Eagle Paul; Salesa JennyPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Talofa Madam Speaker and what a pleasure it is to speak in the House this evening. It's been some time but only yesterday was I with the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust who manage the critical vital shipping service for those living on the Chathams and interacting—I guess is the right word—with the mainland. That interaction was an educational one because after many years it's time to look at a new ship to service the nearly 700 people who live on the islands that make up the Chathams. One of the key things in that meeting or in that conversation was around vessel type partnering with the coastal shipping service of New Zealand and having a deep and meaningful conversation about how they can package this up for economic reasons but also best service for Chatham Islanders.But one thing I noticed that underpinned that was the willingness from the consultants there the team that came to see the Minister of Transport around the desire to say How do we help Aotearoa New Zealand become carbon neutral by 2050?" They'd done their research. They'd gone back and said "Look let's not argue around whether this is in or out." The reality is that this is part of the future of shipping in Aotearoa New Zealand and so that's what impressed me most.I believe that the sector the shipping service around this country is saying "We know we need to do this. It's being done for the right reason." They certainly were watching the release of the climate change report which comes through today and they are pre-empting that. That gives me every confidence that some of our concerns and issues that are being expressed primarily from that side of the House are unfounded because they know that that's how a modern shipping service operates. They know that there are certain minimum standards that are expected.The key thing is that they—who have been operating without technology and many of the other luxuries that have become the norm for us on the mainland—are now ready to make their own transition because technology is coming to the island with the first cellphone network which will help other parts of the environment particularly in fisheries with on-boat cameras for example. But they too expect that the way that things used to be done will be now no longer. So can I just reaffirm to you that sometimes when you're confronted with the reality of shipping you learn a lot and you often talk to people who have been in the business for many many years with their expertise around running a shipping service being part of the old school the old way of doing things but embracing the new way looking at what it means to be carbon neutral by 2050 and picking up on some of these concerns. It's interesting because I thought "Oh wow tomorrow that's coming up in the House." and here we are talking about a critical service for part of Aotearoa New Zealand and an enterprise or group of people who are saying "How do we now deliver on that?" So there was no debate. There was no argument. It was just factored in as part of doing business for the future.It's interesting. I thought that when reading their notes too and I just want to embrace or reaffirm the words of James Shaw when he said it's been far too long. I couldn't believe it myself when I looked at how many years. He said 25 years. I thought "Wow."—and only us and Mexico. I love Mexican food but sometimes we don't want to be—I think we can do better than Mexico in this particular aspect. So it surprises me—because I think that we do so many good things but there are some things where I just don't understand why it's taken so long.So can I acknowledge the Ministers involved—Ministers Mahuta Parker and Wood—for their combined efforts and the select committee the Environment Committee for their work around hearing those submissions and actually trudging it along and getting it to the finish line.So I'm really proud to be speaking on this. I sit on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee so we will be considering it and I expect to have a robust debate with the maritime community the coastal shipping service and the stakeholders involved who have submitted before and talked about their concerns—and I think it's fortunate timing with the Climate Change Commission report that will be coming through the House. I think we have 10 days to get it on the Table. So that means that we can have the robustness of a debate and bring the conversation together and actually address some of these concerns.When I look at the purpose of the bill—because sometimes we get a bit emotional about these things but forget about what the purpose is—it says here in the explanatory note that the bill makes changes to the Maritime Transport Act 1994 to ensure the rule-making and enforcement provisions in the Act provide the authority required to fully implement the legal obligations of MARPOL Annex VI. So hey that can't be disputed. I think if we look at Part 1 and Part 2 and bring those together you have a piece of work here where I don't think I need to say too much more because it speaks for itself. As I said I'm looking forward to being part of the select committee to further this work. I commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The next call is a split call."