Korako Nuk: Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 10 May 2016. Volume:713;Page:10930. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): E mihi atu ki a koe e Te Mana Whakawā ā huri noa i te Whare nei. He mihi nui ki a koutou katoa. It is indeed an honour for me to be able to be the last speaker on this bill the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill. As someone who comes from Canterbury comes from Ōtautahi comes from Christchurch mana whenua I also join my other colleagues from both sides of the House to acknowledge a lot of the fine work that has gone into this bill. It is work that has been done cross-party. The bill has been very pragmatic and there has also been incredible and positive input made by submitters to this bill.When looking at the bill there are three main areas that I think are important to highlight as the final speaker. The first part is around the time and consistency—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member. The time has come for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.NUK KORAKO: Mauri ora e Te Mana Whakawā. Just to reiterate a couple of points it is indeed a great pleasure for me to be able to stand here and be the final speaker on this Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill.There are three main parts of it and I think the three important points are that the Government isensuring in this bill that earthquake-prone buildings are dealt with in a timely manner and by way of a nationally consistent system. The next part of it is that it does strike a good balance between protecting people in an earthquake and managing costs of strengthening or demolishing those buildings. The other part is the availability of information and what this bill ensures is that the information data system about earthquake-prone buildings is made available to the public.On that note again in another reiteration of the great cross-party support that this bill has had I congratulate the Minister of Building and Housing the Hon Dr Nick Smith the Local Government and Environment Committee well chaired by Scott Simpson and also those people—those building practitioners those from the public and those who were affected by the devastation in Christchurch during the February earthquake but particularly as an aftermath of all those incredible thousands of aftershocks as well. They came to the select committee they Skyped in and they were very very clear on the factors they believed should be in this bill. The committee heard them and now we have this bill.The other thing I suppose at the end of this speech of mine is to say āpiti hono tātai hono ko rātou te hunga mate ki a rātou āpiti hono tātai hono ko tātou te hunga ora ki a tātou—let the dead be the dead and the living be the living; particularly thinking of those victims from the Christchurch earthquake and those who are left behind who have actually been able to have input and to also develop such important things like this legislation. May it also be part of that situation where a phoenix indeed has risen from the rubble of Christchurch. I would like to commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.