Will the Minister apologise to the Waitaki District Council for using their 2026/27 Annual Plan to demonstrate the savings a rates cap could have made in answer to oral question 4 on 26 August 2026, without first taking out the water services portion of the annual plan that would have been excluded in a rates cap?
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Mike Davidson
List MP · Green Party
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Will the Minister apologise to the Waitaki District Council for using their 2026/27 Annual Plan to demonstrate the savings a rates cap could have made in answer to oral question 4 on 26 August 2026, without first taking out the water services portion of the annual plan that would have been excluded in a rates cap?
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Simon Watts
Member for North Shore · National Party · Minister of Local Government
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No.