Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Mr Chair for this opportunity. I must say that was an interesting speech from the Hon Damien O'Connor. He told us—he told Parliament—that this Government is pro - foreign investment. I think they're as pro - foreign investment as they are pro - the West Coast: not really at all actually—certainly not at that protest I was at the other day. Gosh it was fun getting back to protesting. I haven't been able to do it for a while. Fantastic! Now we've got something to protest about and it's this useless Government. And I'll tell you what the West Coast people were busy down there. I didn't see Greg O'Connor there. I didn't see Greg O'Connor. He wasn't there—he wasn't there. No they're all wondering what happened to him. They used to think he was one of theirs but they don't now.I thought it was very interesting listening. This part of the bill is all about enforcement and other miscellaneous matters so let's have a look at this enforcement shall we? We're going to have bureaucrats enforcing it and checking things are happening. Well are they going to have a little uniform? Are they going to have a little uniform? What are going to be their little powers? Is the Government going to give them the powers of the Search and Surveillance Act? No! No! The Minister in the chair Damien O'Connor is looking a little bit worried now. This is by the way the same Government that wants to get rid of the Serious Fraud Office.Andrew Bayly: Oh!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Yeah. So they're the people in charge of corruption investigations and what they're doing is they're going to get rid of that and at the same time by the way they're going to have all of these bureaucrats running around checking what's happening—checking without any powers of search and surveillance. Oh dear! So I suppose they'll just have to ask for some paper because that will definitely tell the truth.I think that we've got a Government that doesn't quite understand that if you're going to have enforcement and lots of rules around things—or you say you are going to have enforcement—you have to give your bureaucrats the powers to do so. So I just think this is a most interesting part of the bill. We're going to have all sorts of opportunities here for things to be done outside of this bill and within the exemptions as well. When we look at this what they're going to say here is that the Person who acquires interest"—this is new section 51A in clause 31—"in residential land must make and provide statement". Oh that's going to be good! That's going to be tough!Andrew Bayly: A one-pager.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: A one-pager—a statement. Well I guess the trouble is that if you're dealing with people who are telling the truth that won't be a problem but what if they're not? Who's going to check? Are we going to have people checking are they really living in a relationship with a New Zealander are they really permanent residents or are they actually having us all on?I'm also fascinated about why we have the exemption for forestry. I say this because the Hon Damien O'Connor talks so much about it. Some of you will remember that there is a place called Kāingaroa Forest. As a child—so just a mere 10 years or so ago or a few decades maybe—I was taken on a bus trip. Not to be lost thankfully like little Gretel but instead—Rt Hon David Carter: I bet she sat on the back seat eh? I bet she sat on the back seat!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I always did—I always cause trouble. Back seats made more fun on the bus and sometimes in Parliament too I've found. Anyway we went down to see Kāingaroa Forest and it looked like it was this fantastic forest except that it wasn't because it had been planted during the Great Depression and once employment came on once the Second World War came on there weren't people there to prune it. So we ended up with this massive forest that was only ever good for pulp and paper—for newsprint. And that's the problem: you can't just plant trees and think it's all going to happen. They have to be pruned they have to be looked after and one of the things with this is that it doesn't actually require any of that.We've got 70 percent of our forests currently owned by foreign interests. This Government that's so against foreign investment is happy for the rest of them to go to foreign investment and get emissions trading scheme credits. There's something very strange going on here and I think it's something that this Parliament should be asking more about. Why forestry? Why not sorghum? Why not blueberries? Why forestry? And when I look at the exemptions and the rules it's very hard for this to be operational."