Dean JacquiHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Madam Speaker. In fact it's not 12 days or 13 days if you count today by which this bill has to be returned to the House. In fact it's eight working days and the bill is returned on the ninth day. That is unacceptable. That is an unacceptable proposal to bring to this Parliament by a Government that has got very very fond of this truncated process for legislation which has far-reaching consequences for New Zealand.I echo my colleagues who question that a bill which was notified to this side of the Chamber at about 20 past 1 this afternoon only we question how we can possibly as parliamentarians undertake a good process. I see Duncan Webb on the other side of the Chamber—Hon Member: Doctor.Hon JACQUI DEAN: —the unfortunate chair—Dr Duncan Webb: Oh that's unkind.Hon JACQUI DEAN: Which bit the doctor or the unfortunate? It may be both. He is the unfortunate chair of the Environment Committee who somehow has to—how inconvenient it must be to fit in with those processes of the select committee scrutiny. I'm imagining that Dr Webb will call for submissions on the 17th tomorrow that is if the committee is going to call for submissions because there has been one example of legislation which has been to this House in the last six weeks where there was no submission period. So we have eight days for the bill to be returned on the ninth. In that time we must call for submissions. How long do we give the public of New Zealand to have a say on this bill? I raised in my first reading speech the uncertainty the potential doubling up and the potential conflict between the responsibilities of the Infrastructure Commission and the truncated process as proposed in this COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill. In that the Infrastructure Commission which was established in 2018 has a very strong role in providing the planning framework for infrastructure projects in New Zealand. Indeed it has—and I googled it—a number of projects that are in various stages through their consenting scoping business case and all of those processes that large and not so large infrastructure projects must go through. So the question that I want to ask throughout the committee process I want to ask the officials is how many of the fortunate 11 projects or 16 projects depending on who you talk to in Schedule 2 how many of those are under active consideration by the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission? That's a valid question.I might not be the only one to want to know the answer to that question. There could well be a submitter who has concerns who has an interest in watching what is happening. Will they get an opportunity to not only ask the question—so it's one thing to appear before the committee. It's one thing to appear before a Zoom session of the committee but it is quite another to expect the officials who are receiving their submission no matter how hurriedly thrown together it will be—and it will be because we've seen it before in the previous months. But what kind of a response are these submitters expecting to get from the officials who will be working—as we now know from previous experience in the Environment Committee—long into the evening and indeed over the weekend one supposes to fulfil the needs of their political masters?So we've got eight days and I'm assuming that Dr Webb will be calling for submissions tomorrow. And I do invite him to stand up and take a call. And I would expect that the chair of the Environment Committee would get up to make a call to clarify just how he proposes to run this eight-day process. Because not only does he have to call for submissions hear the submissions then we have to—Dr Duncan Webb: If you yield I'll do it now. If you yield I'll do it now.Hon JACQUI DEAN: All in good time my friend. All in good time. Not quite finished.Then we have to hear from our officials who have to be given the opportunity to provide robust analysis. Surely that is a critical part of the process or does this Government not care about that? Are they so secure and arrogant that these niceties of democracy are far beyond them because that's the way it's beginning to look from this side of the Chamber.So then we have parliamentary counsel who will be sitting nervously by as we speak just anticipating that they will again be trying to draft legislation within this ridiculous—ridiculous—eight-day time frame so that we can then present the bill to the House.What kind of a bill are we going to end up with? Will it mean Supplementary Order Papers in later stages? No it won't. If I think that through it won't because there will not be time for the officials to have another look at the bill and determine whether or not they have got it right. No what will happen is that further down the line this Government will have to come back to the House with its tail between its legs with an amendment bill to tidy up and fix it that's what's going to happen that's exactly what's going to happen. This is for a bill from a Minister who has had at least three months to contemplate what post - COVID-19 would look like and yet at the eleventh hour has produced a bill brought it to the House and then provided the most truncated of processes for the select committee.So please please Mr Duncan Webb let's hear you take a call and tell us what a wonderful process we are going to get out of this.