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Conservation Minister's speech notes for the first reading debate of the "Aquaculture Moratorium" Bill

Possums are a major issue for Government and this Government is putting more resources into possum control than any previous Government.

Hon Sandra Lee: "...the department can never lose sight of the fact that it manages huts and tracks on behalf of the public of New Zealand."

Thank you for inviting me here this morning.

New Zealand's first tussock grasslands conservation park has been opened.

Kia ora hui hui tatou katoa

This year’s Conservation Week theme, ‘Unique New Zealand - Aotearoa Te Whenua Ahurei’, focuses on New Zealand’s unique natural and cultural heritage and the many caretakers who help look after it.

I have been specifically asked, and I will come back to the reason why I say specifically, to deliver a speech on Maori development and conservation.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee puts the Alliance's views on GM during the Snap Debate on the report of the Royal Commission on GM.

Mr Chairman,

Tena koe, Rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa, (greetings to you all).

Mr Chairman,

Thank you for the invitation to speak today.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Mr Speaker,

Ki te hunga kua mene atu
ki ngâ Hawaiki katoa
nâ te roimata ngâtahi e whakaea

To those who have departed
to Hawaiki, to paradise,
We pay solemn tribute,
and remember them with tears entwined.

E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga maunga, nga awa, nga moana iti me nga moana rahi,
koutou o nga hau e wha, tenei te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.
Na matou i tangi a matou mate, na koutou i tangi a koutou mate, me ki na tatou katoa.

(Mihi)
Thank you for your warm welcome today.
Let me first apologise for the absence of my ministerial colleague, Hon Mark Burton. He has a prior engagement and is unable to be here but sends his best wishes for today's events.

Thank you for inviting me here this evening.

In my opening may I please ask the time of the House to acknowledge a staff member of mine who passed away last week after a short illness.