Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 8, 2022 5:45:58 GMT 12
NO CO-GOVERNANCE IN RMA REFORMS - ENVIRONMENT MINISTER DAVID PARKER
Environment Minister David Parker has brushed aside a suggestion from the Waitangi Tribunal that the Government move to put co-governance measures into the replacement for the Resource Management Act.
The New Zealand Maori Council took the claim against the Government's plans to give iwi and hapu the leading role in determining the Māori representatives.
In an interim report, the tribunal concluded the Crown was not in breach of the Treaty with its current proposal.
The report did, however, float the idea that the new planning committees be co-governed 50-50 between local government and Māori - an arrangement similar to the controversial co-governance proposals for the Government's three waters reforms.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/no-co-governance-in-rma-reforms-environment-minister-david-parker/LNOQLO6F3AYU6EQWV4PBO6QAJ4/
Environment Minister David Parker has brushed aside a suggestion from the Waitangi Tribunal that the Government move to put co-governance measures into the replacement for the Resource Management Act.
The New Zealand Maori Council took the claim against the Government's plans to give iwi and hapu the leading role in determining the Māori representatives.
In an interim report, the tribunal concluded the Crown was not in breach of the Treaty with its current proposal.
The report did, however, float the idea that the new planning committees be co-governed 50-50 between local government and Māori - an arrangement similar to the controversial co-governance proposals for the Government's three waters reforms.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/no-co-governance-in-rma-reforms-environment-minister-david-parker/LNOQLO6F3AYU6EQWV4PBO6QAJ4/