Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Oh thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well I want to thank that last Labour speaker who just resumed her seat Anna Lorck for absolutely backing up the National and ACT parties' argument of why they are not supporting this bill because of course the public health incidents have not been caused by small rural suppliers as that last Labour member quite well articulated. It is the council suppliers that have caused public health incidents like Havelock North and that is why National is not supporting this bill today. But the power is in the Government's hand because of course if they do accept my learned colleague Christopher Luxon's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 61 that will remove small rural suppliers that have less than 30 end point users from this bill National and I'm sure probably ACT will support this bill. One of the best things of being an electorate MP is to bring the voice of the local people you represent. In my electorate of Waimakariri the submission from the Waimakariri District Council we have around 4700 properties that will be caught up in this bill but will be exempt under the National Party SOP because what we do on this side of the House is we back people and we know they know what's best for them. We don't need over-compliance and regulation. This bill is quite rightly aimed at council water suppliers but in my view wrongly aimed at small water suppliers. They're not the ones that have problems with their water quality. What I would say is that this Government needs to get out of Wellington get into provincial New Zealand and hear from them because at the moment under this trilogy of water reforms—the three bills that either have been through Parliament or are currently going through Parliament and soon will be coming back to the House—they are terribly concerned about their loss of a local voice. What I find ironic is that the Government announced recently they advertised for a misinformation analyst. Well if you look at the advertising campaign that this Government is funding with taxpayer funding look at the misinformation that's been put out in that advertising campaign. People turning on taps with green sludge falling out of them—that is misinformation. What provincial and rural New Zealanders worried about right from the start—and I'll use the metaphor where you are building the plane while you're flying it. That's exactly what this Government is doing to provincial New Zealand around water reforms. Not only will people not know what the system will look like—they're only putting it together like a jigsaw—but we don't know where it's ending up. But we're getting a hint aren't we because Taumata Arowai—the Water Services Regulator Act—all parties approved of that. The Water Services Bill is starting to shed a bit more light on it and it's going to be around over-compliance and over-regulation of small water suppliers. And of course the big one: the three waters bill which is going to be a local water asset grab. I'm proud of my local council which is opting out of three waters and good on Waimakariri for standing up for the people that they represent. No one in this House disagrees that we need the best water quality and the best water systems in New Zealand. But unfortunately for this Government it's one size fits all. It's a cookie cutter and they're taking local" out of local people's views. I think this Government is increasingly this one-party State is increasingly getting out of touch with real New Zealanders in areas that I represent like Waimakariri and that's why we don't support this bill."