Curran ClareHon CLARE CURRAN (Labour—Dunedin South): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. Actually I think it was July last year when the bill that created Fire and Emergency New Zealand went through the House.Hon Member: Is that all?Hon Tracey Martin: Yep.Hon CLARE CURRAN: Yeah it feels like a while ago actually. I remember speaking in one of the stages of that bill and it was the night of the Christchurch fires which gave a certain significance to this bill—the importance of our fire service for one thing but it also brought into sharp relief the importance of getting it right the importance of getting our emergency services right the importance of having our civil defence systems working effectively and the importance of having good decision-making structures in place and chains of command. Madam Assistant Speaker I'm sure that you're very well aware of all of these issues coming from Christchurch yourself but actually that night spurred an inquiry which took place before the election into those very things. Now I know it didn't directly impact on this bill but the fire service which—I was just looking at your speech the Hon Tracey Martin: 40 organisations a total workforce of 14000 people 11000 of whom are volunteers which is the most extraordinary thing you know. Big ups to Fire and Emergency Service New Zealand. But what a massive feat to bring all of that together so I want to acknowledge Peter Dunne for the work that he did around that but now Tracey Martin has to take that and make that work and make the financial side of it work which is this levy system. So that's why we're in the House tonight talking about increasing the transitional arrangements for the levy.Obviously that's important. We've got to get it right just as we have to get our civil defence system right and behind that sits the decision-making processes. So I am very much in support of this—an improvement on the current system. Thankfully sense was seen and the exemptions that a number of speakers have mentioned tonight around the museums and galleries—and I just want to make reference to my own city and an impassioned plea from the director of the Otago Museum alongside a whole lot of other directors of our museums who appeared before the select committee last year and talked about the impossibility of putting a value on our cultural collections. The financial impact if the levy applied to them which would've been a 300 per cent increase was completely unsustainable. So thank you for seeing sense across the country on our cultural collections.I just want to end on the note of giving a shout-out to the volunteers and the fire service in my own city particularly in Portobello down the Otago Peninsula where they spend most of their call-outs attending car accidents and emergencies that affect people whether it's—you know other than car accidents but accidents of some sort; sometimes it's fires. Consequently their training and their responsiveness—and they mostly have day jobs—are extraordinary and I think that's fantastic. Also as far as the other end of my electorate Middlemarch and all of those in between—they're the people that turn up that are incredibly professional that are flexible and able to attend to any emergency really. We need them we need to value them more and we've got to get the system right that sits behind them. Thank you.