Wagner NickyHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Thank you very much Madam Assistant Speaker. I and National are delighted to support this bill—this Conservation (Infringement System) Bill. The reason we're so delighted is that it's National Party policy and I worked with it with the Hon Maggie Barry when she was the Minister of Conservation and we were in Government. I'm particularly pleased because not one single word has been changed since the bill was introduced in February last year.Now most New Zealanders care deeply about the natural environment. We enjoy the fact that we can get out in the great outdoors and the vast majority of us treat the environment—as the privilege that it is—with respect and care. But there are always a few—a few who break the rules. In the past Department of Conservation (DOC) rangers had only two options for how to deal with illegal behaviour and they were two options at either end of the punishment spectrum. The first was a warning and the second was a prosecution. We all know that prosecutions are very time consuming and very expensive. The problem was that sometimes a warning was too soft an approach and sometimes a prosecution was too tough. So what this bill does is provide a middle ground: an infringement and a fine system that will deal with less serious offences fairly well and efficiently and most of all quickly. I think the quickness is really important because what we want our DOC rangers to be doing is looking after our conservation estate not necessarily chasing up the few bad eggs in the system.I support this bill and I really hope that the new Government will continue to support National's conservation legislation. In particular I'd really like to ask them to reconsider the stalling of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill. That was supported by Parliament unanimously back in 2016 and thousands of New Zealanders and environmentalists were really keen to see that happen particularly the Greens. They welcomed this bill because they'd been lobbying for the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary for many many years and are always wanting more marine reserves—in fact just last week the new Minister of Conservation the Hon Eugenie Sage was talking about marine reserves and increasing the number of marine reserves in New Zealand.So I just suggest that they progress the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary because what I saw on the Greens' website under Eugenie's name is that the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary would be New Zealand's only reserve that protects an entire ecosystem and by protecting 620000 square kilometres of Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary it would become the world's largest no-take marine reserve and would be a positive inspiration to other nations to implement greater marine protection measures. So it is absolutely deeply disappointing certainly not uplifting and positively inspiring that self-serving coalition politics are stopping the creation of this globally significant sanctuary.The conservation Minister talks about the significance of conservation and we agree with her. But talk's cheap. How about she walks the walk and passes the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill because that would be truly significant for conservation.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.