Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): It's a pleasure to speak today on the regulatory systems amendment No. 2 bills and it is also a pleasure that we had a Minister on the other side of the House that was prepared to speak on this bill because we were of course prepared many months ago. But none the less we're here today to support the cognate bills that are under discussion today. So as previous speakers have alluded to these bills are cognate bills dealing with 14 Acts of Parliament that make lots of regulatory changes to essentially make things better for businesses. We absolutely support these bills. We support the purpose of the bills which is to ensure that the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is efficient and make sure that they are communicating the best possible standards to companies in New Zealand. We also support the aspect of clarifying a whole bunch of legislations reducing duplication and reducing compliance costs for businesses because these bills speak to the values of the National Party. We are a party that favours minimal costs and regulation for businesses and we do absolutely support this.I do want to just outline that New Zealand does have a good reputation generally in the rest of the world for the way we interact with business in terms of Government regulation. We come No. 1 in the world for the World Bank Doing Business indicators ahead of countries like Singapore would you believe. It is my desire and our desire on this side of the House that we uphold that aspiration of being the best place in the world to do business and the most efficient place for businesses to just get on and do what they do best which is to grow and prosper.We know that this is not the case currently with the Productivity Commission's reports several years ago into the regulatory systems where they surveyed businesses and found that only 10 percent of businesses believe that regulations are rarely or never in contradiction. So it is in that vein that we seek to streamline and clarify and simplify some of the regulations that impact small businesses. These regulations deal across several domains in terms of housing economic development workforce and employment relations—although under this Government's employment relations reforms maybe we will go backwards in terms of the ease of doing business. Nevertheless we are generally supportive of this bill.Can I tell you of the feedback that's SMEs and small and medium sized enterprises in Northcote tell me about. They say that the compliance costs of doing business in this country are simply overburdened and so bills like this which seek to streamline legislation clarify for businesses what they need to do in order to comply. And I will tell you the story of a property management company in my electorate of Northcote that had complied with the regulations under the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and then MBIE changed the regulations and this business was not able to know in fact how to comply with those regulations. So I support on this side of the House any legislation that seeks to better clarify for the small-business community how they can in fact transact and comply with existing regulations.So it's a pleasure to support this bill in the House at the first reading. Of course this will go to select committee. We expect there to be a robust dialogue at the select committee to iron out any of the kinks and unintended consequences from all of these 14 Acts that are changing in the House. But it is my pleasure to commend this bill to the House.