Hughes GarethSocial Development and Housing SectorGARETH HUGHES (Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee): Kia ora Madam Chair. Talofa lava. Ngā mihi ki a koutou. Kia ora. As chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee it's a huge privilege to facilitate this process which plays a key role in the scrutiny of public spending and outcomes for New Zealanders and public entities. I'd like to thank all the entities involved and all the members of the committee. I think we've got the best little committee in the precinct thanks to some great members. We might not agree on everything or most things but I think we do it in a very constructive and positive way.As chair it falls to me to in a non-political way outline the annual reviews. We heard from a number of entities and published reports summarising what we heard and our recommendations. It would be impossible for me to cover all the key aspects let alone the substantive detail of each of the reports but I'd like to highlight just a few.The first and the largest entity we reviewed was the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). A major item the committee was interested in discussing was housing-related from the social housing register housing supply and the transfer of the new Ministry of Housing and Urban Development who took over many of the ministry's public housing and transitional housing functions.We were concerned to learn of instances where sex offenders were housed in transitional housing facilities in the same accommodations as vulnerable families. We did hear however of moves to avoid this in the future such as the memorandum of understanding and we were reassured to hear that corrections no longer place the sex offenders in motels.We also heard about the changing office design and culture in MSD offices to make them more welcoming and user-friendly. The committee previously had the benefit of seeing upfront and personal a redesigned office on Willis Street in Wellington and the positive changes we saw as a result.Following on from this we heard from Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children who look after our country's most precious resource. As of 30 June 2018 there were 6350 children and young people in the ministry's care. Oranga Tamariki was created as a Government department on 1 April 2017 to support the wellbeing of children and young people—taking on the functions of the Ministry of Social Development's Child Youth and Family business unit; children's teams; and a large portion of the community investment teams. We heard of the large number of notifications of concern that it received. In 2017/2018 it received 92247 notifications of concern; about 64950 individual children were 41780 of the notifications requiring further action. We heard how Oranga Tamariki is responding to this large and very important workload. We also heard about this housing provision that's worked partnering with iwi and NGOs and implementing the Child Poverty Reduction Act.The act of terrorism in Christchurch took place after our hearing with the Chief Censor as part of the hearing into the Office of Film and Literature Classification. In the committee we discussed the challenges of regulating offensive content such as the Facebook Live video of the atrocity and the modern digital environment with legislation dating back to 1993. We noted the wider regulatory review work of the Government. We also heard about the office's worsening financial position with this financial year being the third year of deficits and their current work to address ongoing forecast deficits.In its opening statement Heritage New Zealand outlined some of its key achievements of the last year. It's recently restored several heritage sites including the Melanesian Mission in Mission Bay Auckland; and rebuilt the Timeball tower in Lyttelton in Canterbury which was destroyed by the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes. We inquired into a number of heritage issues from Ihumātao Stonefields site where Fletcher is planning to build 480 homes acknowledging the 250th anniversary of Cook's landing and the seismic strengthening of Turnbull House across the road from us here.We also inquired into the published substantive report to the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa known as Creative New Zealand; and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa board who told us about their highlights in the last year and a host of issues they face.In the reviews of Sport and Recreation New Zealand and Drug Free Sport New Zealand we discussed drug testing and the impact of possible legislative change relating to cannabis the wellbeing and integrity of athletes and the demographics in achieving gender equity in sports. We also conducted hearings and published reports tabled to the House on the Social Investment Agency Social Workers Registration Board Tāmaki Redevelopment Company Ministry for Pacific Peoples and the New Zealand Lotteries Commission. I will not have time to highlight the key areas here. To wrap up as part of the annual review we also tabled reports on the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra the Children's Commissioner the Families Commission the Ministry for Culture and Heritage the Ministry for Women the New Zealand Artificial Limbs Service and the New Zealand Film Commission—but we had no issues to bring to the attention of the House. I'd like to thank everyone involved from the entities the submitters the select committee members and the staff who have been part of this process.