Hayes Joanne: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 17 March 2016. Volume:712;Page:9894. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): I stand to take a short call on the Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill in the name of the Hon Gerry Brownlee. I am very pleased to do this because we are starting to move down the road a bit on this bill and it is a bill moving from recovery to regeneration—regeneration focusing on urban renewal and development and on restoration and enhancement of the city facilities. These are really important because this Government has been working very hard at restoring the various facilities that the city lost in the 2011 earthquake. Some of those facilities are sporting facilities. The Hagley Oval was opened last year and was able to host the Cricket World Cup. It is a beautiful facility. I have been there a few times enjoying a few meetings there. The next one is the Bus Interchange which had a little bit of a spit and a fart there along the way when it first opened and there was a little bit of congestion there with a few little trips. But after everything is said and done people got used to it and it is pumping along very nicely.Then the last facility in 2015 that we opened was the Margaret Mahy Family Playground. That is an amazing playground. I was visiting there just recently and was really impressed with the layout that that has for not only the people of Christchurch but also the people who are visiting because we need these facilities to bring in the tourists and bring in the overseas travellers so they too can bring their money into Christchurch and spend it to help us with the regeneration as well. In addition to all of these achievements in 2015 there has also been the increased funding to the Metro Sports Facility as well as the public sector precinct construction that has been happening. That is billions and billions of dollars’ worth that has gone into the city thus far.I want to take the opportunity to thank the workers of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority. They were the ones who started the recovery process. They have done a wonderful job to date and as they slowly move out—because they have done their bit; we are morphing into Regenerate Christchurch with a whole new team of people—maybe some of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority people may just go in there because it is quite good to have some old heads in there along with some new heads. We have started working also towards having a governance structure. As the Minister has said we have opened it up and we have seen that bureaucracy does rule and reign within the city as well.In some of the final parts of my contribution I do want to talk a little bit about the flat areas of the red zone which the previous speaker Poto Williams just touched a little bit on. I also want to acknowledge those volunteers who have been caring for the red zone flat areas through donations from the public or from their own personal pockets. I look forward to where we are going to be going with the red zone areas. There is a lot of work and a lot of thinking that needs to go on around there.Finally the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team otherwise known as SCIRT is now over in the eastern parts of Christchurch. It is going along very well. Yes businesses in Parklands and Bower Avenue are feeling the pinch with some of the missed opportunities but by the time the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team has finished which is by the end of this year that area of Parklands and Bower Avenue will look absolutely amazing with its new horizontal infrastructure that is going on at the moment. It does hurt. It does hurt but I can see that some of the businesses have been quite innovative. They have been meeting with Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team and Downer Group and the electorate MP Poto Williams and I have been attending these meetings. It is quite good to get around the table and to actually nut out and help to find some ways that businesses can keep flourishing albeit at a slower pace while these repairs are going on.All in all this is a very good bill. I look forward to it passing into legislation with the amendments in the Supplementary Order Papers that the Minister has done. I think it is good not just for the people of this House but for all New Zealand when we can see that the whole of Parliament is working for the well-being of all New Zealanders. I commend the bill to the House. Thank you.