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Speaker 1: But a concern on the coast. The Great District Council

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Speaker 1: wants assurances over a government promise and this was to

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Speaker 1: suspend any new significant natural areas. This is a major

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Speaker 1: issue in country areas all over the country trouble as

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Speaker 1: the legislations yet to pass. It was part of the

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Speaker 1: government's one hundred day plans. So the potential cost of

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Speaker 1: having to remap as the law currently stands, REMAP is

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Speaker 1: leading the West Coast rate pays a bit exposed. The

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Speaker 1: Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard is with us morning to

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Speaker 1: you wait, boke, can you offer them any reassurance?

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Speaker 2: So it did write a letter to them on Friday

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Speaker 2: and the other councils they're debating the Regional planment just

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Speaker 2: basically emphasized that we are sticking to our commitment that

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, the legislation around preventing the mapping of

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Speaker 2: new SNAs is progressing through the House, will be passed

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Speaker 2: within the next couple of months. But that doesn't help

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Speaker 2: them with their regional policy statement, which is a local

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Speaker 2: thing where they've taken a whole bunch of stuff out

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Speaker 2: of the old m People are the NPS and I

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Speaker 2: just reemphasized that we are intending to make changes to

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Speaker 2: the NPS that we're going to be getting very shortly,

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Speaker 2: and you know, they've made the pragmatic decision, thankfully, to

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Speaker 2: just press pause on that part until they've got clague.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've made those changes. They can see what

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Speaker 2: those changes are, so.

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Speaker 1: Your reassurance is enough. In other words, I think they're

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Speaker 1: exercised about the fact the law hasn't changed. Therefore the

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Speaker 1: law is currently still the law. Therefore they have to

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Speaker 1: adhere to the law. Is that the problem?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, And unfortunately I can't go and change

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Speaker 2: the law environmentes as much as i'd.

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Speaker 1: Like to know, where is it at? Literally when you

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Speaker 1: say a couple of months, we don't know or are

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Speaker 1: we waiting for public submissions or where is it.

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Speaker 2: At the submissions of it? So that this is part

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Speaker 2: of what we call the RIM Bill one and it

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Speaker 2: has done its first reading in the House. It's been

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Speaker 2: a select committee. So it'll be coming back, I believe,

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Speaker 2: with a reasonable pretty close to it a month or

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Speaker 2: so for the second reading. Then we'll have the committee,

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Speaker 2: the whole House and the third reading. So assuming everything

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Speaker 2: works normally, should be within a couple of months that

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Speaker 2: it has fully passed through the.

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Speaker 1: House because of course, for the coast, I mean, a

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Speaker 1: massive suathes of their land could be snated, couldn't they,

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Speaker 1: And they why they don't need that?

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Speaker 2: No, And it's absolutely ridiculous. I mean very center of

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Speaker 2: the coasters and the dock stayed anyway, for them to

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Speaker 2: feel the knee or anyone to feel the knee that

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Speaker 2: they've got to go and capture all these little spots

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Speaker 2: of trees on private landowner's property makes no sense. There's

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Speaker 2: already have a lot of significant biodiversity that's already protected

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Speaker 2: down there. It just makes no sense whatsoever to capture

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Speaker 2: this private owner own Does any of it.

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Speaker 1: Ever make sense from what the previous government we're looking

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Speaker 1: to do. All it seemed to do is create angst

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Speaker 1: in the rural community.

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Speaker 2: Credit hell of angst. And when you look at it,

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Speaker 2: the amount of biodiversity that's locked you know, it's not

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Speaker 2: locked up by laws and stuff, but farmers have voluntarily

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Speaker 2: put huge amounts of land into QB two covenants. I

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Speaker 2: think if you added the most get that they're like

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Speaker 2: Fiftlands National Park in the country. That's massive to me

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Speaker 2: or you know, the sensible thing. You've got a clear

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Speaker 2: desire from farmers out of there to protect what's on

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Speaker 2: their property, work with them, not impose rules on them.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, all right, So the message has been sent

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Speaker 1: so the councils can head pause. Andrew Hogart and an

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Speaker 1: Associate Environment minister.

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