Korako Nuk: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 17 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9898. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): Kia ora e Te Mana Whakawā. It is indeed my honour to be the last speaker in the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill’s second reading. It is also my honour as mana whenua from a whānau that comes from that region that can date back over seven generations. One thing that Ngāi Tahu have always said is that it is very important to actually look back to know where you are going to move forward.What I want to do is just quote a speech from our Governor-General on the first anniversary for the 185 victims of the Christchurch earthquake because in a lot of ways what Sir Jerry Mateparae said is coming to fruition with this bill. So just to quote him on the first anniversary he said that while it was a time for reflection the 1-year anniversary marked “the start of a new day and a new beginning for all of us and especially the people of Christchurch and Canterbury.” He said that “a new and vibrant city can arise.” in the future although “Achieving that aspiration will take time.” He said: “Lives communities and cities are not built in a day.” It would be achieved he said because of the resilience and preparedness Cantabrians had demonstrated over the previous year. He said: “It will be achieved because the people of Christchurch and Canterbury do not walk that pathway alone. Your extended family—the New Zealand family—are walking alongside you. … For your tragedy has been New Zealand’s tragedy.Such are the ties of this nation that there are few among us who have been untouched by what occurred.”We have heard today in this second reading a lot of what has happened particularly around the emergency and the incredible things that went on particularly following the aftermath. The thing is that he talked about resilience; he talked about vibrancy. When you look at the stages of the Christchurch earthquake you had the emergency then there was the recovery and then there is what we now call the rebuild and the transition from that rebuild into regeneration. This is what this bill is about.One thing that came out of that speech I think which was also talked about by other speakers on that day was that there also needed to be really good leadership to be able to achieve what was identified on that day. What we have in the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery the Hon Gerry Brownlee is exactly that leadership—that leadership over the last 5 years. When we talk about the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority when we talk about the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team and when we talk about the Christchurch Central Development Unit we cannot forget these people either who worked within that because they actually gave their hearts and souls to be able to contribute through all of those phases particularly around the recovery and the rebuild. Just think now that there is a transitional process going on at the moment what they must be thinking around: “Am I going to have a job? Am I going to continue through into this next phase?”. I think it is important that we think about them as well.But coming to the bill it is really great to hear from the other side of the House. The previous speaker the Hon Clayton Cosgrove—if Labour was in Government he would be sitting in Mr Brownlee’s seat I am sure and he would have been doing the same thing. I cannot see anything different. Is it not great to see that we do have that sort of cross-party bipartisan thing that we call kotahitaka? What we have is that the major stakeholders have all come together. There are the councils the businesses and also the iwi as well. We have mentioned the iwi here. This is the great thing about being on the Local Government and Environment Committee because we are able to strengthen the input of the iwi. So that is really—Hon Clayton Cosgrove: Why did you oppose it? Why did you oppose the measures that the Minister—NUK KORAKO: I cannot see him so I will not answer. I think the important thing—to keep moving on this—is the fact that nothing was opposed because what we have in the end is that everyone is hoe-ing the waka together. Everyone is moving in the same direction.At the end of the day this bill is a great bill even if some on the other side do not like it. This is a great bill—it is together. This Minister is the Minister who made it happen. He would be damned if he did or damned if he did not but at the end of the day we are the Government that is leading this through and we are actually taking it by the horns and really moving it and developing and Christchurch will be one of the greatest and newest cities in the world. It is all to do with this side of the House or a lot of it but at least we have got some real working togetherness here at the moment even if what we hear on the other side is negative because to those members the glass is always half empty—it is always half empty. Here it is half full. So kia ora. I commend this bill and I look forward to working with the other side of the House on the regeneration of Christchurch. That is what it is about.Amendments recommended by the Local Government and Environment Committee by majority agreed to.Bill read a second time.