Dean JacquiPart 1 Preliminary provisionsHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Madam Chair. I would resist and completely agree with our decision and support our decision to not condense this very important bill into one part. It is a local bill. It has come to this House on behalf of the farmers and the shareholders and landowners in the Gore District Council area who wish to assume ownership of the Otama Rural Water Supply that they themselves have had stewardship over—and an emotional attachment to you could very strongly argue—for a number of years. The very fact that there is a local bill in this House on behalf of the community of Ōtama water scheme users is of the utmost importance to that community which is why I think it is very important that this House does honour to those folk by giving this bill the attention that it deserves today. I'm a little disappointed in the member in charge of the bill Mark Patterson wanting to truncate this process. I do know that Hamish Walker the MP for Clutha-Southland who's a very strong supporter of this bill and sends his kind wishes to the House has taken a very strong interest in the passage of this bill.So we are on Part 1 of the bill which is of course clauses 1 to 3 I think—Preliminary provisions". This part of this bill is pretty critical. It sets out the process which the Gore District Council must follow to authorise a transfer. It cannot be done without a local bill. There is a process therein which is described in Part 1 of this bill that is to authorise the transfer of the Otama Rural Water Supply—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I'll just correct the member that Part 1 is actually the purpose and interpretation. I think the process is in Part 2.Hon JACQUI DEAN: I raise a point of order Madam Chairperson. A matter of clarification then Madam Chair: yes I am speaking to the correct bill. I'm on page 2 Part 1 "Preliminary provisions": "The purpose of this Act is—(a) to specify the process that the Gore District Council must follow".CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Yes that's the purpose; Part 2 is the actual process.Hon JACQUI DEAN: Yes so I am reading from the bill which specifies the purpose of the Act which is to—so if you would like me to I can—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Are you arguing with me?Hon JACQUI DEAN: No not at all. Actually I did make a point of order and I was speaking to the point of order.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Well I've heard your point of order. That's fine if you're reading from the bill but when you debate it we are talking the purpose and interpretation not the actual process. That's Part 2.Hon JACQUI DEAN: Thank you Madam Chair. So the purpose of this Act as I was outlining to the committee is that there is a local bill which has been brought by the community who have over a number of years developed the Otama Rural Water Supply scheme. The scheme was built in the early 1970s so it's quite some considerable years old and it came about very organically if you like through a series of meetings of farmers in the community. This is the kind of—I was going to say process but I'm a bit gun-shy of that word just at the moment—activity that has happened over the years in many parts of rural New Zealand where a reticulated water supply was identified as being very advantageous to the local community not least for purposes of stock water because generally those communities are in rural parts of New Zealand but also for irrigation purposes on land and most importantly perhaps to supply good potable drinking water for the houses of that scheme.So in the 1970s there were a series of meetings—because you know you've got nothing else to do at seven o'clock on a Tuesday evening for months and months and months on end. Those people put a considerable amount of time into those meetings to nut out—I was going to say "process" again but I'm not going to do that—how it will come to be that they can form a—[Time expired]"