Hipango HareteHARETE HIPANGO (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. It is a brief call. I'm just demisting my glasses and with speaking to this bill demystifying the bill as well—Local Government (Pecuniary Interests Register) Amendment Bill. In speaking to the bill today it's a bit of a mare of a place in the Chamber. I look around the Chamber and we're graced with the presence of former deputy mayors and mayors on both sides of the House. In speaking to this bill I acknowledge the member Tangi Utikere in the success with this bill being brought to the third reading which is supported by the National Party.So the member has presented submitted advocated represented and progressed this bill based on experience. I also acknowledge good colleague and friend Paul Eagle a former deputy mayor as well and again bringing to the House that level of experience; my colleagues Maureen Pugh and Ian McKelvie both former mayors of the respective communities that they come from. So in supporting this bill the bill is substantively enhanced because of the experience that members across the House bring. I also note my colleague Ian McKelvie chaired the Governance and Administration Committee in the transference and transmission of this bill through to the third reading soon to pass into law.Although it's a small bill and relatively straightforward it's significant. In the House again today but in the Chamber last night there was the Data and Statistics Bill and members talked about the importance of transparency and that's what this bill attempts to improve—the public's trust with the transparency in building confidence in local government in relation to that. What's been interesting is although not sitting on these select committees when we are invited to address the House and speak to these bills we go on a journey ourselves in terms of reading the reports and looking at what amendments have been made for improvement to the bill.So it's noted that the report from the Governance and Administration Committee made a number of recommendations with amendments. Interestingly enough what's been reported back to the committee of the whole House as a result of that to this third reading is that all of those recommendations for amendments from the select committee report have been picked up and those adjustments accordingly made to the bill.So the purpose of the bill is that it creates a pecuniary interest disclosure regime that's similar to one that Parliament has for the members. This is premised on local government and local authorities thus demystifying what interests and pecuniary interests that those in public office have in giving service and representation. So the bill requires that councils maintain and publish yearly a register of elected members pecuniary and other specified interests.I am to be followed by the last speaker of the National Party—most appropriately really to wrap this up—Ian McKelvie who chaired the select committee who calls and is duly recognised in the House and warmly regarded by colleagues across the House. So Mr McKelvie will address the House in that chairpersonship role and also in the role of having been a long-serving Mayor of the Manawatū district—for some nine years I believe it was Ian—and then being elected into Parliament in 2011 giving service thus far.So I will wrap this up because it will be a matter of after the next speaker my colleague will finish this off. In doing so there are times when members in this Chamber appropriately should be gracious and acknowledgments appropriately afforded. So I do so accordingly to the member whose name this bill has been carried through into the making of law Tangi Utikere. Ngā mihi ki a koe. Kia ora.