Faafoi Kris: Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFaafoi Kris: Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 01 July 2015. Volume:706;Page:5017. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): Thank you very much for the opportunity to take a call on the title and commencement clauses of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill. Mr Chair I know that you are a Chair who looks for creativity in Committee stage submissions but I do believe also that we have to have a fair bit of discipline in this House so I do want to back up what my colleague Stuart Nash said about the length of time that it has taken for this piece of legislation to find its way to this Committee stage. It was introduced in August 2008 under the Hon David Parker. It had its first reading in March 2009. The Primary Production Committee reported back with relatively quick speed in September 2009 and then we find ourselves debating the Committee stage here on 1 July 2015. That is a very long time for a piece of legislation to come through the House. I must add that a fair few people have been waiting for it to be passed—Barbara Kuriger: We’re still waiting.KRIS FAAFOI: Well you can wait just another 3½ minutes longer. To back that up you need to look at the membership of the select committee that reported back on this bill. There were some fine members: Shane Ardern a member from across the Chamber; the Hon Jim Anderton; Brendon Burns a member from this side of the Chamber; the Hon John Carter who I believe is now the Mayor of the Northland region; Dr Ashraf Choudhary; Sandra Goudie; the Hon George Hawkins; Colin King; Moana Mackey; and the only surviving member of that select committee the Hon Damien O’Connor who had an earlier than expected end to his parliamentary proceedings today.I hope that I am painting the picture that this piece of legislation should have got through this House much faster. I think that it is rather unfortunate that a lot of the communities that have parcels of land within this piece of legislation have had to wait this long for a relatively simple piece of legislation to come through the House. So I hope that I have dealt with the commencement date. I hope that this piece of legislation is passed as soon as possible and I do note the interjection from across the Chamber.Pointing to the title currently the bill is titled the “Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill”. In my previous contribution on this bill I talked about the region of Otago and Southland which is taking on the Hurricanes this weekend in the Super 15 final. So I would like to make possibly one change to the name of the bill and that is that we should rename this bill the “Highlanders Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill” because there are quite a number of parcels of land within this piece of legislation that pertain to the Otago region. We talked about the Port Chalmers—Metiria Turei: Go Highlanders!KRIS FAAFOI: OK do not put that in the Hansard. There is a parcel of land—Metiria Turei: It is now.KRIS FAAFOI: Good one. There is a parcel of land in Taieri. There is a parcel of land that I mentioned earlier—the Winton Racecourse—just north of Invercargill. There is also a parcel of land that I understand is the Port Chalmers Bowling Club which Stuart Nash referred to earlier. I think that we should take some of the load off the members of the Port Chalmers Bowling Club on Saturday night. They are obviously very weary of this piece of legislation. They want to get it through and enjoy a kick-off at 7.35 p.m. So let us just give them an hour and a half of grace to live life in an ideal situation where they are cheering on their Highlanders—one that will come to an abrupt end at roughly 9.20 p.m. on Saturday. Let us get this piece of legislation passed so that the good people of the Port Chalmers Bowling Club can enjoy Saturday night until about 9.25 p.m. and also so that all of the other communities that are depending on this piece of legislation getting passed will have peace of mind despite having waited for about 8 years for this piece of legislation to get passed.