Now, it's important that we go back a little bit in history to understand the genesis of this piece of legislation. It was actually introduced into the 52nd Parliament by the then Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Minister, the Hon Eugenie Sage, a Green Party Minister, who introduced it to the House, and then, of course, not long after the bill was introduced and referred to the House in July of 2020, there was a general election and the makeup of this Government that is currently in office changed significantly. The introducing Minister lost her ministerial warrant, but she was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Environment Committee, and now she has, sitting in that role, overseen the process to bring us to where we are today. Now, I accept that she was not in the chair during the hearing of submissions, but that was a token gesture to help placate what could only be seen as an ideologically driven philosophical approach to these 170-something high country pastoral farming families who are the victims of this unnecessary, unconvincing, and, frankly, insulting piece of legislation.