Simpson Scott; Tolley AnneHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I'd like to join with others across the House tonight in supporting this piece of legislation. There's an air of good practical common sense about this piece of legislation because at a time of emergency stresses and tensions are running high amongst all people concerned and it's a challenging time not only for those that are seeking to provide support and assistance from an emergency services point of view but also for property owners homeowners and individuals alike. I recall that back after the Kaikōura earthquakes of course it was actually metropolitan Wellington that was affected quite significantly. Particularly I had an opportunity to be involved during a period of time in my term as Minister of Statistics trying to assist Stats NZ in coming to terms with the process that they had to go through after Statistics House was deemed to be no longer able to be used and people were not even able to go back after that earthquake and collect personal items handbags computer gear personal pieces of memorabilia—the sorts of things that people keep on their desks at their workplace those sorts of things. If those sorts of considerations are then extended to the home residential domestic situation there are also all kinds of stresses and tensions that apply in that situation even more so where there are joint boundaries or common walls common connections between multi-residential dwelling houses. I'm thinking particularly of those 1970s style of townhouses and things that were typically joined together by a common shared garage or wall or whatever. They were on cross-lease titles and in many cases there were all kinds of situations in Christchurch and Kaikōura where complications arose.This bill seeks to establish a level of just common-sense practicality about as a matter of first principle preserving human life and reducing risk to human life but then literally after there has been an opportunity for a little bit of calmness to start applying some considered thought to how to ease the stresses and strains that are there for property owners. The only other point that I'd like to make tonight in support of this legislation is that there's been a lot of talk about emergency situations involving earthquakes but those of course are not the only emergency situations that take place. My electorate the beautiful Coromandel electorate has one of the longest coastlines of any in the country—something close to 500 kilometres of coastline. Regrettably from time to time we are the victim of serious weather events. There was one in January 2017 where roads were taken out people weren't able to get to their homes businesses were closed off for several days at a time and then there were a number of dwelling houses and places of business that were uninhabitable. So this piece of legislation will apply to situations like that as long as a state of emergency has been declared. That's the trigger as I understand it for the practical aspects of this legislation to come into effect. It's not only just earthquakes. There will be other situations of emergency where the common-sense and practical provisions of this legislation will come into effect. I didn't have the pleasure of sitting in on the Transport and Infrastructure Committee but I'm delighted to hear that the collegial nature of the committee worked well and it was able to bring back to the House for this third reading a good piece of legislation. As the Hon Ron Mark commented so often people who are not part of this place sometimes don't see the Parliament of New Zealand working collaboratively as they have on this piece of legislation for the ultimate benefit of New Zealand citizens and their property rights. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call the Hon Aupito William Sio.