Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you. It's a real pleasure to take a call following my esteemed colleague Reuben Davidson and what I thought was a very—Glen Bennett: Powerful.RACHEL BOYACK: It was a powerful contribution. It was a very thoughtful contribution. I want to take some time to talk to my Amendment Paper. I understand that we have a few more Amendment Papers I think that may have recently been delivered to the Table from colleagues. I think it's a good opportunity for us to talk through some of the important details around the title and commencement date in this bill which is a very important part of the bill that we are discussing in the House this afternoon.I have an Amendment Paper that would replace the date for this bill to come into effect which is currently 1 July 2024 and move that to 31 July 2024 so I thought I might take a few minutes just to explain to the House why I have thought through this date change and why the change in date would be I think really really useful to improve the bill which is the purpose of the committee of the whole House stage.So the first thing is that we've had quite a few discussions throughout earlier parts of the bill and in the first and second readings about the fact that this bill will have an impact on those who collect the levies. So one of the things we want to ensure because we have seen this before is that when we put in place changes like this that we actually give time for it to take effect.So you know it's only one month until 1 July. It's 1 June today—first day of winter and we've seen the Wellington wind today that reflects that. I think that giving some extra time is always a wise thing to do which was one of the reasons why I thought let's just give this another month to breathe and to take effect.But the other reason I thought—which we've also discussed in our contributions is that this date would more closely align with the tax changes that the Government's looking to introduce. One of the unfortunate things we've seen through this Budget and we're seeing through the legislation that is introduced through this Budget including the Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Bill is that the Government is not giving much. Superannuitants are getting $2 a week—giving a little bit on one hand but on the other hand they are doing—CHAIRPERSON (Maureen Pugh): Can I just remind the member to come back to the purpose of her amendment.RACHEL BOYACK: Which is exactly why I've said that I think we should change the date to 31 July because these changes are going to increase costs to people who are disposing of their waste—that is what the bill does. So one of the things I think is really important is for us to consider what the impact of that might be on the people at the receiving end of those changes which is why I've suggested that we replace 1 July 2024" with "31 July 2024".It's not the only little change that's coming through. We've also discussed if you will the changes to the parking ticket costs if you don't pay on time and there are a few other things that are coming in. So I just think it would be good in my opinion for the Government to seriously consider lining these things up because we do have a cost of living crisis—and it has been discussed through other stages of the bill the cost of living challenges that we face. Often we hear from people who are on low incomes having to dispose of their rubbish and their waste that actually the burden of doing that is quite challenging. Surely we would want people to have that extra $2 or $10 a week in their back pocket so that when these changes take effect currently on 1 July 2024 but if we were to push that out people might just have that little bit of extra cash in their bank account to be able to pay for these things.So I thought quite carefully about the dates that that we could look to here. I'd be very interested in hearing from the Minister. I think it would be wonderful because obviously we want to be able to feel confident that these things have been considered by the Minister and it's very useful in a debate such as this that the Minister has had an opportunity to respond otherwise we might need to take further calls just to clarify some of these genuine questions we've made.So one of my questions is also has the Minister consulted widely and looked carefully at the impact of having this bill come into effect so soon on 1 July 2024? And would she consider there to be some benefit in pushing that out to 31 July 2024 just to ensure that the legislation can be implemented effectively? So those are my questions to the Minister. I'm really hoping that we may be able to get some answers from her. Thank you.CHAIRPERSON (Maureen Pugh): Before I take another call I'm just going to say there is very little new information coming. Unless there is something more relevant I will take a closure motion."