Tinetti JanJAN TINETTI (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I probably will stand here for a short time I think this afternoon. I wasn't on the select committee that considered this bill or did the work but it's one that I have taken quite a great interest in because in this country we have taken water for granted for so long. Growing up here I had no qualms about the safety of our water. I believed that water was something that was a God-given right in our country but then in recent years we've learnt that that's not how it is in this country with our water supply and that water isn't something that we can take for granted. The safety of our water is something that we need to consider quite carefully and what we do around that safety to ensure its future and to ensure that our future generations have a safe water supply is something that we need to consider extremely carefully. We've heard throughout this debate over the past two evenings that this really did stem from the Havelock North gastro outbreak. It was something that gave us a wake-up call in this country. We've heard from other speakers in this debate that elsewhere in the world water safety has been an area that has been considered for those countries for quite some time and yet here it is: it wasn't until 2016 that we were given that wake-up call. In this country—and actually I believe in any country but particularly in this wonderful country of Aotearoa—we should expect and we deserve a safe drinking-water supply and that's exactly what this bill has done and is about. This bill builds on and strengthens and improves several features of the existing frameworks in this area. Like the speakers before me I do want to say thank you very much for the hard and considered work of those members of the Health Committee. I want to say thank you to our Minister of Health the Hon David Clark who brought this bill to the House and we see it going through in its final reading here this evening. I'd like to point out to the previous speaker my colleague Priyanca Radhakrishnan that she's kind of stolen some of my speech notes there where I was going to point out the key features that really stood out to me in this particular bill. But I know I've heard them from other people as well and I think it's important that we do just keep acknowledging that the main change and what's happening in this particular bill is we're removing the requirements for the specified periods of consultation—and that's currently the three years—and advance notice published in the Gazette. We've heard about how that will allow amendments to the standards and it will progress these more quickly where that is appropriate. That will mean—and I think this is really important—that as advanced technologies do come online it will allow for improved recognition of those advanced technologies and we know that in that space that is changing constantly. So that is a really really important point. Looking through the work of the Health Committee I was very impressed with the consideration that they gave to the concerns that some of the submitters brought forward and what they did around those concerns was to change the ideas around the practicable steps towards complying with the drinking-water standards. I think that the work that they did—I know that my colleague Louisa Wall will probably talk about that next so I'm not going to steal her thunder on it—was a good example of how a select committee should work in that area. So as I said it was a short call here this afternoon. I don't want to take up any more time and I am really honoured to be commending this bill to the House.