Sio WilliamAupito WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): I think this would have been the fourth or fifth time that we are debating this bill at the select committee stage and I am not quite sure as to what the hold-up is because we have given our full support to this. In fact you have heard from my colleague Clare Curran that we have practically written this bill. We are in the new millennium—the information and communications technology age—yet this Government seems to be dragging its feet to take this into the future.I also understand that there were a number of submitters who supported the right to deploy fibre on existing power poles. Not being a member of that committee I would like to ask the Minister whether those submissions were considered and whether those submissions were integrated into the changes that are required as submitted by Rural Women New Zealand the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Northland the Whangarei District Council the Central Otago District Council Steve Macmillan Telecommunications Solutions working group Energy Trust of New Zealand Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand and Telecommunication Users Association of New Zealand. I think those are significant individuals who know a thing or two about our telecommunications industry who have given quality advice in my view to the committee. I do not know whether the Minister has taken on board what was asked by that group. They supported the right to deploy fibre on existing power poles.You see the reason why I am asking the Minister is that it seems that despite all the hard work and effort by committee members—and mainly my colleague Clare Curran who has been driving this it seems—we do not know why the Minister is sort of taking our time about getting this out. I would have thought that the rural industries particularly the farmers who are trying to be innovative and who are dealing with selling their meat and other products on an international level would want to have UFB readily available to them immediately. It just does not seem to click as to why the Government is taking its time on ushering this piece of legislation through the appropriate passages.As I said this will be the fourth or fifth time that we are now debating the parts—and there are only two parts—so that is the concerning thing. Why is the Government not ready or willing or able to pass this legislation? Is it because in effect they are approving Labour Party policy when they pass this legislation? Is that the reason why? Because I think that if that is the real reason it is petty. It is really petty. The country needs us to move forward as an industrialised nation and we need to get this off the ground immediately. And so I do not see any reason—I do not know whether there is any other party in this House that is opposing this particular bill. See even my friends from New Zealand First are saying they support this bill. So what is the hold-up with this Government?I am hoping that the Minister will be able to take some time and address that because some of us who are speaking on this are not members of that select committee but yet we are passionate about the need to upgrade our fibre system. And really if you have got people living at the end of the same driveway or having businesses in the same facility I would expect that nobody would put up a fuss. No one would oppose having these fibres linking them up directly to the World Wide Web which nowadays every business every individual is so dependent upon.See that member is a farmer. He knows what it is like out in the rural areas. And he is laughing his head off because this Government—his Government—is dragging its feet. That is probably why he has left Parliament. He is sick and tired of this. That is probably why he has left Parliament. Either he has left Parliament because he is sick and tired of this Government dragging its feet on those things that are important or the National Party just wants to get rid of him. Thank you.