O'Connor Simon: New Zealand Business Number Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeO'Connor Simon: New Zealand Business Number Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 16 February 2016. Volume:711;Page:9054. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SIMON O’CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): I think we have to begin simply by reminding the member who has just sat down Jacinda Ardern that this is actually the New Zealand Business Number Bill; this is not actually the “Small Business Number Bill”. This is something that actually those on the select committee who processed this would understand from the outset. I have to say though that it is particularly good. It is particularly good and unfortunately I do not have the exact number of questions that have been asked in the House around small business but it is actually really good to—I believe Jacinda Ardern may be the member from the Opposition who speaks on small business. We are not sure. She has not stood up and answered or responded to any questions but I just remind her as a member of the Labour Party that this is the New Zealand Business Number Bill. It does obviously apply to small businesses. It also applies to the larger ones and I think having sat on the Commerce Committee throughout the discussions on this it has been welcomed and well received. Naturally in any process there are points of feedback and I think if you read the select committee report it is clear that there are some elements that we discussed and as a committee came to a conclusion around.This bill has been welcomed. I was out just tonight talking with people from within the airline industry—so obviously not small businesses but significant. They can see the benefits of this. I am also very conscious within my own electorate that small businesses are welcoming this. In fact when I think of the fine electorate of Tāmaki the likes of a new superette within the Stonefields community has been set up. There are some local businesses around—well actually there are far too many to name so I had better be careful here of making sure I do not miss anyone out. The long and the short is that small businesses within my own electorate—and it goes across the country I am sure—welcome any initiative that enables them and us as a community to engage more easily and readily with Government. It makes perfect sense.We hear remonstrations from the other side that it is just noise—a little bit in fact like the points earlier around taxation and so forth from the other side that it is just noise. This is one of the Business Growth Agenda initiatives. It is one of the targets that Minister Joyce and others have set out. Like so many things this Government has done we have achieved that. I think the committee has worked incredibly hard to bring it to this position.I am not going to go through all the detail. I think those who are interested and who are following this know that the initiative itself is positive it is good. How can there be any complaints about making business engagement easier right across the sector between businesses themselves—small or large—or between Government and its agencies? So I commend this bill to the House. I look forward to it progressing swiftly. What more can be said?