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What assessment, if any, has been made of the effect of amalgamation and the abolition of regional councils on existing Treaty settlement co-governance and co-management arrangements, and how many such arrangements, if any, will require renegotiation?

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Tangi Utikere

Member for Palmerston North · Labour Party

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  • What assessment, if any, has been made of the effect of amalgamation and the abolition of regional councils on existing Treaty settlement co-governance and co-management arrangements, and how many such arrangements, if any, will require renegotiation?

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Hon Simon Watts

Member for North Shore · National Party · Minister of Local Government

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I have received advice from the Ministry of Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport on the broad Treaty settlement impacts of the Simplifying Local Government work programme and Head Start pathway and in the context of planning system reform.