Stanford Erica; Rurawhe AdrianERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to just take a short call on the Resource Management Amendment Bill at first reading. I will focus my contribution on housing. But before I do so I would like to address the comments by Dr Duncan Webb earlier this afternoon where he described this bill as a precursor to the real work. I would like to remind this House and everyone watching that we are two-thirds of the way through this Government's first term in their year of delivery after they've spent nine years in Opposition thinking about this stuff and we get this tiny tinkering around the edges bill.He then went on to say that the National Party did nothing for fresh water in their nine years. I would like to remind him that the first ever national policy statement on fresh water was done under the National Party: $400 million into cleaning up our waterways; the Land and Water Forum; and the Land Air Water Aotearoa report that says our waterways are improving. What did the Labour Government prior to the National Government do? Nothing; $30 million—a pittance and no national policy statement. But Dr Webb comes to the House today to call this bill somewhat revolutionary—this tiny tinkering bill.We worked with farmers over our nine years to get 95 percent of our waterways fenced. We worked with farmers and regional councils to put in place plans to reduce nitrates in our waterways. And this Government comes with this bill today to the House that works against farmers and not with them. It's already been mentioned but one of the things in the bill that highlights that so well is the increased fine for stock wandering into waterways which is a $2000 fine. As it was pointed out earlier by Mr Scott Simpson it's so funny that earlier this year we had a litter bill that would have increased the fines for people all around this country littering to a thousand dollars but that was voted down by this Government. That was voted down. But here we are again this Government dumping on farmers at every possible opportunity because here it's fine to increase the fines but not earlier in the year.The objectives of this bill are to reduce complexity increase certainty restore public participation opportunities and improve Resource Management Act processes. This is code. I'll tell you what it's code for. It's code for not addressing housing affordability making it harder to build houses and slowing down the house building process. And for a Government apparently dedicated to solving the housing crisis in their year of delivery this bill is a bitter disappointment. Rather than helping to get houses built it will in fact do the exact opposite. I suppose though that this is at least in line with Labour's overall achievement in office so far which is not to build houses because KiwiBuild clearly didn't achieve that. Now they're making it under this bill so much harder for the private sector to build houses—the only sector so far that is actually building any houses and now they will find it much more difficult as well.As I've already said this bill is a tiny tinkering around the edges bill which mostly undoes the good work of the last National Government. They've kicked any major reform down the road because they can't get agreement between the different parties. So we oppose this bill. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): This is a split call. I call Dr Liz Craig—five minutes.