Webb DuncanDr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour—Christchurch Central): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker; thank you very much. Look I enjoyed that little flight of fancy of Erica Stanford but also thanks very much for her hard work on the committee and for getting out of bed on a Saturday morning with the rest of us! Thank you very much! I do absolutely want to endorse her remarks in respect of the officials though who worked incredibly hard. I know the committee worked hard but they worked much harder than we did giving up their time with family and things over the weekends and so on. I do really want to recognise that they went above and beyond to address the issues that were raised at select committee in this urgent piece of legislation.I wanted to just recognise that there are three kinds of projects in this bill: listed projects referred projects and kind of work on infrastructure which is maintenance and replacement. And the listed projects are the ones in the schedule and get all the kind of headlines but the other projects are equally as important. Whilst there was a lot of attention around those listed projects the Kopenui Dam is the obvious one but also the addition of the Queenstown project—which although a roading project is actually about freeing up the inner city to make it much more livable much more rideable much more walkable; another good project.Also I do just want to mention Auckland water briefly. Now that has been referred to an expert panel called in by the Minister and referred to an expert panel a much better process because these listed projects essentially are consented by statute and in respect of the proposal to take water from the Waikato River that requires much more consultation before the consent is given. It's about whether not how. But that can now be done and a long-term solution to that problem can be addressed. The other matter I'll touch on briefly in respect of the listed projects is the fact that Transpower came along and noted that they really needed some powers in there because some of their assets are going to be affected.Also I wanted to just touch on the projects which are repair and replacement. That's actually a large amount of work. What it does is in respect of KiwiRail and the New Zealand Transport Agency; it enables them to work on their assets without going to get consents for minor works. So rather than having to wait for months and months—there's things like bridge replacements retaining walls and culverts resurfacing—they'll be able to do work without getting consents.Now to all of those people who are emailing me pretty much as we speak—I suspect friends of Eugenie Sage—saying that climate change is not addressed in the bill in fact that's not entirely accurate. There's two things I'd say about that. First the purpose of the bill tracks in some ways the Resource Management Act but does talk not only about supporting employment and New Zealand's economic recovery but also continuing to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources. In select committee we did listen to submitters and I want to recognise Chlöe Swarbrick who was very insistent that we listened to everyone who wanted to be heard. So we did across the course of the week listen to everyone. And actually from those submissions we made a significant amendment I think to clause 19. In particular when talking about significant adverse environmental effects as a basis for declining a consent we noted that this will include greenhouse gas emissions; so overtly recognising that at least one consideration—not an exclusive consideration but a highly relevant consideration—is the carbon impact of any activity. So that's important as well.I want to talk a little bit as well about the work with our Treaty partners. I know that not everyone thinks we've got it perfectly right but certainly we worked hard to make sure that all Treaty settlements were absolutely preserved that partners to Treaty settlements were entitled to be robustly consulted and that there would be proper consultation with Te Arawhiti in respect of any of these projects that went ahead.This is a piece of legislation which is being fast tracked it's urgent it has a sunset clause. I've heard the Opposition say they want to see that extended from up to five years rather than two. I think we need to be very very cautious with the kinds of wide-ranging and quite sweeping powers these panels will have. So thank you again to all of the officials. I think the committee's done a good job here but I look forward to the rest of the debate in this House. Thank you Madam Speaker.