Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): I stand on behalf of Te Pāti Māori to speak to this bill and it's a shame actually that the Minister presenting it is not here because I take on board the absolute importance of speaking to climate deniers in this House. We continuously hear the fermenting and the maturing of a bucket of stale fish heads coming out of this House where we have Ministers who are threatened by the freshness of innovation and sustainable futuristic investments. That is what we continuously are put back and are relegated to hearing and really the prospect here is something that has so ripened for too long it is actually rotten. This bill is another rotten part of the crumbling empire that we've seen all year of bloated capitalism. This isn't a prospect for growth. In fact it's the desperation of twilight politicians whose random retorts in the House remind me of a boar that's been captured and has just been told to get its snout out of the trough. I can't think of a better way to prescribe exactly what it is that we continuously have to be affronted with by this particular Minister. Actually it's interesting: did you know that alligators have snouts too? That's just a side issue. There were 1100 submissions heard and 1000 were against this bill. We continuously hear that side of the House talk about democracy and the importance and power that they have in a democratic sense been awarded since the election last year but then every day since then they've ignored democracy. That is why we have select committees that's why we have hearings and that is why we ask our people for their views. A thousand out of the 1100 submissions opposed this and if that's not democracy what is it? Again I put it to you that we are continuously exposed to the desperation of twilight politicians whose retorts sound like desperate boars because their snouts have got no other direction but to take take take. From the very perspective of Māori this bill undermines tangata whenua rights. It undermines community autonomy. It undermines environmental protections. It shifts the clean-up costs and the pollution costs of anything to the public—to the public. That's not growth. Where's this boar's retorts now? In fact it's an example of why this Government is amending the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. It is an example of why you're going and taking us back down towards the Foreshore and Seabed Bill because the whole plot and plight which is so lacking in any innovation is for this Government to use what's left of our natural resources all the whenua under the moana to exploit and to contain and run with the only game in capitalism that colonisers know which is—what? Muru muru muru muru muru muru muru muru—muru raupatu. Who cares how our mana whenua feel? Who cares how the thousand who actually took the time to submit feel? Stop calling this growth. This is not growth; this is climate deniers fermenting in the maturing of a bucket of stale fish heads and it's rotten to the core. Ngāti Toa pointed out that potentially this creates new grievances under Te Tiriti o Waitangi—new grievances. Environmental experts highlighted the severe potential impact on marine biodiversity but who cares? We've got a Minister whose snout is just saying Mine mine mine; milk mother Earth; take everything we've got." because by 2050 when these permits are finished this Minister is not going to be here. We're not going to be here. This is the legacy of bloated capitalism which doesn't give a heck about this next generation. This is going to be the mess for our mokopuna and the future generations to clean up. It is irreversible damage that is being proposed environmentally but it is also irreversible damage that is being proposed politically and we are here to be part of an Opposition that has defied a Government trying to bring out the Foreshore and Seabed Bill for us all. This Government is so intent on its one-way track and it's so intent on its anti-Māori anti-Tiriti anti-environment climate-denial fermenting greed that it cannot see any path other than taking us backwards. There is nothing innovative. It's harmful. Te Pāti Māori will continue to fight this Government and show our mokopuna what true true innovation looks like and it is nothing that is being proposed in this House. We are adamantly and vehemently opposed to this bill. Kia ora rā."