Sosene Lemauga LydiaLEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's great to be the final speaker and it's quite a privilege to speak on the Natural and Built Environment Bill in the third reading. I firstly want to acknowledge the Environment Committee members who worked tirelessly and also the officials from the different ministries. We worked for months we had many many meetings. I also want to acknowledge the chair Eugenie Sage who shifted us through collectively. We worked well to read the 2945 written submissions.We went the breadth of Aotearoa to hear the over 340 oral submissions and it was very helpful because I was a new member on the select committee. It was very helpful that over a period of months listening to the current Resource Management Act legislation and reading about the new reforms working with a planning approach hearing communities from various local councils but also industry experts who spoke on their written submissions.One of the biggest features that I heard was the 100 current plans that will be moving to the new system under the Natural and Built Environment Bill to 16 regional spatial plans. It was helpful to understand that they will be phased over time. There were a number of recommended changes that were technical to improve the workability of the specific bill especially to help the committee to be able to read it better. There was a lot of time spent with officials improving that and I do want to acknowledge our Minister David Parker as well because he helped the select committee to understand the fundamentals of this bill. We also heard about the failures of the current Resource Management Act throughout Aotearoa and why it is very important that this bill improves the environment because currently what we heard was that under the Resource Management Act things are too costly and they take too long to improve. It was helpful to listen to submitters who raised a number of issues around rivers around landscapes. It was helpful to hear from iwi Māori and hapū on those features around the motu fresh water the concerns about infrastructure and also around consenting and system users who provided analysis and development. It was also helpful to hear from the very busy building and construction industry and also from experts in the electrical industry. And there are a number of tricky issues that we heard about that the new legislation when passed will help with in the national planning framework.The new limits of the nationwide policy: it is intended that those will have moderate risks it was helpful to understand that and specifically what was in front of us was the climate change challenges that we have in Aotearoa thinking about green infrastructure stormwater and productive land. And we saw that in January when the severe weather events hit Aotearoa. So lots of meetings lots of kōrero; there's a big journey around what this means to Aotearoa. We heard from many councils throughout around why local voices are very very important to be part of the regional spatial strategies.Therefore the Natural and Built Environment Bill has fundamental framework limits and will help in a fail-safe way to reset the environment that takes into account biodiversity and specifically improvements nationwide. I commend this bill to the House.