Browning SteffanSTEFFAN BROWNING (Green): Sorry—I got a bit dizzy standing up and sitting down so many times. I rise to speak to the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill. The particular parts that I do want to speak to are the issues around forestry and whether it is a crop and the parts to do with genetic modification. I am pleased to be able to support Marama Fox's view around forestry. The Forestry Rights Registration Act 1983 defines a crop as a single crop of one or more species or multiple crops. If she has made a deal and thought that forestry was in it well the Forestry Rights Registration Act 1983 certainly supports her. It is supported in law as a definition of crop.But I am concerned about where this is going and what the Minister's intent is. The Minister tried first to get it through the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry—and that was in its umpteenth iteration—to try to deal with the sedimentation that is coming down into our rivers and spoiling our fisheries and the like and we are waiting to see this latest iteration. But the last time it was slid in that GE trees if approved by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) would be put in as permitted activity in all regions including Hawkes Bay Northland and Auckland where they had very very clearly said they did not want it 18000-plus people submitted against that clause in the National Environmental Standard for Plantation Forestry and here we have it almost seems an intent to slide it through yet in a different way. There is no vision going down that track. New Zealand going down a GE track would be lacking vision and this legislation if it takes us down that track would be a failure.The Minister has got his man at the head of the EPA—the chief executive. He would be the one that puts these things through—Dr Allan Freeth. When he was with Wrightson—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order! We are on the RMA. Come back—[Interruption] Order! I am on my feet. Come back to the RMA.STEFFAN BROWNING: Thank you. The aspects of decision making that new section 360D and clause 26 would be referring to would be about how decisions made by the EPA could be imposed by the EPA and its staff's decision-making processes through to the Minister and so it is important as to who is staffing there. It is absolutely critical. And if they are puppets for the industry it is incorrect.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order! I will terminate the speech if you carry on like that. I have told you to concentrate on the RMA—what is in the bill. We do not get into personalities of people who are working in different organisations.STEFFAN BROWNING: The Environmental Risk Management Authority and now EPA has made various decisions around genetic modification and every one of the consents had been breached. Controls in every one of those field trials had been breached. It is hard to have confidence that this legislation will protect regions will protect the country from further breaches and then we would have to ask who is going to look out for the vision for New Zealand if we go down that track. The grasses that we think need to be included in the crops have had more than 50 million—it will be going on towards 100 million—of resources from the taxpayer and they have not been proven to work. We must move away from that.