Dalziel Lianne: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Dalziel Lianne: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
[Sitting date: 20 February 2013. Volume:687;Page:8017. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
10. 
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL (Labour—Christchurch East) 
 to the  
Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 
: Why is he offering only 50 percent of rating valuation for commercial or bare land in the residential red zone where the land could not be insured? 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE (Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery) 
: 
 We are making a voluntary offer for that land that is many times in excess of its market valuation and in line with offers made to uninsured parties. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: How does he explain to people like the McLeans who had not started building on their land why they have been treated so differently from their neighbours who also could not insure their land but were offered 100 percent of their rating valuation because they had started building? 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: I cannot know the detail of that at this point. I would be happy to have a look at the particular circumstance. What I might do for the House is suggest that there will be different insurance arrangements for people who own bare land and people who have started construction on that land. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: How does he tell a business owner who is fully insured that he or she will be offered only 50 percent of the rating valuation of the land when he or she would have been offered 100 percent if they operated their business from an insured residential dwelling? 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: That is the point—they were not operating their business from an insured residential dwelling; they were operating their business from a commercial premises that now has very very low land value. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: Will he extend the 31 March deadline faced by these landowners so that they can carefully consider their options and so he can respond to Scott Robertson’s plea on  
Campbell Live 
 last night: “I’d just like you to take your time and reconsider your decision. We’re good honest Kiwis that have done nothing wrong.”? 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: Well I think the first point is that Mr Robertson I understand has a property in the Port Hills and no offers have been made to those people. So there is no time line for him to be concerned about. On the other point I repeat what I said before. We conducted a valuation of 4136— 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It is true that my question had two parts. The Minister responded to the second part. He is now responding to a part that I did not ask. I said: “Will he extend the 31 March deadline?”. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The difficulty the member has is that she asked a supplementary question with two parts. The Minister is required to answer only one. But if you will allow the Minister to finish he may well answer the first part of that question. 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: In June 2012 the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority asked valuers to value 4136 properties in the red zone. This was a land valuation. The valuation came in on a per-property base at about $2600 per property. On that basis the 50 percent offer for those properties based on the 2007 rating valuation is extremely generous. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. As I said before he answered the second part of my question. The first part of my question he has now not addressed at all which is “Will he extend—” 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! The difficulty as I explained to the member is that if you put two parts to a supplementary question the Minister is required to answer only one part and the Minister has done that. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I seek leave to table an email from Rebecca and Shane McLean and who now live in Te Atatu South who had an empty section in Brooklands and who have been absolutely gutted after waiting— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The member has described it sufficiently for the House. Leave is sought to table that email. Is there any objection? There is objection. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I seek leave to table the letter of offer that Shane McLean received from the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority on 17 January— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: That is sufficiently described—a letter of offer from Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to a constituent. Is there any objection to that letter being tabled? There is not. It may be tabled. 









Document by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I seek leave to table the letter that I have written to the Controller and Auditor-General making a detailed series of complaints about the residential red zone offers. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table a letter from the Hon Lianne Dalziel to the Auditor-General on this matter. Is there any objection? No objection. 









Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.