Would you please advise with a simple yes or no – if you are elected, would you support pressuring the coalition Government to bring forward, and vote for, the Member’s Bill introduced by NZ First, which seeks to repeal the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Act 2021 so that decision making for fluoridation can be returned to the hands of each local council?

Mike Nicholls

Yes

Campbell Rollo

Yes

Richard Osmaston

Yes

Mel Courtney

Yes

Nigel Skeggs

Yes

Anne Michelle

Yes

Paul Lacy

Yes

Tilman Walk

Absolutely yes. 
Switzerland has tried it for 40 years and phased out Water Fluoridation over a decade ago with all of Continental Europe following suit. 
They subventionate the fluoridation of Salt now (as Iodized salt, nobody puts Jodite in our water, right? Why not? Because it would be unaffordable and the health outcomes
problematic. Funny how the same logic does not apply to Flourodite. Why? Industrial Fluoride is comparably cheap). 
Now, subventionating the Flouroditing Salt (after which people have a choice, buying the slightly cheaper fluoridated Salt or spending a few cents more for the plain variant) cost about 1-10 % of Fluoridating Water….. so the (comparable to NZ quite well off) Swiss made that decision on financial grounds. Makes sense?
Fluoridating Water is en vogue in the English speaking world. And in the english speaking world only. 
Nelson was directed to fluoridate its water at about 700.000 $ initial cost and 120.000 $ yearly cost. 
Marlborough was not. And likely will not be. 
Why? 
Marlborough is rural with multiple Waterworks, not just one like Nelson. Hence installing the stupefyingly expensive flouroditing Infrastructure would cost roughly 10 times as much if all the population should be covered.  And that would do nothing for people on tank water of whom NZ has comparably many. Flouroditing Salt would be capable of reaching all if they choose to buy the cheaper salt. At less than 10 % cost to the tax and ratepayer.
The Government shrikes away from that cost. 
So Cost IS an argument. 
So, currently all the Blah about Children’s decaying teeth seems to not apply to rural areas and families on tank water, because the cost is to high. Thats the truth for a country, that blinded by its English- only reading, chooses the blind US medical path, ignoring European evidence, just because the Director of health can not read German, French or Italian to digest the  European state of science. 

Steph Phillips

Given the current context I can’t give you a yes or no answer
Its a complex issue

Pete Rainey

No

Sarah Kerby

No

Dan Robinson

I like the idea of the repeal, but this is not a priority for me so I fall in the no camp.

Dave North

No. Fluoridisation is a proven method of reducing tooth decay.  I would prefer my taxes be spent preventing health issues rather than fixing them after they have occurred.  You should focus your efforts on something worthwhile.

Aaron Stallard

No. I wouldn’t support that decision being in the hands of Councils because the decision is best made by public health experts.

Graeme K. Tyree

 I am widely read on the issues of public flouridisation of domestic water supplies. I fully support the directive of the NZ Director of Health, and I am pleased that Nelson City Council is compliant since December 2024. 

To protect the teeth of our children, especially those aged under eight years, it is essential that our national water supplies remain flouridated. A child would have to sequentially consume over 5,000 glasses of flouridated water to receive anything near a ‘fatal dose’. Of course, their blood electrolytes would have been diluted with the first 100 glasses, and they would quickly die as a result of too much ultra-filtered pure water being ingested. 
Be aware that ‘dangerous levels of fluoride’ can be present in table salt. An even greater risk to public health is the consumption of ‘soft carbonated drinks’ and mothers giving undiluted fruit juices to their youngsters. This results in rapid tooth decay and leads to large numbers of unnecessary and completely avoidable childhood tooth extractions. Fluoride is the best technology currently available to combat the prevailing ignorance and abject stupidity of many parents.