Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'm actually very happy to be speaking on the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill with my reason being that I found this a fascinating piece of legislation to work on. It took quite an amount of time to work through the select committee process. I want to just acknowledge and recognise High Country Accord and the visits that we attended. We did our very best as a select committee to go to the community. We went to Christchurch and then we went down to Queenstown to directly connect with them and then we were hosted by High Country Accord during the roar last year—was it last year? I think it was—yes the roar last year. It was a magnificent time to be in the high country—an absolutely magnificent time. We had the most beautiful weather and we got to spend some really quality time listening directly to the farmers who had farmed intergenerationally and we got to engage with them and spend real meaningful time listening to their concerns. So I'm really pleased to stand here and speak. Having come from the West Coast of the South Island and having also grown up in the North Island in Northland in a farming family farming with beef and lamb it was a lovely reminder of my childhood—even though of course not as grand.So what we know about this bill is that the bill was managed in quite a good way I must say. So I want to acknowledge Eugenie Sage the chair who was the chair for deliberations but she most certainly was not the chair for submissions. Rachel Brooking the deputy chair took over to do that and that is in recognition of the transfer with the Hon Eugenie Sage having been the Minister who first looked to introduce this legislation. I think that that was very sensitively managed and appropriately so and I want to acknowledge the former Minister for that.Clause 9 of this bill repeals the transfer of land that occurs or the selling of land that occurs under tenure review. So essentially tenure review is looking at land and almost doing a swap. It's putting some land into freehold and other land going into the Department of Conservation estate. But the thing that's really important to remember is that the existing land that we currently have in the tenure leasehold process is essentially owned by the Crown and the leasehold relationship—the 33-year leasehold in perpetuity—is indeed a right. It is a right held by those farmers but it isn't the only right that sits on that land. So I just want to acknowledge that and also acknowledge the kaitiakitanga or the care that those farmers bring to that land. Of course there are some leaseholds that are not owned by intergenerational families and I also want to acknowledge those businesses which do their very best as well.So finally I think that this bill does a really clever thing and part of the changes in this bill which I really like is the clarification that this legislation brings. So there are sort of three things: there are consented or permitted activities and there are those that are absolutely prohibited and the bill outlines those. It's really useful to have this. It makes things a lot more streamlined and a lot more useful for those on farm needing to know what to do. There's a carve-out for emergency situations because we've heard about emergency situations. So I think this bill lands in the right place. It is going to ensure that we continue to protect Crown land and also work in partnership alongside these leaseholders. Thank you Madam Speaker. I commend the bill to the House.