Mentions of New Zealand Steel Limited in New Zealand Parliament debates
New Zealand Steel Limited has been mentioned in 30 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statements 29 Sep 2011
Hon Sir ROGER DOUGLAS ... higher off the ground than yours.” You know, he could be incredible in many ways, Lange. I had to deal with the New Zealand Steel expansion, which was part of the previous Government’s Think Big. It was actually a financial disaster. John Ingram, ...
General Debate 22 Jun 2011
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... banking system? Would they seriously suggest today that it would be a really good idea for the Government to own New Zealand Steel? That is the space they are in now. They are now in the space of saying that anything that is publicly owned must ...
General Debate 22 Jun 2011
SIMON BRIDGES That $9.49 billion worth of assets was sold by one Phil Goff. Maybe we should go through them. There was New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, Health Computing Services, Development Finance Corporation, the Post Office, the Shipping Corporation, Air ...
General Debate 6 Apr 2011
Hon TONY RYALL ... Goff and Annette King were in a Government that sold $9.5 billion of public assets. Phil Goff was first up to sell New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, and the Health Computing Services in 1988. Then Annette King and Phil Goff while in Government sold DFC New ...
Tariff (Malaysia Free Trade Agreement) Amendment Bill
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... market is not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination, and it is growing. Let me give another example. New Zealand Steel lines currently face 50 percent tariffs; by 2016 those will be tariff-free. That is a great example of how this free-trad...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... market is not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination, and it is growing. Let me give another example. New Zealand Steel lines currently face 50 percent tariffs; by 2016 those will be tariff-free. That is a great example of how this free-trad...
In Committee 24 Jun 2010
STUART NASH ... market is not insignificant by any stretch of the imagination, and it is growing. Let me give another example. New Zealand Steel lines currently face 50 percent tariffs; by 2016 those will be tariff-free. That is a great example of how this free-trad...
Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill
In Committee 24 Nov 2009
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... zone. It is not like an issue like aluminium, which might be manufactured offshore. It is not like the issue of New Zealand Steel, where it might be offshore and there are competitive, at-risk issues. What we have here is an issue where the fish can ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... which I very proudly represent, to speak to my farmers, my growers, the people who work in glasshouses, the people in New Zealand Steel who employ a thousand workers, and to tell them how the previous Labour Government’s emissions trading scheme would ...
First Reading 24 Sep 2009
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... model without a cap will achieve a much more pragmatic balance for industries such as steel, aluminium, and cement. New Zealand Steel in the electorate of Hunua, which I proudly represent, employs 12,000 people locally at an average wage of $90,000, and ...
Prime Minister
State-owned Assets, Sales—Onselling Shares to Foreign Investors 6 Jul 2011
Rt Hon JOHN KEY ... if you will bear with me and just give me an extra few moments, I am happy to read the list. They would include New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, Health Computing Services, DFC, the Post Office Savings Bank, Shipping Corporation, Air New Zealand, ...
State-owned Assets—Assessment for Sale 25 May 2010
Hon JOHN KEY ... can assure the member that they will not include Telecom, the State Insurance Office, the Tourist Hotel Corporation, New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, the Government Printing Office, or the DFC, because the member has already sold those ones. [ Interruption]
Hon JOHN KEY ... who sold Telecom, the State Insurance Office, the Post Office Bank, Air New Zealand, the Tourist Hotel Corporation, New Zealand Steel, Petrocorp, the Government Printing Office, the DFC, the National Film Unit, the Rural Banking and Finance Corporation, ...
Emissions Trading Scheme—Subsidising of Heavy Emitters 15 Sep 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... climate change is a global problem. The Leader of the Opposition might think it makes sense to close down Comalco, New Zealand Steel, and a number of other major New Zealand companies, and to have them be established in some other part of the world, ...
Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Forestry Sector) Amendment Bill 2009
Second Reading 30 Jun 2009
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... there is not the political agreement that he thought there was. They are in a real bind. It is interesting that New Zealand Steel, when it heard of today’s delay, said that it was surprised to hear about it. It has been proceeding on the basis that ...
Energy (Fuels, Levies, and References) Biofuel Obligation Repeal Bill
Third Reading 17 Dec 2008
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... see quite a few projects around the country. People have been looking at making fuel from gas from the smokestacks at New Zealand Steel—Stephen Tindall and his team have been working in that area. People have been looking at using algae, and they are ...
Business of Select Committees - Appointments
Appointments 11 Dec 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... so important to the future of New Zealand. But another practical example in my electorate of Hunua is that of the New Zealand Steel mill. If, indeed, New Zealand Steel was to go under, New Zealand would become totally dependent on imports from ....
Central North Island Forests Land Collective Settlement Bill
In Committee 24 Sep 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... from a judgment of Justice Temm in September 1993. A challenge was made in relation to payments made under the New Zealand Steel pension fund. Clause 18 of the trust deed set out as follows: “If any question shall arise as to the interpretation of ...
Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill
In Committee 9 Sep 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... back to the bill—it is absolutely appropriate that I do so. Last week, I also spoke to the chief executive officer of New Zealand Steel. He said that by rushing through this bill, a $1 billion investment in that very strategically important plant for New ...
TIM GROSER ... head of Business New Zealand, has come out with a very trenchant criticism. My colleague Paul Hutchison talked about New Zealand Steel’s view on this bill. But all of that is dismissed as special pleading, on the basis that only this wise Government is ...
In Committee 2 Sep 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... thermal electricity generating capacity. In my electorate of Port Waikato, which I am proud to represent, is the New Zealand Steel mill. It is directly responsible for about 1,200 jobs in the area, at an average of $90,000 each; and around New ...
State Owned Enterprises
State-owned Enterprises—Performance 5 Aug 2008
Gerry Brownlee ... seek leave to table a document showing that when Michael Cullen and Helen Clark were in a Labour Government they sold New Zealand Steel for $327 million.
Climate Change Issues
Emissions Trading Scheme—Financial Benefits for Māori Families After 2013 26 Nov 2009
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... the emissions trading scheme. Thirdly, Māori are disproportionately represented in the workforce of companies such as New Zealand Steel that are in the energy-intensive area, and without these changes those jobs would be at risk.
Emissions Trading Scheme—Emissions Compared with 2008 Scheme 26 Nov 2009
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... The first is that it is this Government’s policy that we do not simply want to reduce emissions by closing down New Zealand Steel or our smelter, sending that industry offshore, and clapping our hands with joy that our emissions have gone down, only ...
Emissions Trading Scheme—Impact 2 Jul 2008
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... own Climate Change Leadership Forum has only just commissioned case studies on the impact of the scheme on Fonterra, New Zealand Steel, Fletcher Building, and Pan Pac Forest Products; will he assure the House that these reports will be completed and made ...
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill (No 2) 2007
Third Reading 26 Jun 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... of proof so that it now rests totally on the employer. It is very interesting to see what large companies such as New Zealand Steel—a very good New Zealand employer that employs over 1,200 people in my electorate—have to say about the costs. That ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... approach to them. In my last few minutes of speaking time I want to express the fact that good employers such as New Zealand Steel—employers that took a very practical aspect and view towards accident compensation—were horrified by some of the things ...
In Committee 25 Jun 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... this Labour Government is trying to bring in. One of the submissions I was particularly impressed by was that of New Zealand Steel, which is a major New Zealand employer. It employs something like 1,200 people locally in the excellent constituency of ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... Clause 20 deals with self-inflicted personal injuries and suicide. I think it is important, once again, to quote from New Zealand Steel, which is regarded as one of the very good employers around New Zealand, and particularly in Port Waikato—the area that ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... this bill could be the “Compensation for Self-inflicted Harm Bill”. I think it is really important to look at what New Zealand Steel said about this. It said the proposed changes will provide entitlements and incentives for individuals who wilfully self-...
Second Reading 17 Jun 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ...rate—something we have certainly not seen under this Labour Government. I was fascinated to read the submission from New Zealand Steel on this bill. I was particularly interested to read that company’s submission because it is well known for being a very ...
Urgent Debates - Toll Holdings—Rail and Ferry Purchase
Toll Holdings—Rail and Ferry Purchase 13 May 2008
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... change. So through financing and subsidies it can achieve that outcome—but not through ownership, not through buying New Zealand Steel or Comalco, or any of the other major manufacturing or production outfits. Let us carry on. How about we go with some ...
Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations
Waikato River—Government Negotiations with Tainui 24 May 2006
Gerry Brownlee Does the area identified by Tainui include the ironsands at Maioro, and can he rule out New Zealand Steel having to pay a royalty for those sands to Tainui in excess of what they currently have agreed?
Treaty of Waitangi—Historical Claims 29 Mar 2006
Gerry Brownlee ... where there is such a difficult conflict, he might have received some report on it. This is an issue that could see New Zealand Steel shut down within a very short time, and I do not believe for one minute that the Minister has not been acquainted with ...
Gerry Brownlee ... are that this question might lead on to. Surely, do we not have a right to expect that when the imminent closure of New Zealand Steel is at stake, the Minister may have received a briefing? Further, are we not entitled to imagine that these—
Resource Management (Climate Protection) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 17 Jun 2009
Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM ... with climate change was a global and national issue only. Members cited Franklin District Council, in whose area New Zealand Steel is located, and Southland, where a local authority might encourage coal extraction, and whose people might welcome ...
First Reading 29 Mar 2006
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... Port Waikato. I do not think it is fair that the Franklin District Council should be expected to make rules regarding New Zealand Steel, which is a major employer with over 10,000 jobs. That organisation is also a major energy emitter, but it has been ...