Sabin Mike: Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill — First Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Sabin Mike: Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 11 September 2012. Volume:683;Page:5073. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
MIKE SABIN (National—Northland) 
: 
 You may have noticed my nimble move across the House then to rise and take a call on this Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Nearly missed it. 
MIKE SABIN 
: Yes indeed. Firstly as a member of the Regulations Review Committee can I acknowledge the chairmanship of Mr Chauvel and also acknowledge the points that he raised. I must admit that this committee for me thus far as a new member of Parliament has been very much a learning curve. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: Straighten your tie up. It’s tucked out to the side. 
MIKE SABIN 
: Oh it is too. Thank you Mr Mallard. That was because I moved with such speed across the House. Obviously it was blown under my jacket. In all seriousness the Regulations Review Committee is a committee that deals with very technical issues and the chairmanship of Mr Chauvel and his knowledge in this space is certainly very helpful for me personally as a member. So I do take heed of the comments that he has raised and the points that he has made to the House today in terms of the use of parliamentary time. I have heard figures of anything from $500 a minute to $6000 a minute in terms of the cost of running Parliament. I am not sure whether that depends on the quality of the speaker at any given time but I would suggest I am probably somewhere closer to the $500 mark in terms of this particular subject. 
The bill itself is a non-contentious bill as pointed out by the previous speakers and it gives effect to various orders and regulations and ensures that they are validated so that the business of this House and the orders that this bill deals with can proceed. Traditionally it receives broad support across the House on the basis that these orders and regulations tend to be routine and very technical in nature. I think that is certainly the case as acknowledged. If the House were not to validate these orders and regulations or confirm any items of delegated legislation then they would simply lapse and that would obviously be an unacceptable situation. 
The previous National speaker the Hon Chester Borrows stole my thunder to some extent when he alluded to all of the matters that this bill will be dealing with and I can simply add to that by saying that obviously in terms of Consumers Price Index excises and so forth the mechanics of this bill really deal in a substantive way with the changes that must occur with these things on an annual basis. 
I will conclude by saying that this is fundamentally a mechanism and an uncontentious means by which this House can deal with routine parliamentary operations and give effect to these orders and regulations. I would also like to acknowledge the comments that were made by Mr Chauvel as I said and I look forward to this discussion being continued so I can actually get my head around it a little further as to how a more pragmatic system may in fact operate. I am certainly open to discussing that. I have no problem with commending this bill to the House.