Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Madam Speaker. I know that there are rules in this House about reading speeches but it seems that there are no rules about reading their legislation. So we've had a classic example of the misconnection between academia and the real world in the last speech because the last speech from the member who has just resumed her seat Rachel Brooking focused entirely on the technical detail of the legislation which is exactly part of the problem that this Government has in terms of delivery—and that is too much focus on not really getting things done. They don't deliver—they don't deliver and they don't get things done—and that has become the hallmark of this socialist Labour Government: high on words but very very slack on delivery.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): I invite the member to come back to the bill.Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: Well this is a bill that is involved with trying to make a small step in the right direction in terms of solving the housing dilemma that the Government is faced with. It's a small step and it's one that we've supported throughout the processes. We supported it a first reading at select committee at second reading and now at third reading. But I don't want to traverse the minute detail of the bill; others have already done that. But what I do want to do is talk a little bit about the potential for real impact from this legislation. Now in my electorate in the Coromandel there is a builder Cherrywood Homes and they build a range of homes that are all to a standard plan: standard fittings standard design standard cladding standard roofing and standard in every particular way. The issue that they have is that their ability to provide economic homes to that standard is hindered greatly by undue red tape and process: for instance the three or four local district councils all have different rules and regulations in terms of consenting those standard homes that this bill hopefully will minimise if not completely remove entirely and that will be a good thing. So for instance if a standard build house is being built for instance in the Thames-Coromandel District Council area there are different rules and regulations for a house that is identical in every respect save for maybe the colour of the roof or the colour of the cladding or the colour of the taps and light fittings; but every other way—but every other way—it's similar and identical. Then if you go to the Hauraki District Council and have exactly the same building maybe with only a different roof colour cladding then the rules are different. So the real advantage of this bill is not the establishment of the regulatory regime not the establishment of the registration and certification system. That's a given and that's what a competent and delivering Government should do. Those are in the bill and so we give them a small tick for that. But the real benefit is in the ability for prefabricators to actually get the economies of scale and to achieve some real benefits in terms of standardisation of design standardisation of componentry and standardisation of delivery. And these will be the real benefits to New Zealand homeowners because it will mean that some of the large firms that have been wanting to prefabricate and actually have been trying to do so for some time will have the regulatory weights that have been constraining them removed and I think that that is a good thing. On this side of the House we are very supportive of the projects for instance that a business called Panasonic Homes has been able to achieve at Te Kauwhata. There they were able to build a prototype house using prefabricated componentry in a way that will only be able to be sped up by this process. The real skill and the real ability is if we can have an opportunity to use this piece of legislation as a piece in the jigsaw puzzle that would allow New Zealand prefabricators to do as is done in many other jurisdictions around the world. For instance in the UK in Australia and in the United States of America there are very significant benefits to be had from economically built constructed homes that are constructed essentially in much the same way that one might construct or manufacture a car: literally on a prefabrication assembly line. Those are design and manufacture techniques that this bill will enable the prefabricators to actually improve more efficiently their processes. Some of the red tape will be removed. There will be sufficient control in the legislation—and we heard at select committee from a number of submitters who were quite happy with the underlying rules and foundations that were going to be presented—but still a freeing up of the mire that they have currently had to work their way through. And when I look at some of the modern economical and very attractive prefabricated homes that are available to citizens in some of those other jurisdictions that I mentioned particularly in the United States of America there is a big market for homes that are built essentially in a large factory environment with economies of scale that can be transported by vehicle to a location and then put on a property and suddenly then the more affordable range of the market can be fulfilled. So this is a piece of legislation that does provide a small piece in the jigsaw puzzle that we hope will provide a little bit of support for those innovative businesses that want to get on and help create better housing options for people particularly at the lower end of the pricing spectrum. This will be something that I think will be welcomed not only by the manufacturers not only by the designers and the builders and the prefabricators but hopefully also by those people who want to get into their first home maybe who can secure a piece of land that is not exorbitantly priced and then not be straddled with the sometimes prohibitive costs of construction that have been foisted upon them because of the existing framework and the existing regulatory regime. And so I commend organisations and businesses like Panasonic Homes but I know that they will be bringing their unique prefabrication technology and methodology—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! This debate is interrupted and is set down for resumption next sitting day. The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. tomorrow. Fa'afetai tele lava manuia le po.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 10 p.m.