Barry Maggie: Kaikōura (Te Tai-o-Marokura) Marine Management Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBarry Maggie: Kaikōura (Te Tai-o-Marokura) Marine Management Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 22 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19362. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore):E ngā reo e ngā mana e rau rangatira mā tēnā koutou tēnā koutou tēnā koutou katoa. I rise with enormous pleasure to speak today to the second reading of this Kaikōura (Te Tai-o-Marokura) Marine Management Bill. It is a piece of legislation that is as the Minister of Conservation alluded to at the beginning of this debate unique in the sense that it is collaborative it is the hard work of the community and it is community-led and community-driven. Despite the political pot-shots that the member who just resumed her seat could not resist this has gone ahead despite the Greens and despite Labour. Yes there was some reluctant cooperation at the end but only because they acknowledged that the level of work and support that came through—Hon Ruth Dyson: We supported it you stupid woman.MAGGIE BARRY: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I object to that. I take offence at what that member has just said.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The member has taken offence to the use of those words. I would ask the member to withdraw that comment.Hon Ruth Dyson: I withdraw—but she is.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Now the member will stand withdraw and apologise for that comment. Once I have ruled that is the end of the matter and there are no further interjections. The member will now withdraw and apologise for that comment.Hon Ruth Dyson: I withdraw and apologise.MAGGIE BARRY: The interchange we have just witnessed is pretty much symptomatic of that member’s contribution to what goes on at the select committee and in this House. I would have to say that the level of bitterness the level of I suppose just jaded over-it-ness of that member is a clear indication that retirement is overdue—long overdue I would say.Getting back to the bill what we have in this piece of legislation is a hard-working community who have looked very long and very hard at the issues that concern them. They are issues that are of great moment to that community. I was in Kaikōura earlier in the year when the Prime Minister the Minister of Conservation and the Minister for the Environment made this announcement. I commend the very hard work done over very many years by the local member of Parliament Colin King who has done enormous work in this space and has kept the lines of communication and dialogue open in a way that the Opposition ranks with their diatribe and bitterness would not have been able to do. It would never have got to this stage under that kind of administration.We on the other hand are very capable of listening to good ideas and of maintaining a position that is consistent and a little bit flexible. Marine reserves are something that the Minister of Conservation has been very committed to for a very long time as has this Government. To find a collaborative local solution like this was an excellent outcome. The guardians the kaitiaki spent many hundreds of hours discussing this amongst themselves in a very broad-ranging group of fishermen of local tourism providers of conservationists and of environmentalists. It was very interesting to see that when it came to the crunch when we as the Local Government and Environment Committee went to Kaikōura in May there were very courageous people who came forward including the local branch of Forest and Bird which stood against the national Forest and Bird’s view of this which was quite rigid and doctrinaire. It demanded that it be the same shape as other reserves etc. There were all kinds of suggestions from high or from a distance I suppose which the local group with very good awareness of what goes on in its community overrode. That took courage and we commend it for that. Many of their ideas were listened to and picked up.I suppose that when it comes to collaboration which is an alien notion to the Opposition parties we look at something that has been really worked through in a lot of detail. I think to be able to come up with a model that does give us our first whale sanctuary our first fur seal sanctuary—and as the Minister indicated he took his children to see it in the recent adjournment. The select committee stopped off on the way back to Christchurch and had a look at the seal sanctuary the baby fur seals. What an extraordinary and marvellous spectacle it was. I am extremely pleased that this piece of legislation will allow for that fur seal sanctuary and for the baby seals in particular—the baby seal creche we call it—to be safe and able to do their customary route down to the sea under the road. They go and visit their mothers. It is a time-honoured thing that this particular species has done. It is again an indication of the care and level of attention to detail that the local groups brought to this that that aspect and that particular element for the fur seals was enshrined and it will be in this legislation.We have a community-led and community-driven piece of legislation that really covers an area of our territorial sea that includes the exclusive economic zone from the Clarence River north of Kaikōura to just north of Gore Bay. It is about 91 kilometres of shoreline and it covers about 4686 square kilometres. GPS and modern technology is an important aspect of why this marine reserve is the shape it is and why it will work. When fishermen are out there how do they know when they are in the marine reserve? It will be very carefully gone through and calibrated with GPS. That was something that the select committee did some careful work on because there were some approximations around this that were not actually very helpful to do the demarcation of this reserve. So that was a very helpful outcome from the select committee process.I think that the advisory committee that advises Ministers on fisheries and conservation matters in Kaikōura has also been a very worthwhile channel of information coming through. The Minister’s decision to put a Supplementary Order Paper to amend the bill in order to have a review within 10 years is very much in keeping with what Sir Mark Solomon and Te Korowai o Te Tai o Marokura wanted to have happen. Again we are listening we are acknowledging and we are following through with that so that this will be a very workable piece of legislation and a very workable bill.For those of you who have ever visited Kaikōura going back probably 20 years—which I have done; I first went there in the mid-1970s—you will know that it was a sleepy hollow. It was a place that really did not have very much of a bright shining future. The whales have changed that. The way that the community has got together and has been revitalised by the marine life and the marine reserves which this bill will enshrine has really paved the way for a brighter future. Kaikōura has the resources the ability the knowledge and the passion for what goes on in its area to make this work terrifically well. I think that the gifts and gains part of this collaborative process is something that we could learn about as legislators and hopefully apply to other laws that we bring through as well. It is an absolute success story and a tremendous piece of legislation which is why I commend this bill to the House.