Last year, the Government ran an eight-week consultation period with councils to ensure that they had the chance to be heard. This was a formalised process following significant engagement with councils and iwi around the motu. As a direct result of that process, we established a representation, governance, and accountability working group to take a second look at the proposed governance structure. The working group came back with 47 recommendations and, as a Government, we accepted 44 of them. These changes have improved the three waters reform and addressed the feedback we heard from councils and iwi Māori, and I want to thank the working group members for their involvement.