Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Thank you Madam Speaker. I want to make a short contribution today and just note a couple of specific points that came up through the select committee process and a couple of other matters just in response to the previous speaker Simon Watts.The first point I just want to note is around the establishment date of the water services entities. We received a lot of feedback from local government authorities wanting some certainty around when they would move to the new dates for establishing their new entities. We also heard from officials that there had been significant consultation but there was still work to be done to ensure there was agreement around the best dates.So in order to add that certainty into the legislation we did add in a requirement for the Minister to put the dates for the new entities into an Order in Council within six months of the legislation being passed—which is now. So within six months of this time we will have those establishment dates noted by Order in Council by the Minister which is a good thing for certainty from those councilsThe next matter that we considered was around community priority statements. One of the amendments we made to those statements was to ensure that those who make those community priority statements do have a genuine interest in the area they're making them for. In my area of Nelson and other parts of the country we have had issues related to water where people from outside of our region—with no connection to our region—have been able to take court action or try to influence activity in our water areas and it has ended up costing Government and costing other agencies significant amounts of money. So we did want to limit that to ensure we weren't going to have vexatious approaches from people outside of particular areas.The next piece I just want to note is around the regional representative groups and there have been calls from some parties to have equal weighting based on proportion of population. We're very clear—and I'm very clear as a provincial MP—that it's important that as part of the reform our provincial and rural communities have strong voices sitting at the table. That has been one of the challenges around water infrastructure—that our smaller councils with lower populations and larger areas to cover particularly in rural communities have found it difficult to invest. So we need to ensure that their voices are strong at the table so that they're not swamped by our dear friends from the large urban centres.I just want to note one further point which is the importance around that particular issue with the representation as it helps ensure that genuine balance sheet separation. We know that we need genuine balance sheet separation so that we can invest the way that we need to. On the point of debt by having larger entities with greater numbers of population and that genuine balance sheet separation we can ensure that that debt will be serviced using lower interest rates and that allows us to be able to invest properly in the way that we haven't for generations.This is an excellent bill. I'm so delighted it's passing its third reading today and I commend it to the House.