Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I stand to take a call on the Earthquake Commission Amendment Bill. To listen to that previous speaker Kris Faafoi talk about and criticise the previous Government's programme around earthquake recovery was a bit rich really considering he wasn't around there when the earthquakes hit in 2010 and 2011. Watching all of those people having to go through their recovery period—Hon Kris Faafoi: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Just on that point my family was in Christchurch. I was there the day after. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): That's not a proper point of order.JO HAYES: That's not a point of order Mr Faafoi. My golly gosh come on! You can do better than that Mr Faafoi. Anyway I digress Madam—Mr Assistant Speaker. There's been a change. I just want to say that this side of the House—the previous Government—did a lot of good work in the recovery process for Christchurch during the earthquakes and some of the people—our Gerry Brownlee the Hon Gerry Brownlee also suffered. Yet he carried on and pushed through and to say that this side of the House only dealt with the low-hanging fruit when it came to Earthquake Commission (EQC) claims—I don't think that 167000 housing claims building claims are low-hanging fruit or that 470 insurance contents claims are low-hanging fruit Mr Faafoi. This side of the House worked very hard to get response to the people that the earthquake affected and while they were doing it they were also suffering as well Mr Faafoi. So be careful how you criticise this side of the House because we did a lot—we did a lot—of work on the Christchurch earthquakes. It set the test for the Earthquake Commission process and where that was going to go to. It was tested. It was sad the way that it had come about but it was tested and in 2012 once we got the greater Christchurch earthquake recovery going that's when the review started Mr Faafoi. Why try and review when everybody's in stress? Come on. Perhaps you might need some lessons in that if your area went through the same impact that Christchurch did. To keep Canterbury as a top priority and this side of the House has and it will continue to be because we respect the people of Christchurch. It's our second-largest city in New Zealand and we want to make sure that when it recovers it will be leading the world in recovery from earthquake and catastrophic incidents Mr Faafoi. It all happened on this side Mr Faafoi. So when we start to look at the four areas that this bill—and I don't even know why the Government's taken four out of the nine recommendations from the 2015 discussion document Mr Faafoi. Why only four? Why not the whole nine? Perhaps the select committee could go and review all of those and actually start to see the value of adding the other five recommendations Mr Faafoi. But I want to talk about only one of those recommendations and that's increasing the cap limit on EQC's residential building cover to $150000 which I commend the Government on. It should have been $200000 but I'll take $150000. So one of the messages I would like to send to the select committee when they're reviewing this as it goes to first reading I just want the select committee to consider adding a clause into this particular part of the bill to review the cap every five years so it keeps up. It keeps up with everything that's going on each year with property values and all the impacts that house owners homeowners would face. So I'm not going to stand up for much longer. I want this bill to go to first reading. I just want to say to the Minister of Civil Defence over there how come he was late when there were the issues over in Coromandel? How come you were late there eh? I know that that happened. If the Minister is going to be a good Minister he needs to be front and centre on disasters that happen and what people face under civil defence. Our side were there. On the day they were there and they were working. From the time that people needed that help they were there. Every other time an earthquake has hit Canterbury the Canterbury MPs have been front and centre Mr Faafoi. I commend the bill to the House and look forward for it to go to first reading—to committee sorry.