SIMON COURT (ACT): Thank you, Madam Speaker. It is positive that 44 of the 49 submitters agreed with this bill, this Maritime Transport (MARPOL Annex VI) Amendment Bill, to prevent air pollution from ships. It's good to reduce the amount of sulphur emitted into the atmosphere, nitrogen oxides, but one of the concerns raised by submitters is not that the time taken to get this legislation over the line has taken too long; it's 1996, it's 2005, it's taken too long, but actually in order to convert New Zealand's ships to a low-sulphur fuel—and we're talking about the two dozen or so coastal ships, those ones so dear to the hearts of my comrades on the other side of the House, so passionate about coastal shipping, who want to stand up for their shipmates and the sailors' welfare. We know all about the welfare of seamen; it's been discussed in this House a number of times. But what I'm concerned about is how quickly this bill rushes New Zealand shippers to a place that is a very high cost and very difficult to comply with.