Williams PotoPOTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East): I too want to acknowledge the work of the Government Administration Committee and Supplementary Order Paper 237put up by my colleague Clare Curran. I acknowledge that that has wide support and I am happy to support that.I am going to confine my discussions to clause 4 and a little bit of clause 5. In particular I want to look at clause 4(7) which looks at recovery activity". I just want to quote from the bill where recovery activity is defined as "the assessment of ongoing monitoring of the needs by the community affected by the emergency;" it is "the co-ordination and integration of planning decisions actions and resources"; it is about measures to support "the regeneration restoration and enhancement of communities; … the cultural and physical well-being of individuals and their communities; … government and non-government organisations and entities working together; … [new measures] to reduce risks from hazards; and … to build resilience".In this regard I want to actually quote the activity that took place in the community of Aranui as an example of how a community deals with a situation and how it actually works to build that resilience into a community for later disasters. What happened in Aranui in the February earthquakes was—it was a community that was largely cut off from the rest of the city. There was poor communication in and out of Aranui of course the roads were fairly damaged and for a few weeks the community there had limited access to water and no access to functioning toilets. As a community—it is one of our lower socio-economic communities—what they did was they decided to doorknock every single house in that community and talk to the people there find out who was living there who had mobility issues who had health concerns and where there were children; so every house was mapped in that community. What they did was they ensured that those who needed to be prioritised were prioritised. As communication was fairly limited they ensured that the resources went to those who needed them first.There were organisations—and I happened to work for one of them—who at that time opened their doors to ensure that there was a hot meal prepared for people at lunch time that they could have access to showers and that they could do their washing. They were simple things that actually meant that a community could continue to function even in a limited capacity through those times when it was difficult to get even the basic services through.What that did for that particular community of Aranui was it actually set within them the opportunity to ensure that their community was not going to be affected in the same way again. Every year they continue to do that door-to-door mapping of the community: they find out who has the health concerns who is elderly and what kind of support they might need. They have actually through their own fund-raising put together a container that has generators supplies and blankets—it has enough supplies to keep that community going for a few weeks should it be cut off again. That is at the heart of what this clause 4 talks about—building resilience. That community has done it on its own. It should be something that as communities across the country we actually use as a model. These people realised that in order to get through a significant event you have to take measures yourself so they have done it themselves. I want to commend them for doing that.Like my colleague Dr Megan Woods and the submission from the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) I also want to question why within the definitions of those key roles we have not included the health response and recovery manager. As my colleague said this is a significant role within the civil defence roles and responsibilities. It is something that I think the Minister could perhaps answer—why that was not considered. It is a very good submission by the CDHB and it certainly is a vital role that should have a place within the civil defence and emergency management profile. Thank you."