O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): It gives me great pleasure to be the final speaker on this Families Commission Act Repeal Bill having followed some very accomplished speakers one of which was the Hon Alfred Ngaro with a saying which he shared with the House. I've gone through Google and many other sources of research available to me and I haven't been able to find it but perhaps the saying you were looking for that is very pertinent to this bill is When you come to a fork in the road take it". That's from Yogi Berra. That is pertinent to this bill because to a certain extent we have come to the end of the natural life of this bill. When one looks at the legislation there are some beautiful words some decisive words—if only all pieces of legislation could be so concise. If you go to Part 2 clause 8 "Families Commission disestablished" is the headline. The wording is "The Commission is disestablished." Well that's the sort of finality that we would like to understand—that those who put this together will want to know that where we go from here good things came from that bill and there is always some good that comes out of any situation. One of the very good things about this of course was the Growing Up in New Zealand study that the Hon Louise Upston and others have mentioned. I was privileged enough as was the Hon Louise Upston to have a briefing at a select committee today on the Growing Up in New Zealand study. The context of the study couldn't be more pertinent because what we were discussing was another bill—I think I'm permitted to say without straying too far the other bill we were talking about was the Child Poverty Reduction Bill—and the need to have good facts good research around that. So much of what would come out of the Growing Up in New Zealand study—this study where we had of course 7000 children born in 2009 and 2010. I probably should also mention that this study was also conceived in 2007 and was—very wisely—picked up by the incoming National Government in 2008. They do say "Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan" so we will all take the success of this good study. That's another saying Mr Ngaro you may borrow at any stage and there is no need to attribute that to me.I do say reading this—and while there is this feeling of goodwill I don't want to ruin the party but the speaker Nicola Willis did talk about knowing exactly who all these people are and we've just got to go and find them. Well that's actually not strictly true because one of the main things that came out of the study was that people when you look at the statistics come in and out of those 7000. People at different times will be in poverty and at other times will be out. So it is not that easy to define. So it's important that when we are having these wraparounds we do have good research and we do make sure that there is an element of not being too narrow and focused on this because we will miss out a lot of people that are absolutely necessary. So as we do say goodbye to this bill—it's not that it's final; I know we're not quite ready for "The Last Post" yet but the end of the Family Commission Act Repeal Bill is very nigh—it's a good time to actually think: what will be the legacies? I think another one will be and certainly at the Social Services and Community Committee that was considering this—Len Cook was there and you saw the passion that man had for this and what he'd actually put into this. I have since seen him and I wanted to know that that man was actually going to be in another job in another position where he's going to use what he got out of this and I'm very happy to see that he is going to be doing that. I think of the staff that have worked there since 2008 and the knowledge that they picked up and this town being what it is I know that they will go on in other jobs they'll get in the public sector. I hope they're in the public sector because that will be the place they'll get to use the knowledge they've picked up and it will be another way that they'll be able to disseminate that knowledge through the public sector. So it won't die. It will live on particularly the good parts of it.So once again I'll not belabour this point. Mr Ngaro I don't have any more sayings for you but at any time you would like anything that perhaps does have a little bit more credibility I'm happy to share. I do have a few years on you and have picked up a few of these perhaps useless or some more useful ones in the meantime. But I do commend this bill to the House. It has been a great learning experience to be part of its final years but it did impart some of its final wisdom to younger members like myself coming in—that we will be part of the legacy of this bill. So I do commend this bill to the House.Bill read a third time."