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One of the big challenges our Government has had to deal with has been the devastating Christchurch earthquakes. The Prime Minister has made the recovery and rebuild of Christchurch one of the four key priorities for our Government and all credit to the work of Gerry Brownlee and my Canterbury colleagues on the job they are doing to achieve this.

The lectern and backdrop for this, my 20th annual speech to Nelson Rotary is the 80,000 pages of council resource management plans and rules. If in a single pile it would stand ten metres tall and probably require a resource consent for breaching local height restrictions. This mountain of red tape well illustrates the need for an overhaul of the Resource Management Act.