Dyson RuthHon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills): Can I acknowledge the member who has just resumed his seat Paul Foster-Bell. He is the deputy chair of the Government Administration Committee. He did not praise himself as I am sure he is not inclined to but I want to commend his work in that committee on this bill.I want to commend the Minister for Land Information who introduced the bill—and I am sorry but that was not the Hon Mark Mitchell; it was actually the Hon Maurice Williamson.Hon Members: Who?Hon RUTH DYSON: These new ones are saying Who?". That is very unkind. The Hon Maurice Williamson is still a member of this House; he is not due to give his valedictory speech for another 7 or so weeks. He started this process. He welcomed it in 2010 alongside the Hon Simon Power who has gone on to greater and better things—now working for a bank I understand.But what a relief it must be for the National Government to be debating something as dry and technical as the Land Transfer Bill where everyone is in agreement after the week it has had. I could not have imagined a better scenario for the Opposition party—for us—going into the National Party's annual conference going into its weekend conference. What a week which was not a good week did they ever have. Moving on to debate the Land Transfer Bill must be just a blessed relief at this time.Even though this was a good bill emanating from a fine piece of collaborative work from the Law Commission from Crown Law and from the New Zealand Law Society it still leaves a big hole in the land registration process unfilled. I want to challenge the new Minister for Land Information who has made a fine effort to get on top of the details of this bill—in fact I think he was on the select committee when we heard the submissions so he may well have had an advantage going into his ministerial role but either way he is on top of the detail; you could tell from his third reading speech. I want to challenge him to fix the hole that has been left unfixed by his predecessor and that is the absolute shambles in the Overseas Investment Office.It is just a mess. It has become a laughing stock. If the Minister is not careful it will drag him down with it and I do not think that should happen. If the Minister is visionary and bold and courageous he will be able to make something out of the mess that is the current Overseas Investment Office. We have seen where it is not even able to access robust databases in which we can have confidence and get information for us. The Hon Mark Mitchell's predecessor decided to respond to the shambles of the Overseas Investment Office by making the shambles work faster—just speeding up the wet-bus-ticket consent process. That is not good enough for a country that prides itself on transparency and openness and it is not good enough for the Minister to let the Overseas Investment Office get away with this. So that is my challenge. While supporting this legislation it does not address the biggest problem that that Minister is facing.As I mentioned earlier this bill is a result of a very good bit of collaborative work done by the Law Commission Crown Law and the New Zealand Law Society. The primary aim was to modernise the legislation—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member. The time has come for me to leave the Chair.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 10 p.m."