Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Assistant Speaker. I'm rising in support of this very important bill for the people I represent of Waimakariri and for the people of greater Christchurch and Canterbury.It is a special day today. In the early hours of this morning eight years ago the people of Waimakariri were woken up with a violent jolt. Many in the town of Kaiapoi lost their houses that day. We lost just under 1000 residential houses—the town of Kaiapoi being one of the only places outside of Christchurch that has a residential red zone. That's why it's important that we call it the Canterbury Earthquakes"—which this bill does do—not the "Christchurch Earthquakes". Quite rightly we focus on the 2011 earthquakes where we lost the lives of 185 people but we shouldn't forget that the first earthquakes were 4 September 2010. That has scarred many of the community in the electorate I serve. As a constituent MP I just want to take the time to acknowledge the former MPs of the Waimakariri electorate and list the Hon Kate Wilkinson and the Hon Clayton Cosgrove for the work that they undertook in the time of need for the people.As an electorate MP unfortunately there are still cases coming through the front door of my office. These cases are at the tail end—very legally challenging and technically complex. I think that even though today we've heard support across the House for this bill in the first reading as some of the previous speakers have outlined on this side of the House we think there are some real deficiencies. Or to take a strengths-based approach there are real opportunities.But first I do want to acknowledge Parliament. I think the people of Canterbury genuinely feel that Parliament has stood behind them right from the start—the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Act we've done local bills on the Arts Centre of Christchurch as well as Christchurch Cathedral. So this Parliament has worked well for the people of Canterbury. And I do hope in the legislative process that we are about to undertake Cantabrians voice their concerns we hear them as submitters and this bill will come back amended and better for that process. There are some areas that we need to focus on.One small detail that comes through my constituents many a time is about the land information memorandum (LIM) reports. I think we need to have a serious think about whether we standardise the reporting of the Earthquake Commission (EQC) and earthquake damage of properties on those LIM reports because there are situations where people are buying property and potentially maybe not taking due diligence but not having access to the resources to understand the full scope of damage to the property and buildings they're buying. Onsold properties are a huge issue. There's a constituent I'm working with who bought a property in good faith to find out that actually the EQC report was incorrect—was inaccurate. EQC have acknowledged their report has failings but unfortunately even though they can acknowledge that they can only pay out the cap—just $110000.Of course now this person is in limbo because their insurer says "Well we didn't hold the policy of the house during the earthquake." and the insurer of the house during the earthquake says "Well this person wasn't the policyholder." The problem is if we exclude this group they are actually one of the biggest groups of people left. I do hope we can look at that because actually we need to think: what are the issues? I think it's time to open that up in the select committee process hear from the submitters of Canterbury and ultimately bring a bill back to the House that is fit for purpose to address some of these very technically and legally complex challenges for the benefit of some very vulnerable people in Canterbury. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker."