Bond RiaRIA BOND (NZ First): I am feeling somewhat a little bit sorry for you this afternoon Mr Chairperson because you are going to hear a lot of repetition from this side of the Chamber today. I want to reiterate the fact that the Commerce Committee did in fact work very hard. We had quite a big look actually into our current situation—how out there our rural and our urban areas struggle with issues—and this bill as presented to the House in the first reading actually was looking at changing that. One of the biggest things—I think we are all going to say this actually at some stage today—is that I was quite surprised but not actually surprised at the same time that Supplementary Order Paper 280 arrived in my hot little hands at 10.30 this morning. I have gone through this and looked at all the amendments in the Supplementary Order Paper and I do want to congratulate the Minister for Communications and this Government on making those changes.I want to add though that what I was quite—what is the word I can use—curious about in terms of New Zealand First was the fact that the note from the Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) on the back of the Supplementary Order Paper states that it is not necessary for a departmental disclosure statement and that it is actually not required. I want to ask: why is that? Because yes this bill fixes glitches and technical errors and improves the drafting but it has a massive change in clause 10 which is significant and addresses a lot of the issues that our submitters spoke to us about when we held one round of submissions and then we went back again to check ourselves to make sure that we were making good choices in round two of the submissions which Clare Curran has actually spoken about earlier. So I was quite surprised by that and I wondered whether the Minister in the chair the Hon Jacqui Dean could answer that question: why is it that MBIE has actually said that there is no need for a departmental disclosure statement?Like previous speakers we have also spoken about the units that are individually owned and the issue of complexity when it comes to owners wanting to have ultra-fast broadband (UFB) and also fibre—quite rightfully so. This consent process has dragged its feet quite significantly and it is good that this bill actually addresses that. The minority of people in that situation do not hold the power over the majority and tend to miss out on good core services that they would like to have access to.One of the areas that I do want to talk about as well is that this bill significantly will actually close the digital division between the urban and rural areas. I think that that is absolutely significant in the sense that this bill will bring an enormous benefit to telecommunications and the connectivity in rural New Zealand and it also allows for UFB services to reach our rural community. These are our farms. It is important because the technical ability to have enhanced wireless services will actually pay benefits to our farming community. Rural Women New Zealand actually put a submission forward saying that it would require an enabler for it to have access to this. We looked at this further and the issues that actually also spun out of this.I want to also add that for Southland—you know we have issues trying to attract a young workforce for our rural area and on our farms. I think we are sitting somewhere at about 24 percent percentage-wise of Southlanders struggling to actually fulfil employment areas for employees. Some of the feedback from mums and dads who submitted was the fact that the young ones were going out to apply for a position on a farm but they kind of walked away really quickly because there was no connectivity. There was no ability for them to live after hours and have a bit of a social life through social media. That was a major detraction. So I see that the Supplementary Order Paper and the significant changes through the input that the Opposition put into this bill have been for us anyway quite rewarding. We are quite thankful that this bill is fit for purpose that this bill has been rigorously scrutinised and we are very happy with all the amendments in the Supplementary Order Paper. Thank you.