Twyford Phil: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Twyford Phil: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 27 March 2013. Volume:688;Page:8979. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
7. 
PHIL TWYFORD (Labour—Te Atatu) 
 to the  
Prime Minister 
: Does he stand by all his statements? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister) 
: 
 Yes. 
Phil Twyford 
: Was he intentionally misleading the public to cover up his Government’s failure in housing when he said: “the Auckland Council … wants the Government to … enact the unitary plan straight away with no input and no opportunity for Aucklanders to express a view …” given that right now thousands of Aucklanders are having their say on the draft plan and once it is notified in September even if his Government allows the plan to have legal weight then the public can do it all again with the Government-appointed board of inquiry? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: No. I think there is without doubt some consultation that has taken place. A fair bit of it is in relation to the spatial plan which in terms of concepts and vision is the very fine detail and I actually do think it needs input from Aucklanders. 
Phil Twyford 
: I seek leave of the House to table a note from Auckland Council detailing all the public engagement that has so far taken place on the Auckland Plan and the Auckland Unitary Plan. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Is it a note that is available easily to other members? 
Phil Twyford 
: It is not publicly available. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Then leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There appears to be none. It can be tabled. 









Document by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
Phil Twyford 
: I seek leave of the House to table the provisions in law that guarantee the public rights of appeal even after the plan is given legal weight. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! If the member is attempting to table legislation a law an Act that is not— 
Phil Twyford 
: Yes because clearly the Prime Minister has not read— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: No that—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! That will not be put. 
Phil Twyford 
: How can his statement be true that Auckland Council is saying that it is going to intensify and pretty much go within the current metropolitan urban limits and just go straight up and “We are saying you need to go up and out”; how can that be true when the Auckland Plan says that up to 40 percent of new dwellings will be built on greenfield land? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: Because I think it does characterise if there is a difference in view the one where the Government’s belief is that there should be more greenfield sites available. And Auckland Council is largely of the view that it is intensification. 
Phil Twyford 
: I seek leave to table the section of the Auckland Plan and the Auckland Unitary Plan— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: No. Again that is something that is—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! That is something that is available to any member. 
Phil Twyford 
: The Prime Minister clearly hasn’t read it. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! That is not a necessary part of putting leave to table a document. 
Phil Twyford 
: Should Aucklanders conclude that his housing Minister has lost the plot given Nick Smith’s statement on Sunday that he and Len Brown are in the same paddock when just days earlier he was accusing Len Brown of killing the dreams of Aucklanders? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: No. I know this will come as a great disappointment to the member but actually the Government and Auckland Council are working very collaboratively on the issues in relation to Auckland. I know it will come as a great disappointment that we want to allow Aucklanders to have input into their plan. And I know this will come as a great shock but I am confident we will make great progress on both the issues of housing in Auckland and ensuring that we have a unitary plan that Aucklanders have an opportunity to express their views on. 
Phil Twyford 
: Does he agree with Kim Campbell of the Employers and Manufacturers Association who says: “The government’s proposal not to ratify Auckland’s Unitary Plan until 2016/17 will load big costs on to Auckland’s ratepayers and hold back Auckland’s growth” and how is it that this Government has got so offside with such a big cross-section of Aucklanders?  
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: No and I think the member should go and look at a few of the polls.