Hon SHANE JONES: This piece of legislation has been brought forward by one of the greatest parliamentarians of my time, in contrast to other Ministers for the Environment, including the member who has taken offence to the most modest—most modest—of critical remarks. The last nine years shows a littered trail of failure, of dashed expectations, and, quite frankly, betrayal to the business and the economic estate. It has taken David Parker to bring forward a mix of a remedy which shows how hopeless and useless the old Minister for the Environment, Mr Nick Smith, used to be—the man who went on RNZ National trying to justify how much cow dung was in the water and that human beings, perhaps very closely related to him, could drink it. That was his contribution.