Mitchell MarkMARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): It is my pleasure to take a call on the Statutes Amendment Bill and I would like to acknowledge the Hon Simon Bridges who has brought this bill to the House. The bill has been through the Government Administration Committee. I do want to acknowledge the chair of the committee the Hon Ruth Dyson. She has done a very good job of chairing the committee and shepherding this bill through and I also want to acknowledge of course the outstanding deputy chair Paul Foster-Bell who also takes a leadership role on that committee. Of course the bill tidies up legislation that needs provisions clarified or to have minor technical corrections made. Amendments must be technical short and non-controversial and it is a good way of getting legislation into the House that on its own would not get here. We do need to continue to modernise our statute book in a rapidly changing world. I have to say that I was quite pleasantly surprised when the chair of the committee was recognising and praising the Hon Chris Finlayson and that went on for about 2 or 3 minutes. I wondered when it was coming and sure enough it happened. She suddenly switched into manoeuvres. She realised what she was doing. So she was searching for something to speak about. She decided that she would switch back into a 17-hour filibuster on housing. She decided to go back to the future. She had nothing else to talk about so she started talking about and trying to reinvent the filibuster and unfortunately we saw the Opposition run out of steam on last week. Then we had Mr Faafoi get up and make a very good contribution.Kris Faafoi: Thank you. You can stop now.MARK MITCHELL: You are welcome. He talked about Nuk Korako's bill. I am lucky enough that I have travelled with Mr Faafoi as members of the Parliamentary Rugby Team. I know for a fact that if his luggage went missing with his Giorgio Armani suits and his rugby mouthguard that bottom lip would be quivering. That bottom lip would be quivering and he would be rushing around. It is very hard to get another mouthguard to fit Kris at very short notice like that. The other thing that he got very excited about which I found very interesting was cattle rustling. For some reason he seemed to really home in on rustling and he also singled out and picked on our justices of the peace (JPs). I just want to make one comment on a serious note on that. Our JPs provide an extremely important service in our communities. One thing that is very important within our JP service is that we continue to rejuvenate and we continue to find new JPs who are willing to come in who meet the standards set and required of a JP and who are able to take on that role which now requires fairly technical work and also often they are in very high demand especially in semi-rural or provincial areas. So allowing our JPs to retire and to retain that JP title when retired is actually very important to them and it is a way of us being able to continue to recognise them—Brett Hudson: To acknowledge them.MARK MITCHELL: —and acknowledge the service that they have given. So I just wanted to highlight that. That is a member's bill and that is actually a very good member's bill. I am very happy to take this call on the Statutes Amendment Bill and commend it to the House. Thank you.