It stood by even when the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee, Dr Jane Goodall, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature called for greater protection for dolphins. National ignored that. It has taken a Labour - Green - New Zealand First Government to respond to the 15,000 submissions from New Zealanders and the 78,000 people who signed a petition to put in place real measures to protect the dolphins. I pay tribute to all of the school children around Aotearoa who have written in and said that they support better protection for dolphins. 