Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he wants to explore the possibility of scrapping New Zealand’s regional councils as the Government reforms the Resource Management Act.
NZ First minister Shane Jones told a local government forum last week his party does not see a compelling case for maintaining regional government. . .
Luxon said Bishop, as Minister for RMA Reform, would bring a bill before the House before the end of the year but also said he believed there were too many layers of government.
Jones, speaking at last week’s forum as reported by the Post, said there was “less and less of a justifiable purpose for maintaining regional government” after the expected RMA reform.
“After the upcoming changes to the RMA, I doubt, well, certainly in the party I belong to, that there’s going to be a compelling case for regional government to continue to exist.“ . . .
We are over-governed and too many layers of government are part of the problem.
If changes to the RMA make regional councils redundant, we’ll benefit from one less layer and lower costs which should come with that and it ought to be achieved without compromising the environment.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
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