Mooney JosephJOSEPH MOONEY (National—Southland): Thank you Madam Chair. To the Minister: this is 150 years of farming these high-country stations and they stretch from my region of Southland all the way up to Marlborough. My colleague Stuart Smith and my colleague Nicola Grigg have high-country stations in their parts of the South Island. They vary in topography they vary in altitude ranges rainfall soil type vegetation types and level of development. A one-size-fits-all approach in regulation will not deliver the best and most enduring of outcomes for their management.I note here that Part 1 talks about the outcomes for decision makers and talks about maintaining or enhancing the inherent values across the Crown pastoral estate for present and future generations while providing for ongoing pastoral farming of pastoral land. I just ask whether the Minister has taken into account submissions—for example from young Jess Cocks 11 years old who lives at Mount Nicholas Station across the Wakatipu Lake from where I live in Queenstown—Hon Member: It was a very good submission.JOSEPH MOONEY: —and I'm hearing it was a very good very powerful submission. This station has been in the family for over 45 years and she talked about loving living there—many great places to explore camp. I'm talking about the connection to the land. Sometimes she goes spraying with her dad to kill bad weeds like gorse and nodding thistles. She catches lots of possums with her brother. This helps her she said to look after our native birds and forest and also gives them pocket money—so it's a win-win.What I'm talking about here is the connection of these families over generations with the land. They've taken something that back in 1948 the Government tried to fix—a lot of this land was unfarmable it was unworkable it was overrun with rabbits and it was overrun with noxious weeds. The Land Act 1948 created the pastoral lease—so we're talking about some 73 years ago. That Act gave a right of freehold to farmers already leasing Crown land on permanent leases—the underlying principle being that a secure tenure at the basis of farming progress. It gave farmers confidence to invest in the property invest throughout their lifetime and in fact through generations.Look I've been to a number of stations all over the South Island. For example I went to the Muller Station with some of my colleagues and we saw the work that they've done there since 1965. There's basically not a noxious weed to be seen they've made sure the deer are under control and the possums and the rabbits are under control. Then we saw next door Molesworth Station which is Crown owned—and wilding pines everywhere. It's a very different approach taken by farmers when they have that sense of ownership—which they have; ownership of the improvements on the farm which last for generations.My question to you Minister is how are you going to maintain that sense of ownership for these farming families so they can continue to invest with confidence in their properties and ensure that they secure the benefits for all of us New Zealanders in these incredible places in the high country without the Crown taking away that confidence—there's this contractual relationship that's been there for some 73 years with these farmers—and ensure that young Jess Cocks will have the confidence when she grows up to actually continue farming at the station to continue looking after this land for her family and for all New Zealanders?