Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to speak to this bill—a bill that we've supported at the first reading second reading and we'll support now in the third reading. As has been commented on we had three submissions at the Health Committee and a number of points raised by the submitters. One of the common themes was around the loss of democracy with the postponement or failure to vote the district health board in in the 2020 elections. The comment there was well certainly we understand that but really if we were to put in a democratically elected board in 2020 with these sort of challenges we'd be setting them up to fail. That just wouldn't be correct when there's obviously challenges that we all agree with. It wouldn't be right nor would they have time to affect their functions and meet our expectations.There were also comments from Māori that they'd like to be engaged in the appointment of the commissioner. That's actually not part of the approval process but their views were taken on board and more particularly it was the Iwi Māori Council and Waikato Tainui who were saying that this is important; we'd like to be involved". Interestingly the question was raised to us around the cost of the commissioner versus the cost of the existing board—is there any substantial difference there? Very late in the piece we received some information back saying that the fee to the commissioner is $1800 a day capped at $230000 an annum and the expectation is the commissioner may need to be involved two to three days per week. It was also commented that the deputy commissioner's fees were $1000 a day with an expectation of 30 days per annum. When all of that was added up it turned out to be around about $320000 for the commissioner and the deputy commissioner which was roughly the same as the stipend paid to board members. So net-net there was no substantial change in placing a commissioner and deputy commissioner in as compared to the existing board members.I'd like to talk to the appointments—Karen Poutasi an excellent public servant previous Director-General of Health. She actually sat on my Harkness appointment committee and I have high praise for Karen. I'm sure she'll do a great job. The Hon Mike Woodhouse mentioned the chair Lester Levy and how he'd known Lester for 25 years. I've actually known Lester for 40 because in a previous life he was actually a pathologist and where Karen assessed me for appointment to Harkness Lester actually assessed me as a pathologist at fifth-year medical finals. He was a very tough assessor I'm sure he'll bring those same qualities to this role and he has our support.I think really the only other thing we have obvious support across the House for is to raise the question that when we placed a commissioner into the Southern District Health Board there was vehement resistance from the Greens at that time. They could not possibly get over the affront to democracy and the affront to their morals and principles. I'll be very interested to see their vote here tonight to see if they've been subjugated or what they've sold them for or if they'll vote against this as well. I look forward to that. We are supporting this bill. Thank you."