Mooney JosephJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to speak on the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Bill. I didn't bring any wings to the House tonight—unlike my colleague across the House tonight—but it was interesting to hear his little story and all sorts of visions of winging his way around in his campervan. But anyway this is a bill that the National Party is supporting but we want to see exploration of the issues at select committee. There are a few issues to be considered to make sure that this is fit for purpose and doesn't have unintended consequences that lead to things that we don't want to see.I'd be interested to see whether there's a bit of consideration around clause 6 which amends the meaning of freedom camp". It says "In this Act freedom camp means to camp (other than at a camping ground) within 200 m of an area accessible by motor vehicle or the mean low-water springs line of any sea or harbour or on or within 200 m of a formed road or a Great Walks Track using 1 or more of the following: (a) a tent or other temporary structure: (b) a motor vehicle." So that's pretty broad. That covers a lot of New Zealand with 200 metres. I have had an email from the All Points Camping Club who have raised a few points which I'm sure they'll submit on at select committee just pointing out that this could capture all sorts of people—hunters surfers etc. There will no doubt need to be some consideration of whether this is going to capture more than is intended so to speak.Also the self-contained toilets—I hope there's going to be good consideration of what is necessary and what is too much in terms of the regulatory requirements for self-contained toilets in vehicles that are fit for purpose but may not fit the specification in here—or they may do. There'll be no doubt some good consideration—I certainly hope there is good consideration—of that at select committee because it's important we get this right. I'll just say from my personal experience I didn't wing my way around but I remember over 20 years ago I had hurt myself in a cycling crash and couldn't work. I was overseas and I decided to come back to New Zealand and cycle around the South Island. My legs still worked and one arm still worked so I could hang on to the handle bars. I chucked a backpack on the back of the bike so I could go tramping. I cycled around the South Island interspersed with tramping along the way. Looking at this freedom camping bill I was like "Man would I have been caught by this?" and I probably would have been. Camping within 200 metres: there are times when it's pouring with rain and you're in the middle of nowhere. For example I cycled between Nelson Lakes to Hanmer via Rainbow Road located in the Molesworth Recreation Reserve. You know that took a couple of days. I was actually cycling with this American guy that I'd met along the way. We cycled for about a week together I think. I remember cycling through that area and he had this little tape recorder strapped on his handle bars—this was back in the days when people used tape recorders—and had Bob Dylan playing. So there we are cycling through the middle of the mountains no one else around Bob Dylan playing and living the dream. I can tell you: there were no toilets anywhere. There were no composting toilets. There were no toilets strapped to the bicycle. It just wasn't happening. But being responsible campers there's ways and means of ensuring that you don't leave something behind that shouldn't be left behind. I just hope that this bill doesn't shut down the future generations of people who want to explore New Zealand in a responsible way and that we leave those options open to them so that we can get the balance right. We certainly don't want to have people pulling up to areas off our road etc. that have been littered. No one likes to see that least of all me. But we do need to make sure that responsible campers can continue to enjoy our country and I certainly hope this does that. We will like I say be supporting this through and will be looking forward to these issues being explored in more detail at the select committee. We hope we see a good balance from this and not too much bureaucracy. One final thing I'll just say is that it's great that there will be more specifications required and the gasfitters association will be charged with the responsibility for assessing these but we need to make sure they actually have the capacity to do that because there is a gigantic workforce shortage in New Zealand right now. Are we going to have enough gasfitters to do this work? They have a lot of other things they have to be doing—making sure our houses are safe and fit for purpose for example. So we need to make sure that at a practical level we can deliver on this legislation if it passes through in its current form. With that I will conclude my statements. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I call Tāmati Coffey—five minutes."