Rurawhe Adrian: Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 23 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4639. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Can I just briefly send out a mihi to all of the whanau hapū and iwi in my electorate who are suffering floods right at the moment and say that I am thinking of them right now.This bill the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) (Transitional Provisions) Amendment Bill which the Labour Party is supporting at this third reading—I endorse those comments from members who have stated that the principal legislation was rushed through this House and was badly drafted. I am quite astounded that this issue was not picked up at the original passing of the principal legislation. One would have thought that modelling would be done. We expect that many community organisations would do their homework when they are doing things like applying for funding etc. It would not be too much to ask during the drafting of that legislation that modelling around the application process would have been done so that everyone would see how this process should work. Clearly it was not done and so we find ourselves in the House today passing this legislation to correct that so that businesses like Shell Todd Oil Services can continue operating under the current legislation.We heard from the member Matt Doocey who said that we need this legislation because of business continuity. And that is correct; we do need business continuity. The problem that I have is that it seems to me the Government restricts its identifying of business continuity to only certain businesses. If we applied that member’s logic to Relationships Aotearoa there would be 183 people who would not be out of work today. He talked about the 300 people who would be lost from the mining industry if the current legislation was left and said that there are appeals under that process.That is an ongoing issue that I actually have with the members opposite. They are very good at putting up legislation that helps big business but when it comes to supporting community organisations like Relationships Aotearoa 183 people lose their jobs and 7000 of its clients have to find alternative services for the issues that they have.I want to acknowledge the submitters and in particular Tanea Tangaroa. She has put in a submission to the select committee. She talks about a number of issues that I think are relevant and that I think need to be noted in the House with regard to this piece of legislation. Albeit she focused on the ongoing extraction of oil and gas from Papatūānuku I think it is still relevant that someone like her should be able to make a submission to the select committee around her concerns about this legislation and so I mihi to her.It is a very small bill of course—only four clauses and the relevant clause is clause 4 which amends section 162 of the principal Act. We would not be in this situation—I will congratulate the members of the select committee because the bill is substantially changed from the first reading and I think it is obviously due to members of that select committee. I congratulate them on coming to a consensus around the time frame that organisations have for their applications. Thank you.