Brooking Rachel; McAnulty Kieran; Bishop ChrisHon RACHEL BROOKING (Labour—Dunedin): I think it might be helpful in this discussion if we go to clauses 5 6 and 7 of Schedule 1 because these are the only three clauses in the bill that have a different commencement date to the day after Royal assent. So I would ask the Minister if he would like to take us through clauses 5 6 and 7 and give the rationale for why they are different from the rest of the bill and why it is that nine months is the necessary time frame. Just looking at the Minister; he's not going to answer.I will also go then to my amendment to the title clause as well and that is to in clause 1 replace Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Bill with Resource Management (Retrograde for the Environment and Efficiency) Bill."Hon KIERAN McANULTY (Labour): Thank you very much Madam Chair and thank you to the Minister for allowing me the opportunity to propose an alternative time. I do understand that my colleague the Hon Peeni Henare may have something to say about this amendment also but we are proposing that the commencement of nine months is changed to 18 months. The reason is it would make sense we think for there to be some consistency given that under clause 5(2)(b) it mentions 18 months: "use the Crown's best endeavours to promote the enactment of the Bill not later than 18 months after the commencement of this clause." We think that it would make sense to have some level of consistency there.I take on board the Minister's point that it is the Government's intention to fulfil their 100-day plan. But as the last couple of days have shown things can move slower than expected in Parliament and what if the Government doesn't meet that deadline? They have unnecessarily cut themselves short. So we think that it would make sense to give the Government a little bit more time. Not everything's going to go through Parliament under urgency. And hey look if the Government gets it done within nine months so what? All good. But at least they've built themselves a little bit of a buffer. In the spirit of trying to be constructive at a committee of the whole House stage hopefully the Minister would consider that amendment.Hon CHRIS BISHOP (Minister responsible for RMA Reform): In the spirit of Christmas the Government will accept that amendment proposed by Mr McAnulty. He has some—Hon Kieran McAnulty: Is that it? Where's the other presents?Hon CHRIS BISHOP: That's pretty good. When was the last time the Government accepted an Opposition amendment on the floor of the House? [Interruption] Well yours should have been worded better. But I'm struggling to recall the last—Hon Chris Penk: I remember one.Hon CHRIS BISHOP: Oh one. That's frustrating. Hon Chris Penk: It was a drafting thing raised by me.Hon CHRIS BISHOP: Oh OK. As I say I remember sitting over where the Labour members are sitting and putting up very very sensible substantive amendments including some quite minor ones—minor but important—and the Labour Minister sitting here. So anyway it's all good. We're not going to support the amendment around the name—nice try—and we're not going to support Arena Williams' amendment around the date although I think that was a better effort. The bill is going to be called what it's going to be called but we'll go with the 18 months if that makes sense. Thank you."