Jones Dail: New Zealand Bill of Rights (Private Property Rights) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
Jones Dail: New Zealand Bill of Rights (Private Property Rights) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
: 
 New Zealand First will support this bill. Our policy makes it clear that: “Private ownership provides an underlying social stability—a property-owning democracy.” 
I am especially interested in the insertion of section 11B by clause 4 and the reference to Magna Carta the Great Charter of 1215 signed by King John at Runnymede. Mr Copeland is obviously referring to clause 31. The principles of property ownership and property rights are being seriously undermined at the present time in Auckland by the Auckland Regional Council and the Waitakere City Council so it is very appropriate that this legislation is now before the House. Perhaps those two councils will take some notice of it. 
I am referring to a draft bill dated 10 February 2005 which provides that the area of the Waitakere Range which has been built up since 1894 by Aucklanders to an area of 17080 hectares since the first purchase in 1894 will be extended—by way of a socialist land grab—by depriving owners of their property rights over 7000 hectares of land. All that will be without compensation but we should bear in mind that the parliamentary commissioner who reported on the issue believed there should be compensation. 
It is ironic that those private landowners concerned with property rights are prepared to support the provisions of the Resource Management Act in which plan changes and variations are dealt with. Even developers are prepared to support those provisions of the Act but the Auckland Regional Council the Waitakere City Council and this Labour Government through its members from the west Auckland area who propose to support this bill oppose proper administration of the Resource Management Act. 
New Zealand First supports the application of the Resource Management Act equally and fairly as suggested by the landowners. As this bill suggests there should be one law for all and one Resource Management Act for all. 
The Labour Party - proposed property rights bill concerning the Waitakere Range provides in clause 15 for example that a consent authority must when considering an application for a resource consent treat it as if it were a matter of national importance in relation to section 6 of the Resource Management Act. What a way to treat someone’s property rights! If one wants to alter a garage landscape a property or even put in a long drop such things would have to be treated as matters of national importance by the way in which the bill is drafted at the present time. [ 
Interruption 
] That is what Clayton Cosgrove is supporting. 
The bill would also bind the existing 17080 hectares of publicly owned land so that if the Auckland Regional Council wanted to put a walkway through that area to encourage the million or so visitors to walk through it then that walkway development would have to be the subject of resource consent and treated as a matter of national importance in terms of section 6 of the Resource Management Act. 
Gordon Copeland 
: Bureaucratic! 
DAIL JONES 
: It is an absolutely bureaucratic nightmare with no regard for property rights. The legislation before the House at the moment will go a long way to ensure that the rights of individuals are protected in property and that the socialist land grab supported by this Labour Government—with the creation of virtually a Wellington-governed park in the Waitakere Range—will not happen. As I have said before the Waitakere Range is an Auckland icon and Wellington should keep its sticky hands off it. 
Of course in so far as that property in Auckland is concerned none of the present problems would have been experienced if the Labour Government had not passed the Local Government Amendment Bill in 2002 under urgency in this House and repealed the Centennial Memorial Park Act of 1941. I ask the Labour members for that area the Hon. Chris Carter Lyn Pillay and the Hon. David Cunliffe whether they knew they were repealing something that protected the Waitakere Range when they passed the Local Government Act in 2002. I am sure that the likes of Lyn Pillay and David Cunliffe had absolutely no idea what they were doing at that time. They would not have had the faintest idea that they were depriving Auckland of the ownership of the Auckland Centennial Memorial Park when that legislation was passed. 
I make the same comment to John Tamihere who supports the removal of property rights from people in the west Auckland area whether Maori or non-Maori. It is very interesting to know that John Tamihere who is standing in that area as a member of Parliament and Dover Samuels support the removal of the rights of Maoris to land in that 7000 hectares but I am sure they will be responsible to their constituents when the time comes. As we mentioned it is really “death by a thousand cuts” for the landowners in terms of that old Sung Dynasty rule.