Street Maryan: Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill — In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeStreet Maryan: Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill — In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10277. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon MARYAN STREET (Labour): Good morning to the Committee on this Thursday 16 May. I am interested to see that we have a different Minister in the chair this morning the Minister for Primary Industries. Perhaps the Minister responsible for this Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill Simon Bridges has gone home to the Bay of Plenty to take care of really important issues. Clearly there are important things going on in the Bay of Plenty as you can tell from—Hon Gerry Brownlee: That’s out of order.Hon MARYAN STREET: Well get up and raise a point of order. Raise a point of order. There are obviously important things going on in the Bay of Plenty. One of the top stories in theBay of Plenty Times this morning was the fact that a woman was fined $150 for driving through a red light while flossing her teeth. Perhaps the Minister of Energy and Resources has gone to take care of that.We are talking about clauses 1 to 3 of the bill which include the title and the commencement clauses. Last night when I was interrupted by midnight I was talking about the fact that the Minister needs to be careful about the implementation date of this bill. If he is not careful—if he does not give it to a competent staffer in other words—he could have the amendment coming into effect before the bill that it amends comes into effect. So the date of implementation of this bill is to be the day after the Royal assent and if he is not careful and does not look after it and if he does not have somebody with a little yellow sticky label to bring it up for him on 25 May he could find himself in an even more bizarre situation than he currently is.Part of the debate this morning is about the title of the bill. We could call this the “My First Effort (Epic Fail) Bill” because this has been a chapter of errors from the beginning and it is the Minister’s first attempt to bring legislation to the House. So within 6 weeks even before the Crown Minerals Amendment Act which we passed a few weeks ago has been implemented we are here amending it.We could call it the “Nobody Told Me I Had to Earn My Salary Bill” because the level of incompetence around this procedure has been extraordinary. We could call it the “Contempt for Democracy Bill” because it does not allow in this rushed process any due consideration by a select committee. We could call it the “Contempt for Parliament Bill” because the disdain with which the Minister has held Parliament is of epic proportions. We could call it the “Contempt for Due Process Bill” because it has in fact denied people who know more than the Minister—that is not hard—about maritime and international law for example the chance to submit on it. It could be called the “New Levels of Ministerial Incompetence Bill” because of the ineptitude demonstrated from beginning to end.But probably National members would like to call it the “How to Lose Friends and Aggravate People Bill” because they are not keen to be here on a Saturday morning even if the Minister should really go back to watching out for women drivers who drive through red lights while flossing their teeth. It could be called the “Strip New Zealanders of Their Right to Protest Bill”. It could be called—