Catchpole Brent: Consumer Protection (Definitions of Goods and Services) Bill — In Committee 
Catchpole Brent: Consumer Protection (Definitions of Goods and Services) Bill — In Committee 
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BRENT CATCHPOLE (NZ First) 
: I would like to speak on Part 2 of this bill which is the consumer guarantees part of it. I have listened to a number of speakers here tonight and water quality is one of the issues that has been raised on numerous occasions. I have to sympathise with Gerry Brownlee when he spoke of Christchurch water being far superior to any other in the country and he was concerned that Christchurch might end up with water quality like that of Auckland because Auckland might be the one that dictates the quality. 
Hon Judith Tizard 
: That’s not in the bill. 
BRENT CATCHPOLE 
: Well there is nothing in this bill that actually says that Auckland has to be the benchmark. Christchurch water might be the benchmark and I would certainly be happy to have Auckland’s water quality brought up to the same quality as Christchurch water. Because after all we are having to put up with the water coming directly from the Waikato River which has gone via Kinleith and of course Hamilton and whatever Hamilton throws into it. I know they appreciate our desire to have good-quality water. 
Apart from a comment from Gerry Brownlee about being in favour of waste water I heard a number of National MPs talking against the inclusion of waste water in this bill. I am rather concerned about that and disappointed that they have overlooked a very important issue about waste water in particular in Kawakawa Bay in the Clevedon electorate where I do a lot of work. They were promised by the Mayor of Manukau City that they would have a waste-water reticulation in place by the end of this year. They have subsequently been told that that will not now happen for another 3 years. The people out there are desperate. During the winter their septic tanks overflow and during the summer they are not allowed to swim at the beaches because the waste water flows into the water at their beaches. 
If this bill will give them some respite then I am very much in favour of it. Those people are desperate to have their waste-water system put into place by Manukau City and they need it done now. If this bill will help to do that then New Zealand First will support it because the people in Kawakawa Bay desperately need that service. We should put this bill into place and make sure it provides that service for the people of Kawakawa Bay in the Clevedon electorate. 
It is important to them and it is important to other areas. Beachlands desperately tried for years and years to get its waste-water service and it was continually put off. It has it now but Kawakawa Bay is now suffering the same fate as Beachlands did. It has been put off continually. The people out there are desperate. They cannot swim at their beaches because the beaches are contaminated. If they go swimming they will be in trouble. They will become sick. 
Hon Tony Ryall 
: They’re not going to be able to go to the beach with this Government. 
BRENT CATCHPOLE 
: Of course they are not going to be able to go to the beaches. They will be taxed on it. I come back to the bill. This bill will help the people of Kawakawa Bay and the Clevedon electorate so New Zealand First will support it.