Fenton Darien: Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Fenton Darien: Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 22 June 2010. Volume:664;Page:12034. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
DARIEN FENTON (Labour) 
: 
 I am delighted to take a call in the third reading of the Civil Aviation (Cape Town Convention and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2010. I think it has been a very very interesting debate this afternoon. One never knows what topics will come to the House that will take us into all sorts of interesting territories and I think we have had some very good discussions on this bill. I am pleased that the Labour Opposition is supporting the third reading. I want to go back and reinforce the work of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee and the officials. Obviously a lot of work has gone into this bill; there is no doubt about that. Negotiations have been involved and the officials have been involved in them. I thank the officials who work in our Public Service who work for the people of New Zealand for all of their work that goes on behind the scenes. I also thank them again for their efforts to try to help us understand what is indeed a very technical bill but we all seem to understand that it is a very very good thing and that is why we are supporting it. 
I wanted to pick up my colleague Carol Beaumont’s point about consultation. I think this is a good model of consultation that the Government could consider for future bills. I was looking at the national interest analysis which talks about the consultation that took place. Obviously this was started under the previous Labour-led Government so there was consultation with the aviation sector the Financial Services Federation and Toll NZ in 2005-06 and then in May 2009 further consultation was conducted with a range of parts of the aviation sector and aviation stakeholders. 
It is interesting to go through them. There was a variety of views to start with on this bill. Air New Zealand of course first proposed consideration of accession and as a group of companies continues to support accession. I am pleased just speaking about Air New Zealand that I have had the opportunity again today to commend our national airline to say how proud we are and to say how thankful we are that a Labour-led Government rescued it— 
Hon Member 
: Bought it. 
DARIEN FENTON 
: —bought it for the people of New Zealand and it is a very high-quality high-standard airline. The 8000 workers who work for Air New Zealand do a fantastic job. 
Airwork (NZ) Ltd supports accession to the convention. The Qantas Group is no longer here but its subsidiary Jetconnect was neutral but it has now decided to support accession. Pacific Blue was originally supportive but it did not respond on the subject of internal transactions so I do not know what happened with it. The Aviation Industry Association of New Zealand can see benefits to industry from accession and remains supportive. The Flight Safety Foundation was originally supportive provided that internal transactions were excluded from coverage but it has since agreed to internal transactions being covered. The Royal New Zealand Aero Club which is a general aviation interest group supports accession. Toll NZ supports accession to the convention and it wants to be consulted in the future regarding accession to the protocol on railway rolling stock and KiwiRail has now confirmed that position. Vincent Aviation Ltd supports accession. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association was consulted but did not respond and then a range of ministries were also consulted. 
As I have said the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee then examined this treaty. With the assistance of officials we were given a very good explanation. As I said it is a highly technical convention so we really appreciated the fact that there was a briefing to the committee because sometimes select committees can decide that these things are just a little bit too boring and that there should be just a standard report back to the House. We did not do that; we asked for a briefing. As I said we appreciate the efforts that the officials went to in order to help us to understand the convention. 
So I am pleased that Labour is supporting this bill. As I said we have had an opportunity to traverse many areas in this debate. There are some issues that I would like to repeat very briefly on the matters of conventions. We are disappointed that we seem to be able to support some conventions but not others. Other conventions would do something about the fundamental rights and protections for workers in particular and other members have talked about other conventions. There are some civil aviation authority issues there are some air transport issues and there are some safety issues. I am interested in those and again I think the Civil Aviation Authority does a fantastic job with the scarce amount of resources it has. I had a bit of a concern that it would be expected to implement this convention with no extra resources. We asked the Minister about that but we received no response. 
In closing I thank everybody again—the officials in particular. It is good to be part of a bill that the whole of Parliament is supporting and we are pleased to support it.