Dalziel Lianne: Appointments — Representation CommissionText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDalziel Lianne: Appointments — Representation Commission[Sitting date: 03 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13159. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon LIANNE DALZIEL (Labour—Christchurch East): On behalf of the Labour Opposition I would like to support the motions that the Hon Judith Collins has moved in the House to support the nominations as outlined by her for the Representation Commission. The Hon Roger Sowry and the Hon Pete Hodgson have something in common with each other: they were both elected to Parliament the same year that I was in 1990. In fact my former colleague Pete Hodgson was previously one of the last remaining members of the “Backbench Seven” which of course I am now the last remaining member of. I will be leaving Parliament in the next 3 weeks after my valedictory when I will be retiring from Parliament altogether.It is actually quite nice to be able to stand in this House in one of the few remaining contributions that I will be making to congratulate both Roger Sowry and Pete Hodgson on their appointment to the commission and to express my confidence in their ability to undertake what is a very important role. Of course it is made more important in my home town of Christchurch because of the significant movements in population. That will impact on the boundaries but it may not impact actually on the number of seats in this House as it might otherwise do because of course it is the total population of the South Island not just those as represented in the cluster of seats that sit around Christchurch. I know of my own experience of running into former constituents and them starting off a conversation by saying: “Thank you so much for how much help your office has given us as we have resolved all of our issues with the Earthquake Commission and the insurance.” Then I go on to say: “Oh that’s fine. Where are you settled now?”. They say Rolleston which is in the Selwyn electorate and—Hon Ruth Dyson: Rangiora.Hon LIANNE DALZIEL: —and Rangiora which is in the Waimakariri electorate and in actual fact is in two different council boundaries as well so that is going to have an impact on a certain rating base that I might have an interest in at some stage in the near future.The work—and I am not making light of the work—is really really important because establishing boundaries is not just about looking for those natural boundaries orstrong boundaries like streets rivers and things that separate communities but it is actually looking for the separation between what are collective communities of interest. Our own councils will be going through that process through our own version of a representation review that we will undertake in the next 3 years ourselves. I certainly am very pleased to be able to support Roger Sowry who I also enjoyed spending time on select committees with and I know that he will add his weight of knowledge and experience to this role along with Pete Hodgson.I acknowledge too the need to have separate appointees to the Representation Commission to look at theMāori electoral districts and speak in favour of the nomination of Daniel Te Kanawa of Hamilton andWhetūWeretā of Lower Hutt as members of the Representation Commission. I certainly wish them well in their deliberations. It will be very interesting when the first results of the census become available and we get those actual numbers which will be the basis for establishing what those new boundaries will be.