The Government has set out a Budget initiative to reduce gas consumption and will also legislate for greater transparency around gas supply and demand.
The agency says immediate action is needed to restore resilience and affordability.
Proposals from councils must focus on creating larger, more efficient unitary councils.
The agency wants to help encourage a shift to newer efficient vehicles without being unfair.
Ministers Seymour and Penk overturned the Overseas Investment Office’s advice not to sell three South Otago dairy farms to foreign investors.
Proposal would raise $80 million a year, charging people $6 a day.
ANALYSIS: The coalition Government faces a bumpy ride to the election.
Whatever happens, a Bill of some sort needs to pass, he says.
Chair Michele Embling says the remuneration package has been ‘reset’ with the appointment of a new chief executive.
Brooke van Velden expects changes to individual and collective contracts during the transition to the new Employment Leave Bill.