SIMON WATTS (National—North Shore): Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. Last Friday, the Hon Grant Robertson and the Hon Nanaia Mahuta announced the next steps of their three waters reform, and I, like many, was hoping that this Government would read the writing on the wall and see the opposition from our local communities, and potentially listen, and announce some fundamental changes—better yet, a rethink of the entire policy. But the announcements that we heard from this Government came up with nothing in regards to the concerns that have been raised by our local communities across this country. These reforms are spin, and this Labour Government is absolutely expert at doing that. That is what they do best. They obviously haven't got the message, so, today, I want to explain about National and our local communities, and why we oppose these reforms, and outline, importantly, what we see as the real alternative solutions to Labour's broken reform agenda. 