But more important are the changes that this bill makes to the way in which freshwater planning is done at the regional level through New Zealand. With the new strengthened national policy statement (NPS) on fresh water and the new national environmental standards on fresh water, which this Government has put in place to ensure that our rivers are swimmable both for people and fish and for gathering mahinga kai within a generation, we need a much more nimble process for enacting the changes that the NPS requires in regional plans. So what the bill does is set up a new process by which councils have a panel of freshwater commissioners who consider the submissions on the plan changes which implement the NPS, and those commissioners include people with expertise in tikanga Māori, recognising that mātauranga Māori and te mana o te wai are at the heart of the freshwater NPS.