Lorck AnnaANNA LORCK (Labour—Tukituki): Thank you Madam Speaker. As a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee—Andrew Bayly: A very good member.ANNA LORCK: —thank you Mr Bayly; calling me a good member of this committee—I need to say that when I first looked at the Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Bill that had been pulled out of the biscuit tin under Nicola Willis' name I started to think Oh this is going to be a city bill—this is going to be a city bill." Because—Chris Bishop: A city bill?ANNA LORCK: A city bill.Chris Bishop: Silly or city?ANNA LORCK: City—an urban bill. Chris Bishop: Oh got it. ANNA LORCK: —coming from a provincial region as the member of Parliament for Tukituki I had to think "How many apartments and bodies corporate do we have in Hastings?" I was thinking to myself "I wonder if there'll be anything that comes up of interest to the people of Hastings." And it was to my pleasure that I then received a submission from the Frimley Lifestyle Village complex right in the heart of the Tukituki electorate in Hastings. They came and saw me as well to talk me through some of the complications that they could see with the initial draft of the bill under Nicola Willis' name. They asked me as the local MP and also as a member of the select committee to take note of their submission. They were concerned that because they were a small complex and of a single storey that some of the recommendations and suggestions in the bill wouldn't necessarily support them as a smaller group. So we worked through some of these issues in the select committee and through this I would like to say that it was actually thanks to the contribution of the Frimley Lifestyle Village complex that we now have an opt out section in the bill. This means that for those of a medium and large complex while they need to consider having a professional body corporate manager should they choose by special resolution that they would be able to do as they see fit themselves. Now it's these very important parts of this bill that I think make a difference for everyone.Looking forward though and when I think about what we've heard today some of the things that I'm excited about is that in Hastings we are going to start seeing apartments being built. As you may be aware Mr Speaker I live in an area where the plains land is rich for growing horticulture and apples. We want to protect our plains land; we want to protect the land from being built on. So we need to look at how we can have denser housing in the city and we need to make sure that it can be affordable for the future. These are the words that I've actually heard today in this House being spoken about. A message that's been sent that affordable apartment living is going to be part of our future. When I look out to the next decade in Hastings I can see apartments being built. I can see affordable housing where the absolutely delightful people will be enjoying living in the areas of Hastings building up—building up not building out. And as we know that is how we can protect our future generations for plains land. They're the things that I think we will look back on and take credit for. And there's been a lot of credit being taken in the House tonight over how well we've been able to work together—Andrew Bayly: That's right.ANNA LORCK: —hasn't there Mr Bayly? Mr Bayly mentioned how collegial things have been in making sure that we can work together. What a difference it can make at select committee; what a difference it can make when we do work together.Now these professional standards are going to be making sure that when people go into investing in these unit titles—and maybe one or two or three storeys up—they know that when they go to have a look at buying a property unlike how Mr Bayly spoke when he bought an apartment and there wasn't much information available now we're going to have a full disclosure of all of that information that you need as part of this Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Bill.Alongside that we're also going to see a very important modernisation of bringing people together to be able to have their meetings. This is of course by Zoom. Being able to Zoom in and being able to have a vote—that's going to make a difference because people have been concerned that if they haven't been there they haven't been able to have their say. While we've had proxy voting this means that whether you're in the room or whether you're out of the room you can Zoom in and you can have a vote. That's going to make a big difference for people and being able to make sure that they feel that their voice is being heard. Zooming in—as we heard from the Green Party member today her partner is now a member of a body corporate on the board and an elected member and now that person can actually Zoom in and make a contribution.So in summing up having been through the select committee process and thinking this was going to be for urban housing for MPs in the cities and I can understand those that live in Auckland and live in Wellington; but to know that this is actually going to make a difference for the regions—for the regions—in how we build more apartments more affordable apartments for our future generations to have a brighter more sustainable future that is why I as a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee have been pleased to be part of this. I would like to acknowledge all of those who have worked so collegially; we've almost heard from many of them and we will hear from more tonight.But thank you Mr Speaker for this opportunity to speak. Thank you to my colleagues. Thank you to the Frimley Lifestyle Village for making a contribution for showing this House that even in the regions when you make a submission you will have an opportunity to be heard. I encourage people to continue do so because that's how we can all make better bills here—today and for the future. As we've heard there may well be more that can be done on this bill as we work through it but the workload including—I must add—I even got a trip to Auckland out of it where I went from the region flew from the Napier airport and I flew up to Auckland and—and—I got to listen to a whole lot of submissions from Auckland. What an experience that was. One day we might actually see a whole lot of submissions being said in Hastings. That would be a fantastic thing to do. We could bring people in and hold a meeting there because when there's lots of submissions and an important issue that needs to be done that's what we can do as we make laws and make better bills. For that and the collegial especially—especially—from the Opposition tonight they've just been so gracious in actually acknowledging all the hard work that their fellow Labour Party members have done on the Finance and Expenditure Committee. I commend this to the House."