SpeechMARK PATTERSON (NZ First): I rise to offer New Zealand First's support for this Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill. I would say at the outset that I'm offering our qualified support through to the select committee process and I'll explain why.We are strongly supportive of Part 2. We do believe in the end of tenure review which saw the freeholding of these iconic New Zealand stations—often for relatively low or modest sums—to the Crown which then subsequently when freeholded were sold off often to the foreign wealthy rich and famous who would come in and buy these iconic properties often locking them away from access to New Zealanders and also the ecological side of that. Often the high country was retired and there is evidence that we have seen an increase in pests and things like wilding pines getting away when we haven't got grazing in some of those higher pastures into the tussock country and the intensification thereof of the freeholded land which was often around lakes and waterways. So we don't think it was a good outcome for the taxpayer and we don't think it was a good outcome for the environment. So we are strongly in favour of ending the tenure review process the Part 2 of this bill. So that is the basis for which we are supporting the bill.Where I find myself in the unusual position of supporting some of the speeches from over the other side of the House is we have genuine concern for the first part of the bill and the potential for heavy bureaucratic overreach into stewardship of these iconic properties which for the most part as much as I can tell and from the information that I've got and what I've seen have been farmed beautifully. In fact tourism is now one of the big income earners and obviously hit just at the moment by COVID. But even more they're incentivised to look after these landscapes and look after these properties.We've got to remember here too that these are leases but these are perpetual leases back to that 1948 Act the Land Act 1948 so they do have some rights that might be over and above someone leasing a block of land off you or I. So we have to take into account that they do have probably enhanced rights over a normal leasehold—these are perpetual leases.We're also concerned that there's the potential for the rentals to be lifted to an unsustainable level maybe to cover for some of the extra costs of administering some of this consenting process. We think it's important that these properties remain profitable because a lot of the good environmental protection that's going on needs a profitable farmer to be able to afford to do those things.So we New Zealand First as I say do have valid reasons and with some conviction we want to see the end of tenure review. But we will be looking incredibly carefully through that select committee process and we know the farmers will come to that process in some numbers to make their case. I know they were frustrated that they were not consulted more through the development of the bill and that's certainly a view that they've expressed strongly to me. They will get their day in front of the select committee and many of them will come I'm sure from those magnificent high country stations and we will be listening very carefully to what they have to say. So qualified support for this bill to the select committee. Thank you.