Horan Brendan: Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill — In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHoran Brendan: Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill — In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10302. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]BRENDAN HORAN (Independent): I rise to oppose this third reading of the “Crown Minerals Amendment to the Amendment to the Amendment to the Amendment Bill”. I do so because this is a DIY job. It is a fix-up job and not a very good one at that. The same thing is actually happening outside the front of Parliament as is happening here in the debating chamber. [Interruption] We can wait for this member to be told off. I do not mind waiting for a few seconds. But—Hon Gerry Brownlee: That member has certainly been told off.BRENDAN HORAN: Outside—Hon Gerry Brownlee: He sleeps in a dogbox. He lives at the back of the House under a rock where he belongs.BRENDAN HORAN: Mr Brownlee that is the trouble with your side of the House. There are too many lips flapping. You cannot learn anything while your lips are flapping. You need to have those ears opening. Too bad “Big Ears” is not here.Outside the Beehive roof is being replaced because the current roof is not fit for purpose just like that side of the House. The roof is being replaced in copper. How much is that costing—$3 million? Well there you go. That is how much minerals cost because that is Crown mineral copper. It is a Crown mineral but this Government would just give it away to anybody who comes along. Who is out there? Who is going to be mining? Trans-Tasman Resources. Can somebody help me? Who is on the board of Trans-Tasman Resources? Who is that woman? Is it not Ms Shipley? Could that be right? Ms Shipley? I am just pulling out splinters again wondering how many boards that woman is on. But here we are on a Saturday morning because the Minister’s performance is not fit for purpose either.What I wonder—and as I said earlier there are some members over on that side whom I greatly respect—is how those members could possibly support overseas interests foreigners coming in and plundering our natural resources. These mineralshave taken millions of years to accumulate. There are no regulatory impact reports and the fisheries have not been consulted. We do not know what effect it is going to have. If we have a look at open mining on land we may get an idea because this Government is used to subterfuge. Can you imagine the effect on our ecological systems when all of that iron ore and sand is removed? And I have not even begun to touch on mining.This Government has proven that it cannot remove oil from a ship on a rock so how is it going to remove oil that is leaking from the seabed at 1500 metres under the seabed or even if it is 400 metres under? How long is it going to take rescue teams to get there? Where is the infrastructure for us to support this? But most important what is going to be the impact and what are we getting out of it anyway? One to 2 percent profit about which some foreign company will come and say: “This is what we made.” In the case of Trans-Tasman Resources where it brings in the big Chinese ship and it takes out as much iron ore as it wants what else is it taking out and again what is the effect on our ecosystems? Ecosystems are very fragile and we wonder what is going to happen.This is an appalling bill. It is a sell-out. It is a sell-out for New Zealand. It is a sell-out of our children’s future of our heritage. Some of these members may not know what it is like under the water. I do not know when they were last in the surf. But when you dive under a wave—and I can tell you this actually—if you dive under a big wave you can see the water swirling. As it swirls you see the sand moving and within that sand are crustaceans. There is all sorts of sea life. And as those crustaceans are floating around and the shellfish are floating around in come the fish and that is how they feed.Grant Robertson: Why isn’t Mark Mitchell speaking right now?BRENDAN HORAN: Well I am just giving a little basic demonstration of how an ecosystem works in the ocean. Have members on that side even considered the impact on our fisheries? [Interruption]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order!BRENDAN HORAN: Thank you. I fail to understand how those members who have a conscience can possibly support this bill. You have seen what happened in theRena case. There is oil still floating up and when the wind is in a north-easterly direction as it is today at Mount Maunganui and the surf is up I can go out there and I will still come in with specks of oil on my board. The shellfish off Tauranga have not been fit to eat since theRena disaster. The shellfish have not been fit to eat since theRena disaster but you do not see that in the papers. Why not? Why do you not see it?Hon Gerry Brownlee: It’s largely not true that’s why.BRENDAN HORAN: There are a number of reasons why you cannot. Actually Mr Brownlee go and see the local doctors. Go and see Dr Tingey. He will tell you about all the gastro cases that he has seen where people have been eating shellfish and have gotten food poisoning. In Mount Maunganui it is tragic what theRena has done and the ongoing effects.What is going to happen if we get a disaster with oil leaking out to sea? This Government cannot fix it up. Where are the booms to protect? Where are the rescue teams to clean up the mess? This mess will be cleaned up after the next election when a new Government comes in—one with a social conscience one with an environmental conscience and one with—Hon Gerry Brownlee: And one without Brendan Horan.BRENDAN HORAN: I will be here. Do not worry Mr Brownlee. I will be here because I have got an environmental conscience. You would be surprised that there are a lot of people in New Zealand who support my being here.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Name 28 of them.BRENDAN HORAN: Ha ha! But I digress. I would like to again explain what is happening to our environment and what is happening to New Zealand when good people have to go along and follow a bill that is clearly wrong. It is clearly wrong and it has not even come into effect. Here we are rushing through the night trying to pass amendments to the legislation. It is not well worked. It is not very well organised. That is why one of the National members departed. It was not because of a glass of wine; it was because somebody showed their office their electorate office on television and exposed this Government as being totally disorganised just as this bill the writing of this bill shows that this Government cannot do one thing right. Do not let me even start on housing. How are you going to build 39000 houses in Auckland? How are you going to do that? You are completely disorganised.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! Irrelevancy.BRENDAN HORAN: Well it is relevant because some of those roofs will have copper spouting which is a Crown mineral—they will. This Government says there are going to be 39000 houses and there are a lot of Crown minerals in that. But guess what—we will be buying them from overseas interests. Thank you.