Bennett Glen; Kuriger Barbara; Brown SimeonGLEN BENNETT (Labour): Kia ora Madam Chair. Yes I have got a specific question and it's following on from the Hon Rachel Brooking and her thoughtful questions. It's around clause 17 amending Schedule 1 of the Local Electoral Act. There is a preamble and I apologise but it really is because already on the table the Minister of Local Government has proposed an amendment and it's just around inserting or" in one part of it. The reason I bring that up is because it's just around the speed of this legislation. I'm looking at Schedule 1 and I guess it's around drafting and ensuring that actually everything is in place and everything in his play. What I want to point out to the Minister is as we talk about the different groups so the group 1 local authorities the group 2 local authorities group 3—it's just in terms of making sure that they are correct ensuring that the names are spelt correctly. Obviously just coming back to the amendment the Minister's put in just for a one-word change it's making sure that it is all in place.I mean the big picture is this is challenging for many councils and for many constituents and for many people around Aotearoa New Zealand—I guess without sort of wanting people who maybe feel offended by this legislation to feel more offended by this legislation.So I want to ask the Minister I'm looking here and in group 1 local authorities. As we go down the list of "Rangitikei District Council" Rotorua District Council we get down to "Whakatane District Council". I'm no expert in te reo Māori so I apologise to my colleagues in this room who are but "Whakatane District Council" is missing from what I can tell a macron above the letter "a". So it's Whakatāne—or "aa" instead of "ā". Now I know that being from Taranaki we have our ways. We obviously have our—is it a "collotal" stop? What's the—so we don't pronounce our "h" particularly much—Celia Wade-Brown: Glottal stop.GLEN BENNETT: Glottal stop. Thank you—yeah. So I guess around not being offensive to local councils not being offensive to local communities—I mean thousands of people have spoken against this. So I just really want to ask the Minister to ensure that the officials and that everyone has actually gone specifically through each of the council names has gone through all of the legislation to ensure that that spelling is correct that grammar is correct but particularly when it comes to Māori names.I did actually look up and check—and I was actually in Whakatāne last week meeting with a number of groups looking at what they're doing in the moana looking what they're doing around economic development. I did meet with Whakatāne District Council and I did see the macron on the building as I walked in and I have actually looked up in terms of their paperwork.So Madam Chair just through you to the Minister I would like to know: have there been checks and balances put in place to make sure that we do honour the language that we do honour not only Pākehā—for example the amendment that the Minister put in—but also obviously honour te reo Māori in this space. So through you Madam Chair I would like to know that there have been checks and balances done to make sure that everything is spelt correctly as well as those macrons and those "collotal" stops.CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Can I make a comment please. Fair question but it has brought the attention to the Minister and to the officials that are in the Chamber—that these things need to be correct. I just want really specific questions because the question's been raised. I'm sure in that process you know a five-minute speech on a macron might be just a little bit considered trifling at this point in time. But the point has been made very well—just probably the length of the speech.Hon SIMEON BROWN (Minister of Local Government): The Schedule has a list of councils the names are the legal names as set out in Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act. Only specific councils have macrons in their legal names even though they might use them elsewhere."