The government is introducing legislation to ban unelected individuals from voting on local council committees, emphasizing democratic accountability, while acknowledging exceptions under treaty settlements and affirming ongoing work on local government reform.
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Oh, look, the reality is there's been a lot of feedback from councils and individuals across the country. Uh, this is a matter that's been in law. Go back two, three uh uh parties uh before this government, uh, and we've taken a look at it. It is a significant issue by terms of feedback we've had, uh, and we're going to be making the change. So I've got a bill on the table in the House at the moment, and we'll do an amendment. But importantly, yeah, the principle here is that people who aren't democratically elected should not have voting rights and the spending of ratepayer money. Uh, that's not uh democratic. I I don't agree with that. And as a government we're going to fix it.
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