Dean JacquiHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I want to acknowledge the Minister for ACC the Hon Iain Lees-Galloway for his comments regarding the stewardship of ACC particularly under the hands of the Hon Nikki Kaye and the Hon Mike Woodhouse which really is the genesis of this bill as it comes to the House today and I acknowledge that the current Minister saw value in the work that had been done under the previous Government.I think it probably is a good idea to go over a bit of the history of ACC and go back a decade to when the National-led Government came into power in 2008 and we inherited an ACC scheme which had a fiscal hole to the tune of $4.8 billion. Hon Chris Hipkins: Rubbish! Absolute rubbish!Hon JACQUI DEAN: It's in the papers Minister. Over the time of our Government we were able to return ACC to a fully funded scheme and not only to do that but to reduce ACC levies to New Zealanders. Also we were able during that time to deliver better services and we have now handed over to the current Government a fully functioning fully funded financially sustainable ACC scheme. Also during that time in the National Government—and I do make those comments in light of the self-congratulatory comments made by the member who just resumed her seat Jenny Marcroft. So having handed over a fully functioning well-positioned ACC scheme to move into the future former Ministers had also been undertaking some work on making a couple of aspects of the ACC scheme even better for New Zealanders. Those amendments are now in the bill and they are around addressing the regulatory duplication—there were gaps there were errors there were inconsistencies within the current legislation—and also keeping the regulatory system up to date and keeping it relevant to the ACC scheme and to New Zealanders today. So that's what's in this bill. Members who have spoken before me have canvassed those measures. I don't propose to go through those in any detail because members and those listening have gone over those. But I want to just briefly go into why it's important that ACC should be delivering a good service to New Zealanders. As a constituency MP over a number of years I have had a number of people coming to my offices stuck somewhere in the ACC system. Whether they were stuck because they were a person receiving support from ACC close to retirement and then having to make choices between ACC cover or national super or whether it was somebody caught within the disputes complaints process those people who came into my office—and there's less of them now to be fair and there will be even less once this bill becomes law because it does make regulatory improvements to the ACC system. But those people who come into a local MP's office—and the Hon Clare Curran mentioned that herself because she also is a constituency MP—are in a very bad place. They have turned to their local MP wherever they are around the country because they were literally stuck within the ACC system at a time in their lives when they are not able really to deal with Government processes. So in my time as associate ACC Minister I was involved in a body of work which was around making the process easier for New Zealanders to navigate ACC. Now that work is continuing and I'm very pleased to see that and I thank the current Government for that. I endorse the work in this bill. The New Zealand National Party supports this bill and I look forward to its passage through the House and through select committee.