Williams PotoHon POTO WILLIAMS (Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector): I as a matter of practice when I'm speaking on third readings like to do a couple of things. First thing I like to do is thank the select committee for the work that they have done in hearing the submissions and allowing that process of consultation to impact and effect change to legislation.I like to thank the officials because they work very hard to make sure that the legislation comes back in a form that is useful for all of us. And I like to thank the submitters—and I often feel that it's important that some of the work that the submitters do is recognised in the House at third reading because it's important to know the passage of travel that we have engaged upon in these particular discussions.In this debate I'm going to just take a fairly brief call but I want to touch on a couple of aspects of two of the bills that are part of this cognate legislation. The first one I want to just touch on is the Regulatory Systems (Housing) Amendment Bill (No 2). There are some changes in part of this to the Retirement Villages Act and in particular there is the discussion that the Social Services and Community Committee came upon and the recommendation that they made with regards to ensuring advertising was not misleading or deceptive—that was changes to clause 7. And I want to refer to Trevor Garnett and the Commission for Financial Capability and the submissions that they made. Mr Garnett's discussion was about breaches of the code of practice and in his submission though he supported the bill he had indicated that he thought the $50000 as a remedy for breaches of code of practice was too low for a multinational company and he was seeking a higher threshold or higher fines for corporates involved in the retirement village business. The Commission for Financial Capability were also concerned about wanting to ensure that there was a limit on the number of times a new panel could be sought when there were disputes. Currently—in the legislature that we are going to pass there are disputes panels and if they can't agree a new panel is put in place—there are no limits to the number of times that those panels can be put in place. The view of the Commission for Financial Capability on this was that if a couple of panels can't agree then there's something fundamentally wrong with the dispute itself. However the select committee did not see that as warranting changes to the legislation so that was not recommended by them. The select committee did recommend though that all practical steps are taken to ensure that advertising is not misleading or deceptive in the case of retirement villages promoting their particular products to potential retirees to retirement villages.The other part that I want to talk about is the Regulatory Systems (Workforce) Amendment Bill (No 2) particularly the changes to the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act. The Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety who spoke a little earlier touched on the case where the father who was not a biological father could not access paid parental leave because the mother of the child had not actually been eligible.Now what this seeks to correct—and what it does do—is it ensures that where there is a non-biological parent or carer who is in charge of a child they have access to paid parental leave. There are a couple of conditions that sit around that: that the child is under a year of age; that the spouse or partner who is the biological parent cannot for some reason take advantage of the paid parental leave—and in this case the mother had passed away; and that the biological parent hadn't had the opportunity to apply for or wasn't eligible for paid parental leave. It's one of those interesting and you know very tragic situations that you never think of when you're developing legislation. But it's important and it certainly is important to that father that we recognise that this is an issue and we do what we can to put that in place and I want to thank the committee for doing that. I don't want to take any more of the House's time. I think this is important legislation to pass and I want to commend the bill to the House. Thank you Mr Speaker.