Menéndez March RicardoRICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Greens to speak to the second reading of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Bill. I wanted to acknowledge the Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee for the work they've done to hear public feedback. And I wanted to acknowledge that the intent of this bill is to create a new framework to regulate freedom camping which covers a huge range of land whether it's public conservation or Land Information New Zealand land as well. I think we all in this House want to ensure that the places where the places that we all enjoy—whether it's domestic tourism or international tourism—are clean are available and are there for future generations to come. There have been reports about how freedom camping as a practice—in its current state—has lost the social licence and that we need new frameworks. Now what this bill was hoping to do was to basically amongst other things require that any vehicle used for freedom camping be certified and self-contained against the new standards set in regulation. There are other things such as requiring a fixed toilet and allowing enforcements to be sent via email for example so that vehicle rental companies receive quicker notice and can recover infringement fees when their rental ends. I think back to our comments in the first reading. We had multiple concerns but one of the ones that I wanted to raise was particularly around how this legislation could in theory be used to target our homeless population who often live in caravans because of need. This is something that we've made clear and I understand that there's other constituents of mine and community members who share similar concerns. And so one of the things that we will be looking for in the committee of the whole House will be any moves to address this and we hope that the Minister has listened to those concerns from submitters and from the Greens as well to ensure that this legislation is predominantly focused actually on providing a clean Aotearoa for everyone to enjoy.We also wanted to acknowledge that unfortunately this is a narrow bill when it comes to its scope—and it's limited in its scope as well and we would have liked to go further. As we've said previously ideally we would have liked to follow on the work that happened in 2017 and 2020 regarding sort of setting a framework around responsible camping as opposed to just focusing on freedom camping altogether because we think this would have kind of created a more holistic approach to tackling issues such as pollution and just practising camping more in tune with the natural environment that we live in. This bill also won't necessarily increase the extent of the data that we collect on this problem since it doesn't necessarily require local authorities to report infringements on these issues and so we think that more work could have been done on this. But as I said at the beginning of our statement the key concern that we continue to have is the use of this bill to target our homeless population and our support of this bill hinges on the ability to make changes that will ensure that our homeless population isn't targeted. Kia ora.