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Correspondence and other information given to the Green Party shows the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) used lawyers to argue against Tasman District Council (TDC) testing for dioxin during the recent toxic site clean-up at Mapua.

Green Party MP Keith Locke says Police Commissioner Howard Broad’s day long consultation with MPs before deciding to introduce Tasers is a travesty.

"My high hopes that Mr Broad was serious about hearing MPs have been dashed by this sudden decision," Mr Locke says.

News that increasing numbers of families in the far north are being forced into mortgagee sales should be a wake up call to Government and all political parties about the seriousness of the current housing crisis, the Green Party says.

The Green Party is calling on the Government to intervene to help hundreds of New Zealanders who are experiencing significant adverse reactions to a new formulation of thyroid medication Eltroxin.

"I am getting emails and letters from desperate patients every day, and the situation is critical," Ms Kedgley says.

Green Party MP Keith Locke has expressed astonishment that Transit New Zealand (now the New Zealand Transport Agency) has admitted the Waterview motorway project has no clear benefit, and that the agency has not considered the future price of oil in its project analysis.

Green Party MP Sue Bradford's third private member's bill in this term of Parliament is expected to pass its final reading in the House this evening.

Her Corrections (Mothers with Babies) Amendment Bill has attracted unusually unanimous support from across all parties.

The Green Party is welcoming the debate opened by a NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development report which calls on the Government to implement a water trading system.

But the party is warning there are potential "fish hooks" in the scheme.

Auckland Green Party MP Keith Locke has criticised the recommendation to build the Waterview Connection via a private-public partnership (PPP).

"The recommendation from the Waterview Connection Procurement Steering Group will be a costly way to build a motorway we don’t need right now," Mr Locke, the Party’s Spokesperson on Auckland Transport Issues, says.