Hon EUGENIE SAGE (Associate Minister for the Environment): Tēnā koe, Madam Speaker. Thank you. Very pleased to take a call on the Resource Management Amendment Bill. When we were last in the Chamber discussing this, Opposition members were railing against the bill. It is a very important bill and it is the first phase of this Government's changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA). There is a review panel chaired by Judge Randerson and that is looking at more comprehensive reform. But this bill is important because it removes some of the worst changes that the former National Government made to the RMA with their Resource Legislation Amendment Act. 