Williams Poto: Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWilliams Poto: Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 09 March 2016. Volume:711;Page:9593. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]POTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East): In this country we have an expectation about our homes. We do have an expectation that they will be warm and dry but we also have an expectation that they will be built properly. We spend a lot of money we invest a lot of money in our homes. We expect them to be fit for purpose so that our children are well and that you know as an asset homes grow in value.The leaky homes saga as my colleague Su’a William Sio called it really knocked our faith and that belief that our homes were our castles. It did actually cause us to stop and think about all of those processes that we put in place to ensure that things go as well as they can do—the regulations the legislation the building codes and the like. We were failed as a country when the market was deregulated in this case: when the treatment of timber was compromised where construction methods were not fit for purpose and where the inspections of those properties caused what became a massive failure. I am giving you some background to the bill Mr Assistant Speaker.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): And the member does not need to give me background; she needs to address the bill. We are on the third reading.POTO WILLIAMS: OK. When we find that in fact we have made a mistake we need to put it right. Have we done so in a timely way for those people who have been impacted by the weathertightness of their homes? It has taken a long period of time for those people to feel as though they have had the remedy that is required which this legislation actually provides. But it does not provide for all the people who are impacted by weathertightness issues in their homes.The bill has only three major components. Of course the first is really around who will qualify for the Financial Assistance Package. Those 70 or so families who will qualify for the package only have until the end of June or the beginning of July to ensure that they get those applications in. The second component of this bill is around determining the time that the home was built because knowing when your home was built and actually having that defined puts into play the period of time in which you can then apply for the financial assistance. The last component really deals with the claimants who will come under this bill who may already be taking civil proceedings. They will no longer be able to take those proceedings because they will be covered under the Financial Assistance Package in this bill.This bill is a bit of a cautionary tale. There are aspects of it that resonate with residents in Christchurch around some of the rebuild and repair and the different applications of codes that are occurring in Christchurch. I just want to make that note because it is important that we do not come back to this House seeking to pass legislation that will then fix up what could be dodgy repairs in Canterbury. Thank you.