More Three Waters goodness

The Herald reports:

The Government introduced 130 pages of amendments to a piece of controversial Three Waters legislation, just hours after that bill was passed – and before it had even been given the royal assent by the Governor-General.

The Three Waters Entities Bill passed its third reading on the morning of December 8, ending its journey through Parliament, but just hours after it was passed, Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta introduced two new bills, one of which – The Water Services Legislation Bill – included 130 pages of amendments to the bill that had just passed.

National’s local government spokesman Simon Watts said this was poor law-making and smacked of mischievousness. He alleged the Government was fixing mistakes it made in the original bill, hours after it was passed, and that Mahuta chose to include fairly contentious parts of the There Waters legislation in the subsequent bill to avoid public scrutiny.

I can’t recall this ever having happened before – 130 pages of amendment to a bill that itself had just been passed hours earlier.

It’s either incompetence or malice.