Meager JamesJAMES MEAGER (National—Rangitata): It's a real thrill to follow my fellow Otago graduate the Hon Grant Robertson—proud Otago University Students' Association alumni passionate about Otago University and I hope with the spare time he's got on his hands now he spends a lot more time down there this year.Madam Speaker as this is my first contribution on a bill in this House can I just give you my heartfelt congratulations on your ascension as a Speaker in this House. Can I acknowledge Minister Seymour for bringing this bill to the House. As a member of what we like to call the powerful Regulations Review Committee I look forward to the Minister's focus on fewer more high-quality regulations for us to review. And can I just acknowledge the Hon James Shaw a fellow James in the House for his service to this House. I wish him well but I do note speaking of irony the irony in the phrase neo-liberal stalking horse" which is of course how many of his critics have described his membership in the Greens over the years.The fine people of my electorate Rangitata—the best beautiful and most productive electorate in this country—do not need a Wellington bureaucracy to tell them how to work smarter and more efficiently. This is an electorate where in South Canterbury 1.2 percent of the country's population produces 7.3 percent of our food and fibre exports. That is productivity. It's not the State that is the key to solving our productivity problems; it is people like my friend and my neighbour Miles Anderson who many of us have spoken about tonight the member for Waitaki who himself took a punt on sheep scanning technology and 4 million - odd sheep later the productivity gains in this sector speak for themselves.If members opposite were so concerned about productivity why did they spend six years strangling the most productive part of our economy? Consultants' and lawyers' fees don't pay the bills I'm afraid; it's what we make it's what we produce it's what we grow and what we sell to the world that pays the bills. If members want to know how we improve productivity without a Productivity Commission you can go to  scroll down to the bottom of the page and check out the National and ACT agreements and the National—DEPUTY SPEAKER: And now the bill.JAMES MEAGER: —and New Zealand First agreements. There you will see the actions that this Government is taking in lieu of a Productivity Commission actions like reforming the Commerce Act market studies to reduce barriers to competition. They are the things that stifle productivity in this country. It's not the report writing from the Productivity Commission it's not the Wellington bureaucracies that write the reports the 89-page report that was written in October and produced last year—and nothing happens to any of those reports. It's things like rewriting the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act the CCCFA—an Act which has its own acronym and is either incredibly popular or incredibly unpopular and I'll let members opposite make the decision for themselves.This is a Government that stands for action in this area. This is a Minister who is focused on improving productivity in this country and when we look at what this repeal bill does it is a very simple bill. It is a very straightforward simple bill. It takes what was originally a decent good well-intended idea which unfortunately has run its course. The Productivity Commission was built with all the best intentions in the world but report after report Government after Government—struggle to see what we could get from those reports that is going to actually make this country tick what's going to make the boat run faster.I can tell you what's going to make the boat run faster: it's New Zealanders. It's the people running our farms it's people running our businesses it's the hard-working people of the Rangitata electorate it's the people who struggle with things like the former Resource Management Act (RMA) and the now-repealed Natural and Built Environment Act.Hon Rachel Brooking: Now RMA—we're just back to the RMA James Meager.JAMES MEAGER: The member opposite says we're back to the RMA. Well not for long because this is a Government of action. This is a Government that's getting this country back on track. We will be introducing legislation which respects property rights and which allows New Zealanders to get on with the job of building businesses without unproductive and unnecessary regulation. We are going to allow New Zealanders to live in an environment and work in an environment where our regulations are sensible and reasonable and where we all get on together as one people. I commend this bill to the House and I thank the members for their contributions."