Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki-King Country): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well when I became the conservation spokesperson in January I didn't think I'd spend the next seven months of my life actually working through lots of pages of documents and in the beginning had very limited understanding of and even now not proclaiming to be an expert on it. But I do want to say as others have suggested that the select committee process was a very open one and was very ably chaired. I found that the people on the committee were all willing to get in and work together.I think the things that I found mostly confusing I guess—and if I talk about the select committee—for the submitters was that we have this bill and we have the Spatial Planning Bill and then we have the climate adaptation bill which somehow has to fit in and we don't know the details of that particular piece of legislation yet. Meanwhile the local government reforms are going on and we've got water entities bills. So we've got a lot of things that actually fit together in the regional local government space. I suppose that was one of the things that submitters were a little bit confused on. Minister if at some point we could align those things it would actually help the public get a much better understanding of how it fits together.Now certainly in that time in the committee there were a number of what ifs" and the purpose has been discussed today—the purpose of the legislation: "te Oranga o te Taiao". We had lots of discussion about that. Of course the health and wellbeing of our environment does lead to the health and wellbeing of our people and that actually came into many discussions throughout the committee. I guess the question around that still is—and we hear a lot of comments and commentary around legal interpretation and legal challenge around that—and it would be really good to get some assurances from the Minister as we work through this and go through the committee stages that some of that is watertight and is able to withstand the challenges in a law court so that we don't end up with some of the I guess long long processes that we currently sit with. That has been a concern of a number of submitters.The second really major one on top of that was around local voice. Whether it be the local council the local community—as was mentioned before there were hunting and fishing groups and various others there were also whānau and hapū that came in and talked about the things that happen in their local community being particularly important to them. So it's really important for our communities to know how this fits together with this Natural and Built Environment Bill with the Spatial Planning Bill in terms of as the regional focus takes a whole how that local voice is going to get through in their area at place—we heard "at place" a lot of the time.The third thing—and I've had feedback over this from a number of people since we came out of select committee and even again today had discussions on it—is the 10-year consenting. I know Minister I've heard you talking about processes taking 12½ years on average. But there are a lot of people concerned that with that 10-year consenting the banks won't lend money to the process and that it's too short a term to keep our infrastructure and our building and all of those things going on what we need as a country. So perhaps some discussion on that at the committee of the whole House stage would be really really useful because I know there are some organisations that are quite concerned about that—some of them are the small electricity providers and I know we all want to get to renewable electricity as fast as we possibly can and every little bit counts. So I think that 10-year consenting—because at the end of the day whatever we consent in this world if you can't graze it grow it dig it or extract it it really doesn't exist. So we need to put some quite big thought into how we do that to create our resilience as a country in the future.So I would just like to say in closing in this contribution that yeah it's been a steep learning curve for me. I've still got some questions that need to be answered and I intend to ask those through the committee of the whole House stage. But those are my thoughts on how the select committee went. Thanks to everyone involved. Thank you."