Sio WilliamSu'a WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): May I join with others in conveying condolences and sympathies to those families who have lost loved ones as a result of the recent earthquake.My colleague Sue Moroney has indicated to the House that we are supporting this bill in its first reading but she also gave a challenge to Minister Bridges and the Government about the need for us to look to a more comprehensive bill that covers broadly and in the long term what our needs are in terms of transportation. I recall in 2011 when the Rena—that is right; in October 2011—crashed into the—Kris Faafoi: Reef.Su'a WILLIAM SIO: The reef.Meka Whaitiri: Astrolabe.Su'a WILLIAM SIO: Astrolabe Reef that is right. I recall watching on TV the spills—not just the container spills but the oil spills. My first reaction was one of anger because the impression I got was that here again was a ship run by an international company and it appeared from the reports that I recall that there was a rush by the captain to get from one point to the next point and a failure by the staff on board that ship to direct it away from the reef. As a result it was the local community the animals and the biodiversity that suffered as a consequence of that wreckage. I remember the reports about the locals who depended on the sea for food and who were devastated by this. I remember also interviews saying that it was going to take such a long long time for us to clean up the mess that had been caused. I cannot help but think that it is another example of an economic activity where cases of failure as a result of human error mean that it is not only people who suffer through no fault of their own and have to face the consequences. The animals suffer biodiversity suffers the land suffers and the seawaters suffer. All of those are interconnected and if we have learnt anything from the recent debates over climate change it is that man-made harm is resulting in what we are now experiencing throughout the world particularly in the Pacific region where we are seeing that harm being caused. Often these economic activities are driven by greed and I want to lay that before the House because of how I felt when I saw the wreckage back in 2011. It took a long long time for us to be able to get on that ship and not only try to recover the cargo but also ensure that the harm caused by the spillage would be contained in some way.So I support the fact that this bill increases the level of compensation available to meet the claims from all pollution damage caused by a spill from an oil tanker in New Zealand waters. But I wonder whether the definition that we are given in this bill is sufficient. So I am hopeful that not just the shipping industry and the transportation industry will take the opportunity to make submissions. I am hopeful that the Maritime Union both local and international will take the opportunity to voice its concerns. I am hopeful that Local Government New Zealand will also take an interest because any spillage along our coast will have an impact on the local government that looks after that particular region. I am also hopeful that iwi—local and throughout this country—will pick up the opportunity to spell out for parliamentarians' information their role as kaitiaki and spell out too the harm and the damage that our economic activities often impose on our land and our wider environment.