SpeechJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany): Thank you Madam Chair. I also rise to speak in favour of this bill and really echo some of the comments that have already been made about the fact that when we have natural disasters or we have significant economic events it really highlights to this Parliament—because every time it happens the Parliament goes and changes the RMA. Those big events highlight that our Resource Management Act is broken. The politics of resource management law changes are such that we can never achieve a parliamentary majority for streamlining the RMA in such a way where it is user-friendly and geared towards development and economic progress until we have such an issue like COVID-19 or the global financial crisis or the Kaikōura earthquakes come along. When those issues come along then all of a sudden the politicians go Whoa we better protect jobs and we better do something for economic development. So let's set aside all of the RMA provisions which are held dear to a majority of the Parliament—let's set them aside and move forward with economic development." It highlights the fact that if we just had an RMA in the first place that was fit for purpose then we wouldn't need to be doing this type of work.But the fact that we're here is good. The fact that we have this legislation is a positive improvement. If the need to create jobs and save the livelihoods of New Zealanders off the back of COVID-19 is the catalyst for doing this legislation then good on the Parliament for doing just that. I do share the view also that's been expressed that there should be more projects in this bill. I realise there were comments made—I think the Minister of Defence made the comment that there's other tracks a track 2 and a track 3. But if we realise already now that there are more projects that we could put in—and I know New Zealand First has many projects that they've got $3 billion of Provincial Growth Fund to fund—they should be going in the bill right now. The very fact that the select committee put the Queenstown roading projects in the bill—I'm not sure Hamish Walker you must be very very effective at lobbying. But the fact that the Queenstown roading projects went into the bill suggests the Parliament is open-minded to putting more stuff into the bill. There are a number of Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) on the Table. I note the National Party—every single local member seems to have come up with their own local project that's important to their electorate. I've done the same by way of SOP and I'm sure the National Party given that they're goodhearted people will be supporting the people of Botany with SOPs that I've put up just as they've been supporting their own local electorates. If they don't then we'll know that they care about politics more than local electorates. But the fact that there are so few projects in this bill suggests that we do need to see some improvements. I want to speak briefly in the two minutes that I have left about the Auckland water issue because there was commentary both in the media and in the report from the select committee around the Auckland water issue. I suspect David Parker has done a very strategic move sideways in putting that particular issue out to the call-in provisions that he as the Minister has the ability to do. But the very fact that he's had to do that suggests we don't have an RMA fit for purpose that can deal with those big significant issues. But he hasn't actually come up with a solution which is fast enough and we can do things faster if we were to put the Auckland water issue into this bill. See the panel under this bill has to make decisions in 25 days. The call-in provisions under the RMA that the Minister has—it takes nine months or so. If Auckland's water crisis is so bad that a majority of Parliament—because the National Party and New Zealand First came out saying we should put that particular issue into the fast-track bill and they can't deny it because Shane Jones put it out as Minister for Infrastructure. It was under his brand as Minister for Infrastructure. If a majority of Parliament says that is such an important issue that we should do something about in a fast-track way let's just put it in this bill. The Minister's done a good thing in putting it out in the call-in process but we can do things a lot faster by putting it in this bill. I realise putting it in this bill would probably upset one of the coalition partners. But for goodness' sakes Aucklanders getting access to drinking-water and being able to ensure that we have continuity of supply for our largest city in the country surely that's something that a majority of votes in the Parliament should put politics aside for and put in place in this bill. I note that the National Party deputy leader also put out a press release saying that they support something like that going into this particular bill. I have an SOP that would give effect to the very thing that the National Party deputy leader has said that she wants. I hope they support that as well. Otherwise they are just like that big "h" word that I'm not allowed to say."