Swarbrick Chlöe; Mallard TrevorCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe tēnā koutou e te Whare. I've had the absolute privilege since this past election to represent my home of Auckland Central and in this debate today in my contribution I want to discuss a really pertinent issue. People probably know that Auckland Central contains the city centre the city. We're reaching out from Herne Bay across Ponsonby we go all the way back up to Newton and Eden Terrace stretching across Grafton bordering on Parnell close to my friends here in the ACT Party. But we also extend across the Waitematā across to Waiheke and Aotea / Great Barrier and a number of other amazing islands therein.The thing that connects all of Auckland Central is that Waitematā and I'm sure you're probably aware that over the past few months the Waitematā has played host to a big old boat race. Now that big old boat race is something that has seen the engagement of the team of 5 million. It's seen an immense amount of skill on display with Peter Burling and the rest of Team New Zealand. We've seen New Zealanders engaged by virtue of the investments of New Zealand On Air and obviously the Government making sure that this is free to air. We've seen coordination from local and central Government to ensure that infrastructure was there for folks to be able to engage. And if I may make the point this big old boat race managed to engage people across demographics even folks like a grizzled Greenpeace activist who took me out on to Tīkapa Moana to join a flotilla for Mauri o te Moana who was telling me all about the wonders of the technological advancement that that investment in the America's Cup had provided. Now when it comes to the Waitematā we saw what happens above the waves. We saw how beautiful it is across the Hauraki. But what we did not see on that televised beautiful and obviously incredibly successful race was what happens below the waves where we are seeing ecological collapse. I want to draw a parallel between what led to the success of Team New Zealand because I'm often thinking about the quote Luck is what happens when preparation meets circumstance." In a situation like that race it took all of that preparation from the team from Aucklanders from the rest of New Zealand from Auckland Council from ATEED—now Auckland Unlimited—and all of that investment to create that preparation. But the circumstances could have changed with something as literal as the wind deciding to blow in a different direction. We could apply that same methodology of preparation being necessary to achieve success to the ecosystem below those waves in Tīkapa Moana. We've had the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act for over 20 years in this country and in the time that we have had the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act in place we have seen only 0.3 percent of the Hauraki Gulf be protected. International experts—and domestic experts and researchers as well—alongside those engaged in mātauranga Māori tell us that we need to protect at least 30 percent of that national taonga if we want to be climate resilient but if we also want to make sure that that biodiversity is not lost for ever. In line with other contributions from particularly the Government side of the House I don't want to paint a picture that it's all doom and gloom because there is in fact some immense leadership that is under way from those in the community. We have for example off the coast of Aotea some pretty nasty stuff happening in the form of dumping. But we've seen local mana whenua—particularly organised by Kelly Klink who is a formidable force of a wahine toa—standing up to take Auckland Council and Ports of Auckland through the legal system. We've also seen Ngāti Paoa issue a rāhui for one kilometre off of Waiheke Island to protect four taonga species four signal species for the health of Tīkapa Moana. And what we have in all of this is a recipe to unstick the process that has seen us issue report after report after report and watch decline. That is the key to success in mātauranga Māori. That is the key to success in planning and executing it.SPEAKER: Simon Court—a very short call."