Mentions of Auckland City Council in New Zealand Parliament debates
Auckland City Council has been mentioned in 94 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statements 4 Oct 2011
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... to either of us. We made the use of libraries and swimming pools free of charge. And later I was elected to the Auckland City Council and the Auckland Regional Authority, and president of the New Zealand Labour Party. To the extreme annoyance of many ...
Budget Debate 9 Jun 2011
Hon TAU HENARE ... but I will soon. My message to Len Brown, Mayor of Auckland City, is this: stop bleeding west Auckland dry. The Auckland City Council had the chance to bring in a rating system for all Aucklanders.
Hon TAU HENARE ... game out in west Auckland. We went to see Len Brown. We made a submission. The businesses made a submission to the Auckland City Council, and the council threw its hands up, because its members are all lefties; they do not know what to do. They threw their ...
Local Government Borrowing Bill
First Reading 17 May 2011
RAYMOND HUO ... rather than an investment statement and a prospectus signed off by all councillors of the local authority. The Auckland City Council was the only local authority to issue debt securities without an exemption being in place. The purpose of this bill ...
Third Readings 11 May 2011
Hon RUTH DYSON ... affected was squashed by the Minister. “Who gives a toss about local people?” was what National people said. Even the Auckland City Council asked for the submission deadline to be extended, and the Minister told it: “Go back to Auckland. We’re not interested.”...
General Debate 16 Feb 2011
Hon SHANE JONES ... of operation from Rodney Hide. He introduced legislation reforming, altering, and adjusting the structures around the Auckland City Council and did not vote against the inclusion of a Māori Statutory Board, a board that has turned into a fiasco. That board is ...
Valedictory Statement 14 Dec 2010
PANSY WONG ... made their views known, as accredited providers, with regard to regulation and ACC. In the establishment of the one Auckland City Council, there is a provision in the legislation to set up an Ethnic Peoples Advisory Panel. Asians now participate in the ...
Environmental Protection Authority Bill
First Reading 23 Nov 2010
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... controversial projects such as the Waterview Connection, despite requests by the Eden Albert Community Board and the Auckland City Council to have the submission period extended. These requests were deliberately ignored under the existing Environmental ...
DAVID SHEARER ... I believe that that is totally and utterly inadequate. The project has been fast tracked against the wishes of the Auckland City Council, and against the wishes of the then Eden Albert Community Board. Both were ignored, and they did not want this project ...
Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill 2010
Second Reading 17 Nov 2010
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... actually want local authorities to continue to deliver for them.” The final submission I want to quote is from the Auckland City Council Community Board Chairs Forum. Again, this is a significant group from the Auckland region. It is a committee made up of ...
General Debate 15 Sep 2010
Hon TAU HENARE ... of 82. He spent the majority of his time back in New Zealand serving his community, and he was a councillor on the Auckland City Council. So that is another serendipitous event being remembered as the Auckland super-city is happening just around the ....
Taxation (GST and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 18 Aug 2010
STUART NASH ... donee status to certain charities, the treatment of superannuation funds administered by the National Provident Fund, Auckland City Council restructuring, and the taxation treatment of emissions trading units. People will have a chance to make submissions to ...
Infrastructure Bill
In Committee 29 Jul 2010
MOANA MACKEY ... housing is an enormous issue. From the smallest council like Ōpōtiki District Council up to the biggest councils like Auckland City Council, Christchurch City Council, and Wellington City Council, councils will tell us that affordable housing is a major ....
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 29 Jun 2010
KEITH LOCKE ... important artery of Dominion Road in Auckland, and the Dominion Road priority lanes. The problem there is that the Auckland City Council, which has some control over things, is cutting back on all of that and putting things other than buses on the bus ...
Hamilton City Council (Parana Park) Land Vesting Bill
First Reading 16 Jun 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ...rk—[Interruption] National members may laugh that this would seem absolutely ludicrous, but so did the Auckland City Council when it heard that Great Barrier Island might be mined. That seems like an absolutely ludicrous suggestion on the face ...
Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau Reorganisation) Amendment Bill, Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Bill, Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 3 Jun 2010
CARMEL SEPULONI ... including Waiheke Island, she must know about the poor handling of the island’s waste management contract by the Auckland City Council, so why did she not support the amendment? My colleague Jacinda Ardern also put up an amendment that would have ...
Courts and Criminal Matters Bill 2010
First Reading 19 May 2010
MELISSA LEE ... ticket. We know how it is: one gets a parking ticket and then one panics. One thinks that one has to get to the Auckland City Council site and pay the parking ticket. I went to the website to pay my parking ticket, but it was not loaded yet. So I had to ...
Economic Development
Events, Major—Government Support 28 Apr 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... New Zealand will host a stop-over in the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race. The Government is working in partnership with the Auckland City Council to enable this to happen. The Volvo Ocean Race is a high-profile, round-the-world yacht race held ever 3 years and ...
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... the other side clearly are not. The feasibility study prepared by Covec and jointly funded by the Government and the Auckland City Council estimated the direct expenditure benefits of hosting a stop-over at $15.3 million for Auckland and a further $12 ...
Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims (Waikato River) Settlement Bill
In Committee 27 Apr 2010
Hon MARYAN STREET ... Joseph Savage memorial at Bastion Point, or Takaparawhau, in Auckland. There was a co-management model between the Auckland City Council, I think, and Ngāti Whātua. Even if this is not unique, I still consider it to be an evolutionary development of the ...
Unit Titles Bill
Third Reading 1 Apr 2010
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... Zealand, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, Crockers Strata Management, the Auckland Regional Council, and the Auckland City Council. The list goes on, and I do not want to spend the rest of the afternoon listing them because I know that members want ...
Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill
In Committee 2 Jun 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... local residents being given a voice than the people of Waiheke, and no more so than through the decision made by the Auckland City Council last year on Waiheke’s waste management. For those who do not know the story I will give some background to this 18-month...
In Committee 1 Jun 2010
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... organisations. People think that that amount of rate money will be spent in a way that is not very clear. I remember Auckland City Council making charitable payments many years ago, whereby some money would be sent “under the counter”. That was not ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... about council-controlled organisations. Currently there are 34 council-controlled organisations operating under the Auckland City Council. Many of them are very small but they are in touch. They are in touch with the grass roots, they are accountable, they ...
First Reading 15 Dec 2009
Hon JOHN CARTER ... controlled organisations”, but they are actually council-controlled organisations. They are the responsibility of the Auckland City Council. Let us understand that we are setting up an authority that goes like this: the mayor and the 20 councillors, who are ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... representation, so in our haste to make decisions on the interim and transitional provisions for the operation of the Auckland City Council from 1 November 2010, Māori representation must surely be a given. The Kahui Tautoko Consulting research concluded ...
General Debate 18 Nov 2009
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... way. That package includes, I might add, $30 million for the restoration of the Onehunga foreshore, which is a joint Auckland City Council and central government project. It will beautify the suburb of Onehunga. The Government has provided a $500 million ...
Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 9 Sep 2009
DAVID GARRETT ... in that matter; she was forced to do so—and the tree was contaminating her water supply. Alice applied twice to the Auckland City Council for permission to remove the tree, and twice she was declined. As the landowner, she knew better than anyone the ...
In Committee 9 Sep 2009
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... consent. Then the members were saying that this is a case of Parliament overruling Auckland. Well, what did the Auckland City Council submit to the select committee? The Auckland City Council submitted to the select committee that this provision was ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... he could not fell the damn thing without a resource consent. I wrote a cheque and several weeks later a man from the Auckland City Council with a clipboard came around and stared long and hard at the offending tree. Yes, he would recommend we could cut it ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... their tree. The other extraordinary point is that those members claim we are overriding the wishes of councils. The Auckland City Council, which is the largest council to be affected by these provisions, has made a submission to the Local Government and ...
Hon Dr Nick Smith Why does Auckland City Council oppose it?
DAVID SHEARER Auckland City Council could change it, if it wanted to. Manukau City Council is for it, North Shore City Council is for it, and in 2007 ...
Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme Bill
First Reading 8 Sep 2009
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE The councillor and member of Parliament on the other side of the House says “Good on ya.” I am not sure whether the Auckland City Council or the taxpayer is clipping the ticket at the moment as he double-dips over there. I thank the member for the compliment,...
Maori Affairs
Auckland, Local Government Reform—Māori Representation on Auckland Council 25 Aug 2009
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA Does he consider advisory boards a good substitute for Māori seats on the Auckland City Council, like the Hon John Key, who said: “I do not accept the view that some sort of advisory board or some sort of ...
Auckland, Local Government Reform—Māori Representation on Auckland Council 20 Aug 2009
Hon SHANE JONES ...’ll oppose that as a Minister of New Zealand’s Government”, and does he think that opposition to the Māori seats on the Auckland City Council is an example of “institutionalised racism”?
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON Many statements have been made, both for and against the position of Māori representation on the Auckland City Council. Some are more colourful than others. The Minister certainly would not rush to judgment about institutionalised racism ...
Local Government (Protection of Auckland Assets) Amendment Bill
First Reading 19 Aug 2009
Dr JACKIE BLUE ... no need. Significant protections, particularly around water services, parks, and property, are already granted to the Auckland City Council. The council is guided by detailed consultation provisions and principles that it must follow when making decisions. In ...
Urgent Debates - Ministry of Social Development—Job Cuts
Ministry of Social Development—Job Cuts 1 Jul 2009
SUE BRADFORD ... This is not an Enterprising Communities programme, but it is a scheme that is sadly going under because of the Auckland City Council decision to transfer out that contract. But these sorts of community programmes that do really good work, in this ...
Budget Debate 16 Jun 2009
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... happy to report that State Highway 20 and the Onehunga foreshore development will go ahead. This Government and the Auckland City Council, and, to a lesser extent, our friends at the Auckland Regional Council, have put together a plan to develop that ...
Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill
Third Reading 17 Sep 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... I have heard mentioned the name Sam Lotu-Iiga, the member for Maungakiekie. Sam Lotu-Iiga was also elected to the Auckland City Council for the Maungakiekie ward on a first-past-the-post basis. I would like to comment briefly on the contribution made by ...
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... has sought advice from wise heads. We look to lose a lot if we lose that kind of spirit. In contrast with that, the Auckland City Council has not been a shining light of cultural respect towards tangata whenua. From the community board level, where in many ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... calls to do so. I have pages and pages of submissions from groups—everything from, starting at A, Andrew Body Ltd, Auckland City Council, Cheryl Backstrom from Parnell Trust, Waitakere Enterprise, Peter Buchanan—the list goes on and on. People rose up and ...
H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... a real concern. I have witnessed it firsthand. I have seen how the people of Ōtāhuhu are treated under the current Auckland City Council, and I can judge that. I have been a member of Parliament for 22 years now, with most of them spent in the Manukau East ...
H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... in Ōtāhuhu, the first in many, many years, and what happened? It was totally ignored. It was totally ignored by the Auckland City Council. If the council does that to Ōtāhuhu now, what will it do when it controls all of Auckland? We have a real concern ...
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... being mentioned this afternoon, and he is in the Chamber. He is another Pacific Islander, and he was elected to the Auckland City Council for the ward of Maungakiekie. Mr Darren Hughes may not be aware of this, but the members of the select committee went ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... and the member of Parliament in the Chamber. He is uniquely qualified to talk about the rearrangement of the Auckland City Council because that is what he does for a living—he plays musical chairs. In all seriousness now, the issue at the heart of ...
CARMEL SEPULONI ... that National and ACT stand for. One example of that is that when he became Auckland mayor, we saw positions in the Auckland City Council, like that of the Pacific librarian, suddenly changed—in that case, to the position of new migrant librarian. As a ...
CARMEL SEPULONI ... body counterparts who are in the National Party or the ACT Party. They include people like the Deputy Mayor of the Auckland City Council, David Hay, who opposed giving additional funding to the Pasifika Festival in Auckland earlier this year. Those people ...
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... Energy Consumer Trust. I come now to Carmel Sepuloni. What did she say? She referred to the fact that in the Auckland City Council the Pacific librarian has been changed to the new migrant librarian, and she takes exception to that. She said that as ...
CAROL BEAUMONT ... whom reputedly he represents, the people of the Maungakiekie electorate—and in the Tamaki-Maungakiekie ward of the Auckland City Council. In the course of doing those jobs, the member concerned receives two salaries, some of which may or may not be donated,...
Hon Darren Hughes I raise a point of order, Mr Chairperson. I fully respect the fact that the Standing Orders of the Auckland City Council are different from those of Parliament and that the member has to try to follow both, but a member cannot possibly ...
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
SUE BRADFORD ... For example, we were told during the select committee hearings that no Māori person has ever been elected on to the Auckland City Council in its entire history. What an indictment on the voting processes used to date, and on the power of Pākehā wealth and ...
... Council. It was Mr Northey who raised the lousy record of Auckland voters in electing only eight Māori to the Auckland City Council throughout its long, 138-year history. I can say, because I am a teacher, that that is an average of one Māori ...
... people saying to Māori: “Sorry, you don’t have a voice. You don’t have a say. ” We are meant to be grateful that the Auckland City Council has had one Māori city councillor every 17 years. I can almost hear people saying: “What are you Māori moaning about? ...
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS He is Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga, and he is one of the strong, silent types. He is very silent, but he is also on the Auckland City Council. I thought he would have had a big part to play in this debate. He would have seen it from both sides. But, no, we have ...
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... what her community thinks. The member for Maungakiekie at the moment does not say a thing. He says very little at the Auckland City Council meetings when he bothers to attend them. He has worked out how many meetings he has to go to in order to collect his ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... saw Ngāti Whātua generously allowing publicly accessible land at Bastion Point to be jointly managed by them and the Auckland City Council. Some years later they gave a 50 percent discount on ground rent to allow the building of the Vector Arena. I make ...
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... Māori councillors in Auckland City local government, particularly mana whenua councillors. Auckland has had an Auckland City Council since 1851 and there has never been a Ngāti Whātua councillor in any of those 158 years. To the best of our knowledge ...
Second Reading 15 Sep 2009
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... expressed so clearly, Māori political representation signifies progress; eight Māori councillors elected on to the Auckland City Council in the last 150 years does not. Māori political representation is not only consistent with current provisions in the ...
In Committee 15 Sep 2009
Hon JOHN CARTER ... then look and ask what the current functions of the Papakura District Council are, and what current functions the Auckland City Council carries out on behalf of Waiheke Island. These are the sorts of questions that Sue Bradford asked in the select ...
First Reading 16 May 2009
HONE HARAWIRA ... in the wash-up, Ngāti Whātua would choose not recrimination, accusation, and blame, but would actually invite the Auckland City Council itself to share in the management of Takaparawhau, which remains to this day a jewel in the crown of the city of ...
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... has already been made. But here is the other concern: eight meetings are being held in the area of the current Auckland City Council, and the fear and concern we have is that these meetings are campaign meetings for John Banks by this Government. In ...
CAROL BEAUMONT ... things regionally. There is no doubt about that. I might also say that there is a lot of discontent about the Auckland City Council in particular. Under the current mayor, the Citizens and Ratepayers - dominated council is arrogant, and it fails to ...
Hon Clayton Cosgrove I am seeking to find out whether the Auckland City Council ratepayer or the taxpayer is paying the bill for this member’s speech.
Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau Reorganisation) Bill
In Committee 16 May 2009
MOANA MACKEY ... can be expected to be passed by November 2010. I think it is a great leap of faith for the women who work for the Auckland City Council to say: “That’s all right. Mr Brownlee is so much in control of the House that this will not be a problem and the ...
In Committee 15 May 2009
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... takes into account. These amendments are so designed because Auckland Council has a connotation, like the current Auckland City Council has. Our amendments are designed so that people in Auckland know that this is a new authority, much like when we moved ...
(5)The Auckland City Council shall also be known as the Auckland Supercity Proposal until 10 October 2010.
In Committee 14 May 2009
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... I ask Nikki Kaye how happy she will be during the next election to go out there and defend the abolition of the Auckland City Council. Rates will have gone up by $700 to $1,000 to pay for the transition costs. In Part 2 that cost is written off. I say ...
DARIEN FENTON ... member for Maungakiekie is sitting over there—he has not said very much. The Citizens and Ratepayers members on the Auckland City Council do not give a toss about those people, and that is what we will see under this one Auckland Council. In the last 2 ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... Government Minister? He stood over Parliament and said that unless the Government bought social housing off the Auckland City Council, it would flog it off or raise rents. Those are the sorts of excesses that can be carried out by inappropriate mayors ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... something! The only way in which Councillor Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga will focus on his real job is if we disestablish the Auckland City Council. There are actually some good things to say about this bill. The establishment of the Auckland Council is the ...
In Committee 14 May 2009
HONE HARAWIRA ... the last little bit of land they owned, Bastion Point, they offered to share the management of that land with the Auckland City Council. For that reason, because of the willingness of the tangata whenua of Auckland to continue to share that city and to ...
Second Reading 14 May 2009
H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... city? Yesterday I received a media statement from Richard Northey and a few others about what had happened with the Auckland City Council: “At today’s Auckland City Council Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee … councillors consigned two more free ...
H V ROSS ROBERTSON It cannot because of the Auckland City Council, I say to Mr Carter, which will not do a thing about it.
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... Hill Borough Council, and a number of other borough councils within the isthmus were put together to form the current Auckland City Council. At the time there was opposition to such reforms similar to that heard today. In fact, one of the opponents lived in ...
DARIEN FENTON ... Auckland, South Auckland, the North Shore, Rodney, and central Auckland. Of course, the great councillor from the Auckland City Council, who is also an MP, is far more interested in attacking a very, very good and dedicated councillor, who has given years ...
General Debate 13 May 2009
CARMEL SEPULONI ... - Waterview area and meet community groups, despite their requests. Community groups support the tunnel, as does the Auckland City Council’s transport community. Who does not support the tunnel? Business lobbyists and the National Government. The National ...
Eden Park Trust Amendment Bill
Second Reading 19 Aug 2009
MELISSA LEE ... of this bill; it is a catalyst for investment in regional transport and infrastructure. I know that already the Auckland City Council is investing in the widening of roads and fixing of walkways to facilitate the movement of the large numbers of ...
First Reading 6 May 2009
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... in terms of enjoying what is a very iconic piece of real estate in Auckland. I must acknowledge the role of the Auckland City Council—Mayor Banks and his council—in also working with central government to provide for the facilities around the park as we ...
General Debate 29 Apr 2009
Hon SHANE JONES ... other National MP has to follow that double-dipping episode—that is, Sam Lotu-Iiga. He needs to stand down from the Auckland City Council and stop being a lion at home and a lamb in the House. He is the very man who has a mandate to be on the Auckland City ...
Prime Minister
Mining in Conservation Areas—Prime Minister’s Statements 23 Mar 2010
Hon Phil Goff Will the Government override the protection that the Auckland City Council has given Great Barrier Island as an area where, under its district plan, mining is a prohibited activity?
Prime Minister—Statements 28 Apr 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... what came out from the royal commission was a situation where it supported a regional-wide body in the form of Auckland City Council. That has been carried forward by the Government. The Government does believe there should be more democracy at a lower ...
Hon JOHN KEY ... aware. I am also aware that the royal commission’s report, which forms the main body of the regional structure of the Auckland City Council it has proposed, has been adopted by the Government. I am also aware that there is a select committee process where ...
Hon JOHN KEY No. The reason for that is that the Auckland City Council will be well represented and will have those region-wide activities. The aim is for the second tier, whatever its ...
Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
KEITH LOCKE ... has been almost a delegation of police functions to people who are not the police. A month ago there was a case at an Auckland City Council meeting where a person who goes along to those meetings quite regularly and who speaks out vigorously, sometimes not ...
Urgent Debates - Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response
Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response 8 Apr 2009
RAHUI KATENE ... the new Māori names used by the commission being suggested starting points for consideration. It recommended that the Auckland City Council should comprise 23 councillors, with two councillors elected at large by voters on the Māori electoral roll and one ...
Urgent Debates - Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response
Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response 8 Apr 2009
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... will deliver high-quality services and a city that Aucklanders will be proud of. We are following the vision of the Auckland City Council, which is that Auckland will be the first city of the Pacific. So this issue is about changing the system of governance ...
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA Carmel Sepuloni knows that it is true, and I have the emails to prove it. One council—the Auckland City Council—funds that festival, and the other councils just ride on the back of it. We can see that by having one council we will ...
Building Amendment Bill (No 2) 2008
First Reading 10 Mar 2009
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... Different councils charge different fees for project information memoranda, but, to provide one specific quote, the Auckland City Council charges $241 for a stand-alone project information memorandum. The Building Amendment Bill (No 2) will instead make it ...
Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill 2008
First Reading 5 Mar 2009
Hon Dr RICHARD WORTH ... land that is currently part of the park. I understand that there is now a difference of view on this item between the Auckland City Council, which requested it, and the Auckland Regional Council, but maybe that is a matter best resolved at the select ....
SUE BRADFORD ... policies originally put in place to protect urban green space. I agree with those submitters in their call for the Auckland City Council to look for an additional site for an adjunct art gallery, and not to take any land from Albert Park for the art ...
Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2007
Third Reading 3 Jul 2008
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... in that respect. When asked at the committee, I think the best response came from one of the councillors on the Auckland City Council. His answer was brilliant. He said: “Well, that was then; this is now.” I have to say that my “gast” was completely “flab...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... not demanding that we keep it? Well, it is because the world has moved on. That was then and this is now. As the Auckland City Council transport chairman said—I think he might be closer politically to Mr Williamson than he is to me—that was then and this ...
Finance
State-owned Enterprises—Government Policy on Sale or Retention 15 Apr 2008
R Doug Woolerton ...olders’ hands will ensure the continued flow of revenue in the order of $101.9 million to the Manukau City Council, the Auckland City Council, and New Zealand individual shareholders, rather than to the Canada Pension Plan?
Housing
Housing—High-need Communities 5 May 2009
Hon PHIL HEATLEY ... of Pacific Island Affairs and Te Puni Kōkiri, which are involved along with the Auckland Regional Council, the Auckland City Council, local iwi, and stakeholders.
Housing Affordability—Hobsonville Development 3 Apr 2008
Hon Ruth Dyson ... Christchurch local authorities that the member Phil Heatley referred to in his previous supplementary question the Auckland City Council, which required central government to buy out its previously publicly owned houses to ensure the security of tenure of ...
Summary Offences (Tagging and Graffiti Vandalism) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 19 Jun 2008
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... worked on this issue. Obviously, Manukau City Council has been at the forefront, but so have Waitakere City Council, Auckland City Council, and especially one small council very close to home called Papakura District Council. Papakura’s mayor goes out at ...
Second Reading 20 May 2008
RON MARK ... local government sector was strongly represented by the Manukau District Council, the Christchurch City Council, the Auckland City Council, the Papakura District Council, the Waitakere City Council, to name a few; other councils included those from Wanganui, ...
First Reading 21 Feb 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... silly to actually go out there and do it. Another person I want to pay credit to is Rob Shields, who works for the Auckland City Council in my area. He has built up a huge data bank of taggers. He works closely with the police. We have intelligence-led ...
Transport
Waterview Connection—Progress 9 Apr 2009
Hon Darren Hughes Can the Minister of Transport tell the House what of his actions lead the Auckland City Council transport chairman to say that the Government was disingenuously lumping in a lot of costs on the tunnel option that ...
Auckland—Northern Busway 20 Feb 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING Transit New Zealand and its regional partners Auckland City Council, the Auckland Regional Council, the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, and North Shore City Council yesterday ...
Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill
Third Reading 4 Sep 2008
PHIL HEATLEY ... that have serious affordability problems: Christchurch, Nelson, Queenstown, Auckland, and Wellington. Interestingly, Auckland City Council and the councils in South Auckland, mainly, and also North Shore City Council do not want a bar of the legislation. ...
First Reading 13 Dec 2007
SUE BRADFORD ... Lakes District Council for its progressive and far-sighted efforts. I contrast these with the attitude of the new Auckland City Council, which seems to have the opposite approach, despite Auckland also having one of the biggest problems with unaffordable ...
Auckland Domain (Auckland Tennis) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 18 Jun 2008
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... on the edge of the Auckland Domain in the Auckland Central electorate. It has been owned, of course, by the Auckland City Council since 1893 and is held in trust by the council on behalf of the people of Auckland for their recreation and enjoyment. ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... as Waipapa. This history of the tangata whenua relationship with tennis, with the Auckland Domain, and with the Auckland City Council should have been canvassed well before this bill made it to the House. The requirements under the Local Government Act ...
First Reading 21 Nov 2007
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... Bill be now read a first time. It is my pleasure, as MP for Auckland Central, to move this bill at the request of the Auckland City Council. The Auckland Domain (Auckland Tennis) Amendment Bill is a local bill that seeks to amend the Auckland Domain Act 1987. ...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... the forefront of global advertising—are looking for the best possible venues. So Auckland Tennis and, indeed, the Auckland City Council, have been faced with a real challenge. The facilities were improved some 20 years ago, but, to be honest—and this is ...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... cities that counts when people think of the Asia-Pacific region. If we do not support this bill—if we do not assist Auckland City Council and Auckland Tennis to make the steps they need to make—we are at risk. My concern when I raised the issue of the Rugby ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE This Auckland Domain (Auckland Tennis) Amendment Bill deals with the Auckland City Council. As the member of Parliament for Maungakiekie I represent an electorate that is in Auckland City, unlike the members ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... its people. I thought it was important to take the call, because I was a little aggrieved at the way in which the Auckland City Council lawyers went about this process. I first heard about the bill on 21 September, after it had been drafted and when it ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... The necessity for this bill is pretty simple. After I received the original notification I wrote to the lawyers for Auckland City Council and said: “Well, you sent me this bill. I have read it. It doesn’t really tell me why you want to have this lease.” It ...
SUE BRADFORD ... that came to the Green Party on this. If there was any information that came to the Green Party, I am unaware of it. Auckland City Council seems to be unaware that all parties in this Parliament, not just the major parties, need to be informed about bills ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... with the little yellow ball to remind us all that even on an issue like extending the terms of the lease that Auckland City Council will grant to Auckland Tennis Inc. from 21 years to 50 years, it should automatically be presumed that Māori will have ...
Building Amendment Bill 2007
In Committee 20 Nov 2007
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... is relevant to the proposed building work. It is designed to act as a big issue. This is made utterly clear by the Auckland City Council. It says that the project information memorandum is designed as a big issue to filter covering areas such as land ...
Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 13 Nov 2007
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... only the vice-chancellors but also the New Zealand Law Society, the National Council of Women of New Zealand, and the Auckland City Council, to name just a few of the submitters who were deeply concerned by Labour’s trampling—trampling—over academic freedom ...
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill
In Committee 20 Feb 2008
JOHN HAYES ... The Queenstown Lakes District Council has to operate under the same rules as the Auckland Regional Council, the Auckland City Council, and the collection of councils in the Auckland area. It seems to me that if the people living elsewhere in this ...
Second Reading 19 Sep 2007
DARIEN FENTON ... it had its origins as a protected area way back in 1895, when the Crown vested 1,900 hectares of forested land in the Auckland City Council as reserves for the purpose of recreation and the conservation of native flora and fauna. The parkland was rapidly ...
Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill
Third Reading 27 Aug 2008
JOHN CARTER ... Every local authority that came before the select committee opposed this legislation, with the exception of the Auckland City Council. The Auckland City Council supported it out of its own self-interest. It supported it on the basis that if this bill ...
JOHN CARTER Well, members opposite are saying that it may not be so, but we will wait and see. That was the basis on which the Auckland City Council actually supported the legislation. But the worry is—
JOHN CARTER ... OK, the member might say it is not fair and it is not true, but that was the text of the submission. The fact is the Auckland City Council was pleased to see that other local authorities, and citizens within those local authorities who receive the benefit of ...
MOANA MACKEY ... of these organisations. It certainly is appreciated. I thought that the comments from the National Party about the Auckland City Council were incredibly unfair. I want to just quickly bring to the attention of the House the analysis of some of this ....
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... little bit does matter. It is also noteworthy that the territorial local authorities, with the exception of the Auckland City Council, were not in favour of the bill. Some members may recall that when this bill was introduced I said that the proper ...
DAIL JONES ... clear that currently the Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill is opposed by all Auckland councils except the Auckland City Council. New Zealand First makes it clear to the people of North Shore that we want to make sure that their rates stay down, we ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... and that it is generous. We are lucky that the Lion Foundation is there and that it is generous. I congratulate the Auckland City Council, because I think it has done good. It has taken a big share of the burden—a bigger share than it probably deserved—and ...
First Reading 19 Sep 2007
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... to mayors and councils affected by the fact that the membership of this regional amenities club was determined by an Auckland City Council - appointed panel. It could be argued that the issues have been fully researched, and certainly some detailed ...
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... Those constituent local authorities are Rodney District Council, North Shore City Council, Waitakere City Council, Auckland City Council, Manukau City Council, Papakura District Council, and Franklin District Council. Two of those councils, Rodney and ...
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... organisations’ time and money. They should get on with the services they provide, and all councils, including Auckland City Council, would contribute more than at present. Any new organisations coming into the funding arrangement in the future would ...
First Reading 19 Sep 2007
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... niggardly in their response. I have to extract one local council in Auckland from that accusation and say that the Auckland City Council has routinely and generously supported regional institutions, for an awfully long time. I want to assure the House, ...
Securities (Local Authority Exemption) Amendment Bill
In Committee 1 Apr 2008
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... the select committee process he would be aware of them. I am sure he will recall that his own local council, the Auckland City Council, his own regional council, the Auckland Regional Council, Local Government New Zealand, the Society of Local Government ...
DAVE HEREORA ... about some of the submitters who came to us and some of the comments they raised. Submissions were received from the Auckland City Council, the Auckland Regional Council, Local Government New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers, and ...
In Committee 1 Apr 2008
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... will remember those days when a number of local authorities in New Zealand issued local government stock, and the Auckland City Council was certainly to the fore in that. That day will come again with the passage of this change to the Securities Act—legisla...
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... 1998 changes were made to the law that made it very difficult for councils to issue debt securities, and only the Auckland City Council issued debt securities to the public after that. It issued $120 million in March 1999 and $68.2 million in February ....
Second Reading 19 Mar 2008
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... fact that only one local authority was involved in debt raising under that new regime. That local authority was the Auckland City Council, which issued debt securities to the public—$120 million in March 1999 and $68.2 million in February 2001. Very ...
First Reading 12 Sep 2007
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... had the effect of seeing local authorities withdraw from the public debt securities market. Only one local authority—Auckland City Council—has issued debt securities to the public since that time. That has occurred because the costs associated with preparing ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... disclosure regime prevents them from being able to raise funds to fund capital works. Currently, apart from the Auckland City Council, councils are limited to raising funds by borrowing from financial institutions and also, of course, through hikes in ...
Manukau City Council (Control of Graffiti) Bill
Second Reading 27 Jun 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF ... regard to its rapid removal of graffiti. It is spending $1 million a year—as are the Waitakere City Council and the Auckland City Council—in cleaning graffiti off property. If we look at the wider effort, we see that the cost runs into millions of dollars. ...
Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Easter Trading) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 16 May 2007
STEVE CHADWICK ... presented in June 2006. At the Local Government New Zealand conference in July 2005—so it is some surprise that the Auckland City Council does not know about this bill—a remit was passed unanimously in support of an amendment to the Shop Trading Hours Act ...
Second Reading 16 May 2007
DARIEN FENTON ... authorities and they have said to me that this is not a responsibility they want to take on. The letters from the Auckland City Council and the Waitakere City Council make it clear that those bodies do not support the bill. They urge us to cherish the ...
Auckland Issues
Greater Auckland Council—Establishment 13 Jun 2007
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... The Auckland waterfront is jointly owned by Ports of Auckland Ltd, which is owned by Auckland Harbour Holdings, the Auckland City Council, and private owners. There has been significant discussion chaired mainly, I think, by the Auckland City Council on the ...
Auckland Issues, Minister—Vibrancy of City 15 Mar 2007
Rodney Hide In light of the Minister’s work with the leaders of Auckland, does she believe that the Auckland City Council’s plan to ban billboards from the central business district encourages Auckland to be a vibrant city; if so, what is ...
Rodney Hide Noting the Minister’s judicious use of her powers of commentary, is she concerned that the actions of the Auckland City Council to ban businesses from advertising in the central business district will overturn property rights and cost the local ...
General Debate 15 Nov 2006
Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN ... just have to read the New Zealand Herald each day. No one in Auckland wants this stadium. The councillors on the Auckland City Council want Carlaw Park. This is a failure of leadership. Why did the Government not just make a decision and take the ...
Rugby World Cup
Stadium—Legislation 21 Nov 2006
Keith Locke Is not the Government forcing Auckland City Council and the Auckland Regional Council to break the law by imposing a 2-week time limit for a stadium decision and thereby ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ...Ngāti Whātua has limited interest in the port land, and that any further involvement would be in the usual manner with Auckland City Council around design and development issues, and with Auckland City Council’s offer to meet and discuss matters further with Ngā...
Heather Roy Would his Government contemplate retrospective legislation should any concerned citizen injunct the Auckland City Council or the Auckland Regional Council for not consulting Aucklanders about a waterfront stadium in the manner required by ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN The effect of any injunction on the Auckland City Council, of course, does not affect the ability of Parliament to pass legislation. If Dr Hodge wants to take on parliamentary ...
Stadium—Auckland Waterfront 14 Nov 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... to extend Jade Stadium into a 60,000-seat stadium. What I would expect is that if there is not express support from Auckland City Council or the regional council around the waterfront option, then presumably they will support the Eden Park stadium option. ...
Manukau City Council (Control of Street Prostitution) Bill
Second Reading 11 Oct 2006
STEVE CHADWICK ... to show that they are supporting the local council—but that will not solve the problems for Papatoetoe, Manurewa, the Auckland City Council, Wellington, or anywhere else. This bill will solve the issues only for Manukau. That is not the way to go forward on ...
Crown Research Institutes
Dental School, Mt Eden—Sale of Building 29 Aug 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... member that what is happening now is that the Institute of Environmental Science and Research is awaiting advice from Auckland City Council and Auckland Regional Council as to whether there is an all-clear. That is anticipated soon.
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 25 Jul 2006
... instigated by Whina, was a survey of Māori housing in Auckland, revealing insanitary dwellings. It led the Auckland City Council and the Department of Māori Affairs to demolish slums and provide a higher quota of State and council houses for Māori ...
Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 29 Jun 2006
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... paint, wall coverings, concreting, fencing, sewerage, and community facilities. The devastating data forced the Auckland City Council and the Department of Māori Affairs to demolish slums and provide a higher quota of State and council housing for Māori ...
Local Government
Local Authorities—Financial Reporting 27 Sep 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... we might not have got ourselves into some trouble with councils”, in light of the increase in the gross debt of the Auckland City Council during the mayoralty of John Banks?
Hon David Parker Is the Minister aware that under John Banks, rating increases for the Auckland City Council were held at falsely low levels by the greatest-ever increase in debt—
Hon David Parker ... reinforced in the concern that lay behind his statement given the reality that in New Zealand’s largest city council, Auckland City Council, rates were held at falsely low levels by increasing council debt by the greatest amount ever in New Zealand’s history, ...
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... reason is that ahead of the reforms, Treasury functions across the various councils in Auckland were amalgamated, and Auckland City Council took on that role. So it borrowed $416 million, which it then on-lent to other councils, saving them considerable money ...
Hon RODNEY HIDE I do stand by that statement. But, actually, as I said—and the member may not have heard my answer—in the case of Auckland City Council, they were borrowing on behalf of all of Auckland and actually lent the money on, again saving the cost of the ...
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... ahead of hearing the answers and actually getting caught out with questions that do not bear any resemblance to the Auckland City Council’s final accounts, which showed us that what that member is saying is not true.
Hon David Parker I seek leave to table a document showing that the Auckland City Council’s debt—
Rates Rebate Scheme—Low Incomes 28 Jun 2006
Mark Blumsky Did the Minister take into account the impact on all ratepayers of the rates rebate scheme, considering that the Auckland City Council has complained that the administration costs alone have increased the rates bill of Auckland City by up to $160,000?
Waste Minimisation Bill
First Reading 14 Jun 2006
GORDON COPELAND ... that I was recently at Auckland University in a debate with Nandor, and people raised the issue that the Auckland City Council will not give the university recycling bins. Why? The council says that the university does not pay any rates. That is ...
Environment
Resource Management Act—Changes 14 Jun 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... an impediment to improving security of supply of electricity, when Transpower applied for a resource consent with the Auckland City Council 2 years ago for an upgrade of the Ōtāhuhu-Penrose link—and this application involves no new towers, no change in voltage,...
Building Issues
Building Code—Review 13 Jun 2006
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... they want from their buildings.” The Registered Master Builders Federation of New Zealand “welcomed the review.” The Auckland City Council also welcomed the review for “the opportunity it provides to bring in new standards and targets which are better suited ...
Obituaries - Rt Hon David Russell Lange ONZ, CH, John Finlay Luxton QSO, Hon John Howard Falloon CNZM, Rod David Donald
Rt Hon David Russell Lange ONZ, CH, John Finlay Luxton QSO, Hon John Howard Falloon CNZM, Rod David Donald 9 Nov 2005
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK ... contest, David Lange was the heavyweight. I had previously met David in the course of the 1974 election for the Auckland City Council, when we were both on the Labour Party ticket with, among others, Cath Tizard, Jim Anderton, and Tītewhai Harawira, ...