van de Molen TimTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Madam Speaker. I shall make sure that I utilise my time because this is an important bill and unlike members of the Government we think it needs decent scrutiny. I'm holding it right here and we're hearing from Government members about one minute worth of contribution in each of their speeches for a bill of this substance. Quite frankly it's disappointing from the Government members and I would suspect the industry as we do on this side of the House would have hoped for more from a Government putting through a pretty important piece of legislation for the sector.Chris Bishop: It's eight years in the making this bill.TIM VAN DE MOLEN: It has indeed been eight years in the making which was started under National because we identified that innovation progression in the sector is an important consideration that needs to be regularly updated. Unfortunately no action was taken under the last three years of the Labour Government. But finally now we are in a position where the Civil Aviation Bill has come to the House and we are seeing a whole raft of proposals as evidenced by the significant volume of paperwork here in this bill although it would appear Government members are not across the detail given their very sparse contributions so far.Now as we've heard already in some aspects aviation is a critical sector for New Zealand. Now we did enjoy a robust $17 billion international tourism sector prior to COVID. Of course that has changed dramatically as a result of the manner in which COVID has been managed and the decisions that have been made around what can or can't operate and how that impacts on different sectors and we're seeing that here in the aviation sector in particular. So it is timely though that given it's taken us eight years to get to this point we are now making changes so that when we are looking to reconnect with the world—and National came out with a fantastic plan to do that just yesterday—the aviation sector will be better placed to facilitate that to speed up to increase the efficiency to make it easier to use whilst at the same time ensuring that safety and security are maintained to the high standards that would be expected.Now there are a couple of aspects specifically that I did want to touch on within this. One of those was around the potential of UAVs the unmanned autonomous vehicles; the drones if you will; different emerging technologies that are coming into play. Some of those we know about but I'm quite excited about the potential for those that are not yet discovered. They may be in place in 12 months' time 24 months' time who knows? We have an incredibly innovative tech sector here in New Zealand. Again it needs a bit more stimulus and National has a strong plan to grow the tech sector too. There are opportunities there that under this bill we can help to futureproof for some of that. When I think particularly for rural areas like my constituency of Waikato there is a lot of potential for these sorts of technologies. We're seeing already some amazing advances in the agritech space around how drone technology can be utilised on farms for a whole manner of different things: spray applications stock management moving the stock looking at different soil types fertility requirements pasture growth rates—all these elements that can or will soon be commercially available for farmers to use.So of course if we're going to see increasing uptake of these sorts of technologies then we need to make sure that the rules around managing and enabling this to occur are tightly controlled well understood and as easy to navigate as possible for those potential users. So alongside that of course people would be aware; you're seeing a lot more use of drones by the likes of real estate agents as well for everyday listings of properties. These are the sorts of areas where even a few years ago we would not have envisaged necessarily this sort of thing happening. It has. I'm sure there will be many more in the next few years that we're not envisaging necessarily right now that will come into play as well. So we do need to make sure that we have strong rules in place around that. But I do just want to touch on the point that Dr McDowall raised as well around the compliance the competency of the enforcement mechanisms within this bill as well. And that is one area that I have heard locally is a bit of a concern and so I'm sure we will see that canvassed through the select committee process.I do very much look forward to hearing from submitters on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee. I encourage Government members to do the same so that perhaps in future contributions they can make more than a paltry minute to such a substantial piece of legislation. Thank you Madam Speaker.