Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Yes thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. It is my pleasure to stand and take a split call on this Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Amendment Bill. It's a long name so I think people will hear for the benefit of those at home the EEZ bill as abbreviated. Now the Act came into place in 2012 and was amended in 2017 and that's predominantly what everyone is talking about here today.I need to commend the Minister for the Environment David Parker for his excellent and timely intervention into a law that had an error in it. Now we have the Opposition saying that Oh you know it was a very big and complicated and complex bill." We have the Opposition saying that and that this is a very minor thing that needs to be repaired. Well some of us here believe that the hundreds and thousands of dollars that this may potentially cost us here is actually an important matter and it needs to be addressed and it needs to be addressed quickly.The hundreds and thousands of dollars that this error has created and may potentially going forward create—it's important that we address this matter. It's important because some of us across the House believe that hundreds and thousands of dollars is a lot of money. Now the Opposition may not but we do. So we do not apologise for bringing this matter directly and here and now to get this matter addressed.I've just thought for the benefit of the listeners at home of two things in regards to this. First of all what is the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the sea? So we're talking about this. For the lay person it's the 200-nautical-mile zone that we're talking about that we—Stuart Smith: What's that in kilometres?ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Nautical miles.Stuart Smith: I said how many kilometres?ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: It's approximately 15 times the size of our country and if you do want to know sir it is approximately 14883744 kilometres. So for those people who are interested at home it's actually about 15 times our land mass.Hon Scott Simpson: Wikipedia's done well today.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Wikipedia is amazing. However the important thing here is not everyone listening at home has a computer. So I think it's important that we're actually talking to an audience that needs to know these things.Hon Member: Arrogant Opposition.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Absolutely arrogant Opposition.So moving right along. As I say I support the Minister moving forward in this and I'd also like to thank the member Jenny Marcroft for explaining section 20 on the activity. I think she did a really good job of that and it basically talks about why we would need these boards of inquiry. I'm also proud to state that the Minister for the Environment has signalled going forward that this is just the first. The reason we're doing it now the reason we're doing it this way is that we actually need to get it moving to prevent large bills.There is currently a live application. It's currently under way at the moment. That EEZ board of inquiry process is likely to cost quite a lot of money and as the Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage stated that party across the floor only gave $4 million for that. So if we're looking at the many many hundreds of thousands dollars we actually need to fix this quickly we need to fix it appropriately and we need to address it now today.Finally I would just like to state that we're spending the country's money to get this fixed. We hope that we're not in this position again. We will continue with our legislative movement forward in terms of remediating any errors in the Resource Management Act amendments and this amendment. With that I commend the bill to the House."