PROPERTY IDENTIFICATION CODE

Mr PEDERICK (Hammond) (15:10): My question is again to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. Will the government introduce online registration for the property identification code fee and, if so, when and how will it affect the amount of the fee?

The Hon. M.F. O'BRIEN (Napier—Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Energy, Minister for the Northern Suburbs) (15:10): I thank the member for Hammond. I had a discussion yesterday with my departmental officers on this particular issue to see whether we could actually reduce the quantum of the fee. It was a reasonably wide-ranging discussion and we are looking at online registration, but the advice that I was given, member for Hammond, was that the figure, which I believe is $38 per annum, is probably as fine as we can shave it. But we are considering that option and I believe it will be adopted.