Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to be able to talk to this bill—my first speech since being back in the House post the COVID lockdown. I want to take a turn where I acknowledge all of those who have been working on it. One of the things that most impressed me was the ability for a whole-of-Government approach to pulling together the 45 pieces of legislation and bringing together those practical pieces of work to enable Kiwis to get on with it and I think that's one of the great things about this Government: when issues arise when Kiwis need to go about their daily work and they need to do that more easily then we have a responsive ear to them and this I believe helps in every way possible.I also believe that Kiwis expect that in times like this we do come together and we've heard an opposing view where that may not have been the case on some of the legislation brought forward for amendment but all in all in times like this Kiwis demand that actually we put the politics to one side and get on with changing the things that need to be changed to enable us to live our lives more easily. And that's what this bill really demonstrates by taking all of those pieces of work having a look at simple things to make things better and there are numerous examples of that.There's been a lot of conversation around the changes for local government a passion area of mine but also something that's really practical. I was unaware of a by-election going on in Ōtorohanga but no doubt that is hotly contested. Be it in a large metro or a small province none the less they are important. They are even probably more important for a smaller town where the local representative can be seen as the go-to for everything particularly on a small council. So I'm really happy that some of these things have made it into this omnibus bill and those changes have been accommodated.I am also going to agree with my Green colleague Jan Logie who talked about the changes to parental leave and those who are returning to work to assist to respond to COVID-19 won't be disadvantaged by losing their entitlements to certain leave and payments. That's been expressed to me by several who have been nervous. One of several hundred constituency queries that come in daily—this has been a feature. And I am proud that I will be able to advise them that this is going through the House now and with some positive news because again these are the small things. People become nervous about what the impacts are. They are desperate to contribute to the situation. They know they can do it but they just want to make sure that any entitlement or any employment matters that pertain to their roles are going to be kept intact.The other issue that's been raised certainly is around those changes to the Gambling Act and the three organisations mentioned in there are the Heart Foundation the Coastguard and the Countdown Kids Charitable Trust. I know two of those entities really well. I've worked with them. The call's been made as to why some of these changes were not made previously and let's look on the positive side and say Look these will be made now." and I'm sure that this will be a springboard for those entities to be able to campaign for further change to legislation post the September deadline expiry date—I think it's September—and that will enable them to do that. But more importantly and I know by dealing with other big charities in the electorate right now they are nervous about donations. I've talked to the Wellington City Mission who in one case have had a recent surge in one aspect of their business their operation but in other aspects it's not been positive and that also extends into entities like the Crimson Trust—and if you look at the great work they do with the Trees That Count programme for example there are nervous sponsors in there. And they are vehicle sponsors they are sponsors who are used to providing in kind and without some sense of certainty for their businesses and some changing transitioning arrangements it means those charities won't benefit. So anything that we can do to enable them to continue to receive donations from Kiwis is really important.I see there that others have discussed a range of deferments to regulatory requirements for Government agencies the Public Service who had difficulty implementing new legislation or the requirements. That's fair enough and those are practical things. I said at the start that one of the things I like about this bill is that it is practical and people expect that. So it's good that I see that those things have been included. It was good to hear from the previous speaker too just getting the clarity—he's left now—around that audiovisual link. I wasn't too sure what that meant in terms of how that applied to some of the health sector work. But it's good that we are able to pull that together and the Epidemic Response Committee was able to play its part and recommend that. And thank you to all of those who participated on that. I hear it's winding up soon and we can resume normal business so that will be a bonus as we get into the swing of things in the new normal phase.Others have mentioned some of the changes to other provisions in the bill. I go back to what I said right at the start and say this is a good practical omnibus bill and I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'll just remind the member that you cannot mention the attendance or not of another member in the House."