Mentions of Waitakere City Council in New Zealand Parliament debates
Waitakere City Council has been mentioned in 45 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statements 4 Oct 2011
LYNNE PILLAY ... entrusted with the passage of the Waitakere Ranges Heritage 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-ter...
Weathertight Homes Resolution Services (Financial Assistance Package) Amendment Bill 2010
In Committee 7 Jul 2011
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... me in my tracks. It was to do with a couple of apartment blocks at Westward Ho. Block A had been consented by the Waitakere City Council, and block B had been consented by an independent certifier. Under joint and several liability law, at least the people ...
Second Reading 12 May 2011
Hon SHANE JONES ... into a leaky building disaster. To make matters worse, the super-city, having taken over the responsibilities of Waitakere City Council, has also hired deep-pocketed Queen Street - based lawyers, whose willingness to solve the problem is inversely related ...
Child and Family Protection Bill
Second Reading 9 Sep 2010
CARMEL SEPULONI ... Man Alive, Viviana, and Violence Free Waitakere. The Waitakere police are part of this task force, as is the Waitakere City Council Mayor, Bob Harvey. In fact, I think it was with his leadership that this task force began, which the Deputy Mayor, ...
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 ... At the moment there are eight chief executive officers, and we have to look back to see what happened in the past. Waitakere City Council had a chief executive officer a few years ago who collected $700,000 in redundancy as he walked out of the door. I ask ...
Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill
In Committee 2 Jun 2010
LYNNE PILLAY ... have? If we think of Project Twin Streams, and of the myriad local organisations that are well supported by Waitakere City Council, what assurance do they have that they will be able to continue to fulfil their roles, to continue to represent ...
In Committee 1 Jun 2010
SUE KEDGLEY ... boards. Well, what about the local boards? We have wiped out eight perfectly well-functioning councils, including Waitakere City Council, which is one of the most innovative councils in New Zealand, and, likewise, Manukau City Council. We have replaced ...
Second Reading 27 May 2010
DAVID CLENDON ... a degree of working together in common. The individual councils were making their mark in some very positive ways. Waitakere City Council, with its eco-city vision, had built a unique character identity for the west, which was having some very good, positive,...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 17 Feb 2010
SUE KEDGLEY ... deemed to be Rogernomics II, seven perfectly well-functioning city councils will simply cease to exist. Councils like Waitakere City Council and Manukau City Council—which are amongst the most innovative, the best supported, and the most successful councils in ...
Land Transport (Enforcement Powers) Amendment Bill
In Committee 20 Oct 2009
CAROL BEAUMONT ...s—it used the examples of car rallies and Christmas parades—should not be captured in the definition of “cruising”. The Waitakere City Council thought that the by-law approach may not be effective and could lead to displacement for boy racers. It thought, like ...
Internal Affairs
Waitakere City Council—Gaming Consents 22 Sep 2009
RAHUI KATENE What advice has he received about the actions of Waitakere City Council, which has decided to stop granting consents for more gambling venues and gaming machines, and is its new “sinking-lid” ...
Hon NATHAN GUY I am advised that a number of territorial authorities have adopted sinking-lid policies. The Waitakere City Council policy appears to be an example of a territorial authority using the provisions of the Gambling Act to help to achieve ...
Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... and that have not managed to get on to local councils. Some of that leadership for change comes from Tāmaki, from Waitakere City Council and Manukau City Council. Manukau City Council, in particular, has been strong on te Tiriti dialogue and cultural ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... a Pacific Advisory Board. If I look at my community of Waitakere, I see that there is a Pacific advisory board at the Waitakere City Council as well as an ethnic advisory board and a youth council. That progress happens in a city like Waitakere. I hope that ...
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
Hon RODNEY HIDE ... I also point out that the issue has come before the various councils of Auckland—including Manukau City Council, Waitakere City Council, and North Shore City Council—and those councils have consistently voted down having Māori seats. I find Labour’s ...
Second Reading 15 Sep 2009
Hon TAU HENARE ... the problem, so they will support him. Where was Len Brown in the Manukau City Council? Where was Bob Harvey in the Waitakere City Council? In fact, where was Andrew Williams in the North Shore City Council? Labour members’ talking about delivering Māori ...
Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill
In Committee 9 Sep 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... listen. Either way, it is vacuous; she has delivered nothing. Paula Bennett would not return the phone calls of the Waitakere City Council. She presents herself as a defender of west Auckland, yet she is selling it down the river. Tim Groser could not be ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... support those amendments. In the event of that not happening, my amendment—and this amendment was requested by the Waitakere City Council—seeks to enable councils to identify trees in a more achievable, less bureaucratic, and less red-tape sort of way. If ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... measure to schedule all of the trees there. It may be physically possible in the extreme, but it will cost the Waitakere City Council an arm and a leg in time, money, and attention. It will cost the residents of my city a huge amount of bother at a time ...
Labour
Pay and Employment Equity Unit—Closure 30 Jun 2009
Sue Moroney ... the unit has yet to complete pay equity reviews for thousands of staff at 15 polytechnics, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, the Waitakere City Council, HortResearch, one university, and the Teachers Council?
Public Works (Offer Back of and Compensation for Acquired Land) Amendment Bill
First Reading 17 Jun 2009
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... by the Auckland Harbour Board in the 1950s under the Public Works Act for development as a deepwater port. The Waitakere City Council set aside part of the land for a marae project in 2002, but the actual site is encompassed within land that the ...
Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau Reorganisation) Bill
In Committee 16 May 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... It is a city that treasures the arts and promotes smart business. The role of the territorial authority, the Waitakere City Council, has been crucial in achieving that. The member Sam Lotu-Iiga is a councillor as well as an MP and he should not trash ...
In Committee 14 May 2009
SUE KEDGLEY ... happen that our very effective eight Auckland city councils were wiped out overnight?”. What is the problem with the Waitakere City Council, the North Shore City Council, and the Manukau City Council? What is the great evil that they have done? Their ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... the existing local councils. It could not justify getting rid of Manukau City Council, North Shore City Council, and Waitakere City Council.
General Debate 29 Apr 2009
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... builder in Auckland put in a consent to the Manukau City Council and got it through. He put the same consent into the Waitakere City Council and had it rejected. That is sheer madness. In return for that, we also recognise that down at the smaller community ...
Urgent Debates - Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response
Royal Commission on Auckland Governance—Government Response 8 Apr 2009
SUE KEDGLEY ... and all of the democracy they represent. The Government is proposing to wipe out very effective local councils. The Waitakere City Council is strongly supported by its community. The Manukau City Council is strongly supported by that city. Those councils ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... elected on the basis of a gerrymandered system. Local democracy and local government are being gutted. Councils like Waitakere City Council and Manukau City Council have demonstrated over the last two decades just how efficient and effective local councils ...
Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill 2008
First Reading 5 Mar 2009
Hon Dr RICHARD WORTH ... purpose reserve status over a residential subdivision—mostly now developed—on land that is currently vested in the Waitakere City Council for cemetery purposes. I have responded to the interjection of the honourable member. Clauses 50 to 52 remove all ...
KELVIN DAVIS ... to us. But what concerns me about that parcel of land is that a bit of it was sold off in a shonky land deal. The Waitakere City Council, without lawful authority, disposed of the land. It subdivided the land and sold it off privately to people, a few ...
Environment
Resource Management Act—Reforms 18 Feb 2009
Dr Russel Norman Is the Minister aware of the recent Environment Court decision regarding the Waitakere Ranges and the Waitakere City Council, whereby the Environment Court ensured that there were much fewer subdivisions in the Waitakere Ranges, hence ...
Dr Russel Norman Does the Minister realise that in that case the Environment Court overruled the Waitakere City Council plan because the council wanted to have a certain number of subdivisions and the Environment Court said that it had to ...
Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Bill
Second Reading 4 Sep 2008
SUE BRADFORD ... real housing needs. In the Auckland region, for example, five out of six councils opposed the bill, with only the Waitakere City Council supporting it while taking the position that the bill should go further and make affordable housing compulsory for all ...
Summary Offences (Tagging and Graffiti Vandalism) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 19 Jun 2008
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... excellent councils have 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...
Second Reading 20 May 2008
RON MARK ... 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, Upper Hutt, Wellington, and Hamilton, and the Far North ...
Housing
Housing Affordability—Hobsonville Development 3 Apr 2008
Hon MARYAN STREET I seek leave to table a press release from the Waitakere City Council welcoming the initiatives in the affordable housing bill.
Securities (Local Authority Exemption) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 3 Apr 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... strategy. To use that one example, it therefore follows that it is essential that local and regional councils like Waitakere City Council, and the Auckland Regional Council and its subsidiary, the Auckland Regional Transport Authority, are able to take a ...
Building Amendment Bill 2007
In Committee 20 Nov 2007
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... said to other people and to me when I was the Minister, that they were doing things like drive-by inspections. The Waitakere City Council was a good example of that with the famous case of the house of Colleen Dicks, where the inspector signed off the house ...
Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill
First Reading 19 Sep 2007
SUE BRADFORD ... named in the bill and does not see why North Shore residents should do any more than they do at present. The Waitakere City Council has also raiseed a number of objections, and I will come to some of those in a moment. However, I would first like to ...
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... a funding share. 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 ...
Manukau City Council (Control of Graffiti) Bill
Second Reading 27 Jun 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF ... City Council is doing with 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 ...
Weathertight Homes Resolution Services (Remedies) Amendment Bill
In Committee 8 Aug 2007
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... I will make this point. I will mention the name Colleen Dicks to the member. Colleen Dicks’ house was signed off by a Waitakere City Council inspector. After having been subjected to the building of a builder who was, to put it politely, substandard, Colleen ...
First Reading 24 May 2007
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... claimable in an action before the Weathertight Homes Tribunal. That argument was taken apart by Judge McElrea in the Waitakere City Council case; he carefully disassembled the argument advanced by Sir Robert Smellie by saying it was not consistent with the ....
Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Easter Trading) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 16 May 2007
DARIEN FENTON ... 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 number of shopping-free days we ...
Building and Construction
Leaky Homes—Reaction to Proposed Package 27 May 2010
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON Very, very good news, actually! Three of the key, most affected local authorities—that is, Wellington City Council, Waitakere City Council, and North Shore City Council—last night all voted unanimously to support the Government’s leaky home package. Together,...
Leaky Homes—Government Policy 9 May 2007
Bob Clarkson Is the Minister aware of the case concerning Mrs Colin Dicks, who won a case against the Waitakere City Council for $251,000; and in his opinion did she get a fair deal?
Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 16 May 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... the hundreds of thousands of emails, which gave us heart and clogged up our BlackBerrys. I am proud of the Waitakere City Council, which, in line with its children first policy, was the first council to speak up and state strongly that section 59 ...
In Committee 2 May 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... the local organisations in Waitakere that were so supportive and promoted the anti-violence message. In fact, Waitakere City Council was the first council to stand up and say that it wanted to see a change made to section 59. I thank the select ...
Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Bill 2006
First Reading 31 Aug 2006
SUE BRADFORD ... Right from the start significant problems began to emerge, even with the first case in West Auckland, where the Waitakere City Council was left to carry the can and pay more than $40,000 damages to the owners of a Glendene home, because the builders said ...
Transport
Roading—Congestion Charges, Auckland 4 May 2006
David Bennett Does the Minister agree with recent media releases by both Waitakere City Council and North Shore City Council that claim there exists a pressing need to provide attractive transport alternatives, ...
Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill
Third Reading 2 Apr 2008
LYNNE PILLAY ... Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt, who is 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 ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area. This bill therefore carries 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 ...
JOHN CARTER ... given this 100 percent, so on that they can be complimented. I would say to the local authority—it is primarily the Waitakere City Council, but it is not just that council—and the first thing I would place on the record is that I am not certain this move is ...
JOHN CARTER ... it does not do anything more, then why is this Parliament spending taxpayers’ money and why are the ratepayers of the Waitakere City Council spending their money on a bill that ends up doing nothing? That is the point I would make to the member opposite who ...
DAIL JONES ... That is a different matter. Outside that area, people’s property values will be affected. That will be thanks to the Waitakere City Council and to those people who have supported this bill. As has been mentioned by David Cunliffe, the really smart people ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... 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 the bill to establish and ...
DARIEN FENTON ... 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 thank my local Labour MP, my staunch friend Lynne Pillay, ...
PAULA BENNETT ... it and it certainly feels like it for the residents of Waitakere and I am sure for the councils, and particularly Waitakere City Council, which sponsored the bill. I stand up with a smile because this bill has been a true reflection of democracy in New ...
PAULA BENNETT ... Mr Cunliffe to sit there earlier and talk about how no new person has been employed. That is not true. Already the Waitakere City Council has advertised for someone to work on this bill. I finish with a final plea, and that plea would be that we turn this ...
In Committee 12 Mar 2008
PAULA BENNETT ... is how what they want will actually be achieved. It is quite interesting; I was reading a press release from the Waitakere City Council on 10 March—just 2 days ago. The council is quite clearly talking about its budget deliberations. Councillor Janet ...
DAIL JONES ... interfering in our affairs. I have to congratulate Lynne Pillay on ably trying to carry out the work of the Waitakere City Council, as any local member must, but we do not need the Waitakere City Council coming to Wellington to get Wellington’s ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... it is difficult for him to comprehend this stuff, that the reality is that within the Waitakere Ranges, under the Waitakere City Council, most activity—
Hon TAU HENARE ... 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 state of the environment. They already have to make ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... consultation. I know that she has been at every meeting. She has spent interminable hours with community groups, the Waitakere City Council and other councils, the Clerk’s Office, and the Bills Office getting the draft prepared. She is here today not to take ...
DAIL JONES ... thousand hectares was given to the people of Auckland in that way; why can we not do that any more? This bill of the Waitakere City Council will prevent that from happening. During the course of the debate various comments have been made about the name, the ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... and a common vision for a fantastic future for this generation 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 ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... 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 by the organisations that rule the roost at the moment. ...
In Committee 20 Feb 2008
PAULA BENNETT I stand to speak on the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill, which is being promoted by the Waitakere City Council. First I will address the way in which the community has had to deal with this issue. Although differing opinions are a ...
LYNNE PILLAY It is a pleasure to stand and speak in support of this bill. I note that the previous speaker 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 ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... History will record the West Auckland members Lynne Pillay, David Cunliffe, and Chris Carter, and the Mayor of Waitakere City Council, Bob Harvey, and his team as the visionaries. I doubt very much whether the Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt is listening to the ...
DAIL JONES ... out and buying the land—this additional 10,000 hectares, which has been in private ownership for a long time—the Waitakere City Council wants, effectively, to gain control as if it were the owner of the land and control the way in which people use the ....
NICKY WAGNER ... the Resource Management Act. This issue was further clouded, as we heard from John Carter earlier tonight, by the Waitakere City Council officials who seemed to be confused themselves, and that is a charitable explanation of it. They were confused about ...
PAULA BENNETT ... Heritage Area Bill in our mind and the intention that members had when the bill was first introduced, and that of the Waitakere City Council in the long discussions we have had for more than 10 years in the community of Waitakere and west Auckland, as has been ...
JOHN HAYES ... seems to me that if the people living elsewhere in this country were to be given the same stronger powers that the Waitakere City Council is demanding, then we have to do that for everybody. It seems to me that this area is no more important than the Crown ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... 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 suppose I will just bring the Committee back to the ...
DAIL JONES ... in the community. This clause to some extent also highlights the division in the viewpoint on this bill between the Waitakere City Council and the Rodney District Council. If we look at schedule 1 at the back of the bill we will see a map. It is only in the ...
DAIL JONES ... Council will not permit an attack on property rights because of the sound views of the council, but of course the Waitakere City Council has no hesitation in attacking property rights. So to say there is no division in the areas is totally wrong. Even the ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... 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 Ngati Whatua and Te ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... I think it is important, 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. ...
DAIL JONES ... there but we will not be concerned about their housing needs? That is what the bill says without my amendment. This Waitakere City Council bill is saying: “We do not care about housing needs in the area; people can live there but what they live in goodness ...
MARK BLUMSKY ... cost? Will it stuff up property rights? Will it enhance property rights? Members of the community do not know. The Waitakere City Council, I believe, has done this wrong. It should have stepped back when it saw that the community was not on board as much as ...
COLIN KING ... regulations. That is what we have received under this Labour Government. What I see here is a senior executive of the Waitakere City Council controlling the elected members, and that was borne out, effectively, by the way that the advisers treated with ...
Second Reading 19 Sep 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... Area Bill be now read a second 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 ...
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... we come to some of the issues that have been raised by the member. There is in law, right now, the capacity for the Waitakere City Council to be able to rewrite its district plan. National is of the view that, at the moment, the time it takes on average to ...
STEVE CHADWICK ... local bill. It is what the people of the area want. It had 80 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 ...
KEITH LOCKE ... Kath Dewar has held a leading office in that society, and a 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 ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... They seek to have a voice. The stage has now 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 ...
... members opposite forget, I remind them that the last time the National Party had influence of any measure on the Waitakere City Council, which was around 1998, the then council overrode the district plan and was taken to the Environment Court because it ...
DARIEN FENTON ... 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 commend all the citizens of Waitakere who have been so passionate ...
First Reading 22 Feb 2006
LYNNE PILLAY ... 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 with iwi and local MPs. I ...
Hon BRIAN DONNELLY ... 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 are making bad decisions or ...
HONE HARAWIRA ... 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 management consultants? How will the ...
Hon PETER DUNNE ... private property rights are infringed by the bill. I note with considerable concern that when this matter went to the Waitakere City Council on 24 May last year, a resolution that the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Bill be subject to the rights for ...
RODNEY HIDE ... future generations, but I ask myself why we need this bill. We have a Resource Management Act—and, heaven knows, the Waitakere City Council has been prepared to exercise enormous powers over property owners in order to implement its plans—so I am left failing ...
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE In the words of Waitakere City Council mayor Bob Harvey: “The Waitakere Ranges are an indelible blue image on the western horizon—a glorious backdrop to New ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... There are people who have worked alongside David, me, Chris Carter, and also Dover 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 ...