Young JonathanJONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth): Thank you Mr Speaker. Can I say thank you very much for that very spontaneous speech delivered by the Minister and can I also say thank you for your kind remarks to the Economic Development Science and Innovation Committee who did work very hard on actually quite a complex bill. I'd say it is quite difficult to criticise this Minister because we are both members of the parliamentary cricket team and that creates—Hon Kris Faafoi: Stop reading your speech.JONATHAN YOUNG: Ha ha! And that creates a collegiality which I think sometimes is quite healthy for how Governments operate. He gets more runs than I do and so I always have to hold him in high respect. Kieran McAnulty: Yeah but you fall over more.SPEAKER: Order!Kieran McAnulty: I apologise.SPEAKER: It's been a very long time since I played for the cricket team. JONATHAN YOUNG: That's right. I missed that remark but I sense I should be offended.SPEAKER: No I'm offended on our behalf. JONATHAN YOUNG: Right thank you very much. So anyway you know we do support this bill. As the Minister said—and I'll just acknowledge the Hon Clare Curran for her work—this has been a work programme that has been across parliaments. It's absolutely critical for New Zealand going forward to have state-of-the-art connectivity that's going to enable us not just to be able to enjoy that connectivity but to have very effective opportunities when it comes to education when it comes to services that our communities and our Government provide for our communities and also in the area of commerce—it's incredibly important to be able to have that connectivity not just domestically across New Zealand but across the world.It's good to see that New Zealand is doing well in this particular area and that comes through the effort of different parliaments different Ministers and different select committees. We all appreciate the fact that we can enjoy these things.This past weekend I was visiting a town in the southern part of my electorate called Ōpunake. In fact my wife and I stayed there for the weekend. We had won a prize at a fantastic bach that won New Zealand's Bookabach national award just recently. So we went down there to enjoy small-town New Zealand and as we drove into that town there was a big sign that said Ultra-fast Broadband (UFB) is coming in February 2019"—UFB is coming in 2019. So that's the relevancy sir to say that here we are in small-town Taranaki with 1000 people—the reach of this technology is going far and wide. That has got to have benefits for our high schools our primary schools our doctors our medical centres and our farmers who are out there who want to be state-of-the-art operators on our land. All of this is so important and it's one of the best things this Parliament has done for New Zealand homes families enterprises schools and hospitals to create this connectivity to get information flowing.I think just as a brief comparison where we sit in the world—I think it is interesting to know that we are doing reasonably well—SPEAKER: Order! Order! I am going to interrupt the member and to remind him we are on the third reading of this bill. It is not the second reading. It's not a general discussion about UFB. It's a discussion on this bill—maybe some comment on its progress through the House but certainly most of it should be on how the bill has emerged from the select committee. The member's weekend or what happened in the rest of the world is not in this bill.JONATHAN YOUNG: Thank you for your guidance sir. I do think New Zealanders are interested in what's happening in small-town New Zealand; however I will continue on looking at the bill as you have suggested.SPEAKER: Oh the member's tempting me.JONATHAN YOUNG: One of the issues that this bill addresses is the balance between return on investment and also quality of service. It's very very important that we get this balance right because we need to have the investment to get quality service and it needs to be at a price where New Zealanders can afford it. So the anchor product is very much part of that—that we ensure that as many New Zealanders as possible can afford this service.One of the things that we discovered through the progress of this bill was the issue in terms of poor consumer experiences with telecommunication services which this bill goes some way to address. Consumer New Zealand's recent survey highlighted that slower than expected broadband speed is quite frustrating. Secondly disconnections or dropouts of internet services are also an issue. So these were some of the quality issues that this bill starts to address. It's all well and good to have an ultra-fast fibre network but it's got to work it's got to be affordable and it needs to be able to deliver the services to New Zealanders at an affordable price. So managing all of those tensions—and also managing the tension that corporations like Chorus face in terms of having capability wanting to stretch further into the retail market but in doing that because of their size and scale threatening that retail market—is certainly an issue that this bill addresses in terms of that line of division between the wholesale and retail market.I'm very pleased to stand in support of the bill. I thank the Minister for the fact that they have highlighted vulnerable users. Yes it's a very important addition. I just want to acknowledge the Hon Tracey Martin for her advocacy in that particular area. I commend this bill to the House.Debate interrupted.Sitting suspended from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. (Wednesday)"