refers to where you can literally group something together that is similar, so we\u2019ve talked across horticulture whether it\u2019s stone fruit, walnuts, you know; you can get a logical grouping. It seems a bit unfair and not quite covered in the Standing Orders to then take it by member, even though there might well be a geographical correlation. I think we\u2019re better to get on with it and see how we go.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000646\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 533 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Schedule 2 be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000647\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EAmendments agreed to. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000648\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 514 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross to Schedule 2 be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00220dc0cf9edc074e4b974df5a751ab8e94\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 63\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000649\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000650\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 522 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022a2bc5ea95b884b19ae24cf576fa5816e\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000651\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 523 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022694998108a794e94bdde8b7b5623daef\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000652\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 524 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00228d5773f6cb34446387d9e69969778598\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000653\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 525 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022647f03306c1e4a00a3858b2df6645713\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000654\u0022\u003EThe result corrected after originally being announced as Ayes 39, Noes 63.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000655\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000656\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 526 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022d46e77a4efd948889582e9be7e6ffacb\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000657\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 527 in the name of Jami-Lee Ross be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00229d5408faf4464c9bbb59174f5277222c\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022 data-id=\u002261d2074c09ab4858809c95f77911965b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000658\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002261d2074c09ab4858809c95f77911965b\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: The amendment set out on Supplementary Order Paper 532 in the name of Simeon Brown to Schedule 2 is out of order as being the same in substance as previous amendments on Supplementary Order Papers 514 and 523.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000659\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000660\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003Ein LP16 replace \u201CNorthland Regional Council\u201D with \u201CTe Tai Tokerau Water Trust\u201D.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002263795eb0d9094620ba47287768ab8f8d\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000661\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000662\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000663\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000664\u0022\u003EPou Herenga Tai Opua to Kawakawa Twin Coast Cycleway\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000665\u0022\u003EFar North District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000666\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new cycleway next to Kawakawa Opua link vintage railway line. \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000667\u0022\u003EThe project will occur next to the existing Opua to Kawakawa railway line.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022469d602ae94c48b3ae8024976ebe2583\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000668\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000669\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000670\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000671\u0022\u003ERuakaka recreation facility project\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000672\u0022\u003EWhangarei District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000673\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new building on the site of the Ruakaka recreation facility \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000674\u0022\u003E9 Takutai Place, Ruakaka Whangarei, Northland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022a5ac3d2b4d0648e1a6e4e2ea8c7e3322\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000675\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000676\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000677\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000678\u0022\u003EKamo Cycleway\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000679\u0022\u003EWhangarei District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000680\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new cycleway in Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000681\u0022\u003EThe path runs from the city centre to Fisher Terrace in Kamo via Manse Street, Kamo Road, Jack Street, Puna Rere Drive and several smaller streets in Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022875336bcf7c24ea6b5ac414da8e78dc3\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000682\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Scott Simpson to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000683\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000684\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000685\u0022\u003EPokeno to Mangatarata project\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000686\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000687\u0022\u003EUpgrade of the 32 kilometre Pokeno to Mangatara section of the Maramarua Highway (SH 2)\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000688\u0022\u003EAlong and adjacent to a stretch of SH 2 between Pokeno and Mangatarata, Coromandel Peninsula\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022fc8e0eda88b745228c46db79854118c3\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000689\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Scott Simpson to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000690\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000691\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000692\u0022\u003EKatikati bypass\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000693\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000694\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new bypass and intersections along SH 2 in Kaitaki\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000695\u0022\u003EAlongside SH 2 in Kaitaki, Coromandel Peninsula \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022dbe68e14ac334714a1c30e9c65cc4cd9\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000696\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt Doocey to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000697\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000698\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000699\u0022\u003EBelfast to Pegasus Motorway\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000700\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000701\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new motorway from Belfast, where it joins with the Western Belfast Bypass and Northern Corridor Motorways, it will go through to Pegasus, bypassing Woodend\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000702\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 and adjacent to SH 1 between Belfast and Pegasus, bypassing Woodend\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022251fef29f6a34aab98641987e952a73b\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000703\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Jacqui Dean to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000704\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000705\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000706\u0022\u003EClyde-Alexandra wastewater connection project\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000707\u0022\u003ECentral Otago District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000708\u0022\u003EConstruction of new piping and infrastructure from Clyde to the Alexandra wastewater treatment plant\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000709\u0022\u003EBetween Clyde and the Alexandra wastewater treatment plant, Central Otago \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022edb6f4b0d5024af086f5d3dd56c5a857\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000710\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000711\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000712\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000713\u0022\u003EHurupaki school upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000714\u0022\u003EMinistry of Education\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000715\u0022\u003ERefurbishment and upgrade of Hurupaki school facilities \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000716\u0022\u003E20 Dip Road, Kamo, Whangarei  \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00225adccd7d66ae4e51a6e8702a252e1d34\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000717\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000718\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000719\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000720\u0022\u003EConstruction of marina in upper Hatea river\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000721\u0022\u003EWhangarei Harbour Marina Management Trust\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000722\u0022\u003EConstruction of a 115-130 berth Marina \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000723\u0022\u003EUpper Hatea river, just downstream of the Te Matau \u0101 Pohe bascule bridge \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022b739c633ed82450bb808cbe4338decec\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000724\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Jacqui Dean to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000725\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000726\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000727\u0022\u003EDouble-laning of Orari Bridge\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000728\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000729\u0022\u003EUpgrades to Orari bridge on SH 79 so that it includes a second lane \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000730\u0022\u003EOn and adjacent to Orari Bridge over the Orari River on SH 79, Mackenzie District\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002230690988e332442f9fc356642e738f77\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000731\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Andrew Bayly to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000732\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000733\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000734\u0022\u003ESH22/SH1 Drury to Paerata safety upgrades\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000735\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000736\u0022\u003EConstruction of safety improvements along SH 22 between Drury and Paerata\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000737\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 22 and SH 1 between Drury and Paerata, Waikato\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022f2b7030dd9fc4a5d9f498c0f7c09021f\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000738\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Nicky Wagner to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000739\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000740\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000741\u0022\u003EEvan Pass and Dyers Pass guardrails and pedestrian safety improvements\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000742\u0022\u003EChristchurch City Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000743\u0022\u003EConstruction of three kilometres of new guardrails and pedestrian safety improvements along Evan Pass road and Dyers Pass roads\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000744\u0022\u003EAlong and adjacent to Evan Pass Road and Dyers Pass roads\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022fb6d6a72ca8c4ff5adb0d6fa187fab7e\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000745\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Todd McClay to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000746\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000747\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000748\u0022\u003EFour-laning of SH5 and upgrade of Ngongotaha roundabout\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000749\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000750\u0022\u003EConstructing a four lane road on an existing two lane, 1.6km stretch of SH 5 and upgrade Ngongotaha roundabout\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000751\u0022\u003E1.6km stretch of SH 5 and upgrade Ngongotaha roundabout, Rotorua\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022878bda4dd279423c8c4786618cd2fa30\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000752\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Erica Stanford to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000753\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000754\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000755\u0022\u003EGlenvar Road realignment project\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000756\u0022\u003EAuckland Transport, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000757\u0022\u003EUpgrades to a section of Glenvar road, Ashley Avenue and East Coast road including: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000758\u0022\u003E- footpath upgrades\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000759\u0022\u003E- intersection upgrades\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000760\u0022\u003E- the construction of transit and bus lanes\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000761\u0022\u003E- cycle facility upgrades or amendments\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000762\u0022\u003E- the construction of new safety measures.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000763\u0022\u003EGlenvar Road, Ashley Avenue and East Coast Road, Auckland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002218004661b0184471a5b3915e2fba8c25\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000764\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Nicky Wagner to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000765\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000766\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000767\u0022\u003EHaswell Junction road extension\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000768\u0022\u003EChristchurch City Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000769\u0022\u003ECreating a new link between Foremans Road and Waterloo Road on a 16 metre wide road corridor, Construction of a new level crossing, \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000770\u0022\u003EClosure of the existing level crossing and Halswell Junction Road and\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000771\u0022\u003ERealignment of Waterloo Road near the current level crossing \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000772\u0022\u003EAt the junction of Halswell Junction Road and Waterloo road and from Haswell Junction road to Waterloo business park and pound road\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022061e4bab3c2944c3aab68b1113be1173\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000773\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Jacqui Dean to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000774\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000775\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000776\u0022\u003EKakanui Road Bridge renewal\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000777\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000778\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new bridge over the Kakanui river to replace the existing bridge on Kakanui Road \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000779\u0022\u003EAdjacent to the existing Kakanui Road bridge, Oamaru \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00227409cbedb7a648c49c02116e1eda2070\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000780\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Nicola Willis to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000781\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000782\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000783\u0022\u003EKaro Drive undergrounding\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000784\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000785\u0022\u003EConstruction of underground road along current stretch of Karo Drive\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000786\u0022\u003EKaro Drive, Wellington  \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022197e56a15dc841b6b27e64ebe8cf6f7b\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022 data-id=\u0022d71d2559ac1544b9b9e0ae80d2e7451e\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000787\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022d71d2559ac1544b9b9e0ae80d2e7451e\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley)\u003C/span\u003E: Stuart Smith\u2019s tabled amendment to Schedule 2 regarding King Salmon\u2019s Blue Endeavour project is out of order as being outside the objects and principles of the bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000788\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Jacqui Dean to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000789\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000790\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000791\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EMacKenzie Basin pull over areas\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000792\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000793\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EConstruction of new pull over areas, erection of new signage, and safety improvements along SH 8, SH 79 and SH 80 in the Mackenzie basin \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000794\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022977cccaf-581d-4f48-924e-32bf6c54a93d\u0022\u003EAlong and adjacent to SH\u00A08, SH 79 and SH\u00A080 in the Mackenzie basin \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00223e20ddf9496947148161228b128a8cab\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000795\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000796\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000797\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000798\u0022\u003EMaunu Rd / Central Ave / Walton St / Water St intersection upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000799\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency / Whangarei District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000800\u0022\u003EUpgrade of the intersection on Maunu Rd / Central Ave /  Walton St / Water\u00A0St\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000801\u0022\u003EMaunu Rd / Central Ave / Walton St / Water St, Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00220e6aac73ebde4db986ba1e5426714ef1\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000802\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Chris Bishop to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000803\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000804\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000805\u0022\u003EMelling Transport Improvements \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000806\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Hutt City Council and Wellington Regional Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000807\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new intersection on SH 2 and new bridge over Hutt river\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000808\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 2 and the land adjacent to SH 2 in Lower Hutt\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00225fdf63d659ee4d9a84b868431377161b\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000809\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Maureen Pugh to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000810\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000811\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000812\u0022\u003EMoutueka High Street Upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000813\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000814\u0022\u003EConstruction of safety upgrades and aesthetic infrastructure in the vicinity of High Street Motueka\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000815\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on and adjacent to High Street, Motueka, West Coast\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00221b69298a9a1a4e649e51edf49ba57e0d\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000816\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Nicola Willis to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000817\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000818\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000819\u0022\u003EMt Victoria tunnel duplication\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000820\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Wellington City Council and Wellington Regional Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000821\u0022\u003EConstruction of a second Mt Victoria tunnel adjacent to the first tunnel in order to reduce congestion in Wellington city\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000822\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 and the land adjacent to SH 1 between Hataitai and Mt Cook Wellington adjacent to the Mt Victoria Tunnel\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002218c8f7a99a614a3c88124f0b776db88f\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000823\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Mark Mitchell to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000824\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP16, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000825\u0022\u003ELP20\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000826\u0022\u003EPenlink Project\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000827\u0022\u003EAuckland Council, Transport New Zealand\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000828\u0022\u003EConstruction of a 7km road \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000829\u0022\u003EThe Penlink (Peninsula link) project is a 7km link from Whangaparaoa Peninsula across Weiti River to join SH 1, and bypass Silverdale\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00229d13d628d9d1427dabdb6d06b5d12152\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000830\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Brett Hudson to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000831\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000832\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000833\u0022\u003EPetone to Grenada Link Road\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000834\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Greater Wellington Regional Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000835\u0022\u003EConstruction of a road linking Petone to Grenada \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000836\u0022\u003EBetween Petone and Grenada, Wellington\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002243a93906b39a4dd0bb7f524ae860e1d9\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000837\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Tim van de Molen to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000838\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000839\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000840\u0022\u003EUpgrade of SH 29 from Piarere to the Kaimai ranges \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000841\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000842\u0022\u003EUpgrade of stretch of SH 29 from Piarere to the Kaimai Mamaku forest park including construction of passing lanes, key intersection upgrades, and customer service facilities including rest stops and wayfinding improvements\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000843\u0022\u003EAlong and adjacent to SH\u00A029 from Piarere to the Kaimai ranges\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022e644ae86e64041599eda63e6ece01848\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000844\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000845\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000846\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000847\u0022\u003ERangiahua Bridge Upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000848\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000849\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new two-lane Rangiahua Bridge over the Waihou river on SH 1\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000850\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 over the Waihou River in the vicinity of the existing Rangiahua Bridge, Northland \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002201d3febb2c8c4e6dbe4c97373165463b\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000851\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000852\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000853\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000854\u0022\u003ERobert St/Walton St intersection upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000855\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency / Whangarei District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000856\u0022\u003EUpgrade of the intersection on Robert St and Walton St \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000857\u0022\u003ERobert St and Walton St intersection, Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00220acf0c9e9f5f49609ac7b2d74dbce8f2\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000858\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Andrew Falloon to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000859\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000860\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000861\u0022\u003ERolleston to Ashburton expressway\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000862\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000863\u0022\u003EConstruction of a four lane expressway along an existing two land stretch of SH\u00A01 between Rolleston and Ashburton, including over the Rakaia Bridge.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000864\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 and adjacent to SH 1 between Rolleston and Ashburton\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u002277656a71137944178b5d37ae59cf7dd6\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000865\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Andrew Falloon to Schedule 2 be agreed to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000866\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000867\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000868\u0022\u003ESecond bridge over the Ashburton River\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000869\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Ashburton District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000870\u0022\u003EConstruction of a second bridge over the Ashburton river\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000871\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 adjacent to the existing Ashburton bridge on SH 1 \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022e624c579be2d413a87923e422db3d83c\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000872\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Jacqui Dean to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000873\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000874\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000875\u0022\u003ESH6-SH8 Junction Cromwell intersection upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000876\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000877\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new roundabout on the intersection of SH\u00A06 and SH 8B in Cromwell\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000878\u0022\u003EOn the intersection of SH 6 and SH 8B in Cromwell, Central Otago\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00223b954b8c695d47abb4e190f745c85ce1\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000879\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000880\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000881\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000882\u0022\u003ESH10 Kaeo Bridge Upgrade \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000883\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000884\u0022\u003EReplacement of Kaeo single land bridge with a double lane bridge and replacement of a roundabout at the intersection of Whangaroa Road \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000885\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 10 at the existing site across the Kaeo river and at the intersection of Whangaroa road in Northland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022db34aab44028412d87559a166d5b4917\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000886\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Tim Macindoe to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000887\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000888\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000889\u0022\u003ESouthern Links Roading Project \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000890\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000891\u0022\u003ESouthern Links will include the construction of new roads to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000892\u0022\u003E- Link State Highway 1 from Kahikatea Drive in Hamilton City to Tamahere and the Waikato Expressway in the south\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000893\u0022\u003E- Link State Highway 3 from Hamilton Airport to central and east Hamilton\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000894\u0022\u003EThe Project will occur South of Hamilton from SH 1 in Kahikatea Drive in Hamilton City to Tamahere and the Waikato Expressway in the south, and from SH 3 from Hamilton Airport to Central and East Hamilton\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022d29931389a1842ebb29adf939befc93a\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000895\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000896\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000897\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000898\u0022\u003ESprings flat Roundabout\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000899\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Whangarei District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000900\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new roundabout on Springs Flat Road\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000901\u0022\u003EIntersection of Springs Flat Road, Pipiwai Road and Kamo Road, Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022d52ea163c902499a9c026f8ed1363aaf\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000902\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Simon O\u2019Connor to Schedule 2 be agreed to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000903\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000904\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000905\u0022\u003ETamaki Drive Masterplan\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000906\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Or\u0101kei Local Board, Auckland Transport\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000907\u0022\u003EUpgrade of Tamaki Drive including widening and resealing of the roads and the addition of supporting  structures and signage adjacent to it\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000908\u0022\u003EAlong and Adjacent to Tamaki Drive, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00223f02f72c88cc41e59dcfb94894def54d\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000909\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Todd McClay to Schedule 2 be agreed to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000910\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000911\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000912\u0022\u003ETe Ngae Rd project\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000913\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Rotorua Lakes Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000914\u0022\u003EUpgrade of section of Te Ngae Road, Rotorua including resealing of the road, addition of traffic lights, upgrading stretches of two lane roads to four lanes, installing new watermains, undergrounding overhead powerlines, and the construction of new shared paths\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000915\u0022\u003EStretch of Te Ngae Road from Sala St to Iles Rd, Rotorua\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022d96484112eb74be9b15ea32539b6b37d\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000916\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Nicola Willis to Schedule 2 be agreed to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000917\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000918\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000919\u0022\u003ETerrace Tunnel Duplication\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000920\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Wellington City Council and Wellington Regional Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000921\u0022\u003EConstruction of a second Terrace motorway tunnel adjacent to the first tunnel in order to reduce congestion in Wellington city\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000922\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 and the land adjacent to SH 1 next to the Terrace Motorway Tunnel\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00222c7f0bff5e4e4200bef7c72e7b0757ca\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000923\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000924\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000925\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000926\u0022\u003ETirohanga Stream Bridge Upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000927\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000928\u0022\u003EUpgrades to the Tirohanga Stream Bridge over Tirohanga Stream on SH 11\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000929\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on Paihia road SH 11 over the Tirohanga Stream in the vicinity of the existing Tirohanga Stream Bridge Northland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00224101378420d949ebaf8624874520b042\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000930\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Nicola Willis to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000931\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000932\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000933\u0022\u003EUnblocking the Basin Reserve\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000934\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000935\u0022\u003EConstruction of any infrastructure to unblock the congestion leading to the Basin Reserve \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000936\u0022\u003EWithin 1.5km Radius of the Basin Reserve, Wellington\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022945dd84a110a4806ade1732a1bc39734\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000937\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Louise Upston to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000938\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000939\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000940\u0022\u003EExtension of Waikato Expressway to Piarere\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000941\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000942\u0022\u003EThe SH 1 Cambridge to Piarere long-term project would make improvements to roads to expand the existing Waikato Expressway from Cambridge through to Piarere\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000943\u0022\u003EThe Project will occur along and adjacent to SH 1 from Cambridge to Piarere in the Waikato\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00224d4d1c9eeee1415b9e7a5983f6865e7d\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000944\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Maureen Pugh to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000945\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000946\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000947\u0022\u003EWaitaha Hydro Scheme\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000948\u0022\u003EWestpower Limited\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000949\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new run of river hydro scheme that would divert a small volume of the river into a power scheme tunnel which returns to the river 2.8 kilometres downstream\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000950\u0022\u003EThe project will be located within and on the true right bank of the Waitaha River between the lower end of Kiwi Flat and Macgregor Creek within the Waitaha Valley, and within the northern half of the Westland District. It is predominantly on Stewardship Land managed by the Department of Conservation (DOC)\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022ba67d6cf2f9145279280ecf95b2f4fe4\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000951\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000952\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000953\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000954\u0022\u003EAra T\u016Bhono \u2013 Warkworth to Wellsford\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000955\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000956\u0022\u003EConstruction of a new road between Warkworth and Te Hana\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000957\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on land between Warkworth and Te Hana\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022c089ed46875d471397a14c48778f846a\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000958\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Matt King to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000959\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000960\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000961\u0022\u003EFour laning of SH1 from Warkworth to Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000962\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000963\u0022\u003EConstruction of a four lane highway along existing stretch of SH 1 \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000964\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on SH 1 and adjacent to SH 1 between Warkworth and Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00224450e6a945a24b57ae33b9e587abc6d5\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000965\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000966\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000967\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000968\u0022\u003EWhangarei wastewater treatment plant upgrade  \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000969\u0022\u003EWhangarei District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000970\u0022\u003EUpgrade of the Ruakaka Treatment Plant in Whangarei to ensure it can meet anticipated population growth in the area\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000971\u0022\u003ERuakaka Treatment Plant, Whangarei\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022d0fe0f64f38f46f5aa12d5b2091dea2d\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000972\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Michael Woodhouse to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000973\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000974\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000975\u0022\u003EDunedin Hospital Redevelopment\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000976\u0022\u003EMinistry of Health\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000977\u0022\u003EReplacement of the existing Dunedin hospital and construction of a new Dunedin Hospital\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000978\u0022\u003EOn the large blocks of land on and adjacent to the existing Dunedin hospital including the \u201CWilson Block\u201D, the \u201CCadbury Block\u201D and the \u201CCadbury Car Park\u201D \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00220b6c3bf8f90c4c8d8db03f2d77f27a01\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000979\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Michael Woodhouse to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000980\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000981\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000982\u0022\u003EDunedin Waterfront Vision\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000983\u0022\u003EDunedin City Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000984\u0022\u003EThis project involves a redevelopment of the land on the Dunedin waterfront including but not limited to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000985\u0022\u003E- the construction and refurbishment of the bridge\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000986\u0022\u003E- building platforms around the north and west sides of the Steamer Basin\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000987\u0022\u003E- Upgrading the sustainable futures building on the north side\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000988\u0022\u003E- Constructing a public open space at the head of the Steamer Basin which could incorporate a playground and a small tourist information centre \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000989\u0022\u003EDunedin waterfront and adjacent to the waterfront in the land and water between the Cove and Ravensbourne\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00228808669d7e4e4ea6b23c5669d62368db\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u0022de852ab46b504dc4890771e67856e30b\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000990\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022de852ab46b504dc4890771e67856e30b\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Can I just remind the Hon Nathan Guy that votes are to be taken in silence. So not even your indoor voice\u2014none at all.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000991\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Michael Woodhouse to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000992\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000993\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000994\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003ENew Beaumont Bridge\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000995\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000996\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EThis project involves replacing the current single lane bridge across the Clutha River on SH 8 at Beaumont with a modern two-lane structure \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000997\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EJust downstream of the existing Beaumont bridge allowing the highway to stay in front of the local Hotel, South Otago\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022dca04e2a423344569bee40706347cbaa\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000998\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Nathan Guy to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806000999\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001000\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001001\u0022\u003E\u014Ctaki to north of Levin four laning\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001002\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Horowhenua District Council, Kapiti Coast District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001003\u0022\u003EFour laning and building improvements on a 24km stretch of SH 1 from \u014Ctaki to North of Levin  \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001004\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on a 24km stretch of SH 1 from \u014Ctaki to North of Levin\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022edf2789ebe2343e2bf4429c00b4df2e5\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001005\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dr Shane Reti to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001006\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001007\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001008\u0022\u003EBream Bay College upgrade\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001009\u0022\u003EMinistry of Education\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001010\u0022\u003EUpgrade of Bream Bay College facilities \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001011\u0022\u003EPeter Snell Road, Ruakaka, Whangarei  \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022b7a663a711c043f4bce261cf2e37aecf\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001012\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Nicky Wagner to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001013\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001014\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001015\u0022\u003EMarshland Road, Lower Styx Road and Hawkins Road bridge and intersection improvements\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001016\u0022\u003EChristchurch City Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001017\u0022\u003EConstruction of traffic signals at the intersection of Marshland Road, Lower Styx Road and Hawkins Road, and the widening of the adjacent Marshland Bridge over the Styx river \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001018\u0022\u003EAt the intersection of Marshland Road, Lower Styx Road and Hawkins Road, and adjacent to the Marshland Bridge over the Styx river, Christchurch \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u0022e844e2c34c0441529c144c444e1a4a63\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001019\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e844e2c34c0441529c144c444e1a4a63\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. I\u2019ve just exchanged a note with the person in the chair for the National Party. I seek leave for the balance of the Supplementary Order Papers to be put as one question.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001020\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022860827e0713545e98d70d942e343babf\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: We\u2019re in the middle of a vote. You can\u2019t take a point of order.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001021\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00225410ee09f72c4ebd88cc721aa60fabe4\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: Oh, sorry, I thought we had just finished that vote.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002256d4c32899954ea09fbcd76a586c4837\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: We had.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001023\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002201e354ae1dca41248cbedbff276942b8\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: I apologise.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001024\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022c9f80d5ae7974a519e74706e2a5cf029\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019m calling for a party vote on that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001025\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a3d8886205a14e2da58d3a0bb3e95dae\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER\u003C/span\u003E: I\u2019m sorry\u2014I apologise.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001026\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d52d888e60504761949704b02a509b73\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: Madam Chair, you were interrupted by the point of order\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022 data-id=\u002246ffa0389c374c81a0290794a0f9c2af\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001027\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002246ffa0389c374c81a0290794a0f9c2af\u0022\u003ECHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson)\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry, I apologise if I did, but I thought that I\u2019d just finished that one. We haven\u2019t taken that one? Quite correct\u2014my apologies for that. That\u2019s my error. So we\u2019re taking the vote on the Hon Nicky Wagner\u2019s tabled amendment to Schedule 2 regarding Marshland Road, Lower Styx Road, and Hawkins Road bridge and intersection improvements.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001028\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Nicky Wagner to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001029\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001030\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001031\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EMarshland Road, Lower Styx Road and Hawkins Road bridge and intersection improvements\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001032\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EChristchurch City Council\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001033\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EConstruction of traffic signals at the intersection of Marshland Road, Lower Styx Road and Hawkins Road, and the widening of the adjacent Marshland Bridge over the Styx river\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001034\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002275a05f96-2474-4c90-a6ea-cf7b5798e03e\u0022\u003EAt the intersection of Marshland Road, Lower Styx Road and Hawkins Road, and adjacent to the Marshland Bridge over the Styx river, Christchurch \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022bad6ac8f1aff47c4999f0c2d0c53a97c\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001035\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Jacqui Dean to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001036\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001037\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001038\u0022\u003ETekapo-Twizel Road and Mt Cook Road intersection upgrades \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001039\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Mackenzie District Council \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001040\u0022\u003EConstructing safety improvements on the intersection between Tekapo-Twizel Road (SH\u00A08) and Mt Cook Road (SH\u00A080)   \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001041\u0022\u003EThe project will occur at the Intersection of Tekapo-Twizel Road (SH 8) and Mt Cook Road (SH 80), Mackenzie District \u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00220538c9302b7842eeab4b48761e7b6e1f\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001042\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Dan Bidois to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001043\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001044\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001045\u0022\u003ELocal Parks Kauri Die Back Programme\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001046\u0022\u003EAuckland Transport, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001047\u0022\u003EConstruction of infrastructure to protect native Kauri from Kauri Die Back Disease\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001048\u0022\u003EKaipatiki Local Board Area, Auckland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00225b50cf9d9c5b4c1ca675a4eb838b41ec\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001049\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Andrew Bayly to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001050\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001051\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001052\u0022\u003ERoundabout on the corner of SH 22 and Glenbrook road \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001053\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001054\u0022\u003EConstruction of a roundabout on the corner of SH 22 and Glenbrook road to facilitate the next stage of housing development at Paerata Rise\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001055\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on the corner of SH22 and Glenbrook road, South of Auckland\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022b06a3cb458b941b5b57c0242f524b6b3\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001056\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Andrew Bayly to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001057\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001058\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001059\u0022\u003EElectrification of the train route from Papakura to Pukekohe \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001060\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Auckland Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001061\u0022\u003EConstruction of infrastructure to electrify the train route from Papakura to Pukekohe\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001062\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on the train route from Papakura to Pukekohe\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022b17d5d056116417e9dc2d760fe6f218b\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001063\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Dr Nick Smith to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001064\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001065\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001066\u0022\u003ENelson Inland Route\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001067\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001068\u0022\u003EConstruction of a 7km stretch of road to bypass SH\u00A06 between Annesbrook and Nelson\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001069\u0022\u003EThe project will occur along the railway reserve and St Vincent Street, Nelson\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022adf821e13e3f4c70ac4e000cb63ebe49\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001070\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of Lawrence Yule to Schedule 2 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001071\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 2, after item LP17, insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001072\u0022\u003ELP18\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001073\u0022\u003ENapier to Hastings four lane expressway\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001074\u0022\u003EWaka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Horowhenua District Council, Kapiti Coast District Council\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001075\u0022\u003EFour laning the Hastings to Napier expressway\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001076\u0022\u003EThe project will occur on a 24km stretch of SH 2 from Napier airport to Pakipaki, south of Hastings\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022b415bb14c12047a7b90c487d8700ce9c\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendment be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 38\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 64\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8; ACT New Zealand 1.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001077\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u002228cb3d57b4ce4e0583f374d19817a415\u0022\u003ESchedule 2 as amended agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001078\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u002256be710fef864dfd9b7e9312180eefa1\u0022\u003ESchedule 3 agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001079\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00221483bcd67f0a4c6d8e5740b72e903d26\u0022\u003ESchedule 4\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001080\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 533 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Schedule 4 be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001081\u0022\u003EAmendments agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001082\u0022\u003ESchedule 4 as amended agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001083\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00221e19947586a54bd2aad9de453e984c5f\u0022\u003ESchedule 5\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001084\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 533 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Schedule 5 be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001085\u0022\u003EAmendments agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001086\u0022\u003ESchedule 5 as amended agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001087\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u002257a69930767f475ba896885573e3ea63\u0022\u003ESchedule 6\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001088\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 533 and 534 in the name of the Hon David Parker to Schedule 6 be agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00225fed89ca189c4646940668a166826b60\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the amendments be agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 63\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 39\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; ACT New Zealand 1; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAmendments agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001089\u0022\u003EThe question was put that the following amendment in the name of the Hon Scott Simpson to Schedule 6 be agreed to: \u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001090\u0022\u003Ein Schedule 6, clause 17(6), after paragraph (u), insert:\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001091\u0022\u003E(ua)\tQueen Elizabeth the Second National Trust; and\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001092\u0022\u003EAmendment not agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001093\u0022\u003ESchedule 6 as amended agreed to.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001094\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u002246207cccddeb4f8a9282ae8b64af5a53\u0022\u003EClause 1 agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001095\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u0022a07e399bdc78457c94083c3afe1a870c\u0022\u003EClause 2 agreed to.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001096\u0022\u003EHouse resumed.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001097\u0022\u003EThe Chairperson reported the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill with amendment.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001098\u0022\u003EReport adopted.\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001099\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsSubproceedingHeading\u0022 id=\u00221d1be6022fe6440c8562969c224f82e6\u0022\u003EThird Reading\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022 data-id=\u00220bb9d760cf9342b386ca5f5f906ee110\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001100\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u00220bb9d760cf9342b386ca5f5f906ee110\u0022\u003EHon DAVID PARKER (Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E I move, That the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill be now read a third time. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001101\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003ECan I thank officials who\u2019ve serviced the Ministers, the select committee, and the House. Can I thank the select committee for their work and also the House for the debates so far tonight. I think it\u2019s just about all been said. I\u2019m not going to say a lot more. We\u2019ve not long ago heard the second reading speeches and we\u2019ve dealt with the detail through the committee stage. I think it should be clear that this fast-track consenting bill is part of the Government\u2019s response to support New Zealand\u2019s recovery from the economic and social disruption caused by COVID-19.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001102\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThe bill will bring forward many job-rich projects to proceed earlier than would have been enabled under usual RMA processes, thereby getting people into jobs far sooner. Processes are sped up. Environmental protections are retained as are Treaty protections. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001103\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThere are three tracks. The first is listed projects. There are 11 separate projects, plus a group of papak\u0101inga projects. They range from water storage to housing developments to road, rail, cycling, and infrastructure projects. The listed projects will create an estimated 1,700 jobs located from Kaikohe in the north to Queenstown in the south. And this is just the start, because in addition to that first track, the second track are additional projects that can be put through to a panel by Order in Council. The third track is permitted works enabled by certain agencies to be carried out on existing infrastructure without the need for resource consent. These generally smaller works will be undertaken by the New Zealand Transport Agency and KiwiRail Holdings. But there was also an ability to add local authorities and certain other agencies to that list by way of Order in Council. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001104\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022f5d71749-ae91-4af7-b2bd-77260398912a\u0022\u003EThis bill is a short-term intervention to stimulate the economy. Therefore, the new Act will self-repeal two years after enactment. It\u2019s a direct response to the specific situation caused by the pandemic. And I commend the bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001105\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00223a30d857fc75453299485e9f98637e86\u0022\u003EErica Stanford\u003C/span\u003E: Mr\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022 data-id=\u0022e02377c36e94488f859eec78c6585c14\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001106\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022e02377c36e94488f859eec78c6585c14\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: The question is that the motion be agreed to\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001107\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022293e1cfeb6694ab483f1fc80bd8737c5\u0022\u003EErica Stanford\u003C/span\u003E: Mr Speaker? Sorry\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001108\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002282423999ef26414d8149c8a54d494a06\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Those of that opinion\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001109\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002204eeb42d38854787a371293d9ef1f88c\u0022\u003EHon Member\u003C/span\u003E: She called.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001110\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022a3a099e3df24440db9b6d469d1748504\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Oh, Erica Stanford.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022 data-id=\u0022242d223ec9784cbc8abe656cbe2784ef\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001111\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022242d223ec9784cbc8abe656cbe2784ef\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD (National\u2014East Coast Bays):\u003C/span\u003E Sorry.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001112\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u002279192fc640474457afaf9087a185f95c\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Louder.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001113\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022e76d1e0739b9401f8dcd2815866989bc\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Pleased to take a call in the third reading of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. While we do support this bill, and I think that\u2019s been made abundantly clear, we do want to make the point that this is a massive wasted opportunity. What a lack of vision this Government has for this country. And it doesn\u2019t bode well for their plans of economic recovery post - COVID-19. The 11 projects listed in this bill only deliver us directly 1,700 jobs over 11 projects. The Minister had the ability to give us real economic value, and what we got was cycleways chosen over things like Dunedin Hospital, the Katikati bypass, the Mount Victoria Tunnel duplication, the Belfast to Pegasus motorway\u2014all voted down today and not even considered. And there wasn\u2019t even anything in Canterbury, those poor people down in Canterbury. The long-term economic value of a cycleway under the Harbour Bridge compared to a motorway, bridges, renewable energy projects\u2014the Minister couldn\u2019t tell us today why these projects that have limited economic value were chosen over much bigger, more visionary projects that are going to deliver this country the economic value that we need to get through COVID-19. The fact is that it was the National Party that tried to inject the vision into this bill through our Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) that were unfortunately voted down today.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001114\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EBut as the Minister said today, and has said before, he doesn\u2019t want to choke the system, indicating he knows there are a lot of good projects that can go forward to help us get through the COVID recovery. But instead of building capacity to allow us to put these projects through, all we get is 11 measly projects. What a complete waste.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001115\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EWe heard from the Minister in committee stage that he didn\u2019t consider other projects, that they didn\u2019t even ask questions around other projects or how the economic benefits might stack up\u2014say, a cycle path versus a motorway. The biggest economic challenge of our lives, and it looks like this Government has done some pretty sloppy work and no economic analysis.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001116\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EEven though they only had 11 projects\u2014even though they only had 11 small projects\u2014they still managed to stuff it up. The single biggest water storage project that is most important to Northland, and they couldn\u2019t even get themselves together to get that right. The issue up there was the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 Dam. All they did was consent, when the bill was brought to the House, for a hole in the ground not to be filled with water for potable water for Kaikohe or for horticultural projects. Then, finally, the truth came out. Why was that the case? Why was it just a hole in the ground? Well, the Minister made it very clear in committee stage. The problem was the Greens. Minister Sage, earlier in her contributions, said that the National Party doesn\u2019t understand MMP. We understand MMP very well. MMP gives us a hole in the ground, a water storage project, a hole in the ground with no water. That\u2019s what MMP gives us.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001117\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00228bd12247b4f54ead92ef4109e239752e\u0022\u003EHon Member\u003C/span\u003E: Doesn\u2019t even make sense.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001118\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00220dbafc596c324d429be8d89ca45c6237\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: Doesn\u2019t make sense at all. Here\u2019s how MMP has been working for the Greens. They swallow dead rats every day: Kermadecs, Campbell Island, cameras on fishing boats, and now this bill.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001119\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022276844bceaed47648861e4985396527c\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Yeah, and staying with this bill. Third reading.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001120\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022522a773b5340482bbb71017f75301f2c\u0022\u003EERICA STANFORD\u003C/span\u003E: With this bill. The Greens vigorously opposed any Resource Management Act changes, but they still have voted for this bill today, or they will be voting for this bill today, which goes against everything they believe. And when they did flex their little bit of muscle, they said no water in the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 Dam. But the Government went ahead and they managed to get that in anyway, with our help. But I have to ask the Minister: why did he not come to us and ask us in the first place to help him get that across the line? Because you know what? There is no way that we would have left Kaikohe without any water; we would absolutely have backed him up in that case. But he didn\u2019t come to us instead of just playing politics. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001121\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EIn the interests of time, I\u2019ll skip forward a bit. But what I want to say is that the penny finally dropped for me in this debate that we\u2019ve been having today. That was that acknowledgement of the fact that the Greens held up Ng\u0101wh\u0101; the penny dropped. That\u2019s why we ended up with 11 relatively small-scale projects that aren\u2019t going to deliver much economic value to this country. It\u2019s the Greens. That\u2019s the problem with this Government: they can\u2019t get themselves together, they can\u2019t collaborate and talk and get better projects, more projects in this bill. I actually feel a bit sorry for the Minister. He probably did actually look at some of the really good projects that we wanted in some of our SOPs, but he couldn\u2019t get them across the line because the Greens held him up. It was made very evident in the Ng\u0101wh\u0101 Dam example. It\u2019s exactly why they couldn\u2019t fill that dam full of water, and we had to come to the rescue in that.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001122\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThat doesn\u2019t bode well when it comes to projects in the future that get referred that have anything to do with the coastal and marine area, because the Minister for the Environment and the Minister of Conservation have to agree. Well, we\u2019ve seen quite clearly that that\u2019s not going to happen. So if there are any projects that are going to be referred in the coastal or marine area, I doubt very much whether or not those are going to go ahead.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001123\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EThis, as I said, is a massive missed opportunity. It has a huge lack of vision, there are a lack of projects to drive our economy to get us through COVID-19 recovery, because this Government can\u2019t get themselves together to get us through. And it doesn\u2019t bode well for the future economic recovery with these guys in charge.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001124\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022275c91f8-c6b8-42fd-b3ab-d8fc000dd41f\u0022\u003EWith all of that said, I commend the bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022 data-id=\u002237e7cc1bd0654c04b87c49d872b4b859\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001125\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002237e7cc1bd0654c04b87c49d872b4b859\u0022\u003EHon EUGENIE SAGE (Associate Minister for the Environment):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Mr Speaker. I\u2019m pleased to take a short call on the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001126\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EErica Stanford, the previous speaker, talked about all of these projects, and National have given us a lot of exercise during the committee stage, bouncing up and down to do party votes. The proposals they put forward, including the four-laning of highways, without any assessment of effects, is exactly the sort of ad hoc lawmaking that National in Government was renowned for. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001127\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003ETo the previous speaker, there were 24 projects which were put forward by Government agencies for listing in Schedule 2 to be on the fast track in the bill. Those projects were assessed against the purpose of the bill, which is to create employment and to be within the context of sustainable management. So they were assessed against the purpose. They were assessed against the criteria that the Minister must use when he or she refers a project to an expert consenting panel, and of those 24 projects, 12 were found to meet those criteria and, therefore, they were put in the bill. So it was a measured process, not the quick process that the National Party was proposing during the committee stage. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001128\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EIt is a mix of transport projects\u2014road and rail, ferry, and cycling projects\u2014and that water supply for potable water for Kaikohe. These will provide employment, but the Green Party was concerned, as were many submitters, about some key issues: public participation, and the constraints on that; climate change; and the environmental bottom lines and safeguards. So I really commend the work of the Environment Committee for responding to submissions, and the Minister for responding to our concerns, which have been articulated throughout the development of this bill\u2014doing what a constructive Green Party has always done in Government, which is seeking to improve legislation. That work, that negotiation, and the work of the select committee have resulted in changes to the bill which have strengthened the references to Part 2 in relation to the expert consenting panel, which have increased the organisations which are invited to provide comments to the Minister in terms of the fast-track one, and which have also strengthened the references to preventing greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change\u2014so making a stronger reference in the bill to climate change. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001129\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003EThe challenge for any promoters of projects for the fast track will be that they recognise that dealing effectively with natural resources and planning effectively means doing a thorough effects assessment and knowing what natural resources we are dealing with in order to assess effects and then plan and design the project to avoid those. There was one project in Christchurch on the \u014Cp\u0101waho Heathcote River some years ago. There\u2019s a big loop on that river through Woolston that meant that floodwaters go more slowly to the sea, so the engineers thought they would do the Woolston Cut so that floodwaters would go more quickly. They didn\u2019t assess the fact that the saltwater wedge would go further up the river. That led to a much greater tidal influence, it led to the banks crumbling, and it led to trees dying because of that saltwater influence. So the engineers, by failing to take into account basic ecology, then had to build the Woolston barrage to prevent the water going that quickly to the sea. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001130\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022e122e0e6-61c6-4d17-9a79-6ad2ac7d127e\u0022\u003ESo nature needs to be taken into account. The Greens have worked to strengthen the environmental safeguards in this bill. There are still issues that we have concern over such as the fact that it\u2019s not councils that are making decisions, but it\u2019s the expert consenting panel, and the restrictions on public participation, but throughout, we have worked constructively to improve this bill. Thank you. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022 data-id=\u0022a1600aec507c4f0aa241a516dd5f98bd\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001131\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022a1600aec507c4f0aa241a516dd5f98bd\u0022\u003EHon JACQUI DEAN (National\u2014Waitaki):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Mr Speaker. In the third reading of the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill, we\u2019ve spent a busy few days mostly involved in Zoom meetings but also meeting face to face each day\u2014I think about Sunday\u2014to get this bill back to the House, and some constructive changes have been made.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001132\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003ENational is supporting this bill. My colleague has raised some very valid reservations around the bill. I just want to raise one reservation I have around this bill, and it is the expiry date of the bill, which is two years from when the bill gains the Royal assent. We did discuss in the committee stage, quite comprehensively, essentially, the pipeline and the process by which applicants for referred consents would go through the panel process and on through the consenting process.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001133\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EThe question that I have\u2014and I didn\u2019t adequately get an answer from the Minister\u2014was that two years is not a long time, and given that the Minister indicated that the panel and the chair of the panel would need a fair amount of time to get processes set up, well, how long will that take? Will that be six months? That then leaves 18 months\u2019 time for this panel to consider what could be\u2014and the Minister acknowledged that he did not know how many consents, which does not give a long period of time by which the Act expires. Of course, there is a provision in the soon-to-be Act which allows for the consenting panels to continue their work until the consents that are in hand are dealt with. But I just wonder\u2014and this side of the House wonders\u2014whether the two years was just the right amount of time, because bills of this sort, or this bill in particular, was modelled on the Canterbury earthquakes legislation and the legislation which came as a result of the Kaik\u014Dura earthquakes.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001134\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u00224a25943b-cb3b-49c3-bd10-74316fae17f1\u0022\u003EThis type of legislation works. We know it will work. It will get constructions going\u2014get construction; pardon me, it\u2019s getting late. There will be jobs. It will provide a very strong signal to particularly smaller communities that things are getting moving again. For that reason, if nothing else, I commend David Parker for his work on this bill, and we are very happy to support the bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u002236c8c596-d890-4cca-9767-1eeb5c9ce710\u0022 data-id=\u0022efe329b7d49c480b9145b67d6021c11c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001135\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002236c8c596-d890-4cca-9767-1eeb5c9ce710\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022efe329b7d49c480b9145b67d6021c11c\u0022\u003EDARROCH BALL (NZ First):\u003C/span\u003E This is a very common-sense bill, and New Zealand First commends it to the House. Thank you.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022 data-id=\u002216c9283f795d4c8bbfd33bea2412136c\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001136\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u002216c9283f795d4c8bbfd33bea2412136c\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany):\u003C/span\u003E Mr Speaker, thank you. The running theme throughout this debate has been that the Resource Management Act (RMA) is broken.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001137\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022cb9bdfc255ec453ea0dea2a37e189472\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Does it say split call then, Mr Speaker?\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001138\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022238c7b543244403393530e805a4ec14c\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: The speaking order is at my discretion. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001139\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022fe80e0fcf605430f82c9213d917f381a\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS\u003C/span\u003E: It\u2019s all right. He was a whip after I left, so I didn\u2019t get to train him, sorry. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001140\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EThe running theme running through this debate has been how the RMA is broken and how we haven\u2019t had the opportunity in the past to consider legislation which properly\u2014\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001141\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d4b3e995687742f59b2a06c1ca0712eb\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I understand the speaking calls are at your discretion, in proportion to the representation in the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001142\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f1c1284e2ff843e39f33223dda7c7394\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Yes.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001143\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022d50e591bf856464b9870064363c4cd47\u0022\u003ETim van de Molen\u003C/span\u003E: And so a 10-minute call, in this case\u2014I am unsure how that relates to the representation in the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001144\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u002279db8b64-1f9b-4416-9b81-a12963db9cbf\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u00229a57696ce558437e85a8e1b01adbf363\u0022\u003ESPEAKER\u003C/span\u003E: Sorry, the order of speaking is something which there is some general guidance about and which I generally take account of. But, in the end, who I call is at my discretion. I have called Jami-Lee Ross for the five-minute call for which he is entitled.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001145\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsBy\u0022 id=\u0022f3f64b820ff544e9a02d1323e88fbfd8\u0022\u003EJAMI-LEE ROSS\u003C/span\u003E: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The running theme throughout this debate is how the RMA is broken. In times of crisis such as this, and when we\u2019ve had other economic events and natural disasters, it hasn\u2019t been fit for purpose, and so Parliament has come through and decided to have special pieces of legislation to deal with projects that we want to fast track as a Parliament and that Governments want to fund intensively to get running. For that reason, it appears as though there\u2019s going to be unanimous support for this bill tonight. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001146\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EThe issue, though, is the Government could have gone a lot further. The Government should have had more projects in this bill to fast track. I don\u2019t buy the Minister for the Environment\u2019s answer that he gave in the committee, which was that the process would be clogged up if too many projects were put in there. In fact, the Government was the gatekeeper as to which projects got in there. The number one priority, apparently, for this piece of legislation for transport for Auckland, is the SkyPath project across the harbour bridge. Now, I don\u2019t know what the other members in the House think, but, as an Aucklander, I\u2019m of the view that there are many other important projects. In fact, the Government\u2019s own Auckland Transport Alignment Project agreement with the council, the Government\u2019s own land transport programme that they have, has many, many projects which are of higher value and importance to Auckland that should have been considered in this legislation.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001147\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI\u2019m also very disappointed in the way in which the select committee and the committee of the whole House kept swapping back and forth with regards to the Treaty clause that\u2019s in this bill. Now, I realise that we had some interesting discussion earlier in the evening, but the situation we ended up in was that the first bill that came in, as introduced by the Minister, had a very strict Treaty clause which meant panels had to make decisions consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi. The Environment Committee changed it, loosened it, put it back in line with the RMA. The Minister then put up a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) which would again flip the Treaty clause back so panels would have to make decisions consistent with the RMA. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001148\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EIt turns out that the New Zealand First Party was opposed to the Minister\u2019s SOP. Now, normally, in situations where the New Zealand First Party and the National Party are opposed to a Minister\u2019s SOP, that SOP would have died\u2014that SOP would have failed. I was expecting a sensible decision to have been made whereby we would be debating a bill right now that would have a Treaty clause in line with what the RMA is. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001149\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EBut it turns out the National Party was voting down in their numbers, and, although a majority of the members in the House, by normal strength, would have been able to defeat the SOP, we now have a Treaty clause in this legislation which I think is too strict and I think, actually, will lead to some issues when it comes to appeals, because, now, appeals on points of law can be made by interested parties if they\u2019re of the view that the panel made a decision that was not consistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001150\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003ENormally, under the RMA, decisions have to be made where account is taken of the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi\u2014relevance to them is considered. But, in this case, under this bill, we now have a set up\u2014because one party in the Parliament was voting down earlier tonight\u2014where we will have a Treaty clause which leads to the ability for appeals to be made which could actually slow down the very projects that we want to see.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001151\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI also want to say that I do support the arguments that this is too short in time frame. The two-year expiry period should have been longer. The very fact that we\u2019re doing this in this way is highlighting the fact that we need better RMA legislation. It highlights that when the Parliament and when the Government wants to see things fast track, we always have to go and pass a special piece of legislation. Well, now we have a special piece of legislation. We have the ability for the Minister to add more projects on. It sounds as though they are more ambitious and they do want to see more projects added on. But why only have the short two-year period? I heard Ron Mark in an earlier debate say that it could be considered where a Parliament in the future may decide to extend that two-year period out to a further five years. It should have been five years in the very first place. \u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001152\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EBut the Government\u2019s doing the right thing. They\u2019ve got legislation which is going to fast track infrastructure. I hope they seriously fund important pieces of infrastructure over and above what they\u2019ve got in the bill so far, because, as it stands, it doesn\u2019t show the type of ambition that they\u2019ve shown in previous projects in the past.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001153\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022163d0b68-eb0e-4094-9bed-99e184f063e1\u0022\u003EI do want to say to Eugenie Sage: the projects proposed in our SOPs were good ones, often were costed, and often were looked at already.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022a1f7bbd1-b6ae-41c0-963b-dbe1251f5540\u0022 data-id=\u0022ec292ab7ad504a4fbab4c836876d0437\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001154\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022a1f7bbd1-b6ae-41c0-963b-dbe1251f5540\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022ec292ab7ad504a4fbab4c836876d0437\u0022\u003EKIERAN McANULTY (Labour):\u003C/span\u003E I commend this bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca name=\u0022member\u0022 data-type=\u0022article\u0022 data-memberid=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022 data-id=\u0022c7b4672845984750845b5884158fb5fd\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001155\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsNormal\u0022 id=\u0022071f7800-2755-41b6-83df-07ebaf867ae2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsByToc\u0022 id=\u0022c7b4672845984750845b5884158fb5fd\u0022\u003ETIM VAN DE MOLEN (National\u2014Waikato):\u003C/span\u003E Thank you, Mr Speaker. Here we are, late on a Thursday evening, discussing this bill, a bill that represents a missed opportunity, unfortunately. We saw some fantastic Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) brought forward through the committee stage, and I would like to commend the Minister because, actually, he engaged wholeheartedly throughout that process\u2014quite a few hours. I do want to acknowledge that effort, and the officials for their work on it as well. Having said that, it was a shame that we didn\u2019t see some of those SOPs put forward, in particular the extension of the Waikato Expressway to Piarere\u2014a fantastic project, a missed opportunity\u2014but I\u2019m sure we will have that opportunity again in the future. So I commend this bill to the House.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ca id=\u00223c49f31190974f4bba75c2364f66fc0f\u0022 name=\u0022division\u0022\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EA party vote was called for on the question, That the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill be now read a third time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EAyes 93\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENew Zealand National 37; New Zealand Labour 46; New Zealand First 9; Ross.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003ENoes 9\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EACT New Zealand 1; Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 8.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp class=\u0022HpsDivision\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022HpsItem\u0022\u003EBill read a third time.\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\n      \u003Cp id=\u0022id2020070264e03f179831433bb8aa428fe3382806001156\u0022\u003EThe House adjourned at 9.40 p.m. \u003C/p\u003E\n    \u003C/div\u003E\n  \u003C/body\u003E\n\u003C/html\u003E"