The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has written to the
Finance and Expenditure Committee on behalf of the more than
65,000 New Zealanders who took the time to submit on the
Water Services Entities Bill (Three Waters) through our
submission tool.
“We learnt that the committee
intends to treat these 65,000 submissions as ‘form
submissions’ and disregard them. This is especially
outrageous considering that we deliberately ensured that
submitters could personalise their submissions and many
did,” Taxpayers’ Union Local Government Campaigns
Manager Josh Van Veen says.
“We have offered our
assistance to the committee in identifying the personalised
submissions and hope that in the interest of fairness and
good public service they take us up on that.”
“To
throw out such a mammoth number of submissions would be a
slap in the face to the New Zealanders who took the time to
have their say formally on Three
Waters.”
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