Tremain Chris: Companies Amendment Bill (No 4) Limited Partnerships Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTremain Chris: Companies Amendment Bill (No 4) Limited Partnerships Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third Readings[Sitting date: 24 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18843. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon CHRIS TREMAIN (National—Napier):In addition to the kind birthday wishes I received on 19 June last week from friends family and colleagues across the House I received a couple of wonderful bits of news through the media. The first was—and it might be a bit sad to be pleased about this on one’s birthday but anyway they were a couple of great bits of news—that gross domestic product for the first quarter of this year had risen by 1 percent and New Zealand had moved close to having nearly 4 percent GDP growth for the year.Hon Member: Excellent.Hon CHRIS TREMAIN: That is an excellent result for this economy and for New Zealand. The second of three bits of news that came through on 19 June was that we had had a $1.4 billion quarterly surplus for our current account. I must say that that really—Hon Nathan Guy: Put the icing on the cake.Hon CHRIS TREMAIN: —put the icing on the cake in terms of the birthday treats that were being rolled out. And I saw the anguish across the other side of the House particularly of the Hon David Parker in his contribution to the debate around the current account and how terrible it was. All of a sudden well it actually was not that bad—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order!Hon CHRIS TREMAIN: —and it was probably one of the better current accounts for some time. But the third bit of good news was the immigration statistics that came through which were the best in 20 years—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! It is not part of this legislation.Hon CHRIS TREMAIN: Yes I know Mr Assistant Speaker that you want me to get to the point but there is a very good point in this which is that all this good news has been the result of much hard work on this side of the House. It has not been due to any one particular silver bullet that we have delivered as the governing party; it has been the result of the hundreds of small steps that we have taken in order to get our economy growing being more productive and being a better place to do business.Today we pass the third readings in this House of the Companies Amendment Bill (No 4) and the Limited Partnerships Amendment Bill (No 2). Once again this is legislation that improves the business environment for New Zealand and helps Kiwi businesses and those who are investing in New Zealand to have more productive business relationships in this country. It helps us to grow our economy helps to build jobs in this country and helps to lift wages and that is a superb opportunity.I think—in the few comments that I would just like to make—that New Zealand has an international reputation as one of the best and most trusted places in the world to do business. That is a reputation we have built over many years through many different Governments but today we take another step. I welcome the support across the House from Labour and I see that even the Greens are supporting this particular legislation because once again it takes a positive step in terms of building our international reputation as being one of the most trusted and best places to do business. That is fantastic for our economy it is great for jobs and it is great for wage growth. Thank you.