Tinetti JanJAN TINETTI (Labour): Kia orana Madam Assistant Speaker. Thank you very much. It's an actual pleasure to stand here this afternoon because being a member of the Education and Workforce Committee sometimes with our agenda we don't always see eye to eye but this was a bill that we could actually work together and come to agreement on. I concur with the Hon Tim Macindoe that it was a very pleasant experience to work through.I would also like to acknowledge the submitters who made a—[Interruption]ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Steady on members. We're nearly there—just another half an hour.JAN TINETTI: I'd like to acknowledge the submitters as well as the Hon Tim Macindoe did because they made absolutely heartfelt submissions. Sometimes it was quite harrowing to actually hear some of their personal stories and I was delighted to hear in the Associate Minister's presentation at the beginning of the debate on this reading that they are going to be taking those submissions into account in the future work plan. As I said there were some very tough stories to listen to and it's important that even though they were out of scope of what we were looking at in this particular bill we do take notice of everything that they were bringing up in telling those stories.This bill does go some way to address some tidying up of the Accident Compensation Act 2001 and as we've heard here from our two previous speakers those ideas have been worked on over the two successive Governments; so they have been in plan for quite some time. This particular bill is bringing those through to fruition and as we've heard here there's going to be a lot that people are going to be talking about through this particular reading. So the one area that I wanted to focus on which I've actually heard a lot about outside of the work that we have done in recent times is the extending of the ACC cover to spouses and partners and dependants of New Zealand employees posted offshore.When we were working through this particular work it wasn't until I was part of a parliamentary delegation to the Pacific—as were you Madam Assistant Speaker on that particular trip—that we actually heard about how important this was to those particular workers. I remember in Vanuatu one member of our fantastic post team over there telling us that this had become a real issue for some of the people wanting to be posted overseas and it was actually putting some people off. This was actually the norm up until 1998. There was ACC cover for spouses and partners and dependants of those people up until then but somewhere in the ether that's been lost—the reason why we actually got rid of that. It's not big in terms of monetary investment. It's not a big cover for our country. It's only half a million dollars in reality that it would actually cost and yet that was taken away and it stopped some people taking up positions overseas in New Zealand companies.So I'm delighted that this bill brings that back in that people don't have to take that into consideration any more that they can actually be clear that they will have ACC cover when they are an employee of a New Zealand company posted overseas and that they can have the cover for those spouses and partners and dependants. I think that that's a really good thing and as I said I have been told that by people who have been posted overseas—that they were looking forward to this coming in in this particular bill.As the Hon Tim Macindoe said there's a lot in there and there's more there for people to cover so I won't take up much more time here this afternoon only to say that I think it's fantastic to see this coming through from the select committee and I commend this bill to the House.