Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a real pleasure to stand today and talk on this bill and I'm really grateful that this will come to the Social Services and Community Committee. I think in light of the contribution from our colleague Maureen Pugh across the House we're going to have a very interesting and worthwhile select committee process. I also want to acknowledge your thoughts in saying to the wider community that we'd love to hear from girl guides because actually we really would and it will make it a much more thorough and enjoyable process if we can hear from those girl guides. So thank you Maureen for your contribution. However I have to acknowledge my colleague Dr Duncan Webb. Now Dr Duncan Webb noted that it was International Women's Day this week and it's a happy coincidence but I want to acknowledge and recognise the member as an ally to women and for bringing this bill to the House. Often what happens is we have women bringing bills specifically about women or girls to this House. So I just want to acknowledge the member Dr Duncan Webb for doing this private bill. Kieran McAnulty: Good on you Dunc. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Yeah thanks Duncan—Dr Webb I should say. Now I was not a girl guide—Simeon Brown: Neither was I. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: I'm pleased to hear that Simeon although I'm sure you were allowed to be. I was not a girl guide and let me tell you a very sad story about why I was not a girl guide. I wanted to be a Scout. I wanted to be a Scout because there were all sorts of exciting things that happened and I really didn't feel that guides met my needs. So I went along to talk to the local scouting club and they denied me access because I was a girl. I was a young girl and I got denied access. So instead of going back to girl guides and going Hey I got denied access. I'm back here." I sulked and I didn't join girl guides either. Kieran McAnulty: That's the spirit. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Thank you; it isn't really the spirit at all. Actually looking back looking now at the mission of girl guides I'm looking at it going "Really I think I really missed out on something amazing." You know this mission to empower girls to take action to change their world—hey I'm all about that. I'm all about that. I volunteered across a whole pile of organisations. So I just would like to acknowledge that for those young people out there who are interested in joining the Girl Guides Association it's a modern organisation now and I encourage you. I also want to encourage people to go online to girlguidingnz.org.nz if you want to volunteer to support the girl guide movement. There are often lots of opportunities to do these things and I'd really like to encourage people to do so. Essentially this bill does—I'm still having some difficulty with my eyesight so I still have things blown up. [Holds up oversized printout of bill] This bill is a one-page bill. It's not very extensive. It does exactly what it says it should do on the cover and that is to give this corporation the power to dispose of property. Essentially it's a private bill because it needs to be a change to the legislation to support that. So I think it's going to be a particularly interesting piece of legislation to work on. I would like to encourage the member Dr Duncan Webb to perhaps table some girl guide biscuits at our select committee process. We're all very keen on the old girl guide biscuits so that's a shout-out to Dr Duncan Webb to table some girl guide biscuits for us. But essentially this bill helps and enables the organisation to continue to operate in a way that is financially viable for them. It is a very small change in legislation but it's actually quite meaningful and as a consequence I think we will give the select committee process all its due energy and time and we will if need be make it better. We look forward very much to hearing from the submitters in regards to this bill. I commend it to the House."