Bishop ChrisHon CHRIS BISHOP (Minister responsible for RMA Reform): Well I'm happy to speak to that. I mean the broader point is how the Government's organising itself when it comes to the environment and the Resource Management Act (RMA). So I think it's pretty obvious—and we're a wee way away from the annual review of the 2022-23 year but anyway happy to answer the question. I am the Minister responsible for the resource management system including reform of it that's the point of the Government so I've got responsibility for the RMA. So essentially I as the Minister and my office is a bit of a clearing house for what we're doing with the RMA. So we've already done the repeal of the Natural and Built Environment Act and the Spatial Planning Act; we did that before Christmas as the member knows. The first written Resource Management Bill will soon come to the House and so I'm responsible for the various different parts of it—of course working closely alongside my colleagues Associate Minister for the Environment Minister Hoggard Minister of Agriculture Todd McClay Minister for the Environment Penny Simmonds and other relevant Ministers and in relation to the coal-mining changes that Minister Jones was talking about earlier in the House working closely with him on that. So the bill will be in my name when it comes to the House. The second Resource Management Bill will be in my name as well.Hon Rachel Brooking: Why is it primary legislation?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: Why is it primary legislation? Oh because that's the most quick and effective way to make changes.Also in relation to national direction which I heard the member talking about one of the changes in the first Resource Management Bill will be changes to the national direction schema and protocols to make it easier to do national direction changes because that is part of the problem—that it should be quite easy to update various national policy statements and national environmental standards and it's not. So the member will see in due course—Hon Rachel Brooking: And what are you doing for highly productive land?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: Sorry say that again.Hon Rachel Brooking: Highly productive land.Hon CHRIS BISHOP: Oh highly productive land that was the other thing. Well the previous Government consulted on a range of changes to highly productive land which we are considering. We also will in due course make our own changes to the National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land (NPS-HPL) because it is not enabling enough of development capacity and infrastructure in particular.Hon Rachel Brooking: Ha ha!Hon CHRIS BISHOP: Well the member laughs but that's just the reality. So in due course we will come to the House or the Government will promulgate through national direction changes a variety of changes to the NPS-HPL. That's been well signalled and we will do that.So I've got passage of the overall resource management. Obviously we work closely as colleagues around how all that fits together but we've got 20 different coalition Government commitments across the resource management space across agriculture across mining across housing across renewable energy and there's got to be a bit of a clearing house to bring it all together. And that's the way we do it.