Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. It's a pleasure to get a call on this the second reading of the Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Bill.I just want to provide a bit of context because we're actually talking about the campylobacteriosis outbreak in Havelock North and the fact that of the 14000 residents 5500—39 percent—were actually affected by the contamination of their water supply. That included 45 hospitalisations three deaths and actually there were others that suffered health complications and it continues to affect them adversely. This is an incredibly important piece of legislation because it implements recommendations made to the Government inquiry into Havelock North's drinking water. I want to acknowledge the 30 submitters and the seven oral submitters and like others today I also want to acknowledge the work of our committee—incredibly collegial. Actually this was a technical bill but I think those eight changes which have been acknowledged by Minister David Clark are significant and actually have added tremendous value. I also want to acknowledge the officials who I think we have an incredibly constructive relationship with and also congratulate the Minister on having a ministry that has dedicated staff who like us are all concerned about public health issues. Obviously having a clean water supply is incredibly important. A lot of the changes were to the philosophy of the whole approach to ensuring we have a safe water supply and in fact the whole intention of this legislation is about the protection of public health. But embedded within the system actually were a lot of choices that suppliers could make and that's what I really want to focus on. They didn't have to justify whether or not they did something. They could just say it was unaffordable and they didn't have to do it. So what this piece of legislation now has embedded in it is not only the creation of these water safety plans by the suppliers but they have to under this law now have an implementation plan and they can't just say We haven't done it because we can't afford it." That is now unacceptable. The assessors will sign off these safety water plans. There will be monitoring of the implementation of those safety water plans and there will also be a requirement to highlight what they're calling critical points in terms of those safety management plans and they actually have to have plans to implement it I guess in the worst-case scenario. So I think this is now an incredibly proactive piece of legislation that doesn't just rely on suppliers having these plans and that we're satisfied with the plans. It has to be beyond just having a plan. It actually has to be about the accountability of those plans being implemented and consistent monitoring because at the heart of what we are trying to do is to guarantee to every single New Zealander that their drinking water is safe. We never want to see a repeat of what happened in Havelock North. I acknowledge that this is the first step in an implementation regime and there will be another piece of legislation that comes to the House. I won't speak for much longer. Everyone have a great recess. Kia ora."