Garcia Paulo; Tuiono TeanauPAULO GARCIA (National—New Lynn): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to make a contribution to the McLean Institute (Trust Variation) Bill. The McLean Institute is a charitable institute established pursuant to the will of Allan McLean who passed away on 12 November 1907 120 years ago. The language of Mr McLean's will that established the McLean Institute was couched in the language of 120 years ago. It referred to women of refinement or education in straightened circumstances" along with their children—so women who were going through a rough patch but who were otherwise refined or educated in line with the time that Mr McLean worded his will.It is a nice time to look back to and the will of Mr McLean is an amazing reminder of that time. But the time has passed and the changes that we are now going through in this bill which are supported across the House make the will of Mr McLean more applicable and the trust that he created more enduring with today's time.The institute was established by will in 1904 and by a codicil an addition to the will in 1906. Through his will Mr McLean established the Holly Lea a property located in Christchurch. The residue of his estate was later settled as well into the institute the object of which was to make sure that women were given the support they needed at the time they needed it.The bill now speaks of a little tweak which has to do with the provision of the will which referred to women and their children in Canterbury now applying to women who are from Canterbury and who may be transitioning elsewhere for various reasons possibly including family violence or having to relocate their children or themselves away from Canterbury. So the bill includes opportunities to support women in such circumstances.The object of the bill has always been to provide housing—accommodation; temporary emergency transition housing to women and their children. The trust is also empowered to locate obtain or help retain accommodation for women if not to provide for that accommodation themselves in the property that the trust runs and operates. It is very worthy of support from everyone in this House as there will never really be a shortage of women who due to their circumstances will be transitioning or moving in and out of a space of relative stability and having to deal with having to source and relocate themselves and their children in alternative accommodation.The time that Mr McLean created his will and the trust refers to situations where women may find themselves in where they need support. It happens that 120 years later in today's scenario one could say that the need of women for the types of help that the McLean Institute is able to provide has actually become much more expanded and the need much more in demand—the need has risen. There are many drivers of that: young women transitioning out of foster care which they may have find found themselves in along with any children that they may have; providing for women in distress due to mental health situations or addiction issues disability trauma violence homelessness poverty or dislocation. For one of the reasons or another. The McLean Institute also wishes to provide support for women suffering from possibly terminal illness or long term or permanent disablement due to such illnesses.What the bill seeks to do is to continue to empower the McLean Institute to continue to provide the support that they have been established to provide for women and their children whether in Canterbury or whether they find themselves in a situation where they have to move away from Canterbury. So it is interesting to note that while the times have changed the need has not changed and the need has actually just become more defined and more varied in the need for that application of Mr Allan McLean's desire to help women and their children who find themselves—maybe temporarily or over a long-term period—in need of support whether financially to retain accommodation or to find accommodation for themselves and for their children.This is a worthy piece of legislation. Accordingly in support of the others in this House we in the Government support this bill. We commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): The question is that the motion be agreed to."