O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Madam Chair Tolley it gives me great pleasure to stand and speak on behalf of the Electronic Interactions Reform Bill—almost as much pleasure as it does to be speaking to you as Chair re the professional relationship we've had in the past. You were the Minister of Police at a time of another iteration of my life. I might say Madam Chair you did a sterling job and I see that you're continuing to do that same job today. With that sterling piece of obsequiousness I'll now go to the bill.I've been interested sitting here listening to talk and we show the range of understanding—in fact it's been something of a case study in communications over the years. I suppose I was waiting for someone to talk about the Lamson tube which I know many here won't remember. That was a means of communication in my younger days when I started professionally whereby using a vacuum method we would send anything—written documents cigarettes anything—around the department that I worked in at the time. When I now see this bill particularly Part 3 which has really entranced me—and I really would love to take the time to spend speaking about it now. In that part we're now talking about the ability to send messages to send whatever we need whatever is required by electronic means. Finally really—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I'm sorry to interrupt the member but the time has come for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break. The House will resume at 7.30.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.The CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Tēnā tātou e ngā mema o Te Whare tēnā tātou katoa. Before the dinner break we were in committee for the Electronic Interactions Reform Bill and considering Part 3. Greg O'Connor had the call and has three minutes and 16 seconds remaining should he wish to take them.GREG O'CONNOR: Thank you Mr Chairman. I just hope that I can regain some of the enthusiasm that I had for this bill before the dinner break. I had a very nice dinner and I'm coming back now to try to just rebuild the passion I have for this particular part of the bill.One thing I will say is that what we have concentrated on at the moment is that the real nub of this bill is the fact that we can now do things electronically that we haven't been able to do before. I was just sort of regaling or reminiscing about the journey to this place that had this ability. I'd spoken about the Lamson tube and what we were able to do with that—sending pieces of paper and even cigarettes through the system and all those different types of things. Of course we then went on following that to the old teleprinters that often existed that sent messages around the country usually overnight. In my experience they were usually manned by retired navy gentlemen who used to spend their nights up there doing we knew not what. But certainly the messages used to get through. My own professional life was enhanced considerably by the Wanganui Computer Centre which then enabled us to communicate at all sorts of times and dates. So when I look at Part 3 of the Electronic Interactions Reform Bill I contemplate what is now going to be possible around these things. Particularly one thing I do think should be brought up is that when we talk about this—the fact that we're on the verge of Vodafone one of the big providers who are going to be discontinuing their own service system as a provider of email addresses. That will provide some issues I would imagine for those that have forgotten or have neglected to take the advice to change over to a new internet service provider. Nevertheless I think the fact that one part of the bill that—despite some discussion through the committee stage where we would require the consent of those who would be receiving the information I'm pleased to see that that was disregarded because I think bringing consent to such provisions into the Act would really render it virtually inoperable for those who are likely in the future to claim that they hadn't actually received the information.The other thing of course is that in New Zealand we've always been very much ahead of the pack as far as the use of email goes. I remember I had a position representing New Zealand on a world stage and as I handed my cards out in places like the United States which we thought were the most advanced it was some time before they actually had email addresses on the cards that I was receiving in return. That gave me some idea of how advanced New Zealand is in relation to our adoption of electronic means. Thank you.