Hudson BrettBRETT HUDSON (National): Sorry about that Madam Assistant Speaker. I'm also filling in for Mr Bakshi so I don't quite have the turban on today but it is a pleasure to rise in support of the Earthquake Commission Amendment Bill in this its first reading.I think the points are pretty well canvassed actually. This is a missed opportunity. We support the bill; we support the four changes it brings in. Three of them are non-controversial; the fourth one which as colleague Stuart Smith and then the Hon Nicky Wagner have pointed out does raise some real serious issues around apportionment between reinsurers and about the reinstatement of insurance by allowing claims to be lodged up to two years after an event instead of the current three months. But all of the points whether it's the cap or the contents they have come out of a discussion document that it was the National Government that led and really regrettably while we can support those and we will the other five elements from that discussion have been left for another day—in fact for another inquiry that this Labour-led coalition Government are going to proceed with.Ignoring the fact that the Earthquake Commission (EQC) is inquired of and on regularly through questions in the House through select committee inquiries through annual reviews through Estimates hearings indeed through legislation such as this—I mean the Christchurch event was so large that they have indeed had inquiry from the Ombudsman and very much so from the Office of the Auditor-General. They've already been subject to all manner of inquiries and delving into what happened and what could be improved so why would they need another one—another one to add to the more than three dozen that are already out there? A few days ago—it might have been a week ago—I think they counted that they were up to 39 inquiries. Surely it's over 40 now. I mean they've got a run rate on generating inquiries that the Black Caps would be proud to have. It's more like a Twenty20 game than a Parliament session. So really it's a lost opportunity.What we should be doing here is grasping the nettle and dealing with the nine recommendations—actually Parliament doing its job involving the public getting on with the bill and getting through select committee dealing with all of those nine important matters. Instead they pick off four relatively non-controversial matters and kick the can down the road on five other really important matters.Well that's really a symptom of this Government—a Government that talked a great deal when it was in Opposition and now it's in Government still wants to do a whole lot of talking. Well they're going to learn fairly shortly that the public actually want and demand doing and with this bill as with others that we've seen in this short number of months—far too many already but this short number of months—it doesn't do enough. It doesn't do enough to address the problems of the people of Canterbury. It doesn't do enough to get EQC on the right footing for future events. It doesn't do enough to instil confidence in this Government from the people of New Zealand. We support the bill. The Government should and could do better.