1. Question No. 1—RMA ReformHon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister responsible for RMA ReformORAL QUESTIONSQUESTIONS TO MINISTERSQuestion No. 1—RMA Reform1. Hon JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister responsible for RMA Reform: What progress if any has been made on policy decisions for the proposed fast-track consenting reforms?Hon CHRIS BISHOP (Minister responsible for RMA Reform): A lot.Hon James Shaw: Very good. Has the list of projects that will be contained in the bill that will be first to be approved been decided upon by Ministers?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: No.Hon James Shaw: Were any of the projects that are on the proposed list proposed to him by the Minister for resources and regional development?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: There are a range of proposals that are being proposed. Cabinet will be deciding on the listed projects in the bill in due course and when the bill is ready to go that member will be one of the first to know.Hon Dr Megan Woods: Why don't you answer the question?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: I did. I just did.Hon James Shaw: Does the proposed list of listed projects in the bill include any coal mines?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: As I say there are a range of projects that have been proposed and are being proposed but we are going through a process around the development of the bill now. What I've outlined to the environmental movement what I've outlined to local government and what I've outlined to a range of stakeholders is the broad high-level framework of what Cabinet has agreed and the finer details of the bill are being worked through as we speak. As the member knows it's a part of the Government's 100-day programme of action so in due course—not too many sleeps to go—he will find out what the fast-track consenting bill looks like. Hon James Shaw: Well as part of the process that he's just outlined has a climate—[Interruption]SPEAKER: Just a moment—just a moment. Don't talk when someone is asking a question.Hon James Shaw: As part of the process that he's just outlined to the House do the projects that are being included in the bill—has there been a climate impact assessment done for those projects?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: We're not at the point where that would take place yet and Ministers will be taking advice about the appropriateness of that in due course.Hon James Shaw: Has he sought assurances that the projects that are being considered for inclusion in the bill are not connected to any people or companies that have made substantial donations to any of the coalition parties?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: No but that member will know from his time as a Minister in the previous Government that all Ministers are subject to Cabinet Act processes around things like he is describing.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Point of order. There is a trend in that sort of question to make an allegation without one skerrick of evidence and think you can get away with it in this House. If that's what that member wants then he's come to the right place because you're not going to put up with those lies anymore.Hon James Shaw: Speaking to the point of order Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: No no—I'm not taking any more on that. It was an interesting point of order pointing out there were veiled threats from one side only for the point of order itself to contain a less than veiled threat so we'll move on.Chlöe Swarbrick: Point of order Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: Moving on. Question No. 2.Chlöe Swarbrick: Point of order Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: A new point of order?Chlöe Swarbrick: Yes Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: Completely different point of order?Chlöe Swarbrick: Well relating to—SPEAKER: It's not a day to come close. Is it new?Chlöe Swarbrick: Mr Speaker point of order. There has been a lot made in this House over the last few months about the use of the term lying" and in that statement just then from the incoming Deputy Prime Minister the statement "lie" was used in relation to the Hon James Shaw.SPEAKER: I'll review it and consider it.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Can I speak to the point of order? It is simple: there is a requisite under the electoral law of this country for declarations to be made. Those declarations have been made. The Electoral Commission has not challenged it nor has anybody else. So what's happening in this House? It has to be that or plain ignorance. Take their choice.Chlöe Swarbrick: Speaking to the point of order Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: No I'm sorry; this is not going anywhere. James Shaw do you have another supplementary?Ricardo Menéndez March: I have a new point of order—it's unrelated.SPEAKER: OK. Try hard and try to be different.Ricardo Menéndez March: No but I did want to raise the point that particularly around Speaker's ruling 24/2 regarding constantly raising trifling points of orders it's itself disorderly and the Acting Prime Minister has in my view—and I'm just asking the Speaker to reflect on the fact that throughout the passage of this Parliament I think there have been constant points of order that have been raised that I would say are within the nature of that. I'm concerned about what that sets in terms of precedent of trying to raise points of order in a way that is constructive.SPEAKER: Well thank you for that."