Dalziel Lianne: Regulatory Reform Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Dalziel Lianne: Regulatory Reform Bill — In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee 
[Sitting date: 22 August 2012. Volume:683;Page:4703. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL (Labour—Christchurch East) 
: 
 Trevor Mallard and I are no longer sharing a microphone but we are sharing a bill and that was due to the— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: In her case it’s normally me paying. 
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL 
: Paying? No I think that is a little bit unfair of my colleague. I do not think he has paid any bills but he does owe me big time so I am prepared to accept that as future commitment to pay a bill. I think there are a few people he should shout for on this side of the Chamber for a number of reasons but we will not go there. 
The reason I wanted to speak on this particular part of the Regulatory Reform Bill was that this particular measure is actually the most important measure contained within the legislation and I believe from the contribution that my colleague has just made that this explains in very clear terms why the Government wanted to see this bill pushed up the Order Paper. As my colleague has said if the Government had made that clear to the Opposition months ago we would have of course facilitated its passage because it is a bill that we have all worked on very closely and actually very efficiently at the Commerce Committee last year. I have made the point a few times in the Chamber tonight that this bill was referred to our select committee in February last year. I know that the member who was my former deputy chair on the other side of the Chamber is kind of smiling because he knows how it is—Mr— 
Hon Member 
: “Lotto Winner”. 
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL 
: Ha ha! Mr Lotu-Iiga—Mr Lotu-Iiga sorry. He is not my deputy chair any more because I am not the chair of the Commerce Committee and I have not had the pleasure of working so closely with him over recent times. 
But the reason I wanted to take a call on this part is that this particular measure actually goes back quite a long way and it was one of the things that was picked up in something that I called the Quality Regulation Review when I was the Minister of Commerce. The reason I conducted that review was that Helen Clark who was the then Prime Minister said it was really important that we identified what the regulatory barriers to business growth were. So I conducted the Quality Regulation Review which had a number of different elements to it but what it identified relatively quickly was that there was a huge difference between the big end of town and the small end of town. Often the small end of town had these little compliance issues that were just standing in the way of them doing good business and they wanted these little regulatory matters dealt with. The big guys the big end of town had stuff like the Commerce Commission. They had things like Part 4 of the Commerce Act. They wanted to do the big-picture stuff at their end of town but the small to medium sized enterprises of this country pretty much the backbone of a number of elements of our economy wanted to see these little regulatory matters attended to. 
What we discovered was that individual Ministers could not get these things over the line. When it came to negotiating the legislative programme they actually could not get them over the line. This was one of the ones that came up back then and of course it was something that ought to have been dealt with after the change of Government in 2008. It did not see the light of day until last year and now we have had to wait for another term of this Government to have it finally addressed. 
The Films Videos and Publications Classification Act 1993 amendment is the most substantial part of this legislation. It is one that must pass. It actually enables the labelling provisions to be sensible and to be brought into the 21st century which I have to say is about time. 
The question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 118 in the name of the Hon John Banks to Part 5 be agreed to. 
Amendments agreed to. 
Part 5 as amended agreed to.