Young JonathanJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak on the Maritime Transport Amendment Bill. Mr Assistant Speaker Lindsay Tisch can I as other previous speakers have done acknowledge your incredible service to this Parliament and to this nation. We will miss you. Thank you very much for your very good guidance as you have presided over this House and for the fact that you have not interrupted us too much but you have kept us on the straight and narrow—not like some other members who take that seat.Thank you very much to the previous speaker Michael Wood for your comments. This bill went through the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee probably prior to your entrance to Parliament so there may have been some background—which I think you have alluded to—that you were not sure of.Can I say that our officials did say to us that the whole area of drug and alcohol testing is not just in regard to the safety of people on vessels. The maritime industry has a health and safety system called the maritime operator safety system which operates alongside the Health and Safety at Work Act but is a little bit distinct and different because of the issues it faces particularly on the high seas. So there is a matter there of actually looking at two regimes of health and safety which we did find very interesting.But our officials talked to us also about the tragedy that happened in Carterton back in 2012 with the hot air balloon that struck the power lines. As they investigated toxicology analysis determined that the pilot was under the influence of cannabis at the time—THC was found in his system—and surmised that that could have led to an error of judgment. They made a recommendation to the Government to enact stricter measures in regard to drug and alcohol use in the aviation marine and rail industries. So that was part of the background of this as well though that was not a marine environment. We are concerned about the safety of passengers as well as people who are in the commercial space. So it was reasonably broad ranging in that regard.Also we understand that there are measures that the member said that Labour can support which are around the provisions enabling New Zealand to exercise its right as a party to the protocol of 1996 to amend the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Marine Claims to make reservations that exclude limitation of liability for three different categories of maritime claim those being wreck removal cargo removal and damage caused by hazardous and noxious substances. It is quite clear and obvious that New Zealand has a very strong coastal environment in which there are many hazards. Much of our coastline is hit by quite strong storms and we want to protect our environment and we also want to have the ability to be able to claim costs so that if there is an incident we do have provision to ensure that we can capably do the work to mitigate any environmental impact on that environment. So I am very pleased that the member opposite said Labour could support this part of the bill.As we come to the end of this 51st Parliament we will hopefully be able to get this bill through which is why I am going to keep my contribution short. But I just wanted to give a little bit of background to that and thank Labour for the fact that it can support the second part of that. I do commend this bill to the House. Thank you.