Moroney Sue: Hamilton City Council (Parana Park) Land Vesting Bill — In Committee 
Moroney Sue: Hamilton City Council (Parana Park) Land Vesting Bill — In Committee 
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SUE MORONEY (Labour) 
: 
 I guess I will just wrap up—well maybe not wrap up—the debate; there might be more calls to come. Who knows? But I thank the member who has drafted—the member responsible for this bill. I cannot get that phrase right. The member responsible for this bill—I think I probably have difficulty using “responsible” and “the member” in one sentence. Look I am trying to describe why I have been constantly tripping over referring to David Bennett as the member responsible for the bill but of course he is responsible and I will try to make sure I get that right from here on. I thank him for that explanation because I think it is really important that we get it right. 
I will be interested in looking at the documents that have been tabled because I want to make sure that we have not somehow lost some land in cyberspace somewhere in the process of the land going from having a paper description to having a computer-generated description. I want to make sure that that has not occurred. But I guess the member is saying that these days we perhaps have more accurate techniques of making sure we get the land area correct. 
It is important to have had clause 9 clarified. It is very timely because as my colleague Iain Lees-Galloway pointed out clause 9(2)(a) gives the power to the Registrar-General of Land once this bill has become an Act to “issue a new computer register in the name of Hamilton City Council for the land;”. We on this side of the Chamber wanted to be assured that the description of the land was accurate before that took place so I thank the member for taking time to brief the Committee. We could see that Mr Bennett was making very good use of information from the officials to make sure that he was correctly briefed during the debate to avoid giving us a guess or just having a go at answering our queries. He actually collected the information before him and I think that it is fantastic that he could do that in a very timely— 
Grant Robertson 
: Responsible. 
SUE MORONEY 
: —and responsible manner. We on this side of the Chamber can now fully support—well I can certainly speak on behalf of Labour members but not the entire side of the Chamber—the clause and say that we are now satisfied. We can proceed to vote in favour of clause 9 knowing that we are not telling the Registrar-General—he or she; I am not sure whether it is a male or a female at the moment—through legislation to create a new computer register for this piece of land and not undermining the integrity of the register by having the wrong description for that piece of land. David Shearer who is just joining the debate again for this evening will be really pleased to know that. He first picked up the discrepancy in the previous clause on this issue and I know that he has been deeply concerned about it because he has raised it with me constantly over the past 2 weeks. He has said: “Sue where is that land? Make sure that we find it!”. I am very pleased to be able to report to David Shearer—and I am sure he has been following the debate closely anyway—that we have now been assured of that and that we can go ahead and vote for this clause. It will be on the basis however that the drafting error—the Act is called the “Hamilton City Council (Parana Park) Land Vesting Act 2010”—is corrected before we come to the third reading which I know we are all looking forward to. We want to make sure that the date of 2011 is inserted in clause 9 and other clauses that by a pure drafting mistake refer to 2010. 
Without further ado I am happy to say that Labour can now support clause 9. Our questions have been answered and we look forward to the rest of the debate on this very important bill. 
Clause 9 agreed to.