Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Madam Speaker. That was good; I wish the member Dan Rosewarne had have kept talking. I was hoping he was going to use up all 10 minutes but he almost got to two. But that was all right; it was an enjoyable contribution nevertheless. I'd better get straight to the point on this one: I oppose this bill but I will be using up my full call on this.This is a back-down bill let's be perfectly honest. It is a back-down bill. I had some friends who were in New Zealand recently and they were driving around and they said What are all of these Stop Three Waters signs?" Evidently one of them was on my gate! But when you drive around Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty there are a lot of them. It's such a strange thing for this Government to hang its hat on and it could well have been the thing that started the demise—Angela Roberts: Affordable water?SAM UFFINDELL: And the horrible water we hear being called out. I saw the ads too where you turn on the tap and all of the green sludge comes out. We don't have that problem in Tauranga; we don't have it at all because our councils have invested in their water services over the decades. We have some of the best water not to mention the best sunshine and the best beaches in New Zealand. But we don't need this; we do not need central government coming in and telling us how to manage our water. It's not just Tauranga that doesn't need it; there are many councils around New Zealand that don't need it.I go back to the start of where this all began with three waters—and I'll keep calling this three waters because that's what it is. It's just had another lick of paint and a new name but it's still three waters and it will still be repealed as three waters and replaced with Simon Watts' wonderful Local Water Done Well. I look forward to the repealing and replacement of three waters. Now we saw what happened when this came in. It is strange; I remember talking on this at the end of last year and I came in here with "Wattsy" and we were there talking away trying to hold this up—and he did a magnificent job holding it up—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! In this House we refer to members by their full name.SAM UFFINDELL: My apologies Madam Speaker. Getting a bit too laissez-faire on a Thursday afternoon. I'll add an element of professionalism for the last three minutes.It seems that here we are again talking about a bill that was only passed recently. Here we are amending it. Let's talk about what's wrong with this bill. Well there's no local accountability because the local people don't have an opportunity to call out people if they are not doing a good job managing their water services. It takes local assets off local councils and make no mistake about it: it takes their assets. It upholds co-governance and those are the two extremely contentious parts of this: that it takes local assets off local councils—and this amendment hasn't addressed that—and it further continues very divisive co-governance arrangements that we have seen under this Government.The Te Mana o te Wai statements were talked about quite well by Chris Bishop when he came in here. I'm sure Simon Watts talked about it well but I came in during Chris' speech—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order!SAM UFFINDELL: Sorry again. Thursday afternoon. I will not get it wrong in the last minute and a half. Why is it that only mana whenua can make statements on this? I find that that is the wrong way to be going about it. We are all New Zealanders in this House in this country and we should all be treated with the same rights and responsibilities as everyone else. To say that one set of people based on their ethnicity can make Te Mana o te Wai statements and other New Zealanders can't I think is a pretty poor direction for us to be heading as a country.Now I've heard the other side of the House piping up about all of the financial benefits that this is going to reap. They looked at what they'd done over in Scotland and they got a bit of modelling and they said "Oh this is going to save councils thousands of dollars and save ratepayers thousands of dollars." I mean what a load of rubbish. When you've looked at people that have come in and done peer-reviewed studies on that that's not what they have found—that's not what they have found.So this Government has used fear. They've used fear of green sludge coming out of taps and they've used fear of incredible rate hikes that are completely out of touch with reality to try and ram this through. We had the Greens member Eugenie Sage before. She has left the Chamber but she tried to—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! You nearly made it. But the member will not refer to the absence of a member.SAM UFFINDELL: Thank you Madam Speaker. I won't be posting this one online. What am I saying? There was an attempt by the Green Party at a 60 percent entrenchment. This Government went along with it.Glen Bennett: When's your professionalism coming in?SAM UFFINDELL: Well we will see plenty of professionalism come October and we will repeal and replace three waters—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! The member's time has expired."