Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Minister of Civil Defence): Thank you Madam Speaker. Thank you for this opportunity to offer some thoughts on this particular member's bill. First though I'd like to address the member Simeon Brown's pathway to Parliament. He mentioned our colleague on this side of the House and I'm curious if that member would like to explain to the House at some point in time his pathway to find himself in here. If I recall correctly in my first stand the member was all of a sudden a South Aucklander now the member is now an east Aucklander and I'm a little bit confused about the member's pathway. But the beauty about that member's ability to span across Auckland—and I take his point that this particular bill is good for Auckland—I think if that member can offer a perspective from South Auckland and east Auckland good on him. As the member for Tāmaki Makaurau of course my electorate spans both south up to the bridge out to the west in Pīhā and over to the east—quite a large area of Auckland. This particular bill is one of those bills that—I know it sounds Auckland-centric and there are a number of members in the House that aren't from Auckland but if we can toot our own horn and say that the Blues are the best rugby team in the country and secondly that this particular bill will make sure that the amenities in some of those seats—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): I think you should be very careful in case the Speaker closes down this speech for comments like that.Hon PEENI HENARE: We'll see when the Blues play the Crusaders coming up. But look you know the bill talks about in particular the Auckland Regional Rescue Helicopter Trust and the Surf Life Saving Northern Region. As a former Minister of the voluntary sector and the charity sector I've met with these particular organisations on a number of occasions in the past and there've been a couple of things that they've raised with us. One of them is the lack of funding and security for those particular organisations. And first I'd like to point out that this Government in the last Budget made a significant announcement to make sure that we are able to support surf lifesaving in Aotearoa New Zealand which is a great announcement. Now this particular bill actually brings in line an anomaly that is clearly defined in the preamble of the bill which is really important because I recall my discussions with them and they talked about the opportunity to just tidy up some of the aspects in what are seemingly across Aotearoa a number of anomalies within the surf lifesaving area and the water health safety area more broadly speaking. This particular bill serves to do that. One of the other aspects—as the member for Tāmaki Makaurau I'm really proud because quite a large number of Māori kaupapa are covered by this particular bill: things that will allow the flourishing of Māori Te Reo and arts kaupapa across Tāmaki Makaurau for different organisations to serve a population which is really keen on those types of events. It is where we can get along and support namely over the next couple of weeks the Matariki festival which will see a huge number of charitable organisations Māori and Pacific in particular across big parts of my electorate where organisations will be at this very minute practising and getting prepared to make sure that they are able to present themselves and now they can do that with this anomaly fixed up. It just brings into line a few tricky parts of accounting that will allow those particular organisations to now focus on their performance for Matariki instead of their bookkeeping. It was always one of those issues that many of our charities and our organisations in our communities have always asked for—and that's simplifying bureaucracy or stripping it away—and this particular bill we're happy to support and we want to commend the member Parmjeet Parmar as well as the Government and Administration Committee for what I hear was a robust debate through this particular bill. But also as I watched it throughout the House there has been quite a bit of to and fro from all sides of the House with regard to this bill. However collectively we can all agree that this particular bill will be a good piece of legislation for the community of Tāmaki Makaurau. So look without going on too much further this is a good bill. There are a number of things that I think once this bill has passed where we as a collective in particular those from Auckland can sit down and have a look at some of the other pieces of legislation that I think could be amended to make our beautiful city of Tāmaki Makaurau even better and even more culturally diverse and serve the rich communities that live within Auckland. I commend this bill to the House.