THREE WATERS – WE HEARD THE GOVERNMENTS SOLUTION – WHAT WOULD NATIONAL DO?
Written by John Grant on October 1, 2021
We’ve now seen the Governments plan albeit with not a lot of detail, and the determination to introduce their reforms with absolute haste. Minister Nanaia Mahuta announced in the house yesterday that the Government intended to introduce Legislation to push ahead with Three Waters. This is despite overwhelming rejection of the current concept by 63 of the 67 Councils.
Yesterday Rex Simpson spoke with National’s spokesperson on Local Government, Christopher Luxon. Previously CEO of Air New Zealand and a person many are tipping as a future leader of the National Party.
He asked what National would do to solve the water issue in this extended interview.
Des Morgan On October 2, 2021 at 1:54 pm
No wonder many National supporters are moving in mass to ACT. He doesn’t even talk about a major concern of this Bill for many Kiwis and that is ownership and the feeling that control should be owned equally by all Kiwis Maori, Pacifica Asian or European.
With the proposed regional representative board, democratic representation is undermined by the allocation of seats according to race-based groups rather than population. Also, as certain iwi claim ownership interest in water, rivers and aquifers, and with the representative power the current model gives them, it is likely that the entities will be made to pay water royalties to iwi groups.