Rurawhe Adrian: Third Readings —Text is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Third Readings —[Sitting date: 24 March 2015. Volume:704;Page:2508. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): It is a pleasure to make a contribution on the third reading of these now 34 bills before the House formerly the Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4). During the earlier stages of that bill I called it the “Fixer-up Bill” and in this instance I will probably refer to it again as that. It fixes a number of mistakes over a wide range of bills that we have heard about already in this debate.I do want to mention again a point that I made during the Committee stage and that was around the Ngāti Manuhiri claims settlement. I want it recorded again that this is a very important issue for all iwi and all claimant groups that get to the settlement stage: to make certain that the deed of settlement and the Act of Parliament enacting the settlement that they have negotiated are consistent. In this instance one clause that added the two words “Crown body” to a section in the Act was inconsistent with the deed of settlement. The question I raised earlier was in fact around whether or not the Minister and the Government had considered asking Ngāti Manuhiri whether they would prefer the legislation to be changed or the deed of settlement to be changed. The number of Crown body - owned land and properties within the area of interest to Ngāti Manuhiri I think should have been examined to see whether that was viable. So I raise that issue in the third reading.Also fixing up 34 bills—in speaking and adding to the previous contributor around the process I am asking the question why so many mistakes. One can project forward to the next statutes amendment bill and wonder what mistakes have been made over the last few months that will come back to the House to be corrected as well. Perhaps the Ministers were too busy or perhaps the select committees overlooked certain things. I think it is important that we try our very best and work cooperatively in this House. This particular type of bill seems to me one of the few occasions where as has been mentioned before we need to have absolute agreement across the entire House for these bills to proceed. They are to me a rarity.The other point is that as a new member of Parliament over the last 5 months I will be able to go home to my people at the end of this week and say that I have spoken on 34 bills this week and I have been really productive. I think that will more than quadruple the number of contributions on bills that I have made so far. I will be very pleased to be able to do that and I think some of the other new MPs might be able to say the same as well.In responding also to some of the other points that have been made indeed it is really important that the Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration Act is amended so that it is very clear about the process of changing one’s name. I can tell you that one of the issues in my electorate is that up to the 1930s indeed the registration of births in particular was not done very well. Even as a new MP I have had to assist a constituent who did not have their birth registered way back in the late 1920s. These issues of getting that correct are very important. I have also mentioned this issue to a family member whose name was recorded incorrectly within the records. This was in 1960. She wants to change her name to correct the spelling of her name which was recorded incorrectly. I will not mention the name but her name if translated as it was recorded would mean “chair” and I can assure you that she is not a chair. That was a simple spelling mistake because of the recording of her name when her birth was registered.It is important that on the whole host of these bills we have had a number of contributions on the Official Information Act. I too support the contribution that the Hon Ruth Dyson made around the time frame for receiving responses for Official Information Act requests. Also I have heard a number of contributions that I am not sure were all very helpful in discussing these amendments to the 34 statutes. I am tempted to add to that but I will refrain from doing so. I think it is not very helpful although from time to time I probably will go there in certain circumstances.Another Act that caught my eye was the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 1978. A few weeks ago—and I have mentioned it in this debate—I attended the Matatini festival held in Christchurch. A number of groups there in their waiata and their haka spoke about issues regarding the misuse of drugs. I think it is important that we acknowledge that this is a huge issue amongst all of our communities. I can tell you that in Te Tai Hauāuru it is no different. The issues around the misuse of drugs need serious attention. Making certain that this particular Act is amended will hopefully contribute to an improvement in terms of helping those who have addictions. The issue of addiction is a huge issue within my electorate and I suspect in a number of electorates. We need to acknowledge and also make certain that we make positive contributions towards addressing the misuse of drugs. Nō reira tēnā tātou katoa.