Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. It is my absolute privilege—it's the first time I've spoken in front of you—to share this moment a page in my life. Ten minutes all of it Matt King.Matt King: Go. Go.ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI: A page in my life and your life and the lives of all of New Zealanders. So I congratulate you in your post as Te Māngai o Te Whare.So like I said it is a privilege to speak to the third reading of the Electronic Interactions Reform Bill. I would like to extend my thanks to the Government Administration Committee for their careful consideration and in particular to the Minister the Hon Tracey Martin for her leadership in responding to all our questions in the committee of the whole House after the second reading. I want to further extend my acknowledgement to the eight submitters who made submissions and voiced their opinions as citizens of our nation especially to the two oral submitters that attended the select committee. I understand that the main aim of the bill is to amend 17 Acts to enable digital interactions between individuals businesses and Government agencies. I'm going to use the Service of notices" section to demonstrate what it looks like in all the Acts that I've come across. I'll begin with "Service of notices" which provides that for a document or for information that is emailed it be sufficient to prove that the document or information has been properly addressed and sent to the email address that is used by the person.I want to quickly go to this section where it talks about "Service of notices". I'll just go to Part 3 "Giving evidence … by electronic means" even though in over five of the Acts it actually refers to that. I bring this as a personal insight into my other life when I used to be a statutory social worker and it was for me to serve notices on certain people. I recall some of those experiences with fond memories of trying to stop dogs attacking me and trying to speak in other languages to the dog. But anyway I want to explain the difference.Actually there is no difference between an email address and a usual physical address. In clause 45 "Section 102 amended (Service of notices)" relating to the Commerce Act 1986 it says "(1) A notice or any other document required or authorised to be served … given to a person for the purposes of this Act may be served or given by—(a) delivering it to the person;"—yep that's great—"or (b) leaving it at the person's usual or last known place of residence …" I see that there is no difference between emailing it to a person's last usual email. So there is no difference between electronically sending it to an email box and physically delivering it to a physical mailbox which as we all know now the postal services are slowly slowly becoming less used by citizens of this country. Post offices are closing everywhere in New Zealand and we are having to look at other means of how we can utilise the services of the post office.But I want to reply to the member across the House where she talks about this being started off by the now Opposition party—that they had run out of gas. It might have been their idea but unfortunately they ran out of gas and didn't score the try. So I am absolutely honoured to score that try to be part of the team that actually scores the try and is enabling this bill to become law—to become law in this country.I want to bring my personal experience in particularly to the amendments to the Electronic Identity Verification Act 2012 and I just wish the banks were listening. I wish the banks were listening. As the treasurer of two community-organised incorporated societies I just wish the banks—if you're listening banks please take note: with bank accounts if we're changing signatories we all live in different parts of the country. Some of us live in the South Island some of us live in South Auckland and some of us live in the middle here in Wellington. So what we have to do in terms of changing signatories—and I know this because in this new post that I am now privileged to hold I have to change the signatories of all the other signatories of the two societies that I am part of—is we all have to attend the bank at the same time. We all have to attend the bank at the same time and I just wish in terms of the amendments to the Electronic Identity Verification Act 2012—and I'll go to that page if you are reading Matt King; it is on page 13.I'll go to that page and it talks about using a photograph. We've had previous members talking about taking a selfie for their passport. If only we could have copies of officeholders—their photographs—kept by the bank so that when we do change signatories I and other members of the society don't need to travel to different parts of the country to contribute to changing our identity with banks. But if we live in Auckland this would not only contribute to making life easier for New Zealand but it would go some way to reducing traffic congestion in Auckland. It will it will. And it will reduce traffic congestion in Auckland. Not only that reducing traffic congestion in Auckland—[Interruption] Let me get to that. I'm almost getting there. This bill would make things a lot easier for New Zealand.The reason why I'm offering insights is because I am an ordinary Aucklander; I'm an ordinary New Zealander who holds—oh hang on a minute; I'm a woman so I'll talk about all the other roles that I hold. I am a person who has a full-time job and is a member of several community groups that I attend. So in terms of electronic emailing to addresses I did say when I started this speech that I would demonstrate how this affects 17 Acts. A question posed to me by my 12-year-old because she's currently taking a keen interest in listening to the debates in the House was: "Mum why is it that everybody gets up and talks about the same thing all the time? Maybe differently but I've noticed that they talk about the same thing all the time." And I say to her: look if you listen—if you're still up. You should be sleeping malo. But anyway if you're up—and hopefully you're viewing this recorded tomorrow not tonight—what it means is that if there are 17 Acts and let's say I talked about the service of notices then there are 17 parts of this same service of notices section that would need to be amended in all those 17 Acts. Whether it is conservation law or whether it is the Fair Trading Act that's what it means. It affects 17 Acts. In terms of service of notices what it means is that it has to be changed in all those other Acts. If the member across the House understands what that means that means that 17 different Acts need to be changed in order for this to happen.I also want to share in terms of "Giving evidence … by electronic means". In my other life—again as a Government social worker—I used to organise meetings. Sometimes organising what we call a family group conference requires certain members of the whānau or if the young person who is let's say in youth justice—if a family group conference requires the young person to be present and sometimes they are unable to travel because there are no flights to Tauranga at that certain time what we used to do and I know it's still current practice is we would involve the young person in a family group conference by electronically having that person or people that could attend a family group conference be not physically but actually electronically there. So it does work.So what I want to summarise is that technology is here to make our lives easier. It is here to make the lives of ordinary New Zealanders easier. If it means that we contribute electronically to making it easier for Government workers in terms of sending paperwork we're all about planting those trees. We're all about that. And physically paper contributes to trees being cut down. But in this Government I just want to acknowledge that we've now got the ball and we're going to score that try—one billion trees—and I want to commend this common-sense approach. I commend this bill to the house. Malo."