Foreshore and Seabed Bill

Pursuant to our discussion in the Business Committee I seek leave for there to be 14 speeches, each of a maximum of 10 minutes, on the second and third reading debates on the Foreshore and Seabed Bill.

💬 Mr SPEAKER: Is there any objection to that course being followed? There appears to be none. That will be so.

Secondly, I seek leave to table a document that shows the effects that the amendments proposed in Supplementary Order Paper 302 would have on the text of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill as introduced. The document, of course, has no official status. It is provided solely for the convenience of members of Parliament.

Document, by leave, laid on the Table of the House.

I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Seeing as this is quite an extraordinary situation we have here with, effectively, a new bill just tabled and available for Opposition members, perhaps the Deputy Prime Minister could have unlimited time—with the first Opposition spokesperson having equivalent unlimited time—so that he can go through and explain the changes and the detail, given that the select committee could not give a full report back to the House, and that we will move into the Committee stage on this very important bill without having done it justice at the second reading.

💬 Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought that the first two speeches have unlimited time. Is there any objection? There is objection.

Second Reading