Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. I want to pick up on one of the points made by the green member—the member from the Green Party sorry—Hon Members: Ha ha!PEENI HENARE: —you can take offence—and other members across the House and that is one of a failed democracy a failed democratic process. The member Gareth Hughes just talked about how the Minister for the Environment is now taking control. He is trying to expedite processes to meet their own ends.When I think about that democratic process—this particular bill does have one other stage. It has one more stage once it passes its third reading here in this House: it will go on to the Governor-General for the Royal assent. I hope that in that process she has some common sense. Some of the questions being asked in this House today are not being answered by this Government and I question whether or not any common sense exists—whether on that side of that House or indeed in the final process of this bill when it goes to the Governor-General.Iain Lees-Galloway: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I regret interrupting my colleague but I think that what he just said which I do not really want to repeat was a breach of Standing Order 118. I think it is an important point of principle that we as members of the House do not do what the member just did. I ask that you—he probably needs to withdraw and apologise.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): No the member is absolutely wrong. It was a quite proper reference.PEENI HENARE: Thank you very much. Look the democratic process is all-important to our people. The people outside these four walls are looking upon this institution to make sure that we get it right and in this instance I argue that we have not.I am disappointed that the Māori Party members are not in this House defending their position. They talk about GM foods—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): No—sorry the member will resume his seat. He must not draw attention to the absence of members especially when it is—it is also inaccurate now.PEENI HENARE: I am reminded of the hard work done by a group of people on what is known as Wai 262. It was a claim made to the Waitangi Tribunal on which a very good report was given. The recommendations from that report are very clear about genetic modification. They give a Māori perspective on the GM matter which is a very serious one for this country. Sadly the Māori Party did not consult with those experts nor did it even look at Wai 262 when it considered its position on the GM matter with this bill. They have gone and supported it and now what they have done sadly for the rest of the country and for Māoridom in particular is they have thrown a dummy to the people. They have actually with two concessions agreed to support this particular bill through the House without looking at the entirety of the actual bill.There are other things in the bill that I am sure our people would be concerned about. One of those is Part 4. I take the Green Party's point made last night during the Committee stage of the House about Part 4 of the bill which actually gives far too much power to the Minister for the Environment for those who are looking to apply for a licence or to renew a licence for mining in this country. I daresay that those people who are now out protesting out on the ocean the seismic testing that is going on out there as mentioned by my colleague Meka Whaitiri—I bet you those people will not be very happy with the support of this bill and to see it go through. Part 4 has not even been mentioned by the support parties of this Government and it is of huge concern to me.I also want to talk about housing. It was mentioned by the Minister at the beginning that in order for us to meet the housing demands and the housing pressures of this country we must make significant reforms like this and in part I do agree with that. I do. However it must go through a robust debate—with consideration from right across the House but more importantly with a bipartisan approach across this House to make sure that it has the full support of this House. Why? Because we represent electorates across the country—mine in particular in Tāmaki Makaurau where the housing crisis is felt at the moment and has been felt for a number of years now. We are screaming out for more homes. However we do not think that we should be conceding proper process and robust legislation just in order to meet that demand.In conclusion we cannot support this bill.