Simpson Scott; Rurawhe AdrianHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Well thank you Mr Speaker. It's getting late on a member's evening as Jamie Strange the last speaker indicated and it's a time I guess when the Parliament is sometimes at its best and sometimes at its worst. I want to commence my contribution in this debate by congratulating my friend and colleague Maureen Pugh for bringing to this Parliament a well-thought-out well-considered practical piece of legislation that can be implemented now if the Government decided to get off their high horse and stop being so arrogant and assuming that they know the answer to everything and that only they are the fount of knowledge and wisdom on all matters. If they took an occasional opportunity to seek the input the contribution and the wisdom of other members in this debating chamber then they would be doing well for all New Zealanders in terms of solving what is a real problem.I've got the honour and privilege of representing the beautiful Coromandel in this Parliament. Just as my friend and colleague Maureen Pugh has in her part of the country on the West Coast we get an awful lot of tourists visiting the Coromandel when they come to New Zealand from overseas when they're allowed to and we hope that sooner or later that opportunity will arise again. But as other members have already indicated there are ongoing issues in terms of so-called freedom camping and I actually quite like the suggestion that Eugenie Sage had about the renaming of the system. It's not too often that I agree with her but occasionally I think she has a reasonable point and I quite like the term vehicle camping" because that actually does more accurately sum up the issue that is at hand.But one of the things that struck me from the Minister of Tourism's contribution apart from his natural and very obvious arrogance and inability to even consider for a moment the input and thoughts of other members who have gone to a lot of trouble and come up with a sensible pragmatic practical solution for an issue of the sort that exists in many parts of the country including my own—around the beautiful Coromandel. It was that actually apart from some consultations and some meetings and submissions nothing has been done. Not a thing—zip nothing. Four years of failure—nothing has yet been done.So where is the sense of urgency? Where's the sense of passion that the Minister so eloquently and so energetically brings to the House but he delivers in practical terms nothing—zip nada zero nothing—and here my colleague Maureen Pugh has a piece of legislation ready to go. I would have thought that in the best interests of parliamentary democracy the sensible thing to do would be to actually send this bill to a select committee to hear submissions to have the benefit of a select committee scrutiny to give it the justice that I think it deserves and to give the credit to the member that she deserves for bringing it to the House and for having the good fortune to have it drawn from the ballot particularly when the Government seems so slow to move at all. Actually that would be a good thing. That would add something to the net knowledge and net potential benefit for regions like mine and others around the country where there are lots of vehicle campers who move around and frankly many of them create an obscene filthy disgusting mess. It's very obvious in some parts of the country mine included and it's simply not good enough. The aspect of social licence has been mentioned by other speakers. So I am very sorry that the Government has yet again decided to take it upon themselves to be the fount of all knowledge and to absolutely not consider the input of other members and not to consider the input of other submitters not to give this bill a select committee hearing and not to use the process that this whole members' bill system is designed to achieve of giving good ideas an airing and a thought.Now it may not be absolutely perfect this bill. I think Maureen Pugh would be the first to concede that maybe there were things that could be improved by her bill but I think to give it at least an opportunity for an airing and a hearing would be a good thing—get it under way get something done and actually achieve something. So instead of having grand energetic announcements that achieve nothing—zero zip nada—actually do something practical. So here we have again late on a members' bill day the Government—arrogantly in my view—simply deciding that they know best and that the opinions of others in this Chamber are not worth considering. That will ultimately be the demise of this Government because they do it on so many issues. This might be just a matter to do with camping but it's a signal of this Government's attitude. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Members this debate is interrupted and set down for resumption next sitting day. The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. tomorrow. Pō mārie.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 9.57 p.m."