Very happy with the ODT quotation of me from an informative debate last night.

“Cr Vandervis said Dunedin needed to ‘‘lose’’ the Otago Regional Council and restructure its own operation to be financially and environmentally sustainable.

The regional council was getting in the way of development beside the Otago Harbour, he said.

He wanted slimmed-down council agendas and a focus on land-use zoning to be pulled back.

Cr Vandervis and Mr Simms believed the council should get out of Local Government New Zealand.”