King MattMATT KING (National—Northland): It's a real pleasure to speak on the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Amendment Bill. I'd like to acknowledge in the public gallery supporters of Dan Bidois that are here not to hear me but to hear him in 20 minutes. They've got to put up with me in the meantime.We support this bill. It's one of many bills—many many bills—that we've supported in this Parliament in this current term. This bill is actually just correcting a simple drafting error in the Resource Legislation Amendment Act passed last year. We support it—the whole House does. But it does not warrant a stand-alone bit of legislation. For the benefit of those people in TV land legislation has a first reading and then goes to select committee second reading and then committee of the whole House where Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) are brought in and changes are made. There is the third reading then we vote and then it becomes law. This coalition Government could simply move a motion that we move from stage one to the endgame and we would have supported it—job done. Or failing that they could have included it in an actual statutes amendment bill that's tracking through Parliament right now.Now this bill is going to save the Government $1.6 million a year so I support that but ironically the cost of getting there—getting this legislation through the House—is going to come close to that. So the bill is either being used to kill time because they're disorganised or going to be used as a Trojan Horse to bring an SOP in at committee stage and I'm still undecided about which it's going to be. But Minister Parker has hinted that he wants to make Resource Management Act (RMA) changes such as reinstating appeal rights on residential boundary issues. So it's one or the other: it's going to be used as a Trojan Horse or it's just a waste of time because they're not organised. I don't know which one to pick.Introducing an SOP to introduce RMA reform would be a cynical lack of transparency which this Government is known for—like the oil and gas ban.Hon Member: That's right.MATT KING: Yes. Fixing a drafting error simply ensures applicants for marine consents pay the costs of any board of inquiry. So it's a mistake that was made and it's just crossing the i's—sorry dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Ha ha! I knew I'd get that mixed up. These changes are minor and they don't require any more parliamentary time.Jamie Strange: You're just warming up.MATT KING: I'm just warming up. We supported this right at the get-go. In fact we moved twice to move to the endgame to get it over and done with. We even suggested making it part of a statutes amendment bill. You didn't take our sensational advice.Angie Warren-Clark: Who didn't?MATT KING: This Parliament—sorry the coalition Government. In 2014 it cost $310 a minute to run Parliament. This Government is wasting time and money on a bill that we all agree on. Being a relatively new MP I'm seeing this blatant waste of time on bills and it's just plain wrong. The RMA amendment itself was 700 clauses 250 pages—40 significant changes. It's a big bit of legislation and someone made a mistake. Mistakes happen. The coalition Government have made them. We've made them. We fix up our mistakes but we don't have to go through a full process to get the job done.But given this Government's recent cases of dodgy behaviour I have grave concerns. Is it a Trojan Horse or is it just incompetence? This Government is a closed shop an evasive shambles of a Government this country has ever seen. You cannot blame us for having zero trust in this current Government. I commend this bill to the House. Let's get on with it.