Smith StuartSTUART SMITH (National—Kaikōura): Thank you Madam Speaker and it is a pleasure to speak on the Thomas Cawthron Trust Amendment Bill. I congratulate the member Rachel Boyack who has just taken her seat again as one of the privileges I think of being an MP is being able to shepherd a bill as worthy as this through the House which means a lot to the local community of a trust that was established over 100 years ago—how the world has changed since that trust came into being. I'm sure that Thomas Cawthron would be—or his legacy would far exceed his expectations I'm sure that he had 100 years ago. I didn't know the chains around Rocks Road were donated by Thomas Cawthron. He was certainly a successful businessman but philanthropy is something that we don't see as much of these days in the way that it was in those days when a wealthy person such as Mr Cawthron made a magnificent contribution to his community which not only endures today it has way surpassed what it set out to achieve in the beginning. I have been to the aquaculture park at the Cawthron Institute and I urge anyone who gets the opportunity to go there—you should it's an amazing facility. I think Rachel said there were 300 staff—is that right? Three hundred staff at Cawthron and these are all highly skilled people who are passionate about their work. They're not just turning up to do their work they're passionate about what they can achieve. I've had the privilege of hearing a presentation from the chief executive of Cawthron at a social event who spoke with such passion—him and his wife gave a team act as it were about the importance of the ocean. Covering 71 percent of the surface of our planet is the ocean. We are on the dry bits of land—a very small part of it and a lot of the answers to the problems that we have today lie within the ocean and Rachel spoke about that earlier with Asparagopsis and methane for example. There are a lot of other things—there are a lot of medical uses for compounds that are found in the ocean and that's part of the work that is done at the aquaculture park but I'll come back to that.I think it's unusual today and it speaks to the era that this bill came from that we have four trustees as of right and two mayors and the member of Parliament which all kind of make sense—and the bishop. There wouldn't be many pieces of legislation on the books where a bishop is required to be a person on a trust or leading that. No I think it's a pity actually that it's not more often used in our society. I know we're more secular than we ever were in those days but it sort of speaks to the respect with which—and how—things were done in those days and I think it should be acknowledged. It was overdue to have an iwi representative formally recognised even though they were a part of it and Cawthron has a really good relationship with Te Tau Ihu but having it formally in the legislation is—while the bill's going through it might as well have that and I think it must do actually. We did have a bit of an issue through the whole process where we heard evidence about variations on the spelling of Te Tau Ihu. And I guess that's just a legacy issue which we dealt with. But it was fascinating and I do as has been said before thank those people from Cawthron who spent a lot of time helping us through the select committee process to get this bill right and I'm sure we have. It actually raises an issue where these pieces of legislation in theory if things change in time and they will it will require another Act of Parliament to change that legislation and bring it into line. We did discuss how could we make this bill more enduring and I'm comfortable we've done the best that we can. It's probably not enough but we won't know that for decades and none of us will be here in this House I suspect. Although you never know Simeon Brown might be—entering his middle age by then. It might be—but it is important that we think about these things and I don't know we did put quite a bit of time and effort into thinking about that. There was a lot of good contributions around the select committee table as well as from the officials that were advising us and the legal adviser for the trust to try and get that sorted. I think we've done as best we can. As I said as has been alluded to before bioactive compounds in the ocean are a really important area for research and we've really barely scratched the surface. A topical issue that's just happened in the last few days Seagate really highlights how little of the Earth's backyard that we have actually researched. Going down to great depths we barely—we just really deal with the shallows but we've got a lot of aquaculture in Nelson and in the Marlborough Sounds very close by where this aquaculture park is. The research that Cawthron does happens and has a good use every day in our region and in Nelson—or my region and over the hill in Nelson—and everywhere else in New Zealand. Aquaculture is going to become an increasingly important source of nutrients and protein for us for healthy diets and healthy lifestyles and also a low impact source of food. Obviously we need to do the research to ensure that we can make the best use of that. The aquaculture park also can actually—these bioactives that they can research they can go right down the value chain or even to the stage of running plant-scale production and synthetic modification of those particular compounds for use in medical and other areas.That as I've said with all those 300 people there the work that they're doing in those particular buildings—they've got tanks where they are able to grow these things and observe them more closely than out in the ocean. It's a phenomenal facility. Keeping them at different temperatures and different chemistries in the water they're able to make assessments of what would happen from a pollution perspective in the water and how things might be actually even cleaned up by natural organisms in the water and how that can be all controlled. The algae and cultural facilities is what I referred to—they've got a wet lab but they've also got a dry lab and so all of that money has been put to good use. I'm not going to take up any more time on this but I would just like to reiterate that I congratulate the member for bringing this to this stage. I also congratulate the Cawthron Institute and their directors for the work that they've done and indeed their staff for the dedication that they have. I think it's testament to that how well the bill was supported through the select committee process and indeed by the officials that made this process a lot easier than it could have been. So with that I commend this bill to the House.