Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I stand to take a call on the Local Government (Community Well-being) Amendment Bill the first reading. Before I get under way I just want to make it very clear I won't be supporting the bill. I won't be supporting the bill for a number of reasons. I just want to bring the House's attention to the 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes and the result of what happened besides the deaths to the horizontal infrastructure that traversed the whole of Christchurch city. During that time the National-led Government's amendment to the Local Government Act had not come into force. We were still working under the previous Local Government Act which was about the four well-beings. If the four well-beings back then were so crash hot then how come when those earthquakes happened in Christchurch the horizontal infrastructure was in such disrepair—something that the council should have been keeping their eye on—that they didn't have any amount of funding to be able to help with repairing it?Dr Duncan Webb: That's an outrage. There was an earthquake. That's an outrage.JO HAYES: I know it's an earthquake but if the repairs and the maintenance had kept on over time then it would have minimised the impact of—yes there would've been some damage but not as wide as what it was in those days. That was during the four well-beings.I am very concerned about this bill because it does take the focus of local government away from what it is there for—to provide robust local infrastructure. We need that; we saw that post-earthquake. We've been talking about this over the last few years about the local council. The Wellington one around the water pipes coming through—that's infrastructure that's water pipes from the Hutt over here into Wellington. Should the four well-beings come in to effect then what's going to happen with that local infrastructure?So it's about local infrastructure and robust local infrastructure which is what is currently there at the moment in the Local Government Act 2002. It is about local public services and you need to have those services. I don't know how those four well-beings would cover local infrastructure and the public services. We don't want to be able to charge out levies for everything in communities like where I'm currently listed in Christchurch East. I don't know whether people will be able to actually afford a levy any levy in that area for building or any other area. The local regulatory functions as well of the current council—those are the three key areas that the local council under the local government amendment legislation 2012 worked by. That's why I do have concerns over these four well-beings.I don't know how places like Christchurch East are going to cope under the environmental side of the four well-beings. Yes we have areas in Christchurch that are flooded. The Heathcote River around there there's some big flooding areas and currently under the long-term plan and the consultation the council are looking at putting some funding in there to mitigate some flooding. But on the other side on the eastern side there is also the estuary area that is crying out for some mitigation around erosion of the estuary edge and maybe the resurrection of a bund that goes further down into the South New Brighton area. I don't know where in these four well-beings that will happen environmentally for the Southshore area.Around the economic side now if the council kind of dismissed the Southshore area—that has potential for new homes to be rebuilt there should the bund be re-established in that particular area. It's a lovely area to build in but economically maybe the council does not want that to happen. That's why I have concerns around these four well-beings.Also around the social side the Guardians of Rāwhiti Domain are putting in a sensory playground. They have a plan there working alongside council. So council go in and chop some trees down which is lovely saying that the root system underneath is quite spongy and quite dangerous so what do they do? They leave a great big trunk sitting outside and say Put a swing on it for children." If the root system is growing on a spongy base then I don't know whether that's very social at all.I do have concerns around this particular bill. I have concerns that these four well-beings will be so prominent that rates will go up and the ratepayers won't get value for money. They will go begging for a lot of infrastructural issues that they face and especially as I said in the electorate where I'm listed in in Christchurch East especially in the Southshore area and the South New Brighton area.I stand here; I am concerned that this bill may end up coming in to Royal assent at the end of September this year. I'm concerned for the ratepayers and for the well-being of the people that live down in the Southshore area South New Brighton area and New Brighton area. I don't see how it will actually grow any more confidence down there. They're pretty shattered at the moment but this is actually going to throw it all apart for them. So I don't support the bill. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker."