Radhakrishnan PriyancaPRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Labour): Thank you Mr Chair. I actually just want to pick up from where my colleague Mr Michael Wood left off as well and I also want to start by acknowledging the work that many colleagues of mine across the House who have been involved in local government have put into their former roles and of course their current roles. I'm finding out as a first-term MP the overlaps between central government and local government and I think it's an actual privilege to be debating this particular bill the Local Government Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill. I just want to acknowledge also my colleague Paul Eagle. I know that Michael Wood acknowledged many others but he too was part of local government previously.I wanted to say with this particular bill though that the part that I was most interested in was the Dog Control Act as a dog owner myself but particularly making sure that there is public notification of some of those reports of dog-related complaints that come out as well. Previously there wasn't the requirement to make those reports publicly available. I know that we are at this point discussing Part 5 specifically so I will get to that before Mr Chair shuts me down on the Dog Control Act.Part 5 makes some pretty important changes to the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 and I just want to highlight one of the points that Michael Wood made because I do agree that it's incredibly important that members of the public are notified and are kept informed of the many changes that happen at a local government level and have a say to be involved in some of those changes as well.I do have a couple of questions for the Minister in the chair and I will get to those in a second but basically the main changes in this part are as per my reading of the bill that the definition of internet site" is inserted in Part 5 and the definition of "publicly notified" is also updated just so that there's consistency across different pieces of legislation. I was really interested to note that the definition of "working day" was updated as well and that leads me to my first question to the Minister in the chair the Hon Kris Faafoi. I note that the proposed definition would exclude anniversary days and I think that's pretty obvious as to why that was included as an amendment and that pertaining of course to different local authority areas. But I was particularly interested in the days between 20 December and 10 January and I can obviously tell from that period that Christmas falls within that Boxing Day and a number of both statutory holidays but also days that are significant to many members of our different communities. But I was just wondering "Why those specific dates?" and whether there could be some clarity around that. It's probably so that it would again be consistent with various pieces of legislation but I thought some clarity around that would be good.The other point that I wanted to make was—and I caught the tail end of the previous Minister's the Hon Peeni Henare's response to this—around the definition of "publicly notified" and the definition of "internet site". So I take that to mean of course that if there is an extraordinary or emergency meeting that say Auckland Council would then notify members of the public through their website. But I actually—like many of my colleagues here I suspect—get a lot of my information through social media and I note that most if not all of our local government entities have Facebook sites. They have Instagram accounts and pages as well and a lot of information is actually shared through those platforms and I wanted a little bit of clarity about whether that would be included in the definition of "internet sites" and the requirement to notify members of the public as well; and if not why not? Because that's where most of us these days get a lot of our information from.On the whole though I think the amendments proposed in this particular part are excellent and that they would go a long way to ensuring that members of the public are aware of what their local government entities are doing and how and when they can actually contribute and have their say as changes are proposed and voted on at their local councils and I'm assuming local boards as well although that's not very clear but I'm assuming that those entities would come under the Act as well. Thank you for the opportunity Mr Chair."