SpeechDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Thank you very much for the chance to speak. I'm now on the select committee that saw this bill through its initial passage stages—the Governance and Administration Committee. I must admit I wasn't on the select committee when this was going through but it is a privilege to have a chance to say a few words in support of the bill. We all remember 2010 and 2011 and those fateful days and events and how much it affected New Zealanders not just Cantabrians and how our hearts stopped for those moments those hours those days those weeks those months. Now here we are years later doing our best via parliamentary processes to do our best by Canterbury and all those families affected.We do support the bill. We know that its aim is to transition back to local leadership. We know that there needs to be a transitioning back because we know that in practice the bill is fixing up some of those anomalies or those redundancies should I say around the Government and local authorities and the powers that are no longer appropriate. We know that there needs to be evidence around these changes that we're seeking and I commend everyone on the select committee and the process that they went through to make sure that what we're doing here this afternoon and into the early evening is appropriate.We know that the Government has said the time is right for local leadership to deliver the regeneration. We accept that full local decision-making is the right way to go. And it would always happen. This bill is bringing it forward but we also need to be very mindful that we've all got skin in the game. Taxpayers all around New Zealand have skin in the game and we need to ask some very fundamental questions and the select committee process did. There were good contributions around: is the funding the right funding? Will money be spent wisely? Is the regeneration taking place at the right time line and in the right speed and will people be transported in a timely fashion?We all know that change is tough no matter where it is in New Zealand. And of course there's some very much detail around that Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor and the time line for that. We also note the Government's described that corridor as multigenerational and wants timely delivery. I've got a personal comment around city council delivery having been a city councillor myself not in Christchurch but in Auckland. Sometimes—Andrew Bayly: A very good one too—a very good one.DENISE LEE: Yes that's right. I'll give no comment Mr Bayly.So when it comes to council delivery sometimes timeliness is not very timely and I speak from experience there. So from our side of the House we'd hope that there would be somewhat more of a maintenance of Crown interest to increase the likelihood of timeliness given history and the speed at which councils sometimes undertake projects.But having said that this is a bill that we support. We're not in Government the transfer of power and decision making is a decision that has come—it was coming anyway but it's come ahead of what we would have said in terms of a process just to make sure that the council gets things right. We do wish all the teams well and I include council teams in that again knowing how sometimes council teams can unnecessarily delay things.We're pleased with the minor changes in the select committee process. Other speakers before me have clearly outlined the two major—the two major minor I guess you could say—changes. We know that clause 21 of the bill as introduced would amend section 8 of the Act in terms of the Act's geographical application. The select committee decided that the geographical description wasn't sufficiently clear and so they worked diligently to make sure that there was an indicative map attached to the bill to help with interpretation. I think that is a very practical decision. That's something that will be responded to well I'm sure by those who look at any great detail as this bill passes its passage in Parliament. There is also the inclusion of transitional provisions for section 71 so that the power in section 71 is used to make changes to planning and other documents through a streamlined process with limited public engagement. That's something that is applied in other legislation in Parliament. It gives a Minister power to approve applications through a bespoke process. So again something practical. Hats off to the select committee for picking this up in the process.My final comment is that I wish Cantabrians—and New Zealand because as I said before we've all got skin in the game here for the rejuvenation process. It's a big undertaking. It's a changed city. There were changed lives. And we're doing our best here in Parliament to make sure that those affected lives are affected for the better. Thank you.