Arbuckle JamieJAMIE ARBUCKLE (NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise on behalf of New Zealand First to take this call on our land and our people and this briefing that has been put into this beautiful document in front of me titled Where to from here? How we ensure the future wellbeing of land and people. So far we've heard a lot in this debate around land but we're probably missing that one of the key factors in that title is people". It is the long-term future that we need to be looking at and this document does say some important things. It was quite obvious reading through it that sometimes you can't reinvent the wheel—it has already been done; it's already been said. We know that issues around land and that's been very well-documented here—we know land is under pressure and we know some of those pressures are coming from housing housing intensification trying to protect food production. As land is being taken up for housing that high-quality food production land is being taken away.This report outlines that we are losing things like our native plants our native animals our ecosystems and they are under threat and there is no doubt about that. The amount of highly productive land is shrinking and it's shrinking dramatically in areas where we used to grow a lot of our high-quality crops. The way land is being used—we know that soils are being degraded and the water and the environments in urban areas are being polluted. Another role that I've had was to do with the Resource Management Act around being a hearings commissioner. It's always those key elements around land air and water and how those things link into each other. Through this report some of the drivers that have been discussed are around those future land changes around the intensification and what that will look like around climate change and what that will look like for land population change the economics and the consumer demands that affect the land use and invasive species. And we haven't heard a lot about that in this debate—things in my district around wilding pines and stuff and how that affects the use of land and farmland.This report does set out having a vision. What I thought was really important in this report was that it talks about an enhanced role for all New Zealanders and it's all New Zealanders putting in their part and playing their part. It was good to hear through this that already that enhanced role is being implemented. But first we've got to get the policy and the legislation effectiveness and we've got to get the right legislation the right policies and we've got to get the buy-in and we've got to get people empowering our communities. If we can empower communities that is a really really important thing. Investing in science—and that's something that New Zealand First is really keen on: investing in science and how that enhances land use. Also promoting environmental education—education is a really really important thing for our young and for going forward.In this report we talk about transformational changes and it talks about nine different pathways. One of those pathways is around the environmental responsibility. But we've got to find sustainability and balance. It's all about choices about priorities going forward about housing about food production and about conservation. It's the way in which we use the land and that is the important thing.The one thing I want to touch on in my last minute is the role of community-led incentives around catchment groups. That is the way forward in this country. We've got over 290 catchment groups. I did hear from the other side of the House around Jobs for Nature. That's something New Zealand First is proud of and was proud of in 2017-2020. Those Jobs for Nature catchment groups are something we've got to encourage and keep supporting.What I did want to talk about too was the effects of waste on land. We talk about forestry blocks and there's a lot of things with waste going onto land. We've got to find through innovation better ways for getting rid of forestry slash like biochar and looking at those type of opportunities.So this report as much as it's stating the obvious is about that long-term thinking and it's not just about the next 50 years but the next 100 years. Thank you Mr Speaker."