Pham LanLAN PHAM (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. You know I think we can all agree—and it's clear that the intention is there—that everyone has a right to and deserves access to clean safe water. Unfortunately we know that these past decisions of various Government inaction across various political stripes have meant that for many of our communities across Aotearoa it's not the case. We don't have access to clean drinking water and our waste water and stormwater is polluting our rivers and our beaches and the places that we really hold dear. We know that all of these systems really need to be designed in a way that does not damage and degrade our environment—that is a bottom line. But ideally they would be managed in a way that is actually integrated with the environment in which the infrastructure actually sits in a way that acknowledges who we are here in this country of Aotearoa and in a way that upholds Te Mana o te Wai and recognises water as a taonga to iwi Māori and their rightful place in exercising rangatiratanga. And unfortunately that is not what this bill does. It's precisely what is so glaringly missing.We are really disappointed to not see any aspect of co-governance in this bill because we know that for this country that is what makes sense here. I was really disappointed in particular to see not only what the Government has done earlier in the week with their bill that means that councils when they are consenting decisions cannot uphold Te Mana o te Wai in the hierarchy of obligations that that includes but I see in this amendment to this bill as well that they are proposing that Taumata Arowai or our key freshwater regulator can also not have regard to the hierarchy of obligations in their regulation of waste water and environmental performance standards. This is hugely disappointing because it's basically crippling the very tools that we have to be able to push investment and push changes in infrastructure and the way that we manage all of this bad stuff that's happening right now. The legacy of our underinvestment in water infrastructure is significant not just for our people but for the environment too. Unfortunately this Government's approach of putting these bills through under urgency is yet another missed opportunity taking us further away from the stuff that we so desperately need like community resilience like protecting our environment and taking us further away from allowing Kiwis to access their most basic rights to safe affordable reliable water. The Green Party are just dismayed to see this happening today.I also wanted to point out—I'm noting that the Minister has suggested that this goes to the Finance and Expenditure Committee. We know that three waters reforms in the past and now water services bills have been going to the Environment Committee and as a member on that committee I would just put in the plea to Government that that is a great place for these bills to go. We know that the implications for all of these measures has so many impacts for the environment and it's a really great place that the bill could go.So in summary I'm really disappointed to see this going through under urgency. We know that we need progress in this space but this bill which completely disregards iwi Māori and tangata whenua and their rights to co-governance of these precious taonga and water services is an absolute disappointment. Thank you.