Patterson MarkMARK PATTERSON (NZ First): It's with a great sense of honour that I rise to talk to this Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Bill. I rise as the most rare of beasts: a two-eyed Cantabrian. I'm now safely ensconced in Otago but my heritage is certainly in Canterbury. That is where our family has been for generations and where I was born and bred. This is also a very personal bill for me as I have just picked up the spokesmanship within New Zealand First for this and I will be following this with great interest.New Zealand First are delighted to support this bill. We commend the work that has been done and the priority that has been put on this by the Hon Dr Megan Woods. I also acknowledge the other Ministers that have been so integrally involved in this: the Hon Nicky Wagner and the Hon Gerry Brownlee. I also note the leadership that has been mentioned from the likes of Jim Anderton and Philip Burdon. It has not been an easy task to find a way through some vested interests and it is a building that creates a great deal of emotion and emotive.I'd also note that New Zealand First and the Rt Hon Winston Peters have been strong supporters of this cause and have spoken with great feeling about the need to restore this building and New Zealand First's total support for that and to find a workable solution.Christchurch has many fine buildings that were devastated in that tragic set of earthquakes and events: the Arts Centre of course; those iconic buildings those 21 heritage one buildings which it's great to see they're in various states of reinstatement back to their former glory. Some of our other iconic facilities: the Queen Elizabeth II Park—and of course one of my earliest memories is the 1974 Commonwealth Games and seeing Dick Tayler come down the straight and those great victory celebrations that he performed on winning the gold medal. Of course who could not talk about the Christchurch buildings lost without Lancaster Park. I mean so many of my formative years were spent there and the legends that went there well before my time. I remember my father talking about the great 1956 Springboks and when we came back in the third test when Kevin Skinner came back. We've got Richard Hadlee taking his 400th test wicket there the iconic 1971 Lions game—so many memories in those old facilities that are no longer there and it is nostalgia for those memories. But this is not the past. We cannot live in the past.But of all of those buildings and facilities there is one that stands out: the Christ Church Anglican Cathedral. My own experience—and I hate to even mention this because I was not affected in any way—I had family there of course but I was out on the farm in Lawrence. We felt a shake. There was a sense that this was a serious one. I raced home to look at the coverage and obviously tried to make contact with family. But there was one thing that I wanted to see. I cannot explain this but there is one thing that I wanted to see. I wanted to see that cathedral. I wanted to see that that was all right because that building for some reason in that moment wasn't bricks and mortar it wasn't somewhere where the Anglican Church gathered for their great occasions; it belonged to all of us.And I just cannot explain how important that building was and I don't want to trivialise the people that were there experiencing the earthquakes there—their trauma was of course far greater than mine. But I think it just speaks to the significance of this building and I and New Zealand First rise to support any efforts to restore it as close as we can get to its former glory. Of course we're never going to be able to get it right there.So on behalf of New Zealand First I say it is time to step away from the courtroom to come together under the leadership of Dr Woods and I'm sure the Parliament as a whole. It's time to come together and bring this significant historic iconic building back to its former glory. Thank you.