Heatley Phil: Third Readings —Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHeatley Phil: Third Readings —[Sitting date: 16 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9368. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon PHIL HEATLEY (National—Whangarei): I stand to support the Crown minerals legislation. I stand alongside the Labour Party and the Green Party in support of past miners but unlike the Labour Party and the Green Party I am also interested in present jobs in the mining and petroleum sector and future jobs in the petroleum and mining sector. The Labour Party which was built out of the West Coast mining sector of course has turned its back on them now.The interesting thing of course is that the Labour Party and the Green Party will take the royalties. That is right. When they are in Government in the distant future—I am sure they will be in 10 or 20 years from now—they will take the royalties and they will take the taxes collected off the backs of the mining jobs tens of thousands of them across New Zealand. They will collect the royalties and they will collect the taxes and they will spend that money which is the interesting thing is it not? They are very interested in the income the royalties and the taxes off the mining and petroleum industries they are very interested in the idea of spending that money but they oppose the industry at every single turn.I have to ask why when you consider that on the West Coast of the South Island and of course in Taranaki you have got two regions there that have very successfully developed their mining industry. Take Taranaki for example. In that area they have the largest industry—the dairy-farming industry—working alongside the second-largest industry the petroleum industry working alongside a very successful tourism industry in Taranaki. So there you have one region in New Zealand where petroleum works alongside dairy farming works beautifully alongside tourism and it is very successful indeed. In fact in terms of job growth and GDP you would struggle to beat Taranaki.My question to the Labour Party is: why cannot that success working alongside petroleum dairying and tourism be reflected in other regions in New Zealand? There are 16 other regions in New Zealand where agriculture is successful as is tourism so why cannot the oil and gas sector be successful like they have been in Taranaki? Well there is no reason. I would not say it would be able to happen in every region but surely there is a second a third a fourth and a fifth region in New Zealand where those three sectors can work closely and successfully to get it like they have in Taranaki and the Labour Party could run off with the royalties and spend them the way it will do when it is in Government—well one day. That is why I support this legislation.I would like to point out and thank the Minister of Energy and Resources Simon Bridges and his colleagues Nick Smith Minister of Conservation and Amy Adams Minister for the Environment because they have actually done more for public safety and the environment when it comes to oil and gas and mineral exploration than was done in the previous 10 years under the Labour Government. For example we have got the Crown minerals legislation going through at the moment with enhanced regulations around health and safety and mining and petroleum. We have the exclusive economic zone legislation—there were no rules out in the exclusive economic zone before thisGovernment came into force—and of course there are the new regulations on health and safety which are working their way through the system.I support this legislation. It is good to see this industry promoted. I am glad that we have listened to the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand the New Zealand Minerals Industry Association Straterra and many others and we are taking on many of their recommendations. I recommend this legislation to the House.