Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker and I stand to make a brief contribution to the Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Bill. I first of all want to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Megan Woods the Minister for Greater Christchurch Regeneration for picking up this bill and being a strong advocate for ensuring that it meets a very satisfactory end for all Cantabrians and all New Zealanders to do with the reinstatement of the cathedral. Because this is my first contribution on this bill I also want to acknowledge the Hon Nicky Wagner. In one newspaper article she was noted as being the Minister of Sunshine" and you are Nicky. You have always been the "Minister of Sunshine" and a great cheerleader for everything that happens within Christchurch City. I want to also acknowledge her predecessor the Hon Gerry Brownlee for the work that he did in making sure that the Hon Nicky Wagner had some good packages to move forward with and so too—handing over to the Hon Megan Woods.I just want to talk a little bit about the Christ Church Cathedral and its connection to the Anglican Church and how it all came about. As we know in 1532 Henry VIII wanted to marry Catherine of Aragon and in order to do that he had to get a divorce. Because England was part of the Catholic community and Pope Clement VII refused him consent to divorce Catherine of Aragon he decided to take the whole of England from the Roman Catholic Church and hello the Anglicans came to be. One of the things I just also want to say about that is on my visit to London this year I actually went into the only Catholic church that's actually in England and that's in the basement of Parliament House. So that's really quite interesting. However I digress.I just want to talk a little bit about my connection to the cathedral because I visited the cathedral when I was in high school and I thought "What an amazing cathedral. What an amazing church." I thought it was highly ornate. I'd never seen anything like that. This was a country girl who'd been brought up you know in a farming community. I'd never seen anything like that and I was absolutely stunned. And so years later I took my youngest son there also to have a look through one of the iconic buildings that this country has amongst its historical events. But as I keep moving forward to today as a list MP for Christchurch East I have had on many occasions people come up to me on the street talking to me about: what are they going to do with Christ Church Cathedral? I'm really pleased tonight as the Hon Nicky Wagner said that the Christchurch City Council agreed for the $10 million to come across to support the reinstatement of the cathedral. I'm really pleased about that. Some people wanted it; other people didn't. Other people said "We want our cathedral but we don't want to pay for it." but I'm pleased that the Christchurch City Council has taken it upon themselves to make that good decision for all the people of Canterbury.As I end my contribution I just want to say that throughout this whole process over the last six years to do with Christ Church Cathedral there have been many emotional times faced by the population of Christchurch. Some anger frustration—and here we are today. Everything's come out. Satisfaction—as they say you can please some of the people some of the time but you'll never please all of the people all of the time but I think in this case the people that wanted to be satisfied by this outcome have been. I want to say thank you to the Environment Committee members. You've done an amazing job—I'm jealous I wasn't on your select committee. I want to say thank you to the chair of the select committee Deborah Russell. Well done to you. It is the first big bill to come through your select committee so well done to you. I just want to say I look forward to the rest of the progress of this bill and a speedy conclusion. Thank you."