Watts SimonSIMON WATTS (National—North Shore): Thank you very much Mr Speaker for the opportunity to take the final call in this general debate this afternoon. And how timely it is to be able to take a call when tomorrow at 9 a.m. the Government are going to table and take us through the third reading—the third and final reading—of the Water Services Entities Bill three waters".What a saga. What a saga that has led us to the point in which tomorrow this House will go through a period and debate a bill that has failed from the start. Today in the House we had the answers to questions which were categorical in regards to whether there was an understanding around a Cabinet minute that was undertaken by Government on 30 May. That Cabinet minute said "The bill should not entrench the privatisation provisions in the bill." It was referring to the Water Services Entities Bill. And the Prime Minister particularly noted today in the House that the Minister has not acted against the instructions of Cabinet. Well well well.How do you reconcile those two statements? I ask: how do you reconcile those two statements? Because the Cabinet minute says "The bill should not entrench the privatisation provisions in the bill." That's quite specific right? I don't think that's too unclear it's not too murky—it's pretty black and white.So how did the bill go from the committee of the whole House stage back to the House with a privatisation entrenchment provision within it? And that did not breach the Cabinet instructions?Andrew Bayly: I know I know. SIMON WATTS: I mean call me old-fashioned Andrew Bayly—normally a simple man from the Waikato originally. You know I don't know. Maybe I'm just drawing a little bit too much into that.But Kiwis can see through that. And that side of the House is sitting silent. They're sitting with their heads down because they know—they know—that tricky business is at play here. Tricky business at play and not everyone can be right in regards to the statements that have been made.But tomorrow morning we will go through the third reading of this bill and we will articulate and feed back the concerns and issues and huge amount of feedback that came from across this country—more than 88000 people made submissions in regard to this bill. This is a bill that's one of the most controversial bills that has been in this House in the past two years that I've been a member of Parliament; a bill that is wholeheartedly opposed by hard-working Kiwis across this country because at its core this bill confiscates assets that should be retained and maintained in local ownership. It centralises assets; it's mega entities which have no democratic accountability.And we have seen that the Minister under urgency has attempted to put in an entrenchment clause into that legislation which goes to the heart of attacking our democracy. That is completely unprecedented. Never in the history of this House has a Government attempted to put an entrenchment provision in for public policy.But the reality is recorded in history. The reality is recorded and this Government have said they made a mistake. But a "mistake" assumes that you didn't know what was going on. I think as has been articulated by the Cabinet minute that was very clear around the entrenchment provision and the fact that there was no support for that entrenchment of the privatisation submission then something else is at play here. And I think at the end of the day Kiwis will be judged on that.Tomorrow National will reinforce our position that when we are in Government we will repeal three waters and we will repeal the Water Services Entities Bill. And that is because that is what this country is calling for and what this country deserves.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."