Mentions of Auckland Regional Council in New Zealand Parliament debates
Auckland Regional Council has been mentioned in 104 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statements 4 Oct 2011
LYNNE PILLAY ... Area Bill in Parliament. The bill was promoted by the Waitakere City Council under Mayor Bob Harvey’s leadership, the Auckland Regional Council, and the Rodney District Council. It provided long-term protection for the Waitakere Ranges—in particular, from the ad ...
Valedictory Statements 29 Sep 2011
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... my two brothers, Donald and David, and their wives are present. David was involved in politics, having been on the Auckland Regional Council, and he followed me as the Mayor of Papakura. Maybe Donald had the most sense—he kept out of it. As a youngster I was ...
Urgent Debates - Rugby World Cup—Extension to Queens Wharf Fanzone
Rugby World Cup—Extension to Queens Wharf Fanzone 15 Sep 2011
PHIL TWYFORD ... finger-wagging and lecturing, to abuse. What did we see 6 months ago? We saw Murray McCully abusing the chair of the Auckland Regional Council on television, in the media, because he did not have the social skills and the political skills to negotiate some kind ...
General Debate 16 Feb 2011
PHIL TWYFORD ... not like it, and we have heard over the last few days some interesting voices. Mike Lee, the former chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, has called this an appalling fiasco. He has said that Key and Hide should fix it. What has Cameron Brewer said? ...
Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill
In Committee 26 Oct 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... had the debate over the sheds on Queen’s Wharf been happening under these provisions, and had it not involved the Auckland Regional Council, we may have seen a completely different outcome from the very sensible decision that took into account the heritage ...
Second Reading 19 Oct 2010
PHIL TWYFORD ... sheds on Queen’s Wharf in Auckland, and it was only a knock-’em-down, drag-’em-out fight, led by Mike Lee and the Auckland Regional Council, that convinced the Minister that he should listen to public opinion and negotiate an acceptable compromise. Under ...
Governor-General Bill
First Reading 20 Jul 2010
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... all around the world. Of course, that measure went through every possible iteration before we found out that the Auckland Regional Council’s position, which was said to be dreadful at the beginning of last week, was a good idea by the end of the week. All ...
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
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... they feel like “Here she goes again!”. But I remind the House that she found out that Metro Water was giving the Auckland Regional Council $25 million a year in charity payments. People like Penny Bright really make a difference. I will talk about the ...
CARMEL SEPULONI ... that? West Aucklanders are protective of their ranges. They fought hard for a law change to give ownership to the Auckland Regional Council, because they wanted the ranges to be recognised for what they are: unique and in need of special protection to ensure ...
Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill
In Committee 2 Jun 2010
CARMEL SEPULONI ... ownership of the regional park from Aucklanders. Section 77(1) of the Local Government Amendment Act 1992 gives the Auckland Regional Council rights of ownership over the area now known as the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park. Instead of transferring ownership ...
SUE KEDGLEY ... Pillay, said. The whole of the National Government wiped out Environment Canterbury. Those members have wiped out the Auckland Regional Council. They have wiped out seven well-functioning Auckland councils. We have water ready to be contracted out and privatised ...
In Committee 1 Jun 2010
JACINDA ARDERN ... will have its way on the waterfront, just as it has already had its way on Queen’s Wharf. We may believe that the Auckland Regional Council alone has led that process, but we all know that, in reality, John Key has very firmly said that he wants Queen’s Wharf ...
Second Reading 27 May 2010
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... with this Government. Mayor Len Brown said the Auckland Transport Agency needed to be accountable to Auckland. The Auckland Regional Council chair, Mike Lee, said that the original purpose of the super-city proposal had been subverted in that it did not ...
Budget Debate 25 May 2010
GARETH HUGHES ... transport options in order to deliver jobs, safety, and livable towns and cities. The Minister could read the Auckland Regional Council’s regional land transport strategy for some inspiration for next year’s Budget. The biggest loss of this Budget is ...
Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill
In Committee 17 Sep 2009
SUE KEDGLEY ... people of Auckland have no control over. He points out that already the Auckland Transition Agency has written to the Auckland Regional Council and said that it is not appropriate for the regional council to publicly notify the regional policy statement, which is ...
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
DARIEN FENTON ... that was suddenly announced out of the blue to exclude north Rodney from the super-city. It caught locals and the Auckland Regional Council by complete surprise. They were shocked and horrified. Let us remember that the Government wanted to split the Rodney ...
SUE BRADFORD ... whose job it is to construct the detail of the new city. As part of its work it has already completely cut across the Auckland Regional Council’s regional policy statement processes, while the Government itself continues to undermine the Auckland Regional Council’s...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... explore the wonders of this great harbour. The unfortunate thing is that despite seeing every relevant mayor, and the Auckland Regional Council, only hurdles and obstructions have been put in the way of establishing appropriate wharves. Nothing has happened. I ...
Hon STEVE CHADWICK ... on the map are simply wrong. Those lines are stupid, and it took leaders in the community like Mike Lee from the Auckland Regional Council to say how ridiculous it is to manage the natural assets of the region by separating off an area from the Auckland ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... royal commission on where the boundaries should go, seems utterly bizarre. It was really only the campaigning by the Auckland Regional Council chairman, Mike Lee, and his pointing out the situation to Aucklanders and alerting them to the fact that some of our ...
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... regional parks land, including three major regional parks, all paid for by Auckland ratepayers and all managed by the Auckland Regional Council, will be given away. The boundary divides the towns of Waiuku and Pukekohe, separating the residents of northern ...
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... of Women, the Auckland City Youth Council, the Ponsonby Economics Study Group, the Tamaki Community Board, the Auckland Regional Council, the Auckland branch of Grey Power, and the Cook Islands Community Forum. The Cook Islands Community Forum ...
RAYMOND HUO ... The 2006 census found that 234,222 people were recorded as belonging to the Asian ethnic group and living in the Auckland Regional Council area. Chinese made up 42 percent of those, Indian 31.8 percent, Korean 9.1 percent, Filipino 4.2 percent, Japanese 2.3 ...
In Committee 15 Sep 2009
PHIL TWYFORD ... if Rodney had been partitioned as was proposed. The northern beaches that have been protected and safeguarded by the Auckland Regional Council in the face of huge development pressures would have been subject to a carve-up and, I would confidently predict, some ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... commission had suggested, with Environment Waikato taking on the catchment responsibilities, or to stick with the old Auckland Regional Council boundary, which cut through Colombo Road in Waiuku and the back of the racecourse in Pukekohe. Many people, including ...
Hon SHANE JONES ... their relevance to this Government. We supported Māori seats. We were the party supporting Māori seats when the Auckland Regional Council—despite the meanderings of Michael Bassett in the newspaper—created two Māori seats. They were snuffed out by Warren ...
Second Reading 15 Sep 2009
NIKKI KAYE ... as the establishment of the Auckland Regional Authority in 1963, and the amalgamation and the establishment of the Auckland Regional Council in the 1980s. However, none of these initiatives managed to provide solutions to the fragmentation and incoherence in ...
Second Reading 15 Sep 2009
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... Waikato. It is the playground for people in South Auckland, and, indeed, most of Auckland. Mike Lee, chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, pleaded with the Minister of Local Government. Federated Farmers put it like this: “It’s like condemning Auckland and ...
Infrastructure Bill
Second Reading 24 Mar 2010
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... Zealanders’ incomes are too low. When it comes to the cost of housing, I point out that in Auckland there is the Auckland Regional Council, and that has put a barrier around Auckland. It has put an artificial barrier around Auckland, such that land which is ...
First Reading 25 Aug 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... took steps to reverse it. The solution he came to was a 60:40 split between the New Zealand Transport Agency and the Auckland Regional Council. The bottom line is that those stations are now being built. Good on him. I hope his colleague Anne Tolley will take a ...
Eden Park Trust Amendment Bill
Second Reading 19 Aug 2009
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Auckland disappeared and history won. The side I was on in that debate is clear, but the conservatism of the Auckland Regional Council in particular—the fact that it likes to get $30 a week for having cars parked on their wharf, the site where the ...
Local Government (Protection of Auckland Assets) Amendment Bill
First Reading 19 Aug 2009
PHIL TWYFORD ... from people like the late Bruce Jesson, succeeded in keeping the ports in public hands. Under the leadership of the Auckland Regional Council chairman, Mike Lee, the ports have remained in public ownership and have delivered huge investments in Auckland’s ...
Road User Charges Amendment Bill
First Reading 2 Jul 2009
NIKKI KAYE ... transport. We heard the announcement today by the Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, regarding the fact that the Auckland Regional Council and the New Zealand Transport Agency have reached an agreement to advance a range of public transport projects in ...
Climate Change (Transport Funding) Bill
First Reading 17 Jun 2009
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... fact. The second is something obscure called the financial assistance rate. I will give members an example. If the Auckland Regional Council decided to build a brand new motorway across Auckland, 100 percent of the cost of that motorway would be paid by ...
Budget Debate 16 Jun 2009
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... 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 particular part of the foreshore and harbour. We also will ensure that train ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 26 May 2009
DARIEN FENTON ... facts are understood by National. In fact, there was a great quote in the weekend from Christine Rose from the Auckland Regional Council. She said that we need a city run on fat, not oil. Cyclists are trying to encourage this Government to build more safe ...
Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau Reorganisation) Bill
Third Reading 16 May 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... found that many of the things holding back Auckland related to the way that the region is run. It found that the Auckland Regional Council and the seven territorial authorities lacked a collective sense of purpose, constitutional ability, and the momentum to ...
DARIEN FENTON ... City’s $8.7 billion, Manukau’s hard-earned $6 billion, Papakura’s $457 million, Franklin’s $1 billion, and the Auckland Regional Council’s $1.4 million. That is $28 billion worth of assets, built up over generations, that will go from communities into the ...
In Committee 15 May 2009
H V ROSS ROBERTSON ... and powers? They are not outlined in this legislation. I understand that this legislation replaces the Auckland Regional Council and the six city councils—Manukau, Papakura, Franklin, North Shore, Waitakere, and Rodney. In fact, what is does is ...
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... life of the Rodney District Council, and extinguishes the life of Papakura, of Waitakere, of Auckland City, and the Auckland Regional Council. Ordinarily, when we create a new creature, most people would celebrate the new life. But in this particular case the ...
to omit “Auckland Council” wherever it occurs and substitute “Auckland Regional Council”.
In Committee 14 May 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... and that is what Part 2 is about. The Auckland Council will assume the responsibilities, duties, and powers of the Auckland Regional Council and the seven territorial authorities in the Auckland region. That is what establishing one council and one mayor for ...
Hon DAVID PARKER —eight councils, including the Auckland Regional Council; seven councils plus the regional council—and forms the Auckland Council. In doing so, it creates the greatest ...
Second Reading 14 May 2009
Hon Dr RICHARD WORTH ... Authority being established in 1963. Then, in 1989, there was widespread amalgamation and the establishment of the Auckland Regional Council—principally driven by the then Minister of Local Government, the Hon Michael Bassett. Those of us who have been ...
Second Reading 13 May 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... Once established, the council will assume the responsibilities, roles, powers, assets, and liabilities of the Auckland Regional Council and, of course, the seven territorial authorities in the Auckland region. Part 3 of the bill is concerned with the ...
First Reading 13 May 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... the critical issue of local representation. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland Governance found that the Auckland Regional Council and seven territorial authorities lacked the collective sense of purpose, constitutional ability, and momentum to ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... entity. It establishes the transitional authority, and it constrains the existing mayors and councillors and the Auckland Regional Council. It is the biggest power grab that we have seen in living memory.
PHIL TWYFORD ... stroke of a pen. Only 18 months ago, Aucklanders went to the polls and voted in their mayors and councillors, and the Auckland Regional Council. What have we got now? Now we have the “Little Emperor” down there telling 1.4 million Aucklanders where they can shove ...
Second Reading 13 May 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... Once established, the council will assume the responsibilities, roles, powers, assets, and liabilities of the Auckland Regional Council and, of course, the seven territorial authorities in the Auckland region. Part 3 of the bill is concerned with the ...
First Reading 13 May 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... the critical issue of local representation. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Auckland Governance found that the Auckland Regional Council and seven territorial authorities lacked the collective sense of purpose, constitutional ability, and momentum to ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... entity. It establishes the transitional authority, and it constrains the existing mayors and councillors and the Auckland Regional Council. It is the biggest power grab that we have seen in living memory.
PHIL TWYFORD ... stroke of a pen. Only 18 months ago, Aucklanders went to the polls and voted in their mayors and councillors, and the Auckland Regional Council. What have we got now? Now we have the “Little Emperor” down there telling 1.4 million Aucklanders where they can shove ...
General Debate 6 May 2009
CAROL BEAUMONT ... It is disingenuous and disrespectful to Aucklanders to say that the changes may be funded—may be funded—by the Auckland Regional Council, or they may be funded by the New Zealand Transport Authority. The MP for Maungakiekie indicates that the funding is ...
Housing
Housing—High-need Communities 5 May 2009
Hon PHIL HEATLEY ... that we talk to the Ministry 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.
Prime Minister
Decision Making—Consultation 26 Aug 2009
Hon Phil Goff There is no hope for the Prime Minister. Would bodies like the Auckland Regional Council and the Kaipara District Council and the Rodney District Council today be expressing concerns about “major and secret ...
Prime Minister—Statements 28 Apr 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... week, with the exception of John Banks. To give the member some comfort, I will quote Mike Lee, the chairman of the Auckland Regional Council: “Over the last 20 years there have been a number of changes to governance in Auckland imposed on us by central ...
Urgent Debates - Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response
Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response 8 Apr 2009
Hon PHIL GOFF ... and the system worked well. Rodney Hide knows that in the letter he has received from six Auckland mayors and the Auckland Regional Council, they have all said they wanted a ward system for Auckland. That is the way we can guarantee that every part of our ...
Urgent Debates - Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response
Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response 8 Apr 2009
NICKY WAGNER ... Contrary to what others have said, they will have teeth. Their roles will be mandated in legislation so that the Auckland Regional Council cannot freeze them out. This is a good answer for Auckland. It will deliver for the people of Auckland and it will ...
Land Transport Amendment Bill (No 4)
Referral of S.O.P. 10 to Transport and Industrial Relations Committee 26 Mar 2009
CAROL BEAUMONT ... station. It is disingenuous and disrespectful to those Aucklanders to say their railway station may be funded by the Auckland Regional Council. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to see the financial position that that council is in at the moment. The ...
Urgent Debates - Transport Funding—Replacement of Regional Fuel Tax with Increased Fuel Excise Duty and Road-user Charges
Transport Funding—Replacement of Regional Fuel Tax with Increased Fuel Excise Duty and Road-user Charges 24 Mar 2009
Hon DARREN HUGHES ...lines; that is a good thing. And there will be trains on them. Of course, there is a tender out at the moment from the Auckland Regional Council for those trains, but the Minister has cut up right in the middle of that, as a member of the so-called business-friendly...
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... not make any sense at all. In terms of the remaining projects—the diesel trains, railway stations, and Penlink—the Auckland Regional Council has committed around $80 million of ratepayers’ money to these projects above the regional fuel tax. We have said to ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... actually beginning to deliver at last on the aspirations Aucklanders have for a decent public transport system. The Auckland Regional Council had a plan. It had certainty, it had a budget, it had projects in place, and it was funded and organised. It took ...
Unit Titles Bill
Third Reading 1 Apr 2010
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... the Property Institute of New 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 ...
GARETH HUGHES ... still appealing to many, is not how the majority of Kiwis live any more. This is particularly true in Auckland. The Auckland Regional Council estimates that 700,000 dwellings will be required to house a population of 2 million people, so 300,000 extra homes ...
First Reading 5 Mar 2009
Hon PHIL HEATLEY ... announced in November 2003. The review was initiated in response to widespread views held by the Law Commission, the Auckland Regional Council, and other sector stakeholders who said a review was critical. The Department of Building and Housing has worked ...
Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill 2008
First Reading 5 Mar 2009
Hon Dr RICHARD WORTH ... 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 committee. Clauses 10 and 11 update a Reserves and Other Lands ...
SUE BRADFORD ... call on National to look again at the issues involved and to support the call from local people in Auckland, from the Auckland Regional Council, and from the Green Party to save Albert Park from this encroachment. Ordinary Aucklanders have got involved in this, ...
Franklin District Council (Contribution to Funding of Museums) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 22 Sep 2010
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... Council, excludes any part of the district of the Council that is not within the boundaries of the region of the Auckland Regional Council.” In terms of background, as I said before, this bill was to right an anomaly. I must emphasise that both of those ...
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... and Technology, any part of the district of the Franklyn District Council that is not within the boundaries of the Auckland Regional Council is excluded. My colleagues have told me of the frustration that many Franklin citizens shared with them as to why ...
First Reading 4 Mar 2009
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... and the Museum of Transport and Technology, any part of Franklin District that is not within the boundaries of the Auckland Regional Council is excluded. The Auckland War Memorial Museum Act 1996 and the Museum of Transport and Technology Act 2000 require ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... only the way in which the levy is distributed among the seven contributing territorial authorities that make up the Auckland Regional Council. According to the process followed by the Auckland Museum Trust Board, a formula on levies is reached for each ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... rates for services both in the Waikato and in Auckland. This situation has arisen because Franklin lies between the Auckland Regional Council area and that of Environment Waikato. I think approximately half of Franklin’s residents live on the Auckland side and ...
Hon NANAIA MAHUTA ... up to Auckland for. But I certainly believe that those people should pay only one set of rates—the rates of either Auckland Regional Council or Environment Waikato. The bill seeks to rectify that situation, and I am happy to support it.
SUE BRADFORD ... museums in Hamilton. Thirdly, if this bill is passed, it looks as though residents of Franklin who live within the Auckland Regional Council boundaries will have to pay more out of their rates than they do at present, as will ratepayers throughout the Auckland ...
Hon Dr PITA SHARPLES ... are required to pay a levy to support these two museums, even those residents who fall outside the boundaries of the Auckland Regional Council. Today we start the process that will rectify this wrong—the wrong that residents living outside the Auckland region ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... the Franklin District Council have indicated that they prefer to go along with Environment Waikato, rather than the Auckland Regional Council. Their view is that Environment Waikato has a greater understanding and feel for rural issues than does the Auckland ...
Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill
First Reading 19 Feb 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... a consent application for a dam, which was an existing dam. It was built by my father and me in the late 1980s. The Auckland Regional Council, when looking through its records in 2000, found that the dam had not had a formal consent. So we applied for a ...
Education
Education, Ministry—School Properties 3 Jul 2008
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... extensive dealings with Albany Junior High School. We are working closely with the North Shore City Council and the Auckland Regional Council to work through the consent process. We have set aside over $70 million to have the project completed. The Labour-led ...
Securities (Local Authority Exemption) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 3 Apr 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... term vision that suits both the transport infrastructure and the broader redevelopment goals, in keeping with the Auckland Regional Council’s regional growth strategy. To use that one example, it therefore follows that it is essential that local and ...
In Committee 1 Apr 2008
Hon DARREN HUGHES ... 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 Managers, the Property Council of New Zealand, and the ...
DAVE HEREORA ... 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 the Property Council. These ...
Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2007
Third Reading 3 Jul 2008
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... that he did that in all good conscience. Everybody in Auckland knows that we need electrification of the rail. The Auckland Regional Council and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority are hanging out, and all the people are hanging out, for the ability to ...
Second Reading 26 Jun 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... projects it would like to fund under a regional fuel tax scheme, the initial Auckland scheme will be developed by the Auckland Regional Council. The council will need to take account of the views of the Auckland Regional Land Transport Committee. I would also ...
First Reading 6 Nov 2007
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... into a project like this, which is clearly of national importance, unless regional or local government pays half. The Auckland Regional Council, after years of neglect of public transport, had got to the stage where it simply could not raise rates any further in ...
Public Transport Management Bill
In Committee 11 Sep 2008
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... submission from the Auckland Regional Transport Authority that was absolutely adamant, under the chairmanship of the Auckland Regional Council’s Mike Lee, who would love to own the bus company again, did the Labour Government decide that.
DAVID BENNETT ... Auckland is the prime example of where we need public transport solutions. The parties involved need to include the Auckland Regional Council and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, to the effect that it does transport issues in Auckland. We need to ...
Third Reading 11 Sep 2008
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... to be in a position where they could say “take it or leave it.” This is driven by an ideology. The chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, Mike Lee, is clearly of a mind that it would be far better if the regional council actually owned the buses again. He ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... said that it needs this to fix up the problems if it is to go forward and continue to improve public transport. The Auckland Regional Council is very busy at the moment—not purchasing buses, but purchasing trains to replace the clapped out rubbish that was left ...
PANSY WONG ... Relations Committee; suddenly, a bill had to be passed to enable the Auckland Regional Transport Authority and the Auckland Regional Council to plan the whole public transport service around one Green Party member’s needs. That is a mightily expensive ....
Hon HARRY DUYNHOVEN ... select committee. And these supporters are not minnows. They include the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, the Auckland Regional Council, four Auckland territorial authorities, Local Government New Zealand, Auckland Sustainable Transport, and three public ...
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... provide value for money for taxpayers and ratepayers as well as for motorists. This bill is supported by the Auckland Regional Council and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, which was set up to finally deliver rather than have the constant ...
In Committee 10 Sep 2008
PANSY WONG ... against option B. The only submitters who were—and probably still are—in favour of option C were, without doubt, the Auckland Regional Council and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority. Of course those organisations would support option C; which public ...
In Committee 9 Sep 2008
KEITH LOCKE ...—they are waiting between bus services too long, etc. This bill is going to address that. I know that the people on the Auckland Regional Council are really keen to promote public transport. All the planners are ready to go, and once this bill is passed it will ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... not needed in Dunedin, in Invercargill, or in Eketāhuna. This legislation is to appease the left-wing acolytes of the Auckland Regional Council and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, which want to take total and absolute control. When I met with the ...
KEITH LOCKE ... around this bill for some months, as have other Greens, and it is quite clear that the councils in Auckland, the Auckland Regional Council, and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, all favour option C, and have favoured that system of contracting out ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... Regional Transport Authority did. It goes back to the old days and the spectre of Mike Lee. Mike Lee would like the Auckland Regional Council to own the bus operation again. Let us face it: he would like it to own it. That is where he comes from. He is a ...
Second Reading 3 Sep 2008
PANSY WONG ... the notion to the committee that most people liked option C. Well, it was actually not most people; it was the Auckland Regional Council, the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, and councils largely from Auckland, that were saying “Isn’t it a great idea ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... country. Local government has called for it; it supports it. Auckland—all the territorial local authorities and the Auckland Regional Council—was united around option C. The National Party opposed it. The Labour Party members on the Transport and Industrial ...
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... is quite clear, option C was a grubby little deal done between the member for Maungakiekie and the chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, Mike Lee, with the Prime Minister’s oversight, which would effectively have given Mike Lee direct control of not just ...
First Reading 16 Oct 2007
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... commercial routes in the blink of an eye. In one case in Auckland—I think many, many people were aware of it, and the Auckland Regional Council was astounded by it—an operator just said it was stopping. Suddenly the council had to come up with $5 million to keep ...
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... technical task. Many other cities do it. It can be done with a simple swipe system. It is time it happened. The Auckland Regional Council has been trying to get it to happen for years but the transport service operators will not cooperate. This gives them ...
Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill
Third Reading 27 Aug 2008
MOANA MACKEY ... to get it out of the select committee by July this year, but, as members will know, we had some issues looking at the Auckland Regional Council and its role that we simply were not able to resolve in time. So I apologise for that; we did very much want to do ....
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... Some members may recall that when this bill was introduced I said that the proper entity to be funding this was the Auckland Regional Council. I know that the Local Government and Environment Committee worked very hard, I know that the Minister promoting the ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... by the North Shore City Council. The local government option makes sense. I must admit I am a huge fan of the Auckland Regional Council stepping up, and I think it is a pity we could not get that in the process because it did not meet the requirements of ...
First Reading 19 Sep 2007
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... to charge the rates. There were choices for that, and the answer in the bill, although it explains why the Auckland Regional Council was not chosen, perhaps ignores the reality that this Parliament has sovereign powers over local government and can ...
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... Court, consent decisions they have made, but the cases that are being brought against them are being brought by the Auckland Regional Council, and the cases are being funded also by revenue raised by the same ratepayers. There has to be something wrong with a ...
SUE BRADFORD ... levy rates, performance evaluations, and so on. One option that some in the Green Party were keen on was for the Auckland Regional Council to become the funding mechanism for these organisations, as it already plays a clear pan-regional role and has rates-coll...
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... before Commonwealth parliaments show their ignorance by their interjections. I say to the House that until 1992 the Auckland Regional Council funded a range of regional organisations. It funded Tourism Auckland, Surf Life Saving New Zealand, and the Auckland ...
General Debate 13 Jun 2007
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... consultations. In fact, she was even confused about who is responsible for local roads. She happens to think that the Auckland Regional Council has responsibility for every little path and street throughout the Auckland region. With that level of knowledge, it is ...
Budget Statement - Budget Debate
Budget Debate 17 May 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... public transport.
Yet still there is a demand for more. In particular, the Auckland Regional Council has identified the electrification of the rail system as its top transport priority. This is on top of the $600 million ...
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 not allowing time for the formal ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN That would not be my view. We have asked for views from the Auckland Regional Council, as to what its preference would be. That does not mean to say that other processes would not follow in either case. In ...
Heather Roy ... 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 the Local Government Act 2002—law ...
General Debate 13 Sep 2006
SUE BRADFORD ... with responsibility for Auckland Issues, are countenancing such a move, involving as it does the abolition of the Auckland Regional Council, the forced restructuring of up to seven councils into a much smaller entity, and the possibility of a greater Auckland ...
Local Government
Auckland, Local Government Reform—Precedent for Decision-making 15 Sep 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... On balance, and after discussions with the Waikato Regional Council, the Mayor of Waikato District, Peter Harris, the Auckland Regional Council, and, indeed, the Mayor of Franklin District, the Government considered it would be much easier to establish shared ...
Auckland, Local Government Reform—Northern Boundary of Super-city 26 Aug 2009
Phil Twyford What does he say to the mayors of Kaipara and Rodney and the Auckland Regional Council chairman, all of whom are opposed to Cabinet’s decision to override the select committee and the Local Government ...
Auckland, Local Government Reform—Purchase of Queen’s Wharf 17 Jun 2009
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS Does he consider that the Auckland Regional Council’s decision to jointly purchase the Queen’s Wharf fits within his definition of a “core service”; if not, does he think ...
Hon George Hawkins ... view that he would not expect local councils to be involved in property development with his council’s support of the Auckland Regional Council’s $20 million involvement in the purchase of Queen’s Wharf without the issue being put to the public by a referendum?
Auckland Governance Report—Local Representation 1 Apr 2009
Hon JOHN CARTER ... there are many diverse communities. That is why the Minister is in Auckland today meeting with Mike Lee, chair of the Auckland Regional Council; Alasdair Thompson, chief executive of the Northern Employers and Manufacturers Association; and Mike Cohen, chair of ...
Auckland—Greater Auckland Council Proposal 13 Sep 2006
Sue Bradford Does the Minister agree that a key role of the Auckland Regional Council is to make sure we have environmental protection, particularly of air and water quality, through the administration of ...
Hon MARK BURTON I would agree with the first part of the member’s assertion, as to the legal functions of the Auckland Regional Council. They are common to regional councils generally. But, as I have said, we as a Government have not given any formal ...
Keith Locke I seek leave first to table a paper by Sandra Coney, a member of the Auckland Regional Council, on the Greater Auckland Council plan that describes how it would bring about less democracy and less environmental ...
Crown Research Institutes
Dental School, Mt Eden—Sale of Building 29 Aug 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... 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 20 Jul 2006
Dr Wayne Mapp The Auckland Regional Council is getting it down to 5 percent.
Dr Wayne Mapp The Auckland Regional Council has set its rates increase at 5 percent.
Auckland Issues
Greater Auckland Council—Establishment 13 Jun 2007
Hon JUDITH TIZARD Yes. The Government is yet to complete its discussions with Auckland’s local authorities and the Auckland Regional Council on proposals for strengthening Auckland’s regional governance. The need for, and timing of, any legislation will be ...
Water Supply, Auckland—Local Government Act 2 Aug 2006
Dr Richard Worth Does she not realise that her covert support for the Auckland Regional Council proposal to take over the asset of Watercare Services from the constituent territorial local authorities and the ...
Budget 2006—Auckland Issues 24 May 2006
Keith Locke ... projects, like the double-tracking of the western line she just referred to, and support in the Budget process the Auckland Regional Council’s new priority rail measures, such as the extension of the Britomart line underground to connect with the western line, ...
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... Authority about 2 months ago. The Government continues to work with the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, the Auckland Regional Council, the territorial local authorities, business, and communities to see the implementation of all of this. However, the ...
Rodney Hide Can she explain to the House her reasons for supporting the Auckland Regional Council in its efforts to take ownership of Watercare Services Ltd from the territorial councils so that its assets could be ...
Local Government Law Reform Bill
First Reading 5 Apr 2006
HEATHER ROY ... respects they, too, are guilty of the very same things. Since 2002 there have been increases of 52 percent in the Auckland Regional Council, 41 percent in the Taranaki Regional Council, and 32 percent in Environment Canterbury. It is the ratepayers of this ...
Transport
Public Transport, Auckland—Commuter Rail Network 6 Sep 2011
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... car trains will be able to be purchased, which is 50 percent more than the 38 trains planned for previously by the Auckland Regional Council. This means that the entire fleet of trains on the three lines in Auckland will be electric. Having an all-electric ...
Auckland—Public Transport Projects, Progress 2 Jul 2009
Hon STEVEN JOYCE I am pleased to report that the Auckland Regional Council and the New Zealand Transport Agency have reached agreement to advance a range of public transport projects in Auckland ...
Roading and Public Transport Funding—Auckland Projects 26 Mar 2009
Hon STEVEN JOYCE No, I do not believe that I have placed those in jeopardy. Officials are walking through a process with the Auckland Regional Council and the Auckland Regional Transport Authority. The Auckland Regional Council has a total of $80 million of its own ...
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... Agency, the Ministry of Transport, the senior staff of KiwiRail, the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, and the Auckland Regional Council are all working together, pretty much as we speak, to ensure that the projects that are under way continue.
Roading—Waterview Connection 14 May 2008
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... the tunnel. All of these issues are being considered. Transit will work with the local authorities, including the Auckland Regional Council, which is responsible for air quality, and we will do our best to provide Auckland with a good motorway system and the ...
Western Ring Route, Auckland—Progress 10 Apr 2008
Keith Locke ... bit of motorway—the bit to Waterview that she mentioned, which has an appalling benefit-cost ratio according to the Auckland Regional Council—when oil prices are rising, when car traffic on the motorways in Auckland is levelling off, and when people are looking ...
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 agreed to jointly look at all ...
Vehicle Exhaust Emissions Standards—Health Outcomes 22 Nov 2007
Jeanette Fitzsimons Will the Government expand the highly successful Auckland Regional Council pilot vehicle scrappage scheme, which has now ended, to help motorists afford to replace the dirtiest, most polluting ...
Auckland Public Transport—Government Investment 23 Aug 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING Figures released on 9 August 2007 by the Auckland Regional Transport Authority and the Auckland Regional Council show that investment in Auckland transport by the region and the Government is getting results. Since 1999 Government ...
Roading—Congestion Charges, Auckland 4 May 2006
David Bennett Following from that, does the Government intend to fund the Auckland Regional Council’s $700 million shortfall in passenger transport spending, recently identified in the draft long-term council community ...
David Bennett Given that road pricing is due in 2011 at best, and that the Auckland Regional Council shortfall will delay key public transport initiatives beyond 2011, what action will the Government take to alleviate ...
Transit New Zealand—Commercial Investment Projects 30 Mar 2006
Hon Maurice Williamson ... to Rodney in October for 2 days. We will travel between Wellsford and Warkworth, meet with everybody, and bring the Auckland Regional Council and other interested parties to get this resolved.”, and given that we are only 1 day away from April of the following ...
Auckland Transport Infrastructure—Rugby World Cup 29 Mar 2006
Hon Maurice Williamson Has the Minister seen the statement by the chair of the Auckland Regional Council, Mike Lee, when asked whether he thought Auckland’s transport infrastructure would cope with the Rugby World Cup: “I ...
Hon PETE HODGSON ... better than the Government we replaced. He went on to say in his press statement of 28 March, yesterday, that the Auckland Regional Council is looking at a variety of alternative funding sources to achieve the level of investment necessary for public ....
Finance
Pacific Economic Development Agency—Minister of Finance’s Meetings with Representatives 17 Jun 2010
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... held in October 2008 under the previous Government, which was sponsored by Government agencies and opened by the Auckland Regional Council chairman, Mike Lee. In December 2009, I addressed a public Pacific business forum in Māngere jointly hosted by the ...
Roading—Auckland Traffic Congestion 11 Oct 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... because without that tax in Auckland we will not be able to see electrification of the railway system, because the Auckland Regional Council certainly will not be able to fund its part of the bargain.
Auckland—Electric Rail System 4 Apr 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... us whatever you like.” The member has been quoting figures based on electrification costs of $170 million in the Auckland Regional Council document. The latest estimate is $500 million.
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... them. They have turned out to be a kind of funding mirage in the desert of funding for local transport projects. The Auckland Regional Council has specifically backed a regional petrol tax to assist in the cost of providing local projects.
Tourism—Overlander Rail Service 24 Aug 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I am happy to comment further. I have not yet ruled out any further renegotiation with Toll. Mr Mike Lee of the Auckland Regional Council met with Toll today. Apparently at that meeting no progress was made, but Mr Lee is continuing work. I will certainly ...
Keith Locke Will the Minister admit that he was wrong yesterday to complain about the Auckland Regional Council charging $200,000 a year for the Overlander to be at the Britomart rail terminal, when the council said today that it ...
Keith Locke I seek leave to table a statement issued today by Mike Lee, the chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, which proposes a joint financial rescue package that I presume both Government and local government would contribute ...
Railways—Overlander Service 23 Aug 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... lines of the Otago Excursion Train Trust and so on. I await any kinds of offers in that respect. My good friends the Auckland Regional Council perhaps could help by ceasing to charge $200,000 a year for the train to be at the Britomart transport centre for half ...
Keith Locke I seek leave to table a press release issued by the Auckland Regional Council last night calling for a continuation of the Overlander for an interim period of 12 months, and the construction of a ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN Can I ask whether any member of the Auckland Regional Council who issued that statement has travelled on the train in the last year?
Current Account Deficit—Oil Prices 22 Jun 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... I have not refused to invest in passenger transport in either Auckland or Wellington. What I have demanded of the Auckland Regional Council—the sole proponent—is that before it puts proposals it has to have a proper supporting business case, particularly if ...
Transport Strategy—Roading Infrastructure Funding 25 May 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I see an increasing number of press statements coming out of the Auckland Regional Council from its members, specifically the chair, disassociating themselves on behalf of Aucklanders in that particular regard. ...
Roading Projects, New Funding—Traffic Volumes 23 May 2006
Jeanette Fitzsimons Has the Minister seen the survey commissioned by the Auckland Regional Council last year, in which 87 percent agreed or strongly agreed that better public transport would make it easier to get ...
Keith Locke I seek leave to table a map, published by the Auckland Regional Council, that shows cross-town rail routes on the plans—not only the Penrose to Onehunga route I referred to in my question but ...
Roading—Funding Shortfall 23 Feb 2006
Hon Marian Hobbs Does the Minister agree with the Auckland Regional Council’s statement yesterday indicating that one of the challenges in funding Transit New Zealand’s 10-year forecast is the ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN No, I do not agree on the last point. We are certainly not prepared to write an open cheque for whatever plans the Auckland Regional Council comes up with in respect of subsidisation of local Auckland matters. That includes, for example, matters such as ...
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill
Third Reading 2 Apr 2008
LYNNE PILLAY ... with us in the House today, and it is a pleasure to see him here. The three councils—the Waitakere City Council, the Auckland Regional Council, and the Rodney District Council—have jointly promoted this bill. It has been a meeting of hearts and minds, and a ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... with it the mandate of the citizens and councillors of Waitakere City Council, Rodney District Council, and the Auckland Regional Council. It responds to a clear and consistent local voice saying that the permanence of legislation is necessary to address ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... she openly declared was central to the success of this bill. Kia ora, Lynne. I commend the local authorities, the Auckland Regional Council, the Waitakere City Council, and the Rodney District Council, which have willingly endorsed the amendment I brought to ...
DARIEN FENTON ... residents who campaigned long and hard for this bill to become law, and to the councils who are promoting this bill—Auckland Regional Council, Rodney District Council, and the Waitakere City Council—for their foresight and determination. As a local resident I ...
In Committee 12 Mar 2008
DAIL JONES ... 3 do? Clause 28A(2) states that the local authorities must jointly produce a report. The local authorities are the Auckland Regional Council, the Rodney District Council, and the Waitakere City Council. What happens if they cannot agree? They have to produce a ...
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... to the natural environment. Luckily, through the foresight of some of the early administrations in Auckland, the Auckland Regional Council now administers a large area of parkland. I say to Gordon Copeland that by far the greatest area of the Waitakere ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... must monitor and report on certain matters relating to heritage area”. Under anybody’s district plan—under the Auckland Regional Council’s district plan, and under the Waitakere City Council’s district plan—local authorities already have to monitor the ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... every clause and every meaning of every clause in Part 3 is actually in the district plan. They are actually in the Auckland Regional Council’s plan of what it has to do—what it has to look after. So why are we doing this again? Mr Key was right this ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... plans, like the national Coastal Policy Statement. They have to take into account regional policy statements from the Auckland Regional Council. They have to take into account district policy statements. Do they also need to take into account local plans and this ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... and for generations to come. I acknowledge the Waitakere City Council, the Rodney District Council, and the Auckland Regional Council for promoting this bill. This is not the Labour Party’s bill. I say to Nick Smith: “Read my lips: this is not a Labour ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... to finish by saying that everything in this bill can be done with the present law—the Resource Management Act, the Auckland Regional Council 5 and 10-year plan, and also the Waitakere City Council district plan. There is nothing in the bill that cannot be done ...
In Committee 20 Feb 2008
DAIL JONES ... and now 17,000 hectares are owned by Aucklanders. So no changes can be made to that park unless Aucklanders and the Auckland Regional Council want that to happen, and I am sure it will not happen, because Aucklanders own it, and that is made clear in recital (6)...
In Committee 20 Feb 2008
LYNNE PILLAY ... acknowledged the Waitakere City Council, but I think it is important that we acknowledge the other two councils, the Auckland Regional Council and the Rodney District Council. I congratulate them on their vision, on the extraordinary consultation and community ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... in the process. There is always an upside to everything. For me the upside to this one—and for this I thank the Auckland Regional Council—was that we had a stunning trip on a helicopter to view the Waitakere Ranges, which is something I had never ....
DAIL JONES ... pressures.” Well, that cannot apply to the 17,000 hectares because it belongs to the people of Auckland and the Auckland Regional Council. Nothing can happen there. Recital (9) goes on to state: “These pressures are compounded by the area’s proximity to ...
JOHN HAYES ... are happening around Lake Wakatipu. 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 ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... point I raise in relation to the purpose clause is that clause 3(2)(e) states: “provides additional matters for Auckland Regional Council, Rodney District Council, Waitakere City Council, and certain other persons to consider when making a decision,”. I ...
DAIL JONES ... is no way anyone can possibly damage the park because we, the members of the public, who are all ratepayers of the Auckland Regional Council area, own the 17,000 hectares of the park, and nothing can be done to damage that. I just wanted to raise that one ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... be entered into through consultation. Clause 28AA places a positive duty on the relevant local authorities—namely, Auckland Regional Council, Waitakere City Council, and Rodney District Council—to “establish and maintain processes to provide opportunities for ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... that this bill was put forward after extensive consultation with every group possible—Waitakere City Council, Auckland Regional Council, and Rodney District Council—and was supported by many residents’ and ratepayers’ groups. The professional polls, which ...
Second Reading 19 Sep 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... time. I am delighted to move this local bill on behalf of the promoting councils, the Waitakere City Council, the Auckland Regional Council, and the Rodney District Council. I warmly thank those councils for the privilege they have given me of taking charge ...
STEVE CHADWICK ... percent community support. The bill was promoted by the Waitakere City Council, the Rodney District Council, and the Auckland Regional Council. The bill will provide a long-term policy framework with statutory support, and it will now address the cumulative ...
PAULA BENNETT ... when one looks at some of the properties and the way they are treated, one sees they are treated better than the Auckland Regional Council and the local councils treat their properties. That happens because the owners care more about them than the councils ...
KEITH LOCKE ... long campaign drew support from the community, MPs, the Waitakere City Council, the Rodney District Council, and the Auckland Regional Council. They are all supporting this bill. I think what is happening here today through this bill is important for the whole ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... been set for how mana whenua are likely to be recognised by the Waitakere City Council, Rodney District Council, and Auckland Regional Council in working with iwi to promote the long-term protection and enhancement of this area and its heritage features. We too, ...
DARIEN FENTON ... the bill—are protected for future generations to enjoy. I commend the councils involved in promoting this bill, the Auckland Regional Council, the Rodney District Council, and the Waitakere City Council, for their foresight and their determination. I also ...
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill—Postponement 13 Jun 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... The bill is a local bill and I will be consulting with the respective councils, Waitakere City, Rodney City, and the Auckland Regional Council, in my capacity as the MP for Waitakere and the sponsor of the bill.
First Reading 22 Feb 2006
LYNNE PILLAY ... area is mainly in Waitakere City, but extends naturally into the southern Rodney District. Three councils—the Auckland Regional Council, Waitakere City Council, and Rodney District Council—have come together to promote the bill. They have worked closely ...
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... The first is that the current legislation for protecting areas on a national basis is flawed. The second is that the Auckland Regional Council, the Waitakere City Council and the Rodney District Council are not utilising the legislation appropriately—that they ...
HONE HARAWIRA ... tangata whenua? Does it protect te taiao, which includes the flora and fauna? Or does it just protect jobs for the Auckland Regional Council, the Waitakere City Council, the Rodney District Council, the Department of Conservation, and all the resource ...
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... day basis—the balancing of private landholder rights with public expectations—which the Waitakere City Council, the Auckland Regional Council, and the Rodney District Council have joined forces to resolve. The notion of a local bill to protect the Waitakere ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... Samuels, such as the members of Waitakere City Council led by the mayor, Rodney District Council, and, of course, the Auckland Regional Council. It has been a real culmination of so much hard work, passion, and energy and it is a really proud moment to stand in ...