Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I know my colleague Julie Anne Genter would love to get up and respond to that but instead I am going to talk about the place I live which is Porirua in the mighty rohe of the mighty Ngāti Toa. Our harbour is the shining jewel of the entire coast I would say and Tītahi Bay a mecca of surf call for this entire region. It's a stunning place. But ever since I've become an MP or even before the health of our harbour has been an absolutely hot topic. There are people who remember supplementing their daily food with kai moana from the harbour. But now we're seeing the silt rise before our eyes. We're seeing people in waka ama get rashes from the pollution in the harbour. We are very rarely hearing of anyone who would dare to collect food from the harbour and eat it and it is causing pain. In most recent years Tītahi Bay has regularly been closed for swimming because of contamination. There was recently a little nipper surf lifesaving event that got shut down when parents noticed faecal matter in the water with their kids. We've heard of used toilet paper turning up on the streets in Mana. These things are all connected because our water system is not coping with the increase in development and the development and the projects have not protected the waterway from the runoff of the land. Half of our waste-water pipes are in poor or very poor condition. Honestly it's a tragic situation for the jewel in our coast. People in the community have been raising concerns about this for years. The estimated cost of upgrading it is $1.8 billion for a community with only 57000 ratepayers. It's well beyond I think the entire total of what Government's indicated it might put into the three waters project. There's a sense of urgency in our community about doing this. Now there's a plan for a new fancy 2000-house development on the hills opposite Plimmerton on the doorstep of a wetland connected to a wetland system that the Minister recently signed off after an external hearing panel through the streamlined Resource Management Act process that doesn't have appeal rights passed to him. Iwi and council I acknowledge supported this application. I've got to say councils—it feels as if there's a bit of a conflict of interest here because they're desperately looking to expand their rating base—right?—with these challenges in front of them and housing provides that option. But our harbour and our wetlands and the health of our environment are at stake from these developments. Iwi and council both said they supported it on condition of the monitoring and expert processes to protect against runoff and to be protective of our environment. But I sat through some of the hearings on this proposal and what I heard was example after example in our area of monitoring and enforcement not being done and that resulting in the harm that we are seeing around us. There's a huge amount at stake here. There was a group of volunteers who have been helping rebuild Taupō Swamp catchment a really stunning place. They put in hundreds of hours. They put in their proposal to the hearing opposing it with really clear reasons of concerns lack of infrastructure around the lack of protection and monitoring from the runoff from new developments particularly the model that's being proposed and it wasn't reflected in the report. They wrote to the Minister to ask to be heard to give their side so he would get full evidence but he chose not to meet with them and approved this because there's so much pressure to get more housing. But we cannot provide more housing if it's going to take away the ecosystem that keeps us all alive.