Luxton CameronCAMERON LUXTON (ACT): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm glad to rise again to speak on a long-term insights briefing. Now this one is the Ministry for the Environment's Long-Term Insights Briefing 2023 with a report-back from the Environment Committee. Now as a Kiwi that has spent his life enjoying New Zealand's environment I often wonder: what is the environment? We can have—it's actually quite a nice name—the natural and built environment". I mean it gives us a bit of sense that there's more than one environment. You know I've built environments; I've been a builder. I've farmed environments; I've been a farmer. I've contributed to my part of cleaning up New Zealand's pests by having stoat lines and other lines in the—well two now in my life and it's always a bit of a pleasure when you find a stoat hanging from a tree and know that you've done your bit to protect the feel of your favourite valley. Now—Hon Andrew Bayly: That's success.CAMERON LUXTON: It is success. So what all New Zealanders growing up in this country feel an affinity for is the environment and some of us go out and strap our boots on and take the set of plans that have gone through that rigmarole at the council and go and contribute to our built environment.We've heard from the Labour member that people should go out and read this report-back from the Environment Committee. Well I have to say I've gone through it and it's just a word salad. I mean how is anyone who gets up in the morning to go out put their boots on grab a hammer a shovel a piece of machinery a bulldozer and goes out and tries to deal with flooding replant a hill that should never have been cleared—how are they going to get anything out of "Futures thinking is critical to … Ministry for the Environment's role as … environmental steward and system[s] leader." I mean what on earth? Look I may not be a smart man but I know what love is and I have no idea what a systems leader is. I mean how are we supposed to get anything out of something like this? Anyone who goes out to put in a piece of infrastructure to build a house someone who's gone to get water to put through the pipe system to get into town or to spray on some crops to diversify the agricultural basket that is New Zealand—and I might say I found myself in the Wairarapa last week and saw what could be done with a bit of security around water to helping New Zealand's long-term environmental standards improve while also diversifying our crops and making sure that New Zealand can battle with whatever challenge the rest of the world throws at us. We need to be able to get to minerals and use these to fuel our economy and the future life of New Zealanders. But I say again: how is anybody going to make sense out of what was written in this report? I unfortunately cannot.Farmers townies Kiwis are doing more for the environment than the Ministry for the Environment. I've met with conservation groups throughout the Bay of Plenty who are picking up the mantle for themselves and going out and getting it done and I think we should be supporting them in securing a better environment for the next generations. There is a lot to be said for New Zealanders going out and doing what needs to be done for improving their farm sustainability improving the value of the town in which they live and enjoying the benefits that come from that.What we need to do and what ACT and this coalition Government with National and New Zealand First are doing is focusing on replacing the Resource Management Act with a system based on property rights because it's only with true property rights that you can create wealth in a society and it is only with wealth in a society that you can secure a healthy prosperous and sustainable environment. I look forward to New Zealand's environment improving for new generations. My kids my grandchildren will enjoy it and I look forward to all New Zealanders enjoying it too."