BARBARA EDMONDS (Labour—Mana): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise as the chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee, who examines the Overseas Investment (Forestry) Amendment Bill, and support the amendments on this side of the House. This bill seeks to amend the Overseas Investment Act 2005 and it is quite narrowly focused. The main change would be to remove the ability for overseas investors to rely on a simplified and more permissive consent process under the Act when they seek to convert land into productive forestry land. 