Barry MaggieHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I rise to speak to the Courts Matters Bill and Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Bill at their second readings. Of course National supports this bill because it was conceived and gestated under our watch. I commend the member Aupito William Sio who introduced it to the House tonight but it's got Amy Adams writ large all over it.When I look at a thorough and comprehensive approach—which we are well used to on this side of the House dealing with Amy Adams; how incredibly thorough she is—we see something that is worth modernising. The other side of the House they never modernise and this may be very fresh territory for them—an arcane and unknown territory. But modernising and getting around things to ensure modern and efficient practices are used along with efficient courts and tribunals are very much what the former Government was all about; so I do commend this member for bringing in his own way this piece of legislation to the House.So the Courts Matters Bill alone as Chris Penk mentioned earlier amends 14 Acts.Rt Hon Winston Peters: He said that!Hon MAGGIE BARRY: The Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Bill standardises and modernises—something that would be unknown to Mr Peters. Modernising is something that he probably couldn't even spell let alone deal with on an intellectual level—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] Order! [Interruption] Order!Hon MAGGIE BARRY: So we have legislation that deals with that across 21 tribunals. It has been alluded to before. It is such an important area that I'll bring it up again: the Birdlings Flat Land Titles Commissioner. Now this has been noted by the Opposition as a job that has been finished. It has now moved on; so the authority will be disestablished. These are good things. This is why National supports it. The Health Boards of Appeal and the Maritime Appeal Authority also are probably unknown to members of this House because they were seldom used and their functions will instead be taken up by the District Court.So when we work through some of the extraordinarily rich detail of the amendments—I could dwell for example on the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 but I choose not to; I would rather look at the Disputes Tribunal Act and the clarification of the Chief District Court Judge who is wholly responsible for rostering and training disputes referees. Others may mock the detail of this legislation but it's extremely important to the smooth workings of our judicial system.I think that updating the range of legislation that fails to keep pace with modern practice is something that the former National Government concentrated on a lot. Coming up to speed with the 21st century practices is something that the Hon Amy Adams was devoted to. I'm glad that the Government is now picking up on it because they are slow to acknowledge and embrace consistency transparency and efficiency in everything including the courts. So it is good that they've picked this up.I think the Government has made a number of recent reforms to our justice system that will make that system far easier for people to deal with. There will be fewer backlogs and there will be fewer people waiting. The flexibility and responsiveness and transparency of our court system depend on this piece of legislation going through. I know the Hon Mark Mitchell is right across the detail of this bill and will speak to it with a level of conviction that will astound and astonish this House because it is really something that he believes in implicitly and to his core. He's had a lot of experience in this unlike other members on the opposite side who have not.My colleague Chris Bishop had pointed out that the Justice Committee worked long and hard on this and with a lot of intellectual rigour and grunt—grunt" do I dare say that word in this House?—and have done tremendous things. My colleague is now nodding sagely having spent much of his youth embracing the changes that this piece of legislation is about to usher in. It is very important that we modernise and that we are thorough and comprehensive.I see unfortunately that my time is almost up with this call. Although I'm being robbed of you know a longer dissertation on the many many arcane and fascinating elements I can see someone poised on the opposite side of the House like a coiled spring with venom exuding from him about ready to pounce. So I will commend this bill to the House because it came from us it makes sense by us and for us and it's good for New Zealand. So I commend this bill to the House. Thank you."