SpeechHon RON MARK (NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well it really is a curious thing—and I've said it before—if you stand still in this place for long enough you get to hear the same people who were once in Government giving speeches that sound just like the Opposition gave when they were putting legislation through that the Opposition of the day objected to. And you have the ironic situation where the Opposition today who was the Government then ends up giving the same speeches that we gave when we were sitting over there and they wouldn't listen.There's this old saying Brevity is the soul of wit." So I guess to not be brief might be said to be "wit-less" which is probably what I would conclude from a man who—the Hon Scott Simpson who I greatly respected as the chairman of the Environment Committee when I served on it while he was in Government. I say that because his speech was a lot of huff and puff—used up the whole 10 minutes and didn't actually say anything of any worth tragically. I'm reminded of Denis O'Rourke—a member of Parliament NZ First—who sat in those seats over there and for I think 13 hours in committee stage tried desperately to get the National Government of the day to make some sensible common-sense changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA). And I have to sit here now and listen to Mr Scott Simpson saying "Well what's needed is to throw the whole RMA out and start again." But of course in the next breath "But it'll take 15 years to get it done."Well we haven't got 15 years to dither and dawdle around ladies and gentlemen. We've got a very short window of time to get some stuff done. I would simply say to the Opposition the National Party's resource amendment—Hon Member: Your time's almost up!Hon RON MARK: Listen up young fella you might learn something. Listen up both ears. Nanny used to say "Mouth shut ears open learn a lot." OK so listen up. The resource management amendment bill that the John Key - led National Government put through took about 30-odd hours of Parliament time. It had people virtually camped in here under urgency. Not one of the amendments that New Zealand First offered up were accepted and now people have got the audacity to preach back at us that we're not listening. So get with the programme; we don't have 15 years to amend it. We've got work to do. This is a first step in a couple of phases. If the Opposition want to get on board and help if they truly want to remove the bureaucracy if they truly want to get—remember Mr Guy the troubles with the Horizons One Plan. Remember that—your area Horizons. Well what did the Government of the day do about that? Nothing. One Plan choked a lot of dairy farmers in the Wairarapa and the Tararua and I know through the Manawatū—and kept on going. Wherever the One Plan spread its tentacles farmers died. Their businesses were severely impacted.Hon Nathan Guy: They didn't die.Hon RON MARK: Well actually be cautious because we hear stories about people who actually did commit suicide. We hear stories about farms that went to the wall. We hear stories about equity that just evaporated overnight. And what was that all down to? It was down to the Resource Management Act and the way it was being implemented by Horizons. Some of us fought against those changes but some sat there in Government and let it happen.So some of us are sitting here trying to do something. My simple message is "Get on board. Help move this bill through. If one really does want to address the bureaucracy if one really does want to get some common-sense changes here's the opportunity. We would welcome that help.""