Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Well thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I'm delighted to take a call in the first reading of this Statutes Amendment Bill. I'd like to acknowledge Mr Mark Mitchell for his very helpful contribution in this debate stepping us through some of the provisions that we are amending under this bill—very helpful. But first of all I want to acknowledge the Hon Aupito William Sio who has brought this bill to the House—a very hard-working Minister. We are bringing this bill hot on the heels of the Statutes Amendment Act 2018 which has recently come into force and which demonstrates the great work that the Hon Aupito William Sio is doing in this area. So I want to acknowledge him.I do want to actually pay tribute to this Government because what we are doing in this bill—yes we are doing minor technical non-controversial amendments to a whole range of principal Acts but these are all very important. There are times when we have to update give legislation a bit of a tune-up sometimes correct some errors—a whole range of matters—which we are doing with this bill. In total we are amending 42 Acts and they span across a range of Ministers and their relevant departments or ministries.The bulk of the Acts which we are amending come under the justice portfolio of the Hon Andrew Little. To my knowledge I believe 16 Acts that we are amending under this bill fall under his purview his jurisdiction. Likewise we are spanning everything from justice to building and construction to the Defence Force veterans' affairs internal affairs culture and heritage the environment Treasury and finance also State-owned enterprises State services and also health. So this is a very wide-ranging omnibus bill and by that it means that we are simply amending principal pieces of legislation. That's why we can under the Standing Orders combine all those diverse areas all these diverse amendments into a single omnibus bill.I do want to observe I guess that there is provision under Standing Order 262(1)(d) for there to be a Māori Purposes Bill. I guess you could say that a couple of the Acts within this omnibus bill could I guess technically have come under a Māori Purposes Bill—that being the Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Act and also I guess one could say the technical amendment to the Ombudsmen Act with the removal of the Māori Trustee—but it just goes to show that we are wanting to get the job done. Rather than waste Parliament's time by creating separate Māori purposes bills under Standing Orders we as a Government are getting the job done combining everything into a single omnibus bill covering a whole range of different areas.I want to acknowledge the work of the various legal teams across all of the different departments and ministries that have been working on all of these different amendments. Some are very straightforward but I guess they all take time and a lot of work has to go into just the whole process of bringing these bills to the House especially covering such very wide areas of Government. There is a lot of work that goes into these bills and I am pleased that we are able to continue this work with haste. This bill was introduced just last month and we are getting on with the job and making sure that we can get these changes implemented as quickly as possible. I do want to acknowledge all the parties in the House because as an omnibus bill it does require consultation across the House. I acknowledge the Minister for undertaking that work and I do acknowledge the support that we have from across the House to actually implement all of these changes.I don't really have too much more to add. I look forward to the Governance and Administration Committee examining this bill and I'm sure they will conduct their work with great vigour and will be very careful in their consideration of the bill. Along with that it is important that we make these changes. Yes they may be technical minor and non-controversial but they are necessary for ensuring that our laws are up to date and are legal and that we're able to run the country. So with that I commend this bill to the House.