Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Associate Minister of Transport): Kia ora Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to follow in a collegial fashion the shadow spokesman for agriculture Nathan Guy and that little journey down memory lane about Mōtītī Island and the surrounding environs.Naturally we support this bill. We support this bill because we think it's a reasonable impost that should be placed upon a global industry that from time to time will come to New Zealand either as carriers of oil or in my case as fellow enthusiasts for the extraction of oil to the extent that we have accessible oilfields in New Zealand.Often there is a debate as to where do you draw the line between what is rightfully the private responsibility of people who hope to profit from extracting resources out of our environment and that which remains the residual responsibility of the State. The reason I raise that distinction is to ensure that we do what is right and proper by our people but that we also don't close the door to those with access to foreign capital who either provide us with essential services—i.e. the continual access to the oil that we require—or who want to develop with New Zealanders the natural resources of our country.I also recall where I was when Nathan Guy during that balmy summer was checking his cows for bloat—Hon Nathan Guy: Normally the spring.Hon SHANE JONES: He milks all the way round the year; he's got so many farms although they may decrease if the four-lane highway continues along—oh no Mr Twyford is here there'll be no more four-lane highways in that direction for the foreseeable future; maybe a token improved highway south of Whangarei. Of course our attention is dedicated to rail but that's all going to be electrical so I'll come back to the topic at hand.So I do recall where I was. But I also recall the utter confusion as to how did it happen who was responsible the quite lurid stories as to what would have possessed the Filipino captain as I recall to be celebrating a birthday and who was actually with him when he celebrated their birthday—of course that led to all sorts of lurid explanations from the fishing industry that don't deserve to be shared in this particular segment of the evening or in the House. But I do recall also it being an absolute shock to the people from Mōtītī Island. They were engulfed in it. It was bigger than Ben-Hur. Sadly it didn't end well for a lot of those people partly because they felt dislocated in terms of what the State was doing and partly because they felt that the insurers standing behind if I'm not mistaken the Greek owners in that particular episode played hardball. But whilst the litigation and the politics got more and more robust the environment suffered. I didn't have the pleasure to actually go and visit the patient souls saving the seabirds but I actually went out on a fishing-boat and had a good look around in that particular area.So it's right and proper that we sheet home the responsibilities where they belong but do it in such a way that people realise that we're still open for business. That's not to compromise the standards that the public expect us to adhere to in relation to environmental management; it's just assuring people that come to New Zealand that we're not some frontier where they can take advantage of us. We're a sophisticated modern economy and our people have very modern expectations as to who should be held responsible.Therefore we support and I echo some of the sentiments by Mr Guy and the speech shared initially by Mr Twyford. So we look forward to the entire process and we identify the need to have balance but also to compromise not one inch should we continue to suffer the sad lessons of Rena and our environment suffers. Thank you very much Mr Speaker.