Kanongata'a Anahila; Dean JacquiANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. It's always an honour and a privilege to stand and make a contribution in this House. I need to respond to the last speaker Simon Court. He said something that actually pressed my button. He said that we hate cars and he kept saying something about the Minister of Transport the Hon Michael Wood. I just want to remind the member who just spoke of the Wellbeing Budget that this Government is very strategic and we have goals. So the goals for this year in terms of our Government are continuing to keep New Zealanders safe from COVID-19; secondly continuing to accelerate the recovery from COVID-19; and the goal that I like—particularly about this bill—is number three laying the foundations for the future including addressing key issues such as our climate change response housing affordability and child poverty. This bill along with the last bill I spoke on the Natural and Built Environment Bill is about that. It's about laying the foundation for the future housing affordability and in the end getting our children out of poverty. The Spatial Planning Bill will provide as many speakers have said before me on this side a strategic framework for the environment management and regional development. I'm really going to speak about Part 2 of this bill the Spatial Planning Bill—Part 2 clause 12 and clause 17. So Part 2 sets out requirements for the regional spatial strategies. So each region must have a regional spatial strategy except for the Chatham Islands territory and offshore areas administered by the Department of Conservation acting as a local authority. So those are the exceptions in terms of having each region needing to have a regional spatial strategy. I need to just say RSS but I think if I keep saying regional spatial strategies we might all get it by the end of this.So the spatial planning therefore will help coordinate and integrate decisions made under the relevant legislations by requiring the development of long-term regional spatial strategies. In terms of clause 17 it talks about the contents of spatial strategies so it tells us what must be in these regional spatial strategies. We've heard members before in the House mention something like protection and mention things about Māori but it does set it out in clause 17. Clause 17(1)(a) talks about the areas that may require protection restoration or enhancement:" and it also goes on about "areas of cultural heritage and areas with resources that are of significance to Māori:". The last speaker he spoke before and he questioned but my response to that is that he actually needs to go and read the information unlike how he gave us an example where he didn't do his assignment but he played games. I would recommend the member to go and read clause 17 that actually outlines the contents of the regional spatial strategies. I particularly like 17(1)(f) where it talks about "areas of the coastal marine area that are appropriate for development or significant change in use:". We have seen in most of this year the devastation of climate change on the shores of some of our areas in the country and I think 17(1)(f) refers that each region must have this in terms of coastal marine [Coughs]. Sorry I think Mr Coffey wanted a tissue before; I might need a glass of water. Thank you. It's the passion Madam Speaker. I just need to remind everybody what in the contents they actually need to know in terms of clause 17. I would like to remind everyone that's watching including everyone in Papakura and in South Auckland: please put in a submission. We want to hear your voices because it is those voices that are missing in some parts of our talk. I commend the Minister and I commend this Spatial Planning Bill to the House. Mālō. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Sam Uffindell—five minutes."