Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. That was a very short speech from the Labour members who are supposed to be here supporting New Zealand primary industry and also supporting environmental awareness in this country. It's a strange day when we see the Labour members trying to rush through legislation without actually giving it a full discussion.Now we had a very good speech from my colleague Todd Muller and also from Tim van de Molen which actually went through some of the really big issues that will arise from this legislation. As the National Party has said we will be supporting this legislation in its first instance. We just want to make sure that it is done appropriately and in the right way and achieves the purposes that have been set out. That is the balance I guess that we need to see in this legislation.We all value our fisheries and they are an important part of an island nation that has a huge economic zone. It's a very important part of our economy and it's also a very big part of our culture and heritage. The maintenance of strong fisheries is something that I think is universal within this Parliament through all political parties but we need to make sure also that any rules that are put in place are practical and realistic and this Government has a history of not doing that.Our caution around this bill is to make sure that in the select committee process we actually do have rules that businesses that operate in the commercial fishing realm can actually live with. One of the most horrifying you could say points that Todd Muller—well it wasn't horrifying but it raised the fact that there potentially would be a loss of fishing capability as a result of the impact of this legislation. That seems like a direct approach by the Government to reduce another primary industry and that is something that we don't need to see happen. We need a robust fishing industry. We need it strong. We need to make sure that it is capable of maintaining its catch in the future. But we don't need to shut it off just because of some ideological view of how much fishing there should be or how little fishing there should be. So I would be worried when I heard that in your speech that that is what the regulatory impact statement had indicated.Angie Warren-Clark: Read it. There's more than that.Hon DAVID BENNETT: More than that? So it could be even worse—that's what the Labour members are saying. So we will need to work that through in the select committee. It's really important that we don't lose our capability of a fishing sector an industry that has had a history of some of the strongest companies in New Zealand and also had a very strong history for iwi. We've got many in this room who have connections with iwi and fishing and who would value and want to maintain that sector for iwi going forward. So I think it's really important that we don't lose the capability we have there.Another issue that we need to be very careful around is privacy. The issue of putting cameras on boats sounds great and it is something that's been talked about in this House for about a decade and the reality of it is that it didn't come in under this Government when they had promised to do so and work had already been started in the previous Government. There is the fear that the big hand of Government could take that role and use that information and that data to its own purposes rather than for the success of the sector so I think there'd be valid concerns that the sector would have. In select committee I think it's important that that's thrashed out and that we have a bit of comfort there for everybody going forward.With the bycatches and things like that it's very difficult to see how some of that could actually work out in reality. What's the use of that fish that has to be kept now and Tim van de Molen raised the point around research vessels. So some of those issues need to be worked through as well to make sure that we have a fair policy in that area as well.So in essence we support anything that's going to be for the best interests of the New Zealand fishing sector and New Zealand fisheries to make sure that we have a strong fishery going forward. This bill does have some good points in there that will lead to some modernisation you could say of the rules around the fishing sector. However we're very much aware that that can also go the other way and a Government can take it too far and it could be very detrimental to the sector. So we're trying to protect the sector as well as getting those goals that everybody in the House wants to see of having a strong fishery that's there for future generations. Thank you Mr Speaker.