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The Green Party believes that by introducing this Bill under urgency, without any chance for public input, on the grounds that it provides " certainty for operators" this Government is weakening the regulatory regime, weakening our environmental laws, and making it much less certain for the environment. More

The Green party believes that this Government's attitude is do the drilling as fast as you can, do not care about the environment, but have a regime that just weakens the protections for the environment and encourages exploitation as fast as possible. More

The Green Part believes this Government is shutting down the right to have a say. It is totally undemocratic, because the Government wants to make it easy for the big corporates—the trans-national oil companies, the Chinese State companies—to More

I would just like to acknowledge the families. Thank you, all of the families who have worked with me on this issue. Thank you, all of the families who could get no help from any other MP on this issue. More

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koe, tēnā koutou te Whare nui. It is not great to be here; I think we should be at a select committee, I really do. I am very, very disappointed that we are not, because this is a very serious oversight on an issue that, if all these years of angst have gone on, we should be talking about to the people who are experiencing it. More

It has certainly been a long day, but it is nothing like as hard as what it is to take care of a family member with complete absence of mobility, and nothing like as hard as it is to be that person trying to live a good, independent, and self-determining life without money coming into your family that actually reflects what you are needing. That is much, much harder than listening to this debate. More

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): It is indeed ironic that this bill, the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill (No 2) , that supposedly addresses historic discrimination turns out to be a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act . It More