CHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. A great pleasure to be able to speak to the Maritime Powers Bill. Others have already set out some of the reasons that it's really important for the New Zealand Parliament to take a keen interest in this domain, and I want to pick up on a theme, actually, that Ingrid Leary, who's just resumed her seat, was touching upon in terms of the large coastal area that we have as a nation. I would go so far as to say that, in fact, New Zealand is a large nation, but it just so happens that a lot of that territory is water rather than land. Certainly, when you think about our sovereign interests as well as those needed to protect our more general interests—the protection of human rights and so forth that she and Simon O'Connor have spoken about—it's very important that we are active and engaged in what's needed to control this domain and this environment, and, of course, that's the intent of the bill: to be able to give powers to officers of the New Zealand State to do exactly that. 