Logie Jan: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLogie Jan: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 31 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:10113. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. It is with pride and honour that I stand to speak on the third reading of the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill. As has just been said it is really pleasing to see unanimous support for this bill in the House. There is no one questioning the absolute importance of this bill and of doing our best in this House to be able to support the people of Christchurch to move forward. I want to start this short contribution by acknowledging that it was just over 5 years ago that Christchurch was hit by a quake whereby the place that so many people loved and are so parochial about was destroyed and we will never see that place again. We lost thousands of homes and 185 lives. That is no small thing that Christchurch has been dealing with and we as country and this Parliament have been trying to deal with.In the wake of the quakes I think we have discovered a new spirit in Christchurch and we have seen some communities pulling together in truly inspirational ways. I think of the communities in Lyttelton and Addington in particular who just came together and totally looked after each other in the time of crisis. I think of the Gap Filler organisation and of people who just came together and dealt with the depression and the bleakness and the loss with creativity and an energy that people around the world have been looking to and being inspired by. It is that energy that the Green Party is so keen to see harnessed to be able to deliver the new city of Christchurch that will elicit the same passion as the old Christchurch did.It is pleasing to see the Government come to the table and bring a bill to the House with Supplementary Order Paper 159 at a late stage that actually does recognise the vision of the people of Christchurch. It is an interesting thing to me that we are talking about the shift from recovery to regeneration. I understand that frame of the shift of moving forward and looking forward but I also look to the Share an Idea campaign and the thinking that was happening quite soon after the quakes—or while the quakes were ongoing and quite present in people’s lives. People were in that place already as well as dealing with the immediate crises and shock.So it is very pleasing to see that this bill with amendments which we are voting on tonight and passing into legislation does increase the ability of local people to shape the future of Christchurch and very significantly that Regenerate Christchurch is at the heart of the new model and represents a partnership between the Crown which still is required to contribute a significant amount of money to this rebuild and local governments. I refer to local governments as the council and Kāi Tahu in this sense in that it is a board with four appointees from central government three from local government and one from Te Rūnanga o Kāi Tahu.When this legislation was initially reported back that group Regenerate Christchurch did not have enough power but through the Supplementary Order Paper introduced by the Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery after significant negotiations with a range of people across this House including my colleague Eugenie Sage that has changed. That cannot be anything but a benefit for Christchurch. When we have seen the incredible ideas and the vision of the people of Christchurch right throughout these last 5 years we would be stupid not to be harnessing their capacity into this next stage. It is an absolute pleasure to be able to help move this forward.We are and we do remain unhappy with the retention of extended powers for a range of Government Ministers which is present in clause 42 and enables them to override district or regional plans under the Resource Management Act or the Local Government Act plans or bylaws or regional transport plans. We think that degree of power is unnecessary at this stage. However we are pleased—