Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. The Building Amendment Bill is supported by both sides of the House. I certainly support it fundamentally because it's a National Party Bill. The work was done in the previous Government—Hon Phil Twyford: You're so tribal Alastair.ALASTAIR SCOTT: Oh yeah damn right—damn right. It is good to see the other side of the House supporting what is fundamentally a National Party bill. I tell you what it's not the first bill that they've supported that's been all National Party work and it won't be the last. There will be another bill I'm sure. I'm going to bet the next bill that they will support which has come from this side of the House will be the drug driving bill—I bet you it's going to come and they will support it.Hon Phil Twyford: It won't look anything like your bill.ALASTAIR SCOTT: It will be stolen it will be picked up and it will be adopted by the Government and they will claim it as their own.But we come to this bill—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Please please.ALASTAIR SCOTT: The previous speaker Phil Twyford and Minister Salesa have—in fact picking up on Minister Salesa's example it was a very good example of why we need this bill: she gave the example of an affected building a dangerous building being basically landlocked if you like behind other buildings and to get access to that building we need the cooperation and powers to enter both buildings to solve the issue. That's what this bill does it gives certain people certain powers which override the interests of the building owner. It overrides the ability of someone to say: Keep out of my place this is my castle you're trespassing"—and that's the right thing. The right thing is to override that fundamental right because the building in question is a risk—a high risk a medium risk a lower risk there are three cascading types of risk mentioned in the bill. So that is important that those fundamental rights are overridden for the benefit of the community as a whole. That's the first part of the bill. In the Transport and Infrastructure Committee we clarified some of those powers and some of the people that were able to do that work.The second part of the bill relates to what happens after the event and what we can learn after the event. Again it gives certain people certain powers to compel agencies or landowners or engineers or architects to hand across certain information to enable the investigators to understand what went wrong in the buildings that we're talking about—the buildings that are falling over. There have been a number of buildings in Christchurch and in Wellington over the years without this legislation but thankfully with the cooperation of those landlords or the building owners to allow investigators to come in but it has not been an absolute. This bill makes it absolutely clear that those owners have to give up to furnish information to investigators so that they may learn the cause of for example Statistics House down here in Wellington on the port.So it's a very good bill. Two parts as I say and it will be as Minister Twyford says I'm sure an evolving bill with lots of amendments through the corridors of time. No doubt there will be further amendments as we work out whether the balance that I talked about earlier is right or about right—some people will say it's not quite right and we may end up discussing that further in committee stage. But at this point in my view it is in very good shape and I commend it to the House."