Woods MeganDr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): It is a pleasure to take my first call here. I want to talk to two of the Supplementary Order Papers (SOP)—Kris Faafoi: Of many.Dr MEGAN WOODS: —yes that is right Mr Faafoi the first of many calls—that seek to make amendments in Part 1 of this legislation. The first is to return to the definitional debate that seems to have broken out over what a crop is. I would just like to make the point that actually throughout Government we do have very tight definitions within our research science and technology system of what a crop is as opposed to a pasture. For example I was once an employee of Crop and Food Research. We certainly did not delve into pasture or forestry; that that was seen as an entirely different enterprise and in fact research that was undertaken by other research institutions because it was seen as so separate and so different. We have a very accepted definition of what a crop is in this country—it certainly does not include pasture and it certainly does not include forestry.I would also like to respond to what was perhaps one of the more interesting attempts to bring someone over to vote for an SOP that I have ever seen in the House and just remind the member Marama Fox that actually Labour will be supporting this SOP 281 that she is putting up. We do not actually think that it is going to achieve what it needs to do but Labour will in fact be voting for it. In terms of the allegations that we are not voting for it I would just like to correct those and make it clear that the Hon David Parker had made it clear that we would be voting for that SOP.Hon Ruth Dyson: She wasn't listening.Dr MEGAN WOODS: Perhaps my colleague the Hon Ruth Dyson is correct that she was not listening.I would also like to speak to Supplementary Order Paper 283 in the name of Eugenie Sage that has been put forward and to signal that the Labour Party will be supporting this Supplementary Order Paper. What this amendment to the legislation does is it would enable the Minister and consent authorities to consider greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of climate change when deciding applications for discharge consents and marine consents and developing national environmental standards regional and district plans and regulations." We think that it is vitally important that any piece of legislation that is meant to be the centrepiece of how we practise sustainable management in this country that when we are amending it in the 21st century here in 2017 we are having due regard for climate change and ensuring that we are making sure that the Minister can consider the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on there. Though the Supplementary Order Paper is a very well-crafted Supplementary Order Paper and I would like to congratulate the member who has put it forward it does not alter the current provisions of the Resource Management Act which do allow the decision makers to consider the effects of climate change for the benefits of renewable energy. What it does is it puts further amendments into this legislation where more consideration could be given and where actually more difference could be made.So I hope that parties across the Chamber are looking at this Supplementary Order Paper Minister and thinking about the benefits that this could bring to bear. I would be interested to hear the Minister's thoughts on this and whether or not the RMA is indeed a tool that we could be further using to fight the effects of climate change. I would be very interested in the Minister's thoughts on that. It "amends clause 13 of the legislation to add climate change and greenhouse gas emissions to section 32 of the RMA." which seems a very sensible way to do that. "Sections 70A and 104E of the RMA limit consent authorities' consideration of the effects of proposed activities in increasing greenhouse gas emissions" so new clauses introduced under this Supplementary Order Paper would change that. It seems to me a very sensible way to do it. "The amendment to clause 4 would make it clear that contaminant as defined in the Act [does indeed] includes greenhouse gases." Because if we are thinking about what a contaminant is in the 21st century I think all of us would need to think about greenhouse gases and what that can do as well. I think that this is a good Supplementary Order Paper. It is one we are supporting. I would like to remind members to perhaps listen to speeches in this Chamber that it is a fiery debate but actually be correct when you say what people are voting for. There is no quicker way to lose support for a Supplementary Order Paper than the speech such as we saw. Labour will be supporting both of them."