Bayly Andrew; Parker DavidANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): I just want to turn to the Minister's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 319 which is about employee benefits for North Island flooding events. I did have a very careful look to just see what areas were covered by this SOP which unfortunately we haven't seen until just before this committee of the whole House stage. So it covers Coromandel Gisborne Northland Wairarapa Wairoa and then it also covers Bay of Plenty and the Waikato and Tararua. And it covers the three major North Island flooding events which is Cyclone Hale the heavy rain of the Auckland Anniversary and Cyclone Gabrielle which we all know has caused such incredible damage to a large number of places.So look whilst we haven't seen it as I said in the main we support this SOP as a way of allowing people to move into other areas leave their homes go and help in the areas that have been badly affected and to deal with issues such as reconstruction and repair of land infrastructure and other property in the affected areas of the specified areas. And a distant workplace" is a workplace that is the area affected by the North Island flooding events—that's the definition. So that seems good. The quantum is $5000 which is an increase in what we had used for Christchurch which I think this is a replica from—I'm looking at the Minister. Perhaps the first question is: the appropriateness of $5000. So given the rapid increase in rents—and we now know rents have increased $170 per week since 2017. The average rent now is $575. That means that works out to I think 8.6 weeks. So my first question to the Minister is: why the $5000 and why the eight weeks? Why was that particularly deemed appropriate? And then there is the specified period of eight weeks. So why that specific period? I'm looking at—just to help the Minister—proposed new section CZ 24B(1)(c) inserted by clause 31C in Supplementary Order Paper 319. It would be very useful to understand that.And I just wonder in the proposed new section CZ 29B(5)(b) inserted by clause 31D in Supplementary Order Paper 319 it talks about recovery "includes restoration and enhancement." I suspect the SOP should actually say restoration and enhancement of what because it's not clear. But maybe that's a drafting issue. Anyway it would be useful just for the Minister to elaborate on that given that select committee wasn't made aware of this before it came to the committee this afternoon.Hon DAVID PARKER (Minister of Revenue): The $5000 amount was based on the figure that had been used by the last National-ACT Government post the Christchurch earthquakes adjusted for inflation. So there's no trickery in it; it's just that old figure adjusted for inflation since—no trickery at all.Andrew Bayly: I wasn't suggesting it was trickery.Hon DAVID PARKER: I know. I know you didn't but there's nothing more to it. I don't want to say it's arbitrary—it's not arbitrary—but it's just the old figure adjusted for inflation. In respect of the eight-week period I'm not sure if that's the same as it was post-Christchurch. I'm advised that it's the same period that was used post - Christchurch earthquakes—or Canterbury earthquakes I should say."