Leary IngridINGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): I want to thank the previous two speakers for drip-feeding a little bit of the very interesting life of Allan McLean to us. I feel it would be remiss to not add some further dimensions because he really did have an extraordinary early part of his life that we can see from the previous speakers' contributions which shaped his thinking and shaped his generosity and his commitment to looking after women who found themselves in unfortunate situations as indeed his own mother had during his childhood. So if we go back further to prior to when he went to Australia actually Allan McLean was a good Scottish boy. I know very well something of the generosity of the Scots living in Dunedin and seeing the philanthropy there and the hard work and generosity and it doesn't surprise me that he is of Scottish heritage. They lived on the Hebridean Islands and that's on the western side of Scotland—beautiful remote islands. One of the most well-known is probably the Isle of Skye. The islands are known for their whisky—spelt without an e" I believe in Scotland—but they are very remote very challenging islands. His father married a woman there and lived on the Isle of Coll. But there were hard times. This was not an easy place to live. At one point his father was out on a boat there was a terrible storm and although his father survived the storm he later passed away. So young Allan McLean the young Scottish lad was left with his mother in these remote islands—Hon Gerry Brownlee: What about the bill?INGRID LEARY: —trying to survive. You ask about the bill but I'll just really—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Well the member's very keen on people getting back to the bill.INGRID LEARY: Absolutely. Gerry Brownlee is asking me to get back to the bill and I'm just pointing out why this young man was able to appreciate the importance of having the care that he was given by his mother because one other interesting fact was that when they were there it was so difficult. They were cooking and eating seaweed which was known as carrageen and it was a kind of moss on the island. Eventually they went to Australia which is where the Hon Gerry Brownlee picked up the story. As we've heard tonight they made their fortune in Australia came to New Zealand and we've heard the rest about what happened. He became a great businessman and he left a legacy to help people that were in circumstances like that of his own mother. Now what's interesting about the bill is that I really like the fact that the will of Allan McLean is enshrined into the legislation. We've heard parts of it read by my colleague the Hon Duncan Webb. If we look at the preamble under recital (4)(a) and (b) it says "As to the Holly Lea property and furniture only to gentlewomen or women of refinement or education in reduced or straitened circumstances and the children not being over the age of ten years" and so on. I have to admit I had to look up what the word "straitened" means and for the benefit of this House straitened means impoverished or in circumstances of poverty. Clearly that kind of language is just very difficult to navigate in this day and age. So what the bill does is it sets out the intention of young Allan McLean who later bequeathed that money but it very clearly broadens the intention so that it is not just for people of the upper classes Duncan Webb has said but for access to all. That's probably a good thing because it would be quite difficult to pass assessment these days to ensure that there was that kind of judgment around that if the previous provisions had applied. It also means that the people who receive the benefit of the endowment can stay in the accommodation either temporary or long term whereas previously it was only for a much shorter amount of time. So the other interesting fact about the institute is that clearly there were very dedicated people in the story apart from Allan McLean. There were four staff who by 2012 had already served 20 years each working in the institution. That to me speaks of the dedication to the kaupapa of the institution but also the fact that they must have enjoyed working there. They must have had a great deal of satisfaction from helping women in need. So there's very little to say apart from the fact that I commend it to the House."