Submissions and presentations
View our submissions and public presentations that cover various aspects of retirement, superannuation, ACC, and tax policy in New Zealand.
Presentations
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PIE Presentation 2025-1: Housing for a lifetime. . Size: 645.7 kB.
Document Description: Keynote presentation at Professional Development Conference in Auckland, 4 August 2025, 'Navigating Housing and Homelessness in 2025', at Ceramco Function Centre, Glen Eden. A hui for people working with clients with a housing or homelessness issue; a day of networking, upskilling, knowledge-building and learning. For comments or questions on this presentation, contact: Dr M Claire Dale, Honorary Research Fellow, Pensions and Intergenerational Equity Research Hub, Economic Policy Centre, University of Auckland Business School: m.dale@auckland.ac.nz.
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Document Description: Keynote presentation at “Delivering Equity for Older People in New Zealand”, Conference 30 April - 1 May 2024, at Grand Millennium, Auckland. Connected communities are groups, organisations and institutions that lend, borrow, give and share the available assets, knowledge, skills, technologies and time for the benefit of the community, strengthening that community, building resilience and improving equity. For comments or questions on this presentation, contact: Dr M Claire Dale, Honorary Research Fellow, Pensions and Intergenerational Equity Research Hub, Economic Policy Centre, University of Auckland Business School: m.dale@auckland.ac.nz
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Document Description: Susan St John was a guest speaker to the 1st Annual Pension Conference hosted online by Pensión Research & Consulting: Building Gold Standard for Private Pensions, 14th September 2023. She outlined how the features of the unique pension's framework of a secure, adequate, basic income (New Zealand Superannuation) and a well-designed auto-enrolment scheme KiwiSaver are potentially good for women.
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PIE presentation 2023-1: NZAG Provider Consensus for Flourishing in Aged Care. Size: 240.7 kB.
Document Description: Dr M. Claire Dale, PIE Honorary Research Fellow and Research Fellow in the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, is part of a small multi-disciplinary team that has begun a research project to investigate aged care providers’ perceived requirements to ensure their clients flourish. Ethics Approval from the University of Auckland included protection of participants’ identities, ensuring their ability to speak freely during the interviews. An unexpected consensus on essentials for flourishing in aged care was revealed.
Submissions
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Submission 2026-4 Data and Statistics (Census) Amendment Bill. Size: 780.5 kB.
Document Description: PIE research associate Len Cook, previously Government Statistician for NZ (1992-2000) and UK (2000-2005) strongly recommends to the Justice Committee that a) it uses its own powers to commission an independent expert review of the Administrative Data First model and consequent cessation of the periodic Census of Population and Dwellings; and b) that it seeks advice from those affected by the Bill, including local and central government and the community, that may not have understood the extent of the proposed changes. Finally, he recommends the Minister of Statistics be asked to request the Government Statistician to begin preparations for a Census of Population and Dwellings in October 2028.
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PIE Submission 2026-3 on: Unpaid Carers new draft Action Plan. Size: 141.8 kB.
Document Description: Almost 500,000 people identified as providing informal or unpaid care in Census 2023. But 59% of these carers struggle to pay their bills, 70% experience depression or anxiety, only 21% can work full-time, and only 7% have been able to look ahead to save for retirement. Carers’ wellbeing is further diminished by inadequate or unavailable respite options.
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PIE Submission 2026-2 To Reserve Bank on Access to Cash.. Size: 76.1 kB.
Document Description: Dr M.Claire Dale thanks the Reserve Bank for recognising that access to cash is vital for our ageing population and for small businesses. Access to cash is a more critical issue when the electricity system is precarious.
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Document Description: Susan St John provided a critique of this bill from the viewpoint of whether it will improve the underlying issues of the welfare benefit system or take New Zealand further in the wrong direction. Issues of the way marital status undermine fairness are highlighted. The short timeframe for submission and hearings and the rush through parliament under urgency do not illustrate a good policy making process.
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PIE Submission 2025-3 Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill. Size: 58.6 kB.
Document Description: Dr M.Claire Dale opposes this Bill: it disempowers people and puts the environment, including our lands and oceans and all that lives in or on them, at risk. A new Government Policy Statement (GPS) can be issued by the Minister for Infrastructure to specify policies about the ‘regional or national benefits’ of certain types of projects. This gives the Minister an opportunity to dictate that certain projects have regional or national benefits, which removes testing of a project’s benefits by submitters and independent expert panels.
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Document Description: PIE suggests it is time that past consultations on WFF were valued, reviewed and acted on.
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PIE Submission 2025-1: Regulatory Standards Bill 2025. Size: 109.2 kB.
Document Description: Dr MC Dale submitted on the Regulatory Standards Bill 2025. PIE opposes this Bill in its entirety. It prioritises business and commerce over people, the environmental, the Human Rights Act, international legal obligations and any collective sense of the common or social good.
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Document Description: Dr M. Claire Dale made a short submission on the Ministry of Social Development’s Long-term Insights Briefing proposed topic for 2025: Current and future disadvantage for older NZers.
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PIE submission: 2024-1: KiwiSaver changes in Tax Bill.. Size: 331.5 kB.
Document Description: The Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill makes some changes for some parents on Paid Parental Leave. The submission argues the option chosen amounts to tokensim and will have very little impact on the identified problem of the gender pensions gap.
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PIE submission 2023: Review of the Retirement Villages Act 2003. Size: 198.7 kB.
Document Description: M. Claire Dale appreciated the opportunity to submit on this overdue review of the Retirement Villages Act 2003 and accompanying regulations. The ageing population of New Zealand is growing rapidly. The retirement village (RV) industry has responded to this growth – between 2012 and 2021 there was a 24% increase in villages, from 343 to 425, and a 65% increase in unit numbers, from 21,815 to over 36,000. There is significant variety in the size of RVs, the facilities they provide, and the costs and contracts they offer. Currently, of approximately 900,000 New Zealanders aged 65+, around 50,800 live in retirement villages.