Twyford PhilPHIL TWYFORD (Labour—Te Atatū): I want to address my comments to Supplementary Order Paper 321 in the name of the Hon Nick Smith. What this amendment does is that it legisla—legislative—oh I will try that again; it legislatively directs Auckland Council to devote 3 hectares of land that it owns at Point England to be turned into sports fields. And secondly it directs the Auckland Council to ban the Point England Reserve from having cows on it. This is wacko stuff. Dr Smith has wandered off the reservation once and for all. There is a kangaroo loose in the top paddock. The Minister is using the time of this Parliament to tell Auckland Council not to run any cows on its parkland that it owns. This Supplementary Order Paper 321 is telling Auckland Council that it must turn over 3 hectares of land for playing fields. It is absolutely wacko stuff. I have never come across anything like this in 8 years in Parliament—thank you very much Dr Smith.If there is a sign of how exasperated Auckland Council is about this it is that the Mayor Phil Goff today took the unusual step of releasing a letter to the media that he has written to Dr Smith. The language that is used in this letter is very strong. He points out that the lack of consultation is simply not acceptable. It is clear from this letter that Dr Smith tabled this Supplementary Order Paper in the House without even consulting Auckland Council but he purports to use the law to tell Auckland Council how to manage the detail of its parkland. The letter from the mayor points out that there is a total lack of consideration of the technical feasibility or the environmental impacts of what Dr Smith's Supplementary Order Paper tries to do. The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment has confirmed that it has done no technical work to assess the feasibility of establishing the 3 hectares of playing fields on the only bit of the reserve that could accommodate them and that is the headland. Open space on the precious headland at Point England is going to be turned into playing fields by the edict of Dr Nick Smith. This is the Bizarro World of the Minister for the Environment in this National Government. I cannot believe what is going on here.As it stands the Point England Development Enabling Bill if passed into law will halve the area currently available for the dotterel. We are going to have more to say about the dotterel the northern New Zealand dotterel in this debate. This heightens the importance of the headland for these species because that is the only bit of land that is left for them but Dr Smith under this bill wants to turn that last remaining bit of habitat into playing fields. It absolutely beggars belief.The other really bizarre thing about this Supplementary Order Paper from Dr Smith is he is telling the council that it has to turn over this land into playing fields. The law will require—the Resource Management Act (RMA) will require—the council to seek a resource consent for that. The legal advice that the council has had is that it will not get resource consent to do what Dr Smith's Supplementary Order Paper requires it to do. So Dr Smith wants to tell it that by law it has to do this thing the RMA tells it that it has to get resource consent to do it it probably will not get resource consent and therefore it is going to be in breach of Dr Smith's law. This is wacko stuff.This is what it has come to under Dr Smith's tenure as the Minister for the Environment and as the Minister for Building and Construction. It is an absolutely bizarre and weird circumstance that we find ourselves in. Government members should be embarrassed to be sitting here in the House tonight debating this Supplementary Order Paper in the name of Dr Nick Smith. It makes a laughing stock of the Minister and this Government. If Government members have got a shred of self-respect—if they have got a shred of self-respect—they will vote against this Supplementary Order Paper from Dr Smith and consign it to the dustbin which is where it belongs.