My first ministerial job was Conservation. I know all in this House would want to wish the current Minister Kiri Allan a full recovery. Conservation is the best job in the Cabinet room. To get it once is lucky; to get it twice is to be truly blessed. My appointment to the role was in the aftermath of the Cave Creek disaster. My job was to put in place the systems with director-general Hugh Logan to ensure the Department of Conservation's (DOC) thousands of structures and facilities would be safe. We also established in 1999 a conservation ranger programme that has since trained over 600 to do the school DOC fieldwork professionally and safely.