Whaitiri MekaHon MEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): Thank you very much Madam Chair. Can I just start by thanking the Minister Chris Hipkins who in his opening five minutes actually explained what he references is probably a bill that not many of us have read. But I do appreciate that this is a bill that is really important to all members of this House and all New Zealand because it does exactly what he says. You know it makes the interpretation of legislation really important as it attempts to bring the law relating to legislation so it's easy to find it's understandable and it's of high quality. I want to thank the Minister and the officials and also I want to acknowledge the Regulations Review Committee whose 2014 inquiry into the oversight of disallowable instruments that are not legislative instruments has led to this piece of legislation. So this bill that we are supporting obviously has had a fairly lengthy gestation to get here.But I just want to pick up on a couple of points that the Minister talked about and the interpretation of legislation. I actually accept that that's really important—accessibility. I'm thanking the Minister because when I took a call on this in the second reading last night—I wasn't on the Justice Committee when this particular bill was considered but there was a gap around the scrutiny of secondary legislation—I was really pleased that the Minister acknowledged that further work was in there. I actually called upon any fellow members of the select committee that could actually unlock what we meant by further work. So the Minister has given the House the guarantee that absolutely we need to make sure that secondary legislation meets the same test that primary legislation meets. I'm personally interested in how that will play out what that would look like what the further scrutiny of secondary legislation would mean. So I'm really I guess laying my absolute interests Minister in that part when we pick that up as part of this Government's work plan around making sure the scrutiny of secondary legislation is right and I guess fit for purpose.But you know this is like I said a non-controversial bill. It is an important bill. I know it's not tampering with individual legislation that sits under it. It is around putting it in one place so it's accessible to all New Zealand. I talked about the cost of doing that. I'm sure that that's in consideration—that it doesn't become so costly when we're accessing it and as we pass this bill considering where the pieces of legislation are.But in terms of the framework—if I can stretch it a wee while—is this principle about relevance. I know we're not talking about the relevance of legislation; we are trying to bring all the legislation into one place. But in our quest to either modernise language or find it accessible be able to interpret law—legislation—I think I just want to put a plug in for the growing use of Te Reo. We have it in this House—not just Te Reo; our Pacific languages that we beautifully hear opening our prayers. And if there's a space in this piece of legislation going forward to acknowledge the various uses of language in this country I hope that we pick that up Minister: as New Zealand evolves—the possibility of not just the use of language but some of the principles that sit behind the languages that we hear often throughout this country the beautiful difference of languages.So like the previous speaker I say it is a non-controversial very important piece of legislation. I acknowledge the work of the Justice Committee who considered it all the submitters that came and the officials that worked on it. It is a simple piece of legislation but something that I'm really proud to stand and support in this Chamber and I commend it to the committee.