Woods MeganDr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): I am happy to take a call on new Part 6. But I would like to point out as I am taking a call on new Part 6 that this could have all stopped at Part 2 if the Government had agreed to split this bill in two and send it to a select committee where Part 2 could have had the proper consideration that it required. In my 5 years in this Parliament I have not seen a simple piece of legislation drafted as badly as this legislation or handled so badly that it sees us still here in about the 14th hour of this debate debating Part 6 of this legislation. It is in the power of the Government's hands to change that and I put that challenge to the Government members. If you want this to be over split the bill in two and send the provision that undermines private property rights—or that could undermine private property rights—to a select committee and let it have its due consideration. Under this new Part 6 I do want to talk specifically about the amendment put forward by David Parker in terms of the national policy statement or the NPS which is of course an instrument under the Resource Management Act that the courts have found to be a particularly powerful instrument in the hierarchy in terms of how it is considered. It has a great deal of regulatory power in terms of setting the agenda and it is an instrument that could have a great deal of influence over how our cities are planned in the future. Of course this is something that the Minister for Building and Housing Nick Smith has been talking about for quite some time and when the draft of that NPS was released back in June this year my colleague Phil Twyford eloquently described it as a damp squib—he had had the opportunity to actually do something with an instrument as powerful as a national policy statement but in typical style it did nothing. It did not do the things that we are setting out in this amendment in David Parker's name. I want to talk specifically to new clause 12 which inserts a new section 46C into the Resource Management Act and I want to talk specifically to new section 46C(2)(b). This is the clause that Julie Anne Genter is offering her amendments to. It says: A requirement for local authorities to undertake detailed spatial planning which sets aside areas of special value and sets out future infrastructure corridors and networks as an alternative to urban boundaries;". She is proposing that we include climate change in there and that is certainly something that the Labour Party can support. One of the key considerations that we have to make when planning the future of our cities is rising sea levels and storm surge. Mr O'Rourke talked in his speech about infrastructural investment and the development of suburbs in Christchurch that have ended up in the residential red zone when we could have predicted the outcome for those communities—well likewise when we are facing the issue of sea level rise. We know the areas of New Zealand and the areas of our cities that are under threat and we have the ability through a national policy statement to plan appropriately for those—to put in place the proper infrastructural planning that has to happen. This offers us an opportunity to be progressive to think ahead and to plan in a 21st century way—not with our heads literally in the sand and not taking account of the future. Taking account of climate change in city planning is absolutely critical. One of the largest meetings at the Paris convention on climate—at COP-21—was actually a meeting of mayors of cities with people discussing issues relating to cities and how they are going to both adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Of course the Compact of Mayors which now includes 526 cities globally accounting for 438 million people or 6 percent of the global population is an organisation that was set up by Ban Ki-moon and it now has a special envoy in Michael Bloomberg. This is an organisation that is sketching out what progressive cities are doing in their efforts to both adapt to—Todd Barclay: Any advice for Gore?Dr MEGAN WOODS: —and mitigate the effects of climate change. I see the current member for Clutha-Southland—"