Pham LanLAN PHAM (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. Everyone has a right to—and deserves access to—clean safe water. Unfortunately past decisions and political inaction has meant that that is not currently the case for many of our communities across Aotearoa. Our waste water and stormwater networks and systems need to be designed and managed responsibly so as not to damage and degrade our environment and in a way that is integrated with the actual environment in which the infrastructure sits and in a way that upholds Te Mana o te Wai. Again past decisions and political inaction mean for so many of our communities and for te taiao—our environment—that is not the case.These are the basic issues of what the water service reforms were seeking to address. The repeal of these bills today is definitely getting us somewhere. It's getting us back but not on track like this Government purport to be doing. It's taking us backwards away from our water service and environmental goals. The Minister just talked about flexibility for local government. What I see and what we see is that he and his Government are dishing out uncertainty for local government right at a time when they are consulting on what is often the most important conversation they have with their communities in their entire term: their long-term plans. Ultimately councils will then be faced with putting in place higher rate rises meaning higher costs for households who are already stretched to the limit.Investment in water services matters and it is urgent especially in this climate-impacted world. As droughts flooding and other pressures become more common water infrastructure needs to be resilient to climate change—again something that becomes further out of reach with not only this repeal today but with the Government's reckless repeal of the Spatial Planning Act which would have provided a much more integrated approach to water service infrastructure and land-use planning that we so desperately need. Water is a taonga and hapū have always exercised kaitiakitanga over water. As we face the challenge of improving our water infrastructure and a changing climate iwi hapū and whānau should have a governance role that recognises kaitiakitanga and whakapapa connections to wai.Whatever this Government proposes ahead—and we don't yet know what that is—we strongly support effective co-governance for management of water. However given both the Government's response to these bills passing in the first place and their current proposals that threaten Te Tiriti and the rights of iwi Māori we have significant concerns about the coalition Government's fear-mongering approach to co-governance—or given we live in Aotearoa New Zealand under Te Tiriti one might more accurately call it governance. The Green Party wants to see us grow up and move forward as a country with a management approach that embraces Te Mana o te Wai and that leads entities that deliver genuine partnership with local iwi and hapū.The legacy of our under-investment in water infrastructure is significant not just for our people but for our environment too. This Government's approach of repealing these reforms under urgency is yet another missed opportunity taking us further away from community resilience further away from protecting our environment and further away from allowing Kiwis access to their most basic rights of safe affordable reliable water. The Green Party will once again be pushing to not let these immensely important fundamentals be overlooked. Thank you.