‘We don’t want to overburden business,’ Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says.
Buddle Findlay’s David Allen says new legislation will save costs on consenting process but only if new National planning framework works.
OPINION: Latest delay to one of NBR’s OIA requests means information will not become available until right on Christmas.
Brooke van Velden says giving councils half the GST from new residential builds will be an incentive for consents.
David Seymour says new bills are still complicated and unlikely to resolve confusion of the RMA.
The Government is confident new law will make consenting quicker and cheaper while providing greater environmental protection.
National said most submitters opposed the bill but the Government was not listening.
Housing agency’s total debt will exceed $12b as it borrows directly from Treasury’s New Zealand Debt Management office.
Central bankers around the world ‘under attack, much of which becomes very personal, very quickly,’ he says.
David Clark says open banking will allow customers to shop around for better deals.