Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour): Kia ora Mr Speaker. I know it probably is difficult at this time of the hour and it is of course—it's not easy listening to some of the contributions coming from the other side of the House but I feel like we're sitting on 30 May 2024 and it's a long long day. It feels like 30 May is going to go down in the history of New Zealand politics as a dumping ground as a dumping ground of waste of toxic legislation that is causing an impact on our country that we haven't seen before.When I say it's a dumping ground it feels like it's a dumping ground for legislation that they want to ram through and they want to dump in here whether it's the Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill dumped here into urgency on 30 May; whether it's the Public Finance (Fines Collection Costs—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill dumped here; whether it's this legislation the waste minimisation legislation it's been dumped; or the Land Transport (Clean Vehicle Standard) Amendment Bill dumped here on 30 May; the Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill dumped here. Just like this legislation here around waste minimisation it feels like a dumping ground where they can just cover over where they can just come in and they can just run things loose quick and fast.Now this legislation as the Hon Rachel Brooking an exceptional member of Parliament spoke about is something that we support in principle but—and there is a but—it seems to widen the criteria. It widens to a place that goes too far. It widens it to a place where it's not actually about waste minimisation; it's around clawing money from here from the environmental space which they cut during this week's Budget to put over here in terms of waste minimisation.Now when we look at this legislation and we look at the way it expands how and where the levy can be spent I realise that it's something that actually runs roughshod over what the legislation what the purpose of it was about. When we look at why they're doing it it's because they need the money. It's because they need to find the finance because the finance Minister took away from the environment.Hon Member: Robbed it.GLEN BENNETT: She robbed the environment.When we look at what happened in this week's Budget we look at cuts—Laura Trask: Stick to the bill.GLEN BENNETT: —to supposed back-office expenses—and this is all about the bill and I'm sticking closely to the bill—because they are having to make cuts and so therefore they're looking for ways to recuperate a pittance a small amount. So whether it's the $22.3 million cuts to the Ministry for the Environment whether it's the cuts to waste minimisation—$52.97 million cut to waste minimisation. That's why they have to take this legislation they have to dump it here on 30 May 2024 because they need to find money and they need to find it fast because—because—Miles Anderson: We're waiting.GLEN BENNETT: Yeah please wait because it's important and sometimes pregnant pauses are moments to reflect and think about our environment.Hon Andrew Bayly: Get back on track.GLEN BENNETT: The Hon Andrew Bayly talks about getting back on track. Well to me it's going backwards and it's tracking into the ditch and the dump of wrecking our environment.This was a good Act. This was something that was working hard with local government working hard with Government to ensure that waste minimisation was realised that that 2040 ambition that the honourable Simon Court talked about is something that actually could be reached. But this is robbing Peter to pay Paul and of course who suffers the most? It's the New Zealand environment.