Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): Look I want to thank you this evening for allowing us to I guess engage in such a robust discussion on Part 2 of this bill. This is as the Chair will be aware and this committee will be aware—in fact everybody watching this debate will be aware just how significant housing issues in New Zealand have become. It's because of these housing issues that we are here this evening to go through in some detail I might add I guess some of the more pivotal legislation that will enable this Government to transition the current housing regulatory environment towards something that is transformational and will have well-felt impacts on the ground. Now I guess for me as I didn't have the opportunity to sit on the select committee but I did have a lot of questions—and I had a lot of questions about in particular Part 2 of this bill because of the exemplary submissions that were received across a whole wide array of particulars and particular details that came through. My question's to the Minister. Minister there are a range of reforms that I note and I'm going to work through relatively systematically so that it's easy for you of course to take note and I guess answer my questions in turn. Now if I turn to clause 22(1) the original date there that was proposed about when the Minister must make or issue a Government policy statement (GPS) on housing and urban development was 1 October 2020. So that would be next year. Now I note that that has been extended by a year. As I've been going through the submissions and there are numerous submissions—probably in excess of 100 or so—I was ardently looking for a submitter that proposed an amendment to that particular time. Just noting the gravity of the housing environment and wanting to reset the housing situation that we have in New Zealand I would be interested just to understand the transition there as to why the proposal of an extension for a year has been put there.Then if I turn to subclause (2) of that same provision there's been an inclusion there that says that the Minister can review at any time. I'm just wanting to understand why the discretion at any time". That seems to be a relatively broad—well it's absolutely broad and relatively uncommon to see in this type of legislation so I was interested in your views there in particular.But actually as I went through the submissions something came through from my home patch in the Bay of Plenty. I noticed that all of the local body councils in the Bay of Plenty—in particular Western Bay of Plenty Bay of Plenty and who else Tauranga District Council—submitted on this bill and some made some relatively persuasive submissions I thought in regards to clause 23. Now clause 23 has been omitted from this current piece of legislation that we're debating this evening. But I guess the tenor of the submissions put forward from those councils in my patch of the woods was about linking in particular the GPS and the process to go about I guess making sure that the GPS settings were linked to other instrumental planning instruments of course that flow through from other pieces of legislation like the Resource Management Act national policy statements environmental impact statements and the like. I'd be interested because that provision has been deleted whether there are any other subclauses within this bill that deal to that point in particular. I guess it's about synchronicity or—[Time expired]"