Simmonds PennyPENNY SIMMONDS (National—Invercargill): I'm pleased to speak in support of the Accident Compensation (Notice of Decisions) Amendment Bill and I congratulate my colleagues past and present for bringing it to the House.The purpose of the bill which amends the Accident Compensation Act 2001 is to broaden the range of circumstances that give employers the right to apply for a review of accident compensation decisions related to a claim. As so many of the speakers have said ACC plays an important part in New Zealanders' lives by providing that comprehensive no-fault personal injury cover and thank goodness it does so that we don't spend time and money on lawyers.This bill would increase the range of situations where employers can question or challenge ACC decisions that might affect an employer's claims history and experience rating. This would ensure that employers have the right to a review of decisions that may be determined by ACC regarding re-injury of an employee's initial work-related injury. In a previous life I was an employer of a significant number of employees and from time to time they would access ACC so I know how important it is that employers have the right to apply for a review of decisions.In my Invercargill electorate there are a number of large businesses that are important to New Zealand's economy businesses like Alliance Group which exports our wonderful lamb beef and venison to 65 different countries; Fonterra's Edendale factory; HWR that wonderful family Richardson's group; a number of agricultural contractors food growers and processors such as Pyper's Produce who grow the best carrots in New Zealand and Southern Cross Produce who grow the best parsnips in New Zealand; and of course our hard-working farmers are also major employers. I want to acknowledge the wonderful productive work of those employers creating wealth for their employees the community and the New Zealand economy. It is absolutely imperative that these important employers and all our hard-working employers throughout New Zealand have the ability and the right to review decisions that affect their claims history and experience rating and on the re-injury of an employee to ensure that the liability of those injuries is borne by the appropriate employer.Look I acknowledge that the re-injury situation where an employee might have changed employers happens very very rarely but when it does happen it's incredibly tedious and irksome and costly for those employers. So I see that clauses 5 6 and 7 of the bill amending sections 134 142 and 149 of the Act will address this to ensure that that liability lies where it should. So I would have thought that those across the House would be very keen to support this bill after all the impositions that the Labour Government have placed on our valuable employers all the extra costs and extra regulations of additional leave of additional sick leave of additional stats of additional costs with regulations—that they would have wanted to offer this small crumb to our valuable employers across New Zealand to make it a little bit easier for them to be able to challenge some of the decisions that are made by the Accident Compensation Corporation. I commend this bill to the House.