Woods MeganHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): This is a day where New Zealand is once again being taken backwards by the National Party and its coalition partners in Government.What we see here is a very clear case of a Government that is putting ideology ahead of tackling the problems that New Zealand faces. Now there sometimes are things that members in this Parliament can agree on. One of those is that the Resource Management Act (RMA) was broken and that the RMA needed fixing. That's why over the last term of Government substantial and significant work was undertaken. This wasn't about a Government doing what we are seeing from this Government today—ramming something through under urgency all stages no regulatory impact statement (RIS) no chance for the public to have a say. Instead the Environment Committee of the last Parliament heard over 3000 submissions; 3000 members of the public fronted up and told the Parliament what their wishes were. That is the basis of the legislation and 94 percent of those submitters supported the reforms that were in front of them. Substantial work was done with iwi substantial work was done with stakeholders everywhere because it was broken and it needed fixing. What we are seeing today is a retreat back to bureaucratic red tape that will mean that we cannot build the houses and the infrastructure and protect our natural environment in the ways that we need to. That is a shameful stain on this Government in its first weeks of power.The RMA was first introduced and made into law in New Zealand in 1991. It is fair to say the world has changed particularly in the way that we need to protect our environment and the way we need to ensure that we are allowing activities that we need to occur in our country to occur. We need to take into account water quality we need to take into account climate change. These are things that people were not thinking of when they drafted that legislation in 1991. Of course 1991 was when the world first saw the emergence of the World Wide Web—in January of that year. It was the year after the end of the Cold War and it was when grunge was only starting to emerge as a strange new sound. The world has changed a lot since 1991 and what we need is legislation that reflects it. What we are repealing today is legislation that was fit for purpose for 21st century New Zealand; legislation that had the ability to not only protect our environment but also take us forward as a country in the ways that we needed to in a way that respected the rights of iwi and the ways in which we could do that as a modern nation. That is what this Government is repealing. What are they doing? They're saying We're going to take you backwards but we have absolutely no idea what we're going to put in its place. We are so bereft of ideas not only did we spend nine years last time that we were in Government"—from the National Party—"trying to reform the RMA and failing at every step we're now coming to this House under urgency all stages no RIS no chance for the public to have a say"—Hon Peeni Henare: No vision.Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: Absolutely right. My colleague the Hon Peeni Henare is absolutely correct. They are coming to this House with no vision. They're saying "We're going to repeal it. Yeah we got no plans. We got no vision. We have no idea. We had no idea last time we were in Government and we certainly have no idea when we're in Government again."So there are a lot of questions that need to be asked over the course and passage of this legislation under urgency because not only is it all stages under urgency—no select committee stage—but the substance of the bill is included in schedules of the Act. We will have a lot of questions to ask about each and every item in the schedule of the Act because that is what the purpose of this Parliament is for.This is a step backwards for New Zealand it is a step backwards for our environment and it is a step backwards for creating the houses and the infrastructure that 21st century New Zealand needs. I look forward to members on the opposite benches getting to their feet telling us what they plan to do and showing New Zealand for once whether or not they have a vision and I fear the answer is no."