and compliance programmes and be obliged to
obliged to report suspicious activities. While this
will mean extra cost the new regime is seen
as an essential tool in the fight
against money laundering and terrorist financing.
My
My question is to the Minister for the
My question is to the Minister for
moratorium on bottled water exports, in response to a 15,000
strong petition and nationwide rallies
on water issues taking
petition and nationwide rallies on
No.
No. Bottled water exports last year totalled 9 million litres out of New
Zealand's annual water resource of
500 trillion litres. It amounts to
one litre being exported in over 50
million or
one litre being exported in over 50
an bottled water exports to address water shortages makes
about as much sense as a mora or the yum
on tricycles to solve
New Zealand's traffic problems.
tricycles to solve New Zealand's
Thank you more mansplaining. Order! I didn't hear the start but there
clearly was one that
caused my
member will start is the question again.
member will start is the question again. Is there a contradiction
in areas such as Hawke's Bay
and Canterbury where people have had to
buy bottled water to ensure
that what they give their
schirn safe, essentially paying a private
company for what should be free and
available to them
for what should be free and
essentially paying a private company for what should be free and
at the water issues in Canterbury or Hawke's Bay the amount of water
taken for bottled party exports is
so minuscule that it is absolutely
irrelevant to any sensible
discussion about improving New
Zealand's water management. There
are issues of infrastructure for
some councils, which are at the core
of the inquiry at Hawke's
Bay that shows that the Green Party
is exactly on the wrong
track to addressing the issues. Point
of order, Mr Speaker. Point of order.
I did appreciate the minister's answer
but he didn't
address the question about whether
about whether people should have to pay for this water. He talked about
a lot of other important issues.
Very definitely the question was
about whether there
was a contradiction. You
contradiction. You didn't ask whether the people should pay, the
member definitely addressed the
question that was asked. Why
has this Government not yet adopted New
Zealand First's policy announced
over a year ago of
imposing a
Order! I've spoken. Order. The member will resume his see. I have
spoken very severely to
some members to my Left. I'm now giving exactly
the same warning to members on
my Right and if I
see continued interjection coming from any
member that I'dfy that person will also
be leaving the Chamber. Richard Prosser
to start his question again. Why has
this Government not yet adopted
New Zealand First's policy
announced over a year ago of imposing a
royalty on every litre of
water exported from this country with at
least
exported from this country with at
returned to the region from where the water was sourced. Yes,
I did see a proposal
from the New Zealand First party to charge
all water users 10 cents per litre. Now
noting it takes 400 litres
to produce a litre of
it takes 400 litres to produce a
Order! Dr Smith will resume his seat. The minister is not
permitted to outline another
party's policy, particularly when that policy that
he just said was deceitful,
not a fact and he can't
he just said was deceitful, not a
question was very definitely why hasn't the Government
adopted a New Zealand First policy. That was the
question that was asked Order! That
is the question I now want
to hear the answer to. A cost of 10 cents a
litre would amount to
the answer to. A cost of 10 cents a
charged for our dairy industry and no, this Government does not want to
wipe out New Zealand's most
important export sector.
What
What steps has this Government taken to ensure better management of
New Zealand's fresh water
and what advice has he seen on
Zealand's fresh water and what
The two significant steps our Government has taken is to require
all councils to set minimum flow
rates in our waterwears and we
introduced compulsory metring. This
has seen the volume of water taken
measured, increase
has seen the volume of water taken
significant number of red zone catchments where
catchments where no further extractions are allowed. Three
quarters of the water taken in
New Zealand is used for
irrigation, about
Zealand is used for irrigation,
stock water. The portion taken for bottled water is less
than a thousand of
bottled water is less than a
understand the frustration many New Zealanders feel as water in rivers,
lakes and aquifers is being siphoned
away for commercial use, including
irrigation and water bottling at
no actual cost to the user but massive
cost to communities and the
environment that also
depend upon
1.6 million of them, have access to water for their own use,
for which they only pay for the cost of
the reticulation, not the use. If
parties opposite want to start
imposing new taxes on the
use of water, where are they going to
Does
Does the minister understand that not taking action to
prevent Prof tearing from our water is the
final straw for many New
Zealanders who have put up with water restrictions,
polluted swimming holes, dry up,
over allocated rivers and
boiled water
over allocated rivers and boiled
want to see issues like the problems in Hawke's Bay that the member
associated with
associated with intensive dairying, actually the evidence before
the inquiry has shown that it is, in
fact, sheep and
secondly
poor maintenance by the council of its well. I think that member owes
the dairy industry an apology.
its well. I think that member owes the dairy industry an apology. Not
very sorry. How will the Government
support the rights of iwi and hapu,
such as Nete tana to protect the
springs if the Government insists on
allowing our water to go
given away for
allowing our water to go given away
respect to those springs, I'm considering a water
conservation order because it is my view
that that
order because it is my view that
spring is one that needs to be protected and I have meetings
on Friday with local iwi in that
respect. It may be interesting
that the bill to be debated when
question time finishes actually
ensures Maori have a more effective role in the
selling of springs like lose
in Pupu springs, supported and advocated
by the Maori Party but I
note, opposed by every
by every other party in the parliament. I wonder why. Will
the minister support the Green
Party position that those making a profit
from water should have to
pay for the right to use it and prove
that their commercial use
is actually
Government's water reforms we have a technical advisory
technical advisory group that is looking at the questions
of both allocation and charging. We do think
that there is potential
for improvement but I point out to the
member, say in
my own constituency, where you have a bottled water plant
established by a couple of guys who
were made redundant from
Solid Energy, next
were made redundant from Solid
make soft drink, just along the road from a beer plant and both
the
use more water than the bottling water company. We need to ensure
that any steps we take are fair to
all users.
My
My question is to the Minister for
confidence that his leadership of Te Puni Kokiri and
its programmes are resulting in the best outcomes
for
I believe that nouslands of Farne you up and