Jones Shane: Building Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Jones Shane: Building Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 July 2009. Volume:656;Page:5200. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon SHANE JONES (Labour) 
: 
 Kia ora ano tatou. Firstly I offer my greetings to Te Ururoa Flavell. I share his concern about the absence of the relation of the great Peter Jones from Awanui on the rugby field at Rotorua. That will be rectified in future games. 
The Building Amendment Bill (No 2) was something that was driven as a consequence of the effective working relationship between the Labour Government’s Minister for Building and Construction and the building sector. In fact I recall members of the sector threatening to create statues not of clay or bronze but of gold as a consequence of the good work done in this particular bill. We know that prior to coming into this House the member Cam Calder who has just resumed his seat has created a career around optical illusion. The rhetoric if not the CV reflects that he has a long way to go before he can emulate the deeds of the previous Government in working effectively to maintain unparalleled economic growth until such time when a side wind of international character blew us off course. 
Let us look at what we have done. We have enabled the rats and mice that have bedevilled everyday applicants going to the council to be put aside because a schedule in the new Building Act includes a host of usages that people want to be able to proceed with without being bedevilled by bureaucracy in local government. That is now law. Secondly those people who are investing in housing will be able to gain national multiple-use approvals. There is very little investment by the State in State housing at the moment. Despite the best efforts of my colleague from Whangarei he is actually shrinking the number of State houses that are being created. But those houses that will be created if they are of a uniform character will be able to gain a national multiple-use approval. This bill provides a chance for people who are on a limited income or who have been beaten down by the largely rightist-oriented local government bodies which have let local government bureaucracy flourish. This bill strikes it down. This bill reminds local government bodies that their writ would not be permitted to carry on in that unfettered manner. 
I look forward to the seeds in this bill being advanced. It may annoy a few of my colleagues that there is a bipartisan spirit in this regard but at the end of the day the people out there in the sector realise that this bill enjoyed its beginnings and support from members on this side of the House. The underlying message is that the building industry will spend less time ensnarled in red tape and bureaucracy none of which has been reduced as a consequence either of Mr Hide’s rhetoric or of Mr Williamson and his colleagues’ loud voices. It is only when one passes legislation that that is achieved. To the newer members opposite I say that they should study this bill. I will not take all the credit but this is how one gets it done. Thank you very much.