Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): Thank you Madam Speaker. If there is one thing that is appropriate to say at this point it's that obviously we're debating the resignation of the Government Statistician. This is an incredibly unfortunate event. Actually I really hope that the individual concerned isn't listening to this as we dissect the pros and cons of what she did right and what she did wrong from where we sit from our seats here in the debating chamber. The fact remains that the Government Statistician has accepted her liability in this process. She herself has said that the buck stops with her and she has tendered her resignation.What I'd like to say is that this was a mistake. There was a very big mistake that was made here. We have to find a solution through this. When it comes to mistakes the best thing that you can do is own up to them and that's exactly what the Government Statistician has done and that's exactly what our Minister James Shaw has done as well. I am yet to actually hear any kind of responsibility from the Opposition who despite planning for the census starting in 2014 remain very very silent and accusatory towards our current Government and for the part that our Government has played in this.This independent review found obviously that the census did not achieve all of its goals; there were significant shortcomings. But it also showed that thanks to Statistics New Zealand's remediation efforts using their administrative data the most important statistical information regarding population coverage is better than previous census service has achieved.So thankfully the message that we've got to send to New Zealand is that work is under way to ensure that these mistakes don't happen again. A mistake was made it was owned up to and we have to ensure that the next census is the best that it can be. It is as I said before appropriate that the Government Statistician has accepted her part in this. The Minister has accepted the decision taken by her to step down at the end of 2019. The timing is going to ensure that there will be a level of continuity while Statistics New Zealand work to complete the data analysis of this census and also to start planning the next census.The Minister will be closely obviously monitoring Statistics New Zealand to ensure that they rebuild a very strong foundation for the next census. Naturally there were some positive findings from the review. The review found that the census had provided a population coverage of 98.6 percent which was around 4.7 million people. As I said before that is better coverage than the 2013 census. Online participation was expected to be at 70 percent—that was the expected target 70 percent participation—but we've found that online participation actually exceeded that and it came in at 80 percent. IT systems and a register of addresses will now be available for future census surveys and Statistics New Zealand has a good understanding of integrating administrative data with census information to produce highly high-quality data sets.This has been an incredibly drawn out process. It was right to initiate the independent review. It was right for the Government Statistician to step down from her role. But it's also right that we as a House of Parliament not just a Government do everything that we can to ensure that we get it right for the next census because as the previous speaker indicated so much of what we fund so much of our boundaries—so much relies on good-quality data and information. So we are standing here debating it but it's my opinion that this has been remedied. The move has been made the resignation has been tendered and accepted by the Minister and we need to start focusing our events on the next census and where exactly we can tidy up this process.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call the Hon Scott Simpson—five minutes.