Davidson ReubenREUBEN DAVIDSON (Labour—Christchurch East): Thank you Madam Chair. It's good to be able to speak to this bill at the committee stage. I have just drafted an amendment and it's just being delivered now but I really want to speak to the contents and the background of that amendment.In Christchurch East we have a number of waste minimisation facilities and waste facilities but we also have an incredible set of natural resources. So I just want you to imagine if you can a beautiful estuary wetlands and a beautiful river mouth that feeds into the estuary and creates bird life native plants and trees. It's an incredible environment it's stunningly beautiful and it's also the home of the organics processing plant for not just Christchurch City but also the surrounding districts. It's a really large industrial organics processing plant that was opened in 2009. There are a lot of who won't have seen it but there are not many people who haven't smelt it. Members may well laugh and it definitely has an odour but it's actually deeply disturbing—not just the odour but the impact that that odour has on the community. So some of the—Steve Abel: Is it as bad as the dairy factory?REUBEN DAVIDSON: It's possibly worse than the dairy factory I say to that member—possibly worse. There are residents in Bromley and the surrounds of the organics processing plant who when it was at its worst could not sleep in their homes. They literally had to leave their homes when the wind blew in certain directions and had to go and sleep in their cars in vehicle lay-bys upwind of where the odour was blowing. I think that's a pretty unacceptable impact for an organics processing plant to have on a community.Similarly the local school in Bromley had to have days when kids could not leave the classroom. If you can imagine that: you're at school it's lunchtime you want to go outside and enjoy a healthy school lunch and you want to play with your mates and the organics processing plant literally meant children could not go outside to play and could not go outside to eat their lunch. It's a very very negative impact for an organics processing plant to have.Now the really good news here is that there were a number of local residents who became very vocal and very organised and worked with city councillors who heard their concerns—and this comes to the first of many questions I have around this bill at the committee stage and they're around the question of engagement.When changes are suggested at the level that is suggested in the amendments in this bill and when these amendments are going to have the impacts that they will have on communities the question really is around the Minister's level of comfort with not having a select committee process for this bill not allowing communities who will be impacted by the redirection of funds through the amendments in this bill to have a say and what message that sends to communities about them having the ability to have their voice and their opinion into these amendments and their impacts. I think we have to be really conscious that we're removing people's ability to partake in the democratic process of changing laws and when you literally don't allow that to happen I think there's a real risk with that.So the first question really is around the Minister's level of comfort with skipping the select committee process not allowing the select committee process and what message the Minister thinks that sends to the communities that will be affected by—Hon Member: A stink.REUBEN DAVIDSON: Absolutely—by very real stinks that affect their home life their school life and their community.