O'Rourke DenisDENIS O'ROURKE (NZ First): I want to talk about clauses 1 and 2 because they are not very accurate when you look at the title for example—the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill". It should be called the "Resource Legislation (Compromise-ation) Bill" because that would actually be a more descriptive term for what the bill does and does not do. It does compromise the Resource Management Act in so many different ways and New Zealand First has especially sought to emphasise the iwi participation agreements—and that includes the Māori terminology that has been inserted in the bill as well in relation to that—and all the related provisions of that. These permeate the entire bill from one end to the other and if you look at my amendment it is a long list of the many and various ways in which the iwi participation agreements and all those related provisions actually do permeate the bill. We in New Zealand First say this. We say that that compromises the entire bill because it means that one section of the community is given rights that other sections of the community do not have and the presumption is made that the Treaty of Waitangi provides a rationale for doing that.But the truth is that the Treaty of Waitangi gives no such right to Māori iwi to have those special rights—none at all none whatsoever. So where this came from I do not know except I do know one thing. I know why it is in the bill. It is not necessarily because the Government itself wanted it; it is because the only way it could get this legislation through Parliament is by securing two votes from the Māori Party and the Government was willing to compromise the whole bill in order to get what it wanted through. So this is a dirty little deal done behind closed doors in that way so the Government could get what it wanted and it has been willing to accommodate all these rather ridiculous totally unnecessary provisions that the Māori Party has sought which compromise the entire bill.It is not only that. Far from making the Resource Management Act (RMA) less complicated and creating less bureaucracy those provisions create an entire new level of bureaucracy that was not in the Act before. So the Minister's claims that this is fighting bureaucracy are totally vacuous. Not only that it creates more expense. We will not know for some time what those greater expenses will be but there is no doubt in my mind that it will cost a lot more. So the real effects of those iwi participation agreements will not be known for some time but the New Zealand public will see it time after time as they look at plan changes as they look at consents that go through the system. They will see it and they will react and I can tell the Minister right now—and the Government—that it will not be a positive reaction.The fundamental problem that the Government has got with this bill is that it has failed to take the public with it. You only need to look at the magnitude of the objections that came in during the consultation process. Of all of those submissions that came in by far the overwhelming number of them were against the provisions in this bill.In my last minute can I go on to a couple of other things. The powers of the Minister to override plans—regional and district plans—are much greater than the Minister claimed. He claimed "No don't worry. It's very limited." But in fact when you look at what is there the word "amendment" is used in one section which shows unmistakably that the Minister can require amendment of plans not just take things out. That sort of executive power is unnecessary it should not be in the bill and there is a lot of objection to that amongst the members of the public.Finally on GE crops I agree with what other members have said about that. The Māori Party has simply been hoodwinked over that. It thinks it has achieved something by the amendment that Marama Fox put forward. The truth is she achieved nothing did not even define the term "crops" properly and that is another way in which the whole bill has been compromised. This bill will have to be repealed."