Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour): At what cost? At what cost in terms of creating progress? Because we can. We can improve our productivity. We can improve the way we do business. But at what cost?I've read reports. I am no academic but I can read mostly and there have been reports talking about this piece of legislation in terms of the risk it poses to our international reputation—Hon Shane Jones: Trifling trifling.GLEN BENNETT: —the risk it poses to our international reputation. I think that's really important to consider. As New Zealand First has a go at this and as they kind of cackle across the House I need to remind them that the Marlborough District Council are actually opposed to this right? That's correct.Hon Shane Jones: They created the Takutai Moana problem in the first place.GLEN BENNETT: They are opposed to this and community groups out in Marlborough are very much opposed to this in terms of their mussel farm there in the Marlborough Sounds. So I find it really interesting that New Zealand First is supporting this when one of their members is a current former councillor on the Marlborough District Council who is against this piece of legislation. I think it's really interesting Madam Speaker that obviously this yet again is running roughshod over our environment over nature for the sake of—and I will quote many things that have been said this afternoon about this—economics. It's all about economics" and we support economics absolutely but we support economic when it is done right for people and for the planet. We've heard that we're all about stopping investment—Hon Member: Red tape!GLEN BENNETT: —and we are not about stopping investment. We are about encouraging investment in the future of Aotearoa New Zealand. We're about ensuring that investment goes to the right places and the right people to ensure a sustainable future to ensure that our environment and also our people are cared for. The other one we've had called across the House several times this afternoon is that this is anti-progress—we're anti progress. Well we are not anti-progress. We have been focused on progress to make sure that we are doing what is right by the people and by the planet here in Aotearoa New Zealand.This legislation is something that puts our international reputation on the line. The Resource Management (Extended Duration of Coastal Permits for Marine Farms) Amendment Bill is something that is highly controversial when you look around the world and jurisdictions who watch us who keep an eye on what we do and who want to make sure that we are the 100 percent pure New Zealand which unfortunately that reputation is—well I wouldn't say we're even 99 percent. We're probably down to 80 70 60 percent. But we need to ensure that we up that game. There was a report recently that talked about this legislation—Hon Shane Jones: More bureaucracy.GLEN BENNETT: It was not from bureaucracy; it was actually from stakeholders. It was from stakeholders and this is what they said—and I quote—"And so we say that this is bad for the environment." It's actually bad for our trading reputation as well because we have free-trade agreements by which we agreed to go backwards on environmental standards.We are about progress and we are about the economy. We are also about making sure we get our settings right so our fair-trade agreements are correct and are in order to ensure that when we sell our salmon or our kaimoana to the world we get the best price we could ever get because we do it right and people pay a premium for our products. I don't really think the heckling can come from the other side when they were part of a council that opposes this legislation.In closing I want to say that my final quote from across the House was "Stop being cultural busybodies."—stop being cultural busybodies. Now if you think that this side of the House are playing cultural busybodies and Māori being engaged local iwi hapū mana whenua being engaged in the process—if you think that's cultural busybodying there's something fundamentally wrong with this Government because I know on this side of the House we work hard to engage and support what it means to be Treaty partners. We're doing what we can and if they are being cultural busybodies I think there's something quite seriously wrong.This is bad legislation. It's bad for the economy it's bad for the environment and it's bad for people. This is just plain bad legislation."