Hayes Joanne: Environmental Reporting Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Environmental Reporting Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 19 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3371. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): I am pleased to stand again to take my 4 minutes on the Environmental Reporting Bill. This is an excellent bill. I just want to recap a little bit about the actual bill itself given that it has been a whole week since we have been away on an adjournment break. I just want to bring it all back and give a bit of an overview on the bill itself.This bill creates a national level environmental reporting system. It ensures that reporting on our environment occurs on a regular basis and that it can be trusted—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! I apologise for interrupting the member. There is too much noise both in the Chamber from members leaving and also from the gallery. If people wish to leave I would be grateful if they did so more quietly.JOANNE HAYES: As I was saying the report can be trusted by the public because it is conducted by an independent fair and accurate person. I will talk a little bit more about that particular person.The provisions of the bill require reports from five key domains and they are atmosphere climate air freshwater and marine domains. These are set out as I said by independent reviewers and they are the Secretary for the Environment and the Government Statistician. They will also be responsible for making sure that there is a synthesis report that will look across domains at trends and interactions once every 3 years. It also ensures that the producers of our reports are independent. That is what I was saying about the Government Statistician and the Secretary for the Environment. It also allows our Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment who holds a very important independent role to be able to give some strong analysis and review on the reports being produced.When I last stood here I talked about the marine environment and I talked a little bit about the exclusive economic zone legislation that we are putting in. This is making sure that we take out the potential risks and activities within the marine environment like petroleum exploration seabed mining marine energy generation and carbon capture development while making the Environmental Protection Authority responsible for consenting and enforcing these activities which is all part and parcel of the water domain which I spoke about quite in depth the last time I spoke in this debate.Finally I just want to talk about the air domain. This is really important. Just recently I was in Christchurch at an event hosted by the Electricity Networks Association. They talked about the various things that they are doing within the provision of cars run by electricity. This is actually helping to reduce emissions into the environment. They also showed us where they proposed to put I suppose all their plug-in areas—instead of petrol stations—that electric cars can park up in to be recharged so they can make the journey. That is from the top of the North Island all the way to the bottom of the South Island.I believe that this is a very good bill. It is a strong bill. It is the first time that we have had a bill that looks at our environment. It has a step change that we implemented in 2011 and I commend the bill to the House. Thank you.