O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): The previous speaker gave me an excellent segue into this by pointing out that there has indeed been a large turnover of the Justice Committee a select committee in which I am one of only two survivors from the original appointment a Justice Committee that's sat more than any other committee last year. It went through the End of Life Choice Bill and this was one of the pieces of legislation that we did consider. I'm hoping at the end of this term there'll maybe be some handing out of awards for longevity—not just age but for stamina. I think that those of us who have survived—myself and my colleague Ginny Andersen—are certainly deserving of recognition. This was one of the first bills that we did consider. Of course when one comes to the House here even though many of us have had a background where we've required an understanding of legislation we are relatively limited. As an eye-opening exercise this was actually very much a bill where certainly I personally got an understanding of just how complex government is and can be and that in fact everything we do as a country everyone out there listening—the thousands who'll be listening to this this afternoon will know that virtually every time they step out the house or every time they do business somewhere there is a piece of legislation or regulation behind what it is they do. I suppose like many of these things the understanding comes in the breach. What really brought things to a head—and we heard about this at this committee—was when we well remembered the Government inquiry into the whey protein concentrate incident better known as the botulism scare when those doing the inquiry Miriam Dean QC went looking for the legislation under which we do operate under which New Zealand exports its whey protein in its journey from cow through to consumer. When they went looking for the secondary legislation the regulations under which all these activities are carried out quite frankly they couldn't find them. What they found was there was no central point we could go to have a look to see what legislation what regulations were considered should have been considered or may have even been breached in again the journey from cow to consumer. That really did highlight just how much of what we do as a country how much of what people out there who are carrying on business—simply there is no one who really oversees the whole lot.That was when the decision was made and that's why this Legislation Bill was indeed born to ensure that we can understand that. Again looking at the exemptions again gives a better understanding.There will be a couple of significant exemptions which are in the bill one of which will be around the need to publicly disclose around the pharmaceutical schedule. Obviously there's going to be changes particularly operating under the pharmaceutical schedule—listing things that are going to be changing all the time: it doesn't make sense to be listing many of those things.So that's one exemption but one of the more important ones of course is where there are those rare instances where the instruments in question contain information that cannot be publicly disclosed. For various reasons—one might have thought it's just because of secrecy but it's not; there are various reasons. Market sensitive such as takeover notices—again with these things surprisingly to me there are all regulations under which these are done. They are secondary legislation. Or things that relate to the defence or security of New Zealand the international relations of New Zealand and security and intelligence matters—again common sense. There are parts of doing business which obviously have to operate outside the gaze of those who may benefit in some ways—to the detriment of New Zealand to the detriment of any company—by finding these things.So it's again quite an informative piece of legislation for someone like me. My knowledge of the Crimes Act and other criminal Acts was reasonably intense; it also was a great education to understand just the complexity of the legislation which allows our country to operate. This bill certainly outlines that and I have no hesitation recommending it to the House.