Grigg NicolaNICOLA GRIGG (National—Selwyn): I think the technical term for the conception and passage for these water reform bills is a cluster—a giant cluster. Here we are again for the fourth time in urgency trying to ram through—the Government sorry; we're not—bills that they say seek to reform the provision of water services in this country but in actual fact will do absolutely nothing for the provision of good quality safe water to the families and people of New Zealand.Just last week we had the passage of the Water Services Entities Amendment Bill. I'm just having to outline this a bit for anyone listening because it is really complicated and convoluted. So that was the bill that established the 10 mega-entities. Bearing in mind that's an amendment bill—that's amending a bill that actually passed just eight months ago which was then called the Water Services Entities Bill. But the Government got such blowback about it it's had to bring an entire amendment bill back to the Parliament to fix it—or seemingly so. So here we are again with the Water Services Legislation Bill. This too is effectively a Supplementary Order Paper to a bill that's previously passed—the Water Services Entities Bill—last year that we had to debate last year but they've brought 200-odd pages of amendments back to the Parliament this year because they're still trying to fix it they're still trying to make it right. I think the analogy is these guys over there trying to govern this country are trying also to build the plane while they're flying it at the same time. It's a monumental catastrophic disaster. It is a failure.This Water Services Entities Bill that we have here—sorry the Water Services Legislation Bill; it gets confusing—in front of us is about changing the status of that Water Services Entities Act that I mentioned previously and their obligations their powers and of course how they may amend their constitutions. But there's a whole lot of stuff in here that is just thoroughly confusing and out of touch.I think what's really interesting—and to be able to talk about it tonight because I really don't think the New Zealand public know much about it—is this bill brings in the provision for pricing. This is really interesting because this bill contains provisions relating to water pricing which the Government has not talked about. It is very clear now that New Zealanders when they've been told by the Government that this is about saving them money they're now having to pay for these reforms that they didn't want in the first place. But as yet we've seen no schedule for payments. We don't actually know what the ratepayers are going to be hit with when they try to get it off the ground.So too and equally as quietly they have tried to slip under the radar the schedule of penalties that this bill contains. It contains extensive provisions for penalties that include fines of $20000 for breaking a sprinkler ban—$20000 for breaking a sprinkler ban!—and $100000 for digging a hole next to a stormwater asset. Now that could include parks or sumps or stormwater drainage systems—$100000! And doesn't it beggar belief that a Government that is so soft on crime who does not arrest serious offenders does not throw the book at serious offenders is going to go out and charge $20000 for someone for watering their garden on a hot nor'west day. That's quite extraordinary.Obviously another provision in this bill is about the ownership of these water assets. Now on this side of the House we will maintain until our last breath that the people that own these water assets are the ratepayers of New Zealand who have paid for them and have built them up over generations. This bill will see the usual rights and responsibilities of the ownership transferred to these 10 megaentities these 10 unelected anti-democratic mega-entities and there is nobody there that can be held democratically accountable. We have a fundamental opposition to that. The fact that this is so anti-democratic that these people on these mega-entities have not been elected by the people of New Zealand to run the water assets that they have paid for.On that note we will continue to oppose this bill. We are in urgency probably for the next 48 hours and we will continue to build the case for National's local water done well policy. Thank you Madam Speaker.