Whaitiri MekaMEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): Tēnā koe Mr Spare—Mr Chair—Carmel Sepuloni: Time to go home.MEKA WHAITIRI: —time to go home—and members greetings. Like the member for Kaikōura I do not want to prolong this debate but I do want to stand in support of this bill. Clearly issues have been transferred—look my mind is going now. Clearly issues have been dealt with by all the members on this side. It was a bill that needed the urgency of this House.Of course we did have some issues which I think have been ably addressed in the select committee process particularly around the purpose clause which others have spoken about and trying to get that balance between the economic recovery and it not happening at the expense of any adverse effects on the environment. Of course the statement we have put in on Supplementary Order Paper 255 adding new clause 3(a)(v) probably was not to the liking of the Green Party in terms of facilitating the restoration of the environment" but clearly in order to support a bill to aid and abet recovery in both Hurunui and Kaikōura we needed to have those checks and balances. I am confident that in the process that we have undertaken at the Local Government and Environment Committee—one of the hardest-working select committees in Parliament—we have addressed as best as we can those relevant checks and balances. I do not really want to go over them but definitely in clause 8 where we have talked about ensuring the Minister takes regard before he makes the order clearly we have introduced the review panel. Can I just say on that particular point that in clause 11 the committee made some changes inserted by Supplementary Order Paper 255 where we want the convenor to be a former or retired judge; before we had a judge or a lawyer of 7 years. So it is recognition of a retired judge's capability in that we wanted the convenor of the panel advising the Minister to be a former or a retired judge of the High Court. Of course the other check and balance is that once the draft order has been made by the Minister he shares it not only with the review panel for comment but also with the Regulations Review Committee and of course if the House is not sitting then the expectation is that those orders will be shared with the political parties of Parliament. It is good that we have also made amendments around giving a time frame of 3 days in which those particular panels and the Regulations Review Committee or political party leaders have to provide feedback to the Minister. That is all very good. Of course clause 13 around the function of the panel again gives some guidelines for the Minister before the order is actually made.I do add my voice of acknowledgment to the hard-working role of our officials and obviously the chairmanship by Scott Simpson. I think this bill in the time frame in which we have had to operate is a fairly good piece of legislation which I am happy to be supportive of. Of course the acknowledgment as far as I am concerned is to the officials who supported the select committee—many of whom are sitting behind you Mr Chair—and of course to the able support of the clerks of our select committee.I look forward to the third and final reading of this bill. Kia ora tātou."