Phil Heatley
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The Honourable Philip Heatley |
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| Minister of Fisheries | |
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In office 19 November 2008 – 25 February 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | Jim Anderton |
| Succeeded by | none (Ministry merged) |
| Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture | |
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In office 1 April 2010 – 14 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | new Ministry |
| Succeeded by | none (Ministry merged) |
| Minister of Energy and Resources | |
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In office 14 December 2011 – 29 January 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | Gerry Brownlee |
| Succeeded by | Simon Bridges |
| Minister of Housing | |
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In office 19 November 2008 – 25 February 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | John Key |
| Preceded by | Maryan Street |
| Succeeded by | Maurice Williamson (acting) |
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In office 1 April 2010 – 22 January 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Maurice Williamson (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Nick Smith |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Whangarei |
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In office 16 December 1999 – 14 August 2014 |
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| Preceded by | John Banks |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 April 1967 |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Political party | National Party |
| Occupation | Agricultural engineer |
Philip Reeve Heatley (born 5 April 1967) is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the National Party. From 2008 until January 2013, he was a member of cabinet, holding the portfolios of Fisheries, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Energy and Resources, and Housing, before being replaced in a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister John Key. Heatley retired from Parliament in 2014.
Heatley was born in Whangarei. Before entering politics, Heatley completed a master's degree with Honours in Horticultural Engineering at Massey University. He has undertaken short term study and work as a volunteer with an international relief agency on a hospital ship. He was an agricultural engineer in the dairy industry, surveying and designing farm buildings, land drainage and irrigation systems. He authored two published environmental engineering manuals. He is currently a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ).
From the 1999 election until his retirement at the 2014 election, he was the MP for the Whangarei electorate. In Opposition, Heatley was a member of Parliament's Primary Production Committee, Regulations Review Committee and Transport and Industrial Relations Committee and has been National's spokesman on Forestry, Fisheries, Regional Development, Early Childhood Education and Energy.
He became Minister of Housing and Minister of Fisheries in the Fifth National Government in 2008 and remained Minister of Housing and became Minister of Energy and Resources in 2011, the beginning of the Government's second term.
In 2009 he introduced the Unit Titles Bill, modernising the 1972 legislation that regulates the way apartment blocks and multi-unit developments are managed. The Act came into force in April 2010. He also introduced the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill to update existing rental laws and extend them to cover tenants in boarding houses not previously having protection. The legislation was passed in 2010.
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