Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Madam Speaker. This is obviously the final leg of a final piece of legislation. Before I start talking about the bill I just want to put on record just what's gone on and taken place before with regard to discussion on this bill. By agreement with the whip from Labour and the National Party whip we agreed to take all clauses as one. We did that mutually. What happened was that after entering into that relationship of good faith the debate on this thing was closed down after 40 minutes and it was a breach of utmost bad faith particularly by the Labour whip. But to have 40-odd minutes—45 minutes—debating an extensive bill that has been months and years in the making and to have it curtailed even though we'd—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! ANDREW BAYLY: —had some arrangement—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! The member is actually now questioning the ruling and the timing is actually not correct. The debate on that particular bill was well over an hour because we had begun debating it before we went to dinner. ANDREW BAYLY: Madam Speaker I'm perfectly aware of that. We were at clause 39 out of 146 clauses and that is not the way—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): The member will come back to his speech on this bill. ANDREW BAYLY: Yes OK. I'm glad I've got that on the record. So for listeners listening in this is a shambles of a bill. This is a shambles of a process. This is going to be the touchpoint for the election that's coming up. It has been the touchpoint for the last two years as we've rambled through the most convoluted disorganised process where we have seen thousands of submitters. I've been involved in those being a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee across all three bills. This is the final component of it. We have just had an avalanche of submitters who fronted up and who are personally outraged at the thought that their assets are going to be stolen from them and that the arrangement here—this so-called miraculous arrangement that's going to mean that New Zealanders are better off—is just totally fatuous and incorrect and appalling. Of course all of this has hung around because the officials went off and got the Scottish Water regulator to help them formulate that. There was a lot of advice being given around New Zealand particularly by some of our professionals. There have been big issues around the governance structure which is very convoluted. There are big issues around the economic assertions made. There's certainly this claim that the Minister has made in his speech earlier tonight about there being $120 billion to $180 billion of savings which is just utter tripe given that most of the expenditure that a water services entity will undertake—whatever it does most by far is the greatest portion of that is infrastructure. To get that level of savings would mean that you wouldn't perversely be investing in infrastructure because that is the key determinant of the cost that these entities will have to incur if they're going to meet their requirements. So it is a shambles—a shambles—and this particular piece of legislation is like all of what the Labour Government has done during the course of its term. It's come out with this massive mallet to smack in to some form of regulation rather than it being judicious careful and thoughtful about what is the nature of the regulation. We of course accept regulation. It needs to be in place but it needs to be balanced it needs to be appropriate and it needs to provide the right incentives for entities to be able to operate without an overreach of regulation and that's where we've ended up with this. We've had many submitters submitting on it to that effect and it just goes together with the other two bills that have been ripped through under urgency. This has been ripped through under urgency in the dying days of a Labour Government and it is a shocking piece of legislation. I'm glad that National will repeal this three-waters proposal and we're going to scrap all these mega-entities. We are going to restore council ownership and control. We will set strict rules for water quality and for infrastructure investment and we will ensure water services are financially sustainable. There are ways of doing that but unfortunately this Labour Government has gone down a path that most New Zealanders do not believe in and do not accept. That's why even now when I drove round my electorate last weekend I'm still seeing anti - three waters signs up in my electorate because they are absolutely opposed to this. Members on the other side know this and when they lose their job one of the reasons they will lose their job is this appalling piece of legislation on which they did not get the buy-in of the people the general public of New Zealand. It is appalling what has happened and the aspersions on many of the councils—some have been poorly managed; I accept that. But many of them have done a great job and it will come home to roost for the Labour Government as to what a dreadful piece of legislation it is that they're proposing. It won't take place under National and I'm glad it won't.