Brooking RachelRACHEL BROOKING (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm delighted to be speaking on the second reading of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. As we've heard from the previous speakers we do have a housing shortage in New Zealand and in our bigger cities and the best place to put people is in centres close to jobs. However very often those centres close to the jobs are zoned for a single house and this bill will change that in many different places.Before going into that though I want to thank the chair of the committee the Hon Eugenie Sage. She is a Green Party member and we're talking a lot about a bipartisan accord here from across the House and that is with Labour and National. Not everything that has been agreed to by National and Labour is agreed to by the Greens and you see that in the report from the select committee but I really want to thank her for her incredible and constructive chairing in getting us through what was a lot of work in a very short time frame. As you've heard we've heard from a lot of submitters. We heard from them on a Saturday. We had 183 oral submissions and almost 32 hours of hearings. As we've been hearing this is bipartisan but the members in the committee—I must admit to perhaps being the most vocal—have asked a lot of questions of advisers and of submitters because we really did want to do our best to bring back as good a bill as we possibly could. So we had 24 hours of private consideration within the select committee. So what this bill does—and I think it's important. Often in the media we're talking about this really in relation to those medium-density residential standards that will apply to residential zones in these tier 1 cities and we've heard from the previous speaker about what they do and some suggested changes to those. But what it also does is it increases the speed at which the National Policy Statement on Urban Development (NPS-UD) will be implemented for these councils. That is a very important urban planning tool because it really allows for a lot of densification intensification around those centre areas. How it does this and this is something that we worked a lot on in the select committee is that there's an intensification planning instrument—an IPI—and this instrument is what the councils will develop to implement both the NPS-UD and also the medium-density residential standards. The NPS-UD won't always apply to a residential zone but where it does apply to a residential zone then the medium-density residential standards will be the underlying density zoning and we've improved that link in our recommendations throughout the select committee report.We've also improved the link to the plans that already exist and the different planning provisions that might relate to things that we're calling related provisions—the things like fences and earthworks and hazards. As the previous speaker Nicola Willis also said there are a lot of qualifying matters that can be brought across from plans as well. So there'll be a lot of clarification in the Supplementary Order Paper that Minister Parker referred to and that is now available online.We also extended that IPI to including provision for papa kāinga provisions and already in the bill as introduced was the financial contributions aspect of that. In the select committee as well as the previous speaker just said we were working very hard on the transitional provisions because we heard from a lot of councils and developers that the way the bill was introduced might actually set back some good work that's being done to allow more intensification. We didn't want to do that so there are lots of amendments around those transitional provisions. Another change is to that definition of residential zone" so that it's not going to apply to offshore islands or small townships like Oxford or Akaroa. This bill—often people say it's going to lead to slum housing. Issues of the quality of a building are in the Building Act and the building code not in the Resource Management Act so I want to say that. I look forward to the committee stage of this bill. Thank you Mr Speaker."