Williams PotoHon POTO WILLIAMS (Minister for Building and Construction): Thank you Madam Chair and I thank the member for his question and I thank members in the House. I just want to make a few opening remarks and then I will come to answering the question that's been posed by the member.This is as you will appreciate part of the wider reform—as you Madam Chair will appreciate—programme to improve the efficiency and quality of building work and to provide fairer outcomes when things go wrong. It is a matter of wanting to ensure that there is trust and confidence in the system and it also lends itself very well to the Government's programme to speed up the supply of housing and create an economy that grows and works for all New Zealanders. The bill amends the Building Act in three main ways. Firstly a new system for building product information the requirements for that and to support better and more informed decision-making particularly around what may happen within the building consent authorities (BCAs); secondly it introduces a new voluntary scheme for modular component manufacturing to provide faster more consistent building consent approaches for manufacturers who are able to meet the quality and performance standards that we're setting; and thirdly to introduce new registration requirements for product certification bodies. That allows also the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment to have greater oversight over the product certification scheme.To speak directly to the question posed by the member with regards to building product information requirements it is really important that manufacturers suppliers and distributors set a minimum set of information about building products and make that publicly available. There is a lot of information in the wider sector and it's about us accessing information that has already achieved requirements and has already met standards in other jurisdictions. So allowing us to leverage off that work is part of the issue—that we are ensuring that product information that's already available that is already part of another jurisdiction is readily available so that when it comes to making decisions about the use of products someone can make a much more informed decision about that and also providing evidence that that product and the product claims are accurate and up to date.Around the comment that the member made with regards to ensuring there is some confidence about that we are asking building consent authorities to look at their building decisions much more quickly and to be much more better-informed of product information because they will have access to information that is publicly available which hasn't been in the past. So building owners will benefit from having better-quality building work saving time and money on less re-work and much more efficient consenting. That's where this piece of work really sits. Providing certainty and much more consistency across the BCAs is a really important part of this work—it's actually what we all want isn't it at the end of the day because there is variance in BCAs and how they address this. So if we have some consistency around product information that's more readily available people can make great decisions much more better-informed decisions about that and build a level trust and confidence in the system.