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Muller Todd: Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMuller Todd: Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4383. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]TODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): I rise to speak to the second reading of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill. There has got to be a quicker way of saying that.This is actually the first time I have had the opportunity to stand up and speak after David Cunliffe has held the floor with his rather wide-ranging comments. One thing I did find really interesting is that there is a bit of hypocrisy in my view—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! The member will sit. The member will withdraw that comment. You cannot use that word. I ask the member to withdraw that comment.TODD MULLER: I withdraw Mr Assistant Speaker. There is a bit of irony—irony rather than other things—that the Labour Government in its time in office had a thousand amendments without notice on environmental legislation and then whilst it was in power did nothing to protect our exclusive economic zone over 9 years. So to stand up here and have a rather interesting debate around this very very tight amendment I found very interesting and ironic and perhaps just that.This is obviously a very very technical amendment and it assists us in ensuring that our economic zone is appropriately protected. That economic zone is actually quite extraordinary. It is 21 times the size of our land mass covering over 500 million hectares in total. That is huge economic potential.Hon David Cunliffe: Come back to the bill.TODD MULLER: You are not the Speaker. There is huge economic potential and the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act enables that potential to be unlocked in an environmentally sustainable way.I very much look forward to continuing this conversation when we next debate this bill because it has had a very very interesting period through the select committee process. I think that particularly the debates we had around section 162 of the current Act and what we could do in terms of tightening clause 4 of the amending legislation which amends section 162(5) deserve quite a lot of coverage. Certainly next time we get the opportunity to continue this through I will really dive into that debate that we had amongst ourselves really when we put in that period. Should it be 6 months? Should it be 9 months? A number of us thought that the current provisions were fine. We had quite a robust debate over whether it should be 6 months or 9 months.Debate interrupted.
Mallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4370. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Just before I call the next member I do want to apologise to the last member. I had a bit of a shocker when I called him.
Mallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4368. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Jono Hayes.
Mallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4367. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Thank you. I am just going to try to correct a situation that we have got ourselves into in the absence of Government support partners who would normally take this call. The call would normally fall to the Labour Party. I think in an excess of politeness between Ms Salesa and Ms Delahunty we have ended up with a situation where one might have had Jenny Salesa having had a call but she sat down politely to let Ms Delahunty take the normal slot. So I am going to seek leave of the House for Jenny Salesa to take a call at this point. Is there any objection? There appears to be no objection.
Mallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4366. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Jenny Salesa—I call Catherine Delahunty.
Borrows Chester: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Gambling Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4357. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Sorry. It is tragic that I have to interrupt the member especially when she was on a roll but unfortunately her time has expired.
Borrows Chester: Motions — Reserve Bank—Ratification of Funding AgreementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Motions — Reserve Bank—Ratification of Funding Agreement[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4351. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: For the benefit of members I will just give a further indication that debate should address the level of funding contemplated in the agreement and its adequacy to support the bank’s activities rather than the actual activities and their wider impact on the economy. I offer you that in the interest of being an efficient Chair.
Lee Melissa: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLee Melissa: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4342. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]11.MELISSA LEE (National) to the Minister of Education: What recent appointments has she made that will support quality teaching and leadership to deliver high-quality education for New Zealand children?Hon HEKIA PARATA (Minister of Education): After a public nominations process I am delighted to announce that I have appointed nine exceptional teachers and educational leaders to the Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. I have every confidence that Barbara Ala’alatoa as the chair Anthony Mackay Claire Amos Simon Heath Ripeka Lessels Iva Ropati Lynda Stuart Professor Helen Timperley and Clare Wells will excel in their new roles of lifting the quality of teaching for Kiwi kids. I am particularly proud of the mix of experience expertise and voices we have on this council from early childhood education all the way through to tertiary education north and south male and female and Māori Pasifika and Pākehā all of whom are going to be involved in raising the quality of teaching for all of our kids. Six members hold current practising certificates. The law requires that only five hold such certificates.Melissa Lee: How will the Education Council ensure that we are delivering the best-quality education New Zealand has to offer Kiwi kids?Hon HEKIA PARATA: While continuing to establish and maintain teacher registration criteria and disciplinary matters the council will also be the thought and practice leader in relation to quality teaching from early childhood education to senior secondary education and it will be setting standards ensuring a robust appraisal system commissioning research and championing informed debate. The Education Council will be all about the quality of our education profession.
Mitchell Clayton: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Clayton: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4342. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]10.CLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First) to the Minister of Internal Affairs: Does he stand by all his statements regarding the Fire Service?Hon PETER DUNNE (Minister of Internal Affairs): Yes.Clayton Mitchell: Will he consider including voluntary organisations like Surf Life Saving New Zealand in an umbrella organisation for all emergency service providers to ensure that they receive adequate funding for the important role that they play in New Zealanders’ lives?Hon PETER DUNNE: We are currently reviewing the activities of the New Zealand Fire Service in respect of its responsibilities. I am not quite sure where Surf Life Saving fits into that particular area but if the member wants to make a submission on the Fire Service inquiry he is perfectly welcome to.
Mitchell Mark: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Mark: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4339. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]8.MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney) to the Minister of Transport: What update can he give on the Government’s Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance?Hon SIMON BRIDGES (Minister of Transport): Construction of the Pūhoi to Warkworth highway has moved I am pleased to say—very pleased to say—a step closer with the announcement by the New Zealand Transport Agency that it will finance design and build the project as a public-private partnership. The Pūhoi to Warkworth project is the first section of the Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance. This critical link will provide opportunities for economic and social development in Northland providing a better connection with Auckland for freight tourism and motorists.Mark Mitchell: What update can he provide on the Warkworth to Wellsford section of the Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: The Government is committed to completing the Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance. Options to progress the second section the stage from Warkworth to Wellsford are currently being considered as part of a wider strategy to identify a long-term programme of improvements to the entire State Highway 1 between Auckland and Northland. The Government expects to receive advice on the Warkworth to Wellsford section later this year.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Before we celebrate this magnificent news how does the Minister explain that the New Zealand Transport Agency website confirms that for the Warkworth to Wellsford section there is no start date for consultation that there is no start date for construction and that it does not have a recognised viable route past Warkworth through the Dome Valley?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Let me reassure the member that we are committed to completing the full Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance. As I say we expect to receive advice on that second portion later this year.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If any of that pledge with respect to Warkworth to Wellsford is true why would it be that the New Zealand Transport Agency website has as we speak confirmation that there is no start date for consultation that there is no start date for construction and that it has no viable route through Dome Valley?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Because I like to surprise the right honourable member.
Doocey Matt: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDoocey Matt: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4337. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]6.MATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri) to the Minister for Social Development: How will Budget 2015 help the Government meet its Better Public Services target to reduce the number of people on benefits?Hon ANNE TOLLEY (Minister for Social Development): Budget 2015 provides extra support to help more people into work and supports the Government’s Better Public Services target of a 25 percent reduction in the number of people receiving main benefits. We are committing $32.5 million in additional operating funding for a number of programmes and initiatives to ensure this. These are designed to remove barriers preventing people from working and to help them get off welfare and to thrive.Matt Doocey: What specific initiatives or programmes will receive this funding in 2015-16?Hon ANNE TOLLEY: Budget 2015 commits to funding 10000 extra places for intensive case management particularly for those with health conditions and disabilities who are at a high risk of long-term dependence. It also extends the 3K to Christchurch to other parts of the country. So far we have had 1300 people receive the payment to relocate to Christchurch since we introduced the scheme in 2014. We are funding 800 placements each year for the Limited Service Volunteer scheme to prepare young people for work and we are investing $8.6 million in new funding over the next 4 years for the out-of-school care and recreational subsidy to help families with the costs of before and after school care particularly for parents with work commitments.Matt Doocey: How does Budget 2015 build on the Government’s welfare reforms to support people off welfare and into work?Hon ANNE TOLLEY: We are making very good progress in reducing the number of people on benefits which is down by 38000 compared with 3 years ago. I think more important is that the number of children in benefit-dependent households has fallen by almost 42000 over the same period. Our welfare reforms have significantly reduced the number of people on sole parent support by almost 5500 in the last year the lowest number since 1988. The number of those on sole parent support aged 18 to 24 reduced by nearly 2000. That is 10 percent. Getting off a benefit and into employment or study reduces long-term welfare dependence and allows individuals and families to thrive.
Paraone Pita: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeParaone Pita: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4335. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]4.PITA PARAONE (NZ First) to the Minister for Māori Development: Does he stand by his statement “Ngāti Whātua has offered up a number of options to the Crown and we expect the Crown to deal with them in good faith”?Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL (Minister for Māori Development): Ā tēnā koe Mr Speaker kia ora tātau ki te mema i tuku i te pātai tēnā koe. Kai te whakaae atu au ki tāku i kōrero ai i nanahi nei ka tahi. Ka rua me pēnei rawa te whakamārama i kōrerohia tērā kōrero i raro i te korowai o taku tū ā-kaiārahi o te Pāti Māori. Ka toru i tōna mutunga kai te whakaae atu au mēnā ka hainatia tētahi kirimana i waenganui i te Karauna me ngā iwi he mana tērā me whakamana i tōna tinanatanga.[My thanks to you Mr Speaker to us and to the member who asked the question. Firstly I agree with my statement yesterday. Secondly I should explain that I made that under my co-leadership cloak of the Māori Party. Thirdly I will approve it eventually if an agreement is signed between the Crown and the tribes that is binding and must be put to effect upon its implementation.]Pita Paraone: Was he aware of the meeting between the Minister for Building and Housing and the Tāmaki Collective a month before the Budget and was he invited; if not does he believe he should have been invited to attend?Hon Dr Nick Smith: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. There was no meeting with the Minister—Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is not a point of order at all. [Interruption] Order! The question has been asked. It was a legitimate question. I am not ruling it out of order. It is over to the Minister to respond.Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: Kāore au i mōhio mō tērā hui.[I am not aware of that meeting.]Pita Paraone: Does he believe that Ngāti Whātua would be justified if they were to take court action against the Government for being denied the right of first refusal regarding Crown land?Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: Mā Ngāti Whātua mā tētahi iwi rānei rātau e kōrero.[Ngāti Whātua or some other tribe will represent them.]Pita Paraone: Does he as Minister for Māori Development believe that NgātiWhātua and other tangata whenua would be better off economically and socially if the Crown land in question were to be offered to Māori first rather than being sold to foreign owners?Hon TE URUROA FLAVELL: Mā ngā iwi tērā take e kōkiri nō rātau te whakaaro kai a rātau ngā kirimana tōna mutunga kai a rātau te kupu whakamutunga.[The tribes will lead that matter. The viewpoint is theirs they have the agreements and they will have the final say eventually.]
Bridges Simon: Business StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBridges Simon: Business Statement[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4331. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SIMON BRIDGES (Deputy Leader of the House): Next week the House is in a 1-week adjournment. When the House resumes on Tuesday 16 June the Government will look to make progress on the Committee stage of a number of bills on the Order Paper including the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Amendment Bill the Social Assistance (Portability to Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau) Bill and the Environmental Reporting Bill.
Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Legislation Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeElectronic Monitoring of Offenders Legislation Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4355. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Legislation BillFirst ReadingDebate resumed from 2 June.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Law and Order Committee.
Business StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBusiness Statement[Sitting date: 04 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4331. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Thursday 4 June 2015Mr Speaker took the Chair at 2 p.m.Prayers.Business StatementHon SIMON BRIDGES (Deputy Leader of the House): Next week the House is in a 1-week adjournment. When the House resumes on Tuesday 16 June the Government will look to make progress on the Committee stage of a number of bills on the Order Paper including the New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Amendment Bill the Social Assistance (Portability to Cook Islands Niue and Tokelau) Bill and the Environmental Reporting Bill.
Mallard Trevor: Underground Coal Mining Safety Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Underground Coal Mining Safety Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4329. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! I regret the time has come for me to leave the Chair. The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. tomorrow. The debate is interrupted and set down for further consideration next sitting day.Debate interrupted.
Williams Poto: Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWilliams Poto: Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4322. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]POTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East): Firstly I would like to acknowledge the work that Tracey Martin has done on behalf of grandparents everywhere and other kin carers. Thank you very much for that work. I am not going to take too long because I do not want to stand between you and the passing of this bill.I do want to acknowledge another person who spoke during the first reading of this bill Dr Rajen Prasad a colleague of mine who is not in the House any longer. He is a social worker extraordinaire a man who knew about the care of children and someone who was very passionate about this bill. He would be very happy to know that it is passing this evening.This bill is about the equitability of access to allowances for kin carers of children to bring them in line with the allowances for foster children. We traversed the complexity of family issues over the course of this bill but before we had Whānau Ora we had Puao-te-Ata-tu which really was the genesis of the work that went to support the original idea of kin carers some 20-odd years ago—perhaps more than that. I was talking with a colleague today; we were trying to figure out when that happened but it was some 20 years ago. It has become really what we would know as Whānau Ora today. Puao-te-Ata-tu talked about developing processes for families to take the primary role of care of their children when the parents were unable to do so when it became impossible for parents to continue with that care. Today what we are going to do is pass this legislation which will allow for those kin carers to have the same rights to allowances that other foster carers have.The only small but important blight on this is the commencement date. It is a shame that these children will not have access to these allowances before 2018. It has been well traversed throughout the House. It is the only thing wrong; it is otherwise a really fantastic bill. On that note my commendations to Tracey Martin; I commend the bill to the House.
Salesa Jenny: Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSalesa Jenny: Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4319. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JENNY SALESA (Labour—Manukau East): It is my pleasure to take a call on this bill. This bill is really close to my heart because I see so many of these families in my electorate office. Can you imagine four children who grow up in a loving family with both parents? The father is the only breadwinner in the house. This father passes away suddenly. These kids are all under the age of 5. Their mother unfortunately also passes away due to a car accident. However this bill is a great bill because what it will do is it will address the parity issue that these four children currently face. These four children who are looked after by whānau right now cannot have access to the clothing allowance that other foster children have access to. This is just not fair.Here in New Zealand there are so many grandparents who raise their grandchildren. A lot of these grandparents go to court to fight for the right to look after these grandchildren. Some of these grandchildren suffer abuse and trauma which is one of the reasons why these grandparents go to court to fight to look after them. What these grandparents are actually asking for all that these grandparents are asking for is parity with foster parents. These grandparents just want to be treated in the same fair way as foster parents.What this legislation will do—and I would like to commend and thank Tracey Martin for bringing this bill to the House—is ease the financial burden that these families face in raising these unsupported and orphaned children. What would have been a really good and caring thing for this Government to do is implement this bill this year in 2015 instead of in 3 years’ time in July 2018. Instead of say wasting Government taxes of $26 million on a flag referendum this would have been a better and more caring way of supporting our children our really vulnerable children. The Labour Party strongly supports this bill and thank you so much.
Sepuloni Carmel: Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSepuloni Carmel: Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4315. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CARMEL SEPULONI (Labour—Kelston): It is really difficult to even contemplate not supporting a bill with a title like this bill the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill. I want to commend Tracey Martin for putting this bill forward. We will get to the point tonight where we will allow for another member’s ballot tomorrow and hopefully another bill will be pulled out of the ballot that will be a compassionate bill like this one where everyone in the House is forced to—whether they like it or not—support the bill.The previous speaker Todd Muller spoke about woeful contributions. I just want to say that it is disturbing that that member would spend 10 minutes talking about thisonly so that we could avoid having a member’s ballot tomorrow because of National members’ fear that we might pull another bill like this one out of the ballot. Let us be honest that is where it is at. I am not going to speak for long because it is important that we get to that process tomorrow and Tracey Martin and other speakers in the House have done this bill justice in terms of what they had to say about it.The only two things I want to touch on are two areas about which I am personally disappointed—and I know the rest of the Labour caucus and I think the rest of the House are also disappointed—in the Government members. They are in respect of firstly the fact that those members voted down Jacinda Ardern’s Supplementary Order Paper 72 which would have included weekly pocket money and annual birthday and Christmas allowances to align all of the allowances for unsupported children and orphans with those provided to foster children under the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989. How mean-spirited of the National members not to support that Supplementary Order Paper.The second thing I want to point out is that the Government members also voted down Jan Logie’s Supplementary Order Paper 70 which would have changed the commencement date of this bill bringing it forward from 1 July 2018 to 3 months after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. Children in respect of whom an orphans benefit or unsupported child’s benefit is paid should not have to wait until 2018 to potentially benefit from this bill. Again can I just point out how mean-spirited it is of the National members not to support that Supplementary Order Paper.So although it is good that we agree in general on this bill and that we will all be supporting this bill in the House I do need to just point out those two things. How mean-spirited of the Government members not to support Jacinda Ardern’s Supplementary Order Paper and Jan Logie’s Supplementary Order Paper. I commend this bill to the House and I thank Tracey Martin for putting it forward.
Borrows Chester: Christchurch City Council (Rates Validation) Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Christchurch City Council (Rates Validation) Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4307. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Rino Tirikatene.Ron Mark: Move an extension of time.
Sio William: Christchurch City Council (Rates Validation) Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSio William: Christchurch City Council (Rates Validation) Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4299. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Su’a WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): I am happy to take a short call on this and join with my parliamentary colleagues on this side of the House particularly from the Christchurch region who will be contributing to this particular debate. I will just begin by cautioning members of the House to just control the emotion that they may feel towards the Christchurch City Council in passing this piece of legislation.The first point I would make is that this relates to technical issues that took place from 2003 to 2013. It is not necessarily the fault of the present mayor or the present councillors. The second point I would make is that we are talking about technical issues. Essentially the council had been doing the right thing except it did not cross the t’s and dot the i’s as expected by legislation. The third point I would make in just cautioning members of Parliament and particularly that side of the House is that I am somewhat sympathetic to the local government sector in our country particularly because when members of this House become scathing of the work that local government does on behalf of its constituents it seems like we are seeing them as an extension of the public sector or a Government department and that is just not the case. I think what we have got to recognise and give due respect to is the fact that local government representatives are elected by the people by their communities to serve and provide the necessary services that the local communities might ask of their local council.Fourthly I agree that retrospective legislation rates validation is something that many in this House are rather reluctant to agree with but in this case precedents have been set. I would also say that when the bill was opened up for public submissions the only organisation that made submissions to this was Christchurch City Council itself. The committee in looking at this piece of legislation made not one recommendation whatsoever to change or amend the piece of legislation. I have to say that to all intents and purposes as far as I can see for my own eyes the council has done the right thing by bringing this piece of legislation to the House to cross the t’s and dot the i’s so that it is within the laws as are required. That also raises another question: often I have heard members of the House ridicule or condemn the local government sector and I am referring mainly to the Government members and I would just ask them to be cautious and be careful with that attitude. Remember that these are people elected by the local community to represent them. It is part of our democracy. These are local governments not a Government department. I am happy to add my voice along with my colleagues in supporting this bill in the House tonight. Thank you.
Woods Megan: Christchurch City Council (Rates Validation) Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWoods Megan: Christchurch City Council (Rates Validation) Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4296. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Dr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): I am pleased to take a short call on the final reading of this local bill. I would like to acknowledge the work of the member who has just taken her seat the Hon Nicky Wagner in bringing this local bill to the House. As she said in the remarks that she made on this bill this is retrospective legislation—a way for us to fix a problem with the way rates have been struck over a period of time in Christchurch City. I share the sentiment that no one likes doing this that this really is not what Parliament envisions for itself in terms of what it wants to have as its function in our great democracy—fix up what has been an error in the way that rates were struck—but it is something that needs to be done and I would like to acknowledge that.We have had at previous readings of this bill a fair amount of criticism that has come on the councillors and on the council in terms of making this error. In fact we have had Government members being incredibly critical of the institution throughout the readings of this bill. I would just like to make the point that several times we in the Opposition have felt a certain amount of frustration about coming back into this House to play patch-up on legislation where we have pointed out those very errors at the select committee or indeed in this debating chamber. So I think that we can see that errors referred to across the House occur in this place too.What is fundamentally important about this piece of legislation what is important for us on this side of the House as Labour is valuing that relationship between central and local government. It is critical that we have strong and productive relationships between Parliament our territorial local authorities and our district councils—that local government is just that. It is where we reach our communities and where a lot of very good work is done. So I would not like to see any comments made in this House that denigrate that relationship. Labour will be supporting this bill and I am happy to commend it to the House.
Borrows Chester: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4290. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Jacinda Ardern—a 5-minute call.
Borrows Chester: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4289. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Jan Logie—a 5-minute call.
Carter David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCarter David: General Debate[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4261. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member’s time has expired.
Bond Ria: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBond Ria: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4260. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]1.RIA BOND (NZ First) to the Member in charge of the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill: What is the intention of the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill?TRACEY MARTIN (Member in charge of the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill):The intention of the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill is to place recognition in statute that an orphan is an orphan whether placed with foster parents or kin carers and that any State support should be based upon the circumstances of the child not the circumstances of the adult.Ria Bond: How will orphans and unsupported children be better off under the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill?TRACEY MARTIN: When the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill passes into law all orphans and unsupported children will be recognised equally by Government services as should always have been the case. This will bring the focus of service provision back to child-focused provision which was I believe the original intent of previous Parliaments.
Graham Kennedy: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeGraham Kennedy: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4258. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]11.Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM (Green) to the ActingAttorney-General: Will the terms of reference of the New Zealand security and intelligence review be amended to reflect the views of other legislatures which are protecting civil liberties including the United States Congress which yesterday passed the Freedom Act to end mass collection of American phone records?Hon AMY ADAMS (Acting Attorney-General): The terms of reference have been finalised and already provide for consideration of how civil liberties are protected. As required by the Act the terms direct the reviewers to consider the legislation governing the agencies and the oversight of those agencies while protecting individual rights. Furthermore as the responsible Minister has said there is no mass collection of phone records in New Zealand; therefore the issue is moot.Dr Kennedy Graham: Given that the terms of reference in fact allow for additional matters to be considered will the Government include the adoption of the Freedom Act in the United States and its implications in New Zealand?Hon AMY ADAMS: The terms of reference already contain considerable width for the reviewers to consider the appropriateness of the legislation for the agencies and their oversight but I would note that the Freedom Act in the United States has moved their regime from being far more permissive than ours to being more permissive than ours. It is hardly a model for New Zealand. It would be a backwards step.Dr Kennedy Graham: Was the Prime Minister himself not wrong to call the Snowden documents incorrect out of date and just plain wrong given that the US Congress has used those documents as a basis to pass the Freedom Act to limit the National Security Agency’s spying powers?Hon AMY ADAMS: My capacity as the Acting Attorney-General is very narrow and is simply limited to appointing the reviewers and setting the terms of reference. But I can assure you that the Prime Minister is not wrong.Dr Kennedy Graham: Why are New Zealanders being forced to accept lower levels of privacy protection given that Europe has become more transparent and that the National Security Agency has had its ability to spy hauled back?Hon AMY ADAMS: As I mentioned in my answer to the previous question my responsibilities as the Acting Attorney-General are to set up the review to appoint the reviewers and to set the terms of reference. I do not however accept any part of the member’s assertions in that question.
Dean Jacqui: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDean Jacqui: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4256. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]9.JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki) to the Minister of Local Government: What progress is being made by the Government’s Rules Reduction Taskforce?Hon PAULA BENNETT (Minister of Local Government): Excellent progress is being made by the Rules Reduction Taskforce which is identifying the loopy rules that just do not make any sense. The task force which is being run very well by that member herself has held 46 community meetings all around the country and received 844 online submissions. It is hearing from property owners business people and tradespeople who are frustrated by the bureaucratic and often petty rules that are costing them time and money. Given how successful it has been so far we have extended the deadline for submissions and I encourage people to keep submitting.Jacqui Dean: What are some of the loopy rules the task force has come across?Hon PAULA BENNETT: The task force has heard about anything from a person being told they needed to have round handled handrails rather than a square one to match the picture in the building code to one farmer who was told he had to turn his vehicle lights off at night because rare birds flew over his property despite the fact that they did not land or nest there. Although some of these rules may have been well intentioned they have ended up becoming costly frustrating and sometimes seem to have no real reason at all.Jacqui Dean: What are the next steps for the task force?Hon PAULA BENNETT: I would like the member to keep doing the great work that she is doing but also of course the most important part will be the process of getting rid of some of these rules—some that are unintentional some that have grown over time—and working closely with local councils and those bureaucrats to make sure they understand the intention of Parliament. The task force is reporting back in late August and we will be carefully considering those recommendations and then making plans forthwith.
O'Rourke Denis: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeO'Rourke Denis: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4255. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]8.DENIS O’ROURKE (NZ First) to the Minister of Transport: Does he intend to fully implement the Ten Year Turnaround Plan for KiwiRail announced by Hon Steven Joyce in 2010 to get rail working for all New Zealand to have all modes of transport working to complement each other and priced appropriately so importers and exporters have clear choices?Hon SIMON BRIDGES (Minister of Transport): I thank the member for the question. The Government is committed to the Turnaround Plan for KiwiRail. We have always been clear that it is an ambitious plan and progress for the implementation of it has been impacted on by the global financial crisis the Christchurch earthquakes and for example international commodity prices. To take account of these impacts KiwiRail has recently completed a commercial review of the business with the aim of developing a new 30 year long-term plan. As part of the new long-term plan the Government has asked KiwiRail to work with the New Zealand Transport Agency to investigate an integrated approach to transport planning and investment.Denis O’Rourke: Why will the Minister not act to accelerate Auckland’s City Rail Link project when rail patronage has increased by 22 percent in the last 12 months and the system is now facing gridlock?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: I disagree with the assertion of course. We brought the funding of that forward by a decade. But as the Prime Minister has said today in response to an earlier question we also need to be fair to the ratepayers of Auckland who will be funding a good half of it.Denis O’Rourke: When will the Minister prevent KiwiRail from de-electrifying the main trunk line from Hamilton to Palmerston North and stop it instead buying substandard diesel locomotives from China to replace the EF class electric locomotives which could be economically reconditioned in New Zealand; if not why not?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: I think that as we have heard from other Ministers in this House—the Minister for State Owned Enterprises—those are operational matters for KiwiRail which it is working through. But what we also know is that KiwiRail and rail is an environmentally sustainable solution. That is part of why we have been backing it so strongly.
Collins Judith: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCollins Judith: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4251. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]5.Hon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of Science and Innovation: How does Budget 2015 support research and innovation in regional areas?Hon STEVEN JOYCE (Minister of Science and Innovation): Budget 2015 will see the Government invest up to $25 million over 3 years to support the establishment of new privately led regional research institutes and centres outside the main centres. Regional research institutes will be funded from a mixture of public and private sources and modelled along the lines of the successful Cawthron Institute in Nelson which is a specialist not-for-profit institute for aquaculture marine biosecurity and coastal and freshwater ecology. We envisage funding a launch of up to three new institutes over the next 4 to 5 years depending on demand.Hon Judith Collins: Why will the new research institutes be located in regional areas?Hon STEVEN JOYCE: Regional economies have different resources and strengths but can lack important components to their innovation networks that help drive economic growth and regional benefit. The regional research institutes will focus on scientific research relevant to a particular region with a strong emphasis on the effect of transfer of research into new technologies new firms and new products and services. This investment in innovation growth and jobs in the regions comes alongside the Government’s $1.5 billion science spend in 2015-16 which is more than a 70 percent increase in the last 8 years.Hon Judith Collins: What other support does the Government provide to encourage innovation and investment in the regions?Hon STEVEN JOYCE: There are many things but I will pick just a few examples. The regional business partners are a network of specialist business advisers who give guidance identify opportunities and provide access to business development funding. Through New Zealand Trade and Enterprise we have developed regional investment attraction programmes to encourage new investment in the regions. Government agencies like Callaghan Innovation and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise are working more closely with local agencies through initiatives such as the Hawke’s Bay Business Hub which I helped to open last month. We are investing strongly in regional infrastructure with things like ultra-fast broadband and the Rural Broadband Initiative and with Callaghan Innovation we have established an incubator network with incubators in the main centres plus in Palmerston North Hamilton and Tauranga.
Carter David: Visitors — India—Minister of State and Goodwill Delegation to New ZealandText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCarter David: Visitors — India—Minister of State and Goodwill Delegation to New Zealand[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4245. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr SPEAKER: I am sure that members would wish to welcome Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the Lok Sabha Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and members of the Indian goodwill delegation to New Zealand who are present in the gallery. [Applause]
Visitors — India—Minister of State and Goodwill Delegation to New ZealandText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVisitors — India—Minister of State and Goodwill Delegation to New Zealand[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4245. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Wednesday 3 June 2015Mr Speaker took the Chair at 2 p.m.Prayers.VisitorsIndia—Minister of State and Goodwill Delegation to New ZealandMr SPEAKER: I am sure that members would wish to welcome Mr Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the Lok Sabha Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and members of the Indian goodwill delegation to New Zealand who are present in the gallery. [Applause]
Mallard Trevor: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4158. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Malo le soifua Jacqui Dean.
Tisch Lindsay: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4145. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call. Dr Jian Yang—5 minutes.
Tisch Lindsay: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4144. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Steffan Browning—5 minutes.
Tisch Lindsay: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4142. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call. David Clendon—5 minutes.
Tisch Lindsay: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4136. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member; her time has expired.
Borrows Chester: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 28 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4130. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call Fletcher Tabuteau—a 5-minute call.