O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's very nice to see that there's much conviviality and agreement in the House tonight. I wonder whether it's something to do with the two speeches we heard earlier on where our new colleague Lemauga Lydia Sosene arrived with a very interesting journey that I think anyone who heard it would understand that probably inspired us as to why we came into this place—and I certainly felt that. And the outgoing Hon Simon Bridges once again reflecting on his time here also I'm sure left us all with much to think about—about what we have and intend and should contribute here. So perhaps I'll put the influence of those two speakers down to the shall we say peace that's apparently obviously broken out as we stand here.Going back to the legislation and again I should start by congratulating the member who has taken this on the journey which like much good legislation—as I think the Hon Judith Collins said—like a good cheese or a good wine sometimes takes time to mature. But in reflecting that I can't help but think how the timing of this legislation is so important because property and what is happening around homeownership has never been really more topical.I just reflect on the things that are influencing new homeowners or existing homeowners today. In fact all those issues that we're going to have to deal with as a Parliament now and into the quite immediate future are really incorporated in this—just something as basic as building costs. Now anyone who was around in the early 1980s will know some pretty dodgy buildings came out of that time—when there was a lot of buildings being built with very little regulation and by some fairly dodgy characters. The result of that was that a lot of people got badly burnt and that was at a time when basically there were shortcuts taken and there wasn't enough oversight. I just fear that right now with our building costs that again I would like to think that there has been some cleaning up of the industry. I just hope there's not going to be shortcuts taken now to mitigate those building costs that will result in some of those new owners—of apartments in particular and even in stand-alone buildings—being impacted in future.So again this is a piece of legislation that those who are going to be buying certainly—I then reflect on what happened during the period where we end up with the leaky buildings or the watertight homes issue. Once again it was just not only the people who built those homes and bought them it was those who subsequently bought them down the track who also ended up with a lot of cost without any of the necessary oversight any of the necessary defences that we see appear in this bill—something as basic as being able to actually check and demand some building inspections and more importantly some of the previous records.We've talked climate change as well and we still don't really know the impact that that's going to have on current buildings. The obvious one we are talking about is the forced retreat; those who are on the coast. But also there's going to be a lot of change in higher more extreme weather events which are going to certainly put pressure on any deficiencies in the building industry that occur now—once again particularly accentuated in a high-rise building where the costs of those new coming in in fact may get some nasty surprises.That's where this piece of legislation around the body corp—now most people will have a body corp story. I just today was speaking to someone when I indicated I'll be speaking on this bill tonight and talking about it said well their own one was where they bought into what they thought was a stand-alone building. Obviously they realised through the process it was a body corp; didn't understand the full implications of it until they were required to start paying for the lift and the air conditioning in the attached building. That was as much their responsibility as it was for those who were on the 15th floor of that said building. So these are the type of things that can happen. They're good anecdotes to run across this legislation the template across this legislation to just understand whether we have got it right. All the speakers said this may well be a living breathing piece of legislation that will have to be amended at some stage as the world we're in moves on but it does give a good basis for that. Interesting too previous speakers have talked about it's not only Auckland and Wellington that apartments are moving into the provinces. It's not only because people have to live in those high-rises—and I note the previous speaker Chris Bishop talked about the desirability of living in apartments. Although he won't mind me making the personal comment given the comment he made to the member sitting next to him that I understand he's due to have a child. I wonder that when he's on his third child he'll feel the same way about living in an apartment in downtown Wellington without somewhere to kick them out at night when they're misbehaving but again he might like to discuss that with the member next to him who may have similar thoughts on that very thing herself. But what I am finding in my own electorate where there traditionally had been no need—I'm talking about the Ōhāriu electorate here where the stand-alone property was the norm. There were a few developers that I got into a discussion with over the years and they decided they'd put their toe in the water if you like and start building probably not a particularly popular move with some of the existing people in those developments. What they suddenly found is a toe-in-the-water exercise where they were building side-by-sides one-down two-ups and the necessity for some sort of body corp or shared arrangement they suddenly couldn't build enough of them. This is not talking downtown Wellington; this is talking on the hillsides of Newlands and Churton Park. What that showed—it certainly showed those developers—that there is actually a demand for those areas. That although we have a generation that grew up with the quarter-acre pavlova paradise—of which I would say that I'm probably one and even yourself Mr Speaker may have been another one especially owning half of the Manawatū—that they probably did have room to roam at that time. But I think that what we're going to see with—again I'll throw another matter or another factor that is of constant interest in this House which of course is the matter of rising fuel costs where people are wanting to not travel the big distances certainly not in the motor car that they do. That again will mean that people will more likely change their own living habits. I look at something like a shopping centre in my own electorate which is now likely to be not just a shopping centre but also include accommodation arrangements at the same time. So again these are all things that are happening and once again it behoves us as a Parliament to not only recognise those changes not only to join those changes up in our legislation but also to make sure that those who do come after us do have some of those protections because I would not like to be in my dotage—some time away I'd like to think—where I was sitting down thinking that in my time in the House we did allow things to happen like the leaky homes that we did set the environment and didn't actually do anything about it because I know there will be those probably even in this House but certainly those listening tonight who will know the impact of not getting it right in the building because after all housing is what it is about. If we can get the housing right then so much else that ails our society I think we can get right. Again I go back to the legislation—it is likely that that housing will be more likely to be intense housing it will be shared space will be shared responsibilities. So  again it is important that legislation like this does give protection for those people. So as the last speaker on this bill I know much of the technical side of the bill has been addressed by previous speakers. I note that there are many lawyers in the House who probably made livings out of these areas and I'm sure many will be rubbing their hands should they leave here and need to resume their careers—it's probably going to be a more lucrative area to be done but we just hope with this legislation we may have taken away some of the need for legal intervention later. So as the final speaker on this bill and having been on the Finance and Expenditure Committee that has taken it through the House—which has enabled myself and my other members of this committee to learn much about it—I commend this bill to the House.Motion agreed to.Bill read a third time.