Cosgrove Clayton: West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is subject to correctionCosgrove Clayton: West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 June 2014. Volume:702;Page:18941. Text is subject to correction.]Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE (Labour):It is all right. The one who flew over the cuckoo’s nest over there Nick Smith—who frequently actually flies over the cuckoo’s nest—needs to tell this House why he will not support Damien O’Connor’s Supplementary Order Paper 476. I have got to say that Gerry Brownlee led off this debate but Gerry Brownlee forgot to tell the House a few things because the old Brownlee family on the West Coast has some very very interesting heritage. I did not know this. I knew he was a member of a band called the Minetti Brothers. I did not know that he was a sawmiller. Oh yes—a big-time sawmiller. He went from sawmiller to woodwork teacher. He is probably the most qualified person in this House to talk about rimu cutting boards and things like that.What I did not know was the Brownlee heritage of being a big sawmiller on the West Coast and that they took the money and ran. Oh yes! They took the money and ran and they whipped straight over to Canterbury. I am told the only thing left of the Brownlee sawmilling heritage for economic growth on the Coast is a flash bach near Mr Auchinvole in Māpua. Oh yes! Is it Māpua?Hon Member: No Brunner.Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE: Brunner—I apologise; they all look a bit the same. It is Brunner. But I have to say that Nick Smith stood in the House and insulted West Coasters and told them they were basically amateurs because they could not cut the logs themselves. The challenge for Nick Smith is that Damien O’Connor put up an amendment to say: “OK if you are going to do this and if the objective is to help out the West Coast”—and help them out do they need it after this crowd over there with Solid Energy ran it into the ground.Members opposite talk about jobs. Nearly 1000 workers have gone but not the white-collar boys in the offices with the $23 million worth of bonuses. No it was the people who were in the pit in the mine in the shaft actually keeping the company going. Mr Auchinvole over there—Captain Mainwaring and his ilk—stood there with the Minister for State Owned Enterprises and did absolutely nothing as 1000 jobs went down the river and as $400 million of losses and debt went out. Mr Finlayson and every member over there just stood there and said: “Hear no evil see no evil—we will do nothing.” But when there is a bit of opportunist stuff and the logs go over they say that they will do what they can to try to create some politics.Again when challenged by the member for the West Coast saying that if they are going to do it they should accept his amendment that says jobs economic growth and the benefit are meted out and left in the West Coast so that West Coasters get that economic benefit the National Government says no. It is the Gerry Brownlee principle of take the money and run. Take the dough and run as he did when he was a sawmiller. He is now a woodwork teacher but you know; oh how the mighty have fallen. They run from it.So I challenge those members over there—including the new member beside Mr Finlayson whose name I cannot remember—that if this is all about helping the West Coast out the challenge for them is to accept the Damien O’Connor amendment and say: “OK we are going to do it. We’re going to mill it and we’re going to make sure that that economic benefit is not trucked over to Canterbury fair go or helicoptered out to Rotorua.” Because that is where the guys will come from with the big helicopter heavy lifting stuff and the economic benefit will go elsewhere. If they are really serious—Mr Lotu Iiga knows I am right—they will accept the amendment. They will say that the economic benefit will reside where the benefit should be and that is on the West Coast. Or they will adopt the Brownlee principle of a dash for cash. I have not seen Gerry dash many places but it will be a dash for cash. He is a sawmiller who went over the hill and all the economic benefit went over there. So that is the challenge. That is the challenge for these guys.Damien O’Connor does reserve the right to vote the way he does because on this side of the House we are not led by the nose like the lions and lambs over there. Mr Auchinvole talks tough about the West Coast but when it comes to the crunch he is nowhere to be seen. Damien O’Connor reserves the right to stick up for his local area because what he is actually sticking up for is an amendment that says that the economic benefit should reside within the West Coast. These guys on the other side have no credibility as they let 1000 coalmining jobs go down the pit. They backed the guys who were wasting money—23 million bucks—and the National members have the guts to come in here and talk about jobs when they let a company that was an export award-winning company which put masses of millions of dollars into the West Coast—Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member’s time has expired. [Interruption] Order!