Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): I am standing on behalf of New Zealand First to take a call on the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Bill (No 2) and I just want to start my contribution by saying that this Government reminds me of The Lorax in some part because it seems to be flying by the seat of its pants. Here we are with just 2 weeks to go until the 51st Parliament rises permanently as we go into the 2017 elections and then lo and behold it realises that: Goodness me we'd better do something urgently because the legislation that is currently in place is running out pretty quickly."The process that was considered was even to hurry through the entire technical advisory group procedures get all the hearings done—have fake hearings it was even said and stated—to try to get this through all stages fully and completely. That of course does not work.The second option which was put forward by Tracey Martin stated that we should just put a simple extension to this. The Government came back and said "Well let's make it 18 months." and we have said "No let's make it 15 months." and now we have got the date that we have got to have this completed by—this civil defence emergency management fully done—I think it is April 2019.Now we cannot not support this; it is absolutely imperative that we do with the number of events that we have got. We have had fires floods slips even weather events and wind events. We have had tornadoes in Mount Maunganui—we have never had tornadoes in Mount Maunganui. And in 2 years back to back we have had rooves lifted off houses and let us not forget about the high risk of tsunamis with the island nation that we are which we are not even remotely prepared for. We do not even have a tsunami warning system for the entire coastline of this country so we cannot protect our people in this country the way it sits at the moment.We had the Minister of Internal Affairs Peter Dunne talking about the Fire and Emergency New Zealand Bill going through. After giving the fact that it was the 17th review in 21 years he then spoke about potentially: "Well goodness me we should have actually put the civil defence in and amongst that." The whole thing is just an absolute dog's breakfast and we have some serious concerns about the stability and leadership of this Government if this is how they operate after 9 years in Government and we are down to the wire where we have to create an urgent debate give extended hours so that we can actually push through and extend the date on behalf of the Government.We will be supporting it because it would be silly not to. We would hope that over the 15 months that this Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Bill (No 2) is being put together by this technical advisory group that we have some serious consideration given to this increasing number of weather events around the country. We certainly would like to get our communities back on their feet as quickly and as easily as possible and to ensure that we have the legislation to do that we will certainly be a very very supportive member of this House.The oversight really falls in the lap of Gerry Brownlee who was the Minister of Civil Defence and passed the buck on to Nathan Guy who cannot be here as he has other appointments today—Mr SPEAKER: Order!CLAYTON MITCHELL: Sorry Mr Speaker I did not mean to show any disrespect by saying that but I am just giving the respect that is his due; that he has actually seen this issue come up and is dealing with it effectively and efficiently. We support this extension of a date from January 2018 back to April in 2019 and we will be supporting this through. Thank you."