Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a privilege to stand here to contribute to the Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. I want to acknowledge the sponsor of the bill Nicola Willis. Thank you for your due diligence and your energy in bringing this to the House. As we know it's come through many hands of leaders who were in this Parliament; so I want to acknowledge as the member has just acknowledged Nikki Kaye and of course members have acknowledged Nick Smith and of course Judith Collins.What this bill does—actually I need to say that I live in an apartment block and I have no idea; I've never attended a body corporate meeting. I'm the person that gives a proxy to someone to go and speak on my behalf and before getting into—Dr Duncan Webb: You're the reason for this!ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI: So I think I represent the future of New Zealand: New Zealanders who live in apartment blocks and have no idea about bodies corporate until you get into it. Just over a year now I've been living in an apartment; I've not been to a meeting yet. So I want to acknowledge this bill which will address and bring in safety for those New Zealanders who live in apartments. We know that the time when this legislation first came about—the Unit Titles Act in 2010—most of those times living in apartments was not a regular thing to do. It was relatively uncommon here in New Zealand but you know fast track 11 years and that's where we're going because we are needing to provide homes for New Zealanders. On that note I'd like to acknowledge our bodies corporate and I'd like to acknowledge the chair of the apartment block that I live in that I call home. Thank you for always voicing the owners' opinion and sticking up for our rights. So I want to acknowledge those people who make the effort to go to meetings.This is an example of how community voices become public they involve a lot of academic people a member picks up the bill has lots of discussions with the Government of the day and then it is part of our the Labour Party's—we campaigned on this that we would look into it and this is where we—I'm obviously speaking in support of this bill and we are going to support this bill to select committee with the intention of making it better. As we know for every bill that goes to select committee that makes it better. So I look forward to seeing the journey of this bill through the House. As I have said I've got a personal interest in this being done really well. It provides an example of where we as a Parliament can work together—can work together even though we have disagreements and differing opinions. We can work together for the betterment of New Zealanders. So in my apartment block there's 42 apartments. Like I said I've never been to a meeting before and I like how this bill intends to require the sellers to disclose information about a unit to potential buyers. It will prevent the body corporate from entering into service agreements for longer than 24 months. That's two years; that's a long time. So I like that because we all like to know—one of the biggest things that we ever buy in this country for a majority of first-home owners is buying a home—is buying a home. And when we do buy a home now—as I said before it was uncommon to be living in apartment blocks but it is now the normal thing to be doing. First-home buyers will be looking at purchasing apartments and it is one of the biggest ever investments that most of us get to make. It is the intention of the bill—and I know that the member will agree with me asking everybody out there to contribute at select committee so that we make the select committee improve on the bill—that it will contribute to protecting future homeowners because apartment buildings are homes from unfairly inheriting something that was out of their control and yet we here in Parliament have an opportunity to make it better. On that note I commend this bill to the House. Mālō.