MacLeod DavidDAVID MacLEOD (National—New Plymouth): Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou katoa. Ki a koe te rangatira tēnā koe. What a complex world we live in. The way I look at this is that I empathise with the sentiment of what's trying to be achieved here and I think that around the House with many of the debates that we have we have common goals but we have different roles and different paths of being able to get there. It's the simplest way I can describe it the difference between that side of the Hose and this side of the House but I do empathise with having a world that has the best environment that we can get.The other side of that conversation to me is endearing—to have a pragmatic outcome for our country in New Zealand but indeed the world. Because as we know the environment has no boundaries in itself. We are a country that factually feeds more than 40 million people around the world and we could say that we don't want to do that any more and we're sacrificing our own environment here as a result of that. But this is the economy that provides us the lifestyles in the New Zealand that we enjoy today.I wanted to acknowledge the former speaker the Hon David Parker with what he said about the fact that this diversity that we see across the House should be celebrated. That's what MMP actually produces diversity of ideas. I feel that this House is stronger because of it because it's the stretching of each other's ideas and each other's mindsets that actually provides the best possible decisions. I've seen that myself personally in governance roles with boards and you don't want a groupthink mentality around tables like that you want diversity of views. So it's great to see different views even though it frustrates some views of many of us but it's something that we should actually celebrate indeed.So you know as mentioned you're shepherding this bill through the House—sorry not you Madam Speaker but the Hon James Shaw and I'm on this side of the House here and I'm not in a position to be able to support the bill. But I do want to talk about the environment because a comment was made that I want to talk to you. And the comment was that the environment today is worse than 10 years ago when you actually began in the House. My challenge to that is my experience of over 22 years in the Taranaki region as its chair of the regional council which is I can point factually to some scientific evidence where we are making progress. It is a trend in the right direction and we've got a long way to go but we are getting better and we should actually pat people on the back more than actually lambaste them because I'm a believer in actually more of the carrot approach rather than the stick approach. And we do see a lot of lambasting of individuals rather than supporting success and growing that success in itself. I think there's a great thing that comes out of that.In Taranaki for instance and I know it's only a small part of Aotearoa New Zealand itself but Taranaki—you know I was proud to have my Taranaki whānau here yesterday and you talked about the fact that Taranaki maunga is going to have the rights of an individual of a person itself and I support that. I think it's a great outcome and it's a long time coming. It's been a long journey in itself and I believe the environment is going to be better for it as well.Taranaki maunga has had some great programmes on it recently particularly the predator control programme that's looking after our taonga species on that maunga. And we heard the member from the Māori Party speak to that yesterday about the fact that it has been sacrificed by the fact that we had pests introduced to that environment and we're in a recovery mode right now. But we've also done a great job around the ring plain of Taranaki; it just doesn't stop on the National Park; it actually goes around the ring plain. And we've got farmers we've got everybody that's using the environment the landscape actually believing and making the environment better with regards to that.I wanted to finish off—you know I won't get the opportunity the Hon James Shaw to thank you for your contribution to the country and to this House itself and I want to acknowledge that. I've been looking from afar at politics for many many years and although I don't know you particularly well you do come across as a man who is very courteous who has great honesty and high integrity. Those are values that everybody should actually strain for. So I appreciate that.So unfortunately with my time running out I'm not in the position to support this. It has complexity with legislation but I wish you well in the future. Thank you James.