SpeechIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Thank you Mr Speaker. It gives me some pleasure to speak on this bill but no pleasure on behalf of the people affected by it—because clearly the events and the tragic effect it will have on those people's lives for quite some time to come will be felt by them. And I think that this bill will go some way to alleviating some of those fears for them.I was just thinking as I was thinking about the time of the day that if we could use this bill to short circuit the Ōtaki to north of Levin bypass road I'd get home an hour quicker tonight—so seeing as I can't I might as well stand here talking because it's going to take me—Hon Member: No!IAN McKELVIE: Ha ha! Clearly that won't be used for that purpose Mr Speaker.DEPUTY SPEAKER: The opening of the road might be more desirable Mr McKelvie but carry on.IAN McKELVIE: There's no magic solution to this to recovering from these types of disasters and the National Party fully supports the Minister's objectives in passing this bill. We're confident that the bill will make a difference and we're also very mindful of the fact that we're going into an election time and that could very well be a different Minister in six months' time running this process. So I think we had to put in place a process that could work for all and make sure that those who may or may not have to take over at any stage in the future have the opportunity to progress the activities that the Government of the day initiates. Many decisions can't be made in a hurry in these sort of events and we've had discussions today about retreat. These sort of decisions can't be made until other decisions have been made as to what you repair and what you don't—and I mean the most obvious example of this is flood banks: if you're not going to rebuild flood banks then you're going have to retreat a whole lot of people. If you are going to rebuild flood banks then you've got to consider how you rebuild the infrastructure inside those flood banks. I think I've said before in this House that the example of Palmerston North's a very good one where the flood banks were built to a to a 200-year return period standard after the 2004 event and they've worked beautifully. And I think if you think about the Hawke's Bay these decisions are going to have to be made long before any other decisions can be made around retreat. Also those decisions on the whole are made by communities whereas whether you rebuild your house or not—or rebuild your business or not—is generally going to be made in partnership with the insurance company and yourselves or the individuals. And so there's many different ways these decisions are going to be made. And the reason for the longer I guess period this bill operates for is that some of these decisions won't be made in a hurry and they just can't be. So that's the need for the bill to be extended and to run on for some five or six years in some cases and the Orders in Council especially.I also want to acknowledge the Minister and the work of the select committee basically for acknowledging the need to take this issue further—and I think that's where the select committee inquiry will be extremely useful to future Parliaments because I think if we do run a select committee inquiry or a select committee runs it then that inquiry will turn up a whole lot of the groundwork that's required to put an Act in place in the future to act as a base for these types of disasters. As I said earlier you'll never get that base to be entirely transferrable; it'll have to always be altered. But at least if the base is there then I think submitters—and people are interested in what we do in Parliament—will have a lot more confidence; so at least we've got that part of work right consulted on and everyone's had an opportunity to be part of it.I just want to speak briefly—because there's been some mention of this as well that all of these Orders in Council are going to have to be accompanied by funding. That's a decision that can't be made until the magnitude of the work required as a result of the Order in Council is understood and that's work for future governance—well it's work that's required to be done in the future because you can't put in place the funding matters until you understand the magnitude of the need and so I think these Orders in Council will almost all require Government funding as we move forward. That will be decided as we go along. So from the National Party's perspective we are very confident that this bill is as good as we could have got it and as I said earlier—and I want to reiterate it—I have no fears that the seemingly extraordinary powers that we're granting to Ministers and to the executive will be abused. I'm confident local communities will benefit greatly from the enactment of the legislation and it also means that their infrastructure and all those sorts of things will be expedited in a much more measured fashion than they otherwise might have been. I think that we can be confident that we've made the right decision and I guess we can only hope that those communities that are affected by this recover as quickly as possible. Thank you Mr Speaker.