Select Committee Reports Back On RMA Replacement Bills – And It’s Shocking20 July 2026Parliament’s Environment Select Committee has today released its report on the Natural Environment Bill and Planning Bill. According to advice received by the Committee, it could cost ratepayers billions of dollars to retain them. “The Bills’ framework for environmental limits has been gutted even further. “Ministers will get to resolve conflicts between environmental limits and economic development however they wish. The Bills will now proceed to their second reading and the Committee of the Whole, where members of Parliament will be able to debate them in detail.