Mackey Moana: Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill — Second Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Mackey Moana: Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill — Second Reading 
[Sitting date: 17 October 2012. Volume:684;Page:5916. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
MOANA MACKEY (Labour) 
: 
 I am happy to stand and speak in support of this bill the Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill which is in the name of Te Ururoa Flavell on behalf of the Tauranga City Council. I too am going to take only a very short call but I do want to address the extraordinary contribution of the Hon Dr Nick Smith. It is just so incredible how he manages to be offensive even on the most innocuous pieces of legislation. Here is a very simple piece of legislation which everyone supports and yet he still manages to find that one angle to offend people by saying that because this bill means nothing to him this bill does nothing and we should just get rid of it. Well actually this bill is extremely important to the people of Tauranga and to the iwi of Tauranga who see this as Te Ururoa Flavell outlined in his speech as addressing a longstanding issue. Just because it does not matter to Nick Smith it does not mean that it is not important. But perhaps this shows the kind of arrogance that we are seeing from the National Party in terms of its engagement with Maori over asset sales and Maori interests in water. Perhaps that is why we are seeing such a dog’s breakfast being made there because of the very kind of attitude that we just saw from the Hon Dr Nick Smith which is “I don’t like it. Get rid of it.” 
Maggie Barry 
: Talk to the bill. 
MOANA MACKEY 
: Oh Maggie Barry tells me to talk to the bill yes. Maggie Barry never reads the bills. That is why she does not realise that I am talking to the bill which is about recognising the interests of iwi and how important this piece of legislation is to them. 
 I just want to point out one other thing that the Hon Dr Nick Smith said. He said that National does not pass pieces of legislation to do nothing. Well we have just had an emissions trading scheme bill reported back to the House today that will do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to meet our greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and will do nothing to do all the things that an emissions trading scheme is meant to do except provide enormous cost and bureaucracy for industries that are in it. You could not get a more classic example of a piece of legislation that achieves absolutely nothing except compliance cost and will do nothing to achieve its stated aims of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I do not think there has been a worse example of legislation that does not do anything except cause compliance costs for everyone involved. 
I am very disappointed that the National Party has taken this position on the Mount Maunganui Borough Reclamation and Empowering Act Repeal Bill. This is an important piece of legislation for the people it affects. We deserve to show them that respect and not say that just because Nick Smith does not care about it it means it should be ridiculed and rubbished in the House. I hope future National Party speakers take a slightly more moderate line on this and show the Tauranga City Council and the people of Nga Potiki the respect that they deserve. Thank you.