Halbert ShananSHANAN HALBERT (Labour—Northcote): E te Māngai tēnā koe. I speak in support this evening on the unit titles amendment bill and I too acknowledge Nicola Willis for the work that has been done around this. As a newbie in this House you tend to learn a bunch of things as these sorts of bills come in front of you and this particular bill speaks to me as an Aucklander with the growth pains that we are experiencing and the challenges as a large city in the large developments that we see all around us.I note right across from my house in little Willow Avenue is a development of 12 town houses and just down the way there is a major development in Zion Road with 49 apartments in a single lane road. Our concern as a local neighbourhood is around the infrastructure and both the ability to deal with the population growth that we have but also that we have infrastructure that supports those developments. When I looked into this bill it actually gave me a sense of comfort Nicola Willis because it spoke to my community and it too would enable them to have a sense of comfort that there are better controls around the quality of housing and the quality of developments that are rising up within our community.This bill introduces the proportionate utility costs but I also like the idea of having a code of conduct in place and I look to my journey. I heard from my fellow member Anahila about her journey and living in apartments and I too spent 15 years when I moved to Auckland living in apartments. I thought for a moment: did I ever think about the landlords or the owners or how they cared for me? I didn't question it in fact; I simply paid my rent. I aimed to be a first-home buyer but I let others take responsibility effectively for the facility that I lived in. At times I had broken lifts. At times I lived in apartments that were leaky. That's the reality of many many Aucklanders of my generation. When I look to this law back in 2010 that was a long time ago. Auckland has changed. Auckland has grown. We have much larger developments going up in our community. So I do support the need for a better code of conduct.When I look to the long-term maintenance plan requirements I also support that too. It's something we require for any public facility. It's something that we require for schools' facilities—10-year maintenance plans—to ensure that the quality of that facility is good for the people that are working learning or living within that and I see housing as no different. I talk quite often—and I spoke today in the general debate—around how proud I am of our programme of housing in Auckland under this Government in putting people at the centre. So this particular member's bill does speak to that too. It does put people at the centre and enables that there's adequate checks and balances I guess to the quality of housing that Aucklanders are living in. More and more people in Auckland will be living in town houses and in apartments as we grow as we grow and as we grow some more. So for that very reason I would like this bill to go through the select committee process. I think there's merit in ironing some of those kinks out and having broader discussions around the maintenance plan requirements and around what's included in that code of conduct—how we care for people and how we ensure that we have quality housing standards including those being warm and dry. I also support this bill to go through because it does give my community some sense of satisfaction that people care about the large-scale builds that we're experiencing under the unitary plan. Thank you very much to the member for putting this forward. I commend this bill to the House.