Sosene Lemauga LydiaLEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE (Labour—Māngere): Madam Speaker I rise to take a call—I did try to ask some questions in the committee stage but I want to come back to this waste minimisation bill that is before us. Labour opposed this bill because we don't see the value in diminishing the relationship in terms of broadening the criteria of the levy that we've all been talking about.Many of my colleagues on this side of the House have traversed a number of reasons why the bill is not being supported on this side of the House and one of the things that I wanted to raise was many communities throughout Aotearoa have heavy industry belts. What that means is industries that do quite a lot of damage to not just the air but also to the soil and communities such as Māngare such as a couple in South Auckland are having to put up with industries who are contaminating the soils who have industries such as recycling plants but are not taking care of things like scrap metal. And when you have a disaster in your local community that produces a fire because the current legislative requirements have not been met Fire and Emergency have to tackle that—block the roads for two days; there's a big fire and in that particular industry. So all the things that come out of an incident like that affect local communities. One of the things that I wanted to raise that was in the analysis was the pace that this bill has been written at. The analysis and the modelling I would really question because of the impacts on local communities and the limited assessment particularly when you don't have a select committee process when you don't have the voice of our community to raise issues right across the motu. And especially our rangatahi. In my local area our rangatahi our young people have been very very active because this impacts on their future. So I want to raise on their behalf that part of the waste minimisation initiatives must include education—education of cause and effects. And my hope is that the Government needs to listen to the voices of their communities because we are here because of our communities. So when our communities don't have a voice we need to stand up as members and represent their voice.Education is important because the waste minimisation speaks about that environmental harm and in local communities whether you're from rural whether you're from an urban environment many of our young people want to be involved in the good initiatives because they understand the environmental harm. And this bill doesn't provide the context into which young people can get involved in actually pushing their views forward because they're really concerned about their environmental space particularly in the urban areas. And when you come from backgrounds such as Māori such as Pasifika such as ethnic then how do you input into laws of the land that you don't even get a look in?So when you don't have stakeholder consultation when you don't—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Can we just avoid the use of the word you".LEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE: Apologies Madam Speaker. You've said that to nearly every person that stood up and I do apologise. It is really important that we receive stakeholder feedback in every process of the legislative chamber.So I wanted just to quickly in my time that is left reinforce as to why Labour is opposing this specific bill: Because it just weakens it doesn't provide the opportunity for the public to raise specific issues around remediation of contaminated areas around freshwater improvement and specifically when you've got a large youth population and communities who don't necessarily understand as to the environmental impacts. So the levy this levy that is going to be collected doesn't really benefit; it's an indirect benefit for our local communities. And that's why I want to stand up and advocate that as part of the suite of options that education around protecting our environment is very very important. Thank you."