Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua): It is a pleasure to be talking on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill (No 2). As the Minister Nick Smith explained before there are three key issues that this bill is seeking to address but I want to focus on the methamphetamine issue which is highlighted in this bill. As the Minister alluded to I put forward a member's bill early last year to deal with the issue of methamphetamine contamination in houses. The lead-up to that was actually a lady in my electorate called Sarah Higgins who was a member of the local board brought this to my attention and as a result of further work has actually ended up with this legislation now entering this House tonight—a very important piece of legislation to deal with P. Unfortunately Sarah is no longer with us so this legislation is part of Sarah's legacy in terms of her life in terms of dealing with the issue of P.We are all very aware that P is a scourge on our society. It is an insidious blight. This bill is seeking to deal with some of those issues. I think we are all aware that in terms of what P does first of all it has those terribly adverse health effects particularly for the young and the elderly as they are the most susceptible to P. The second thing is the social dislocation that it causes particularly for people who rent and have to find new premises if they find their houses are contaminated. Thirdly there is the need to protect the rights of landlords who own property and conduct themselves appropriately.Under the former Prime Minister now Sir John Key and currently under the auspices of the Deputy Prime Minister the Hon Paula Bennett this Government is focused on addressing the issue of P. One of the 13 initiatives that John Key as Prime Minister established in December 2015 was the establishment of a working group under Standards New Zealand to address three issues. The first issue was whether 0.5 micrograms is the right threshold to determine whether a house is contaminated. The committee has worked its way through and it is the independent committee that has come back with the recommendation that the threshold should be set at 1.5 micrograms. I heard the previous speaker Phil Twyford and if he did some research he would actually find that there are varying levels adopted by different States and countries around the world. But we have landed at 1.5 micrograms.The second thing that the committee considered was how to standardise the testing of P in property. Many testing companies adopt different practices. It makes a big difference where you test in a property as that will result in a different outcome. The working committee has worked assiduously over the last year or so on how testing is done and on setting a standard for that testing.The third most important thing it considered was how you would know that a house has been properly contaminated and again it has worked through that process and standardised it. So all those things will help formulate and be the basis of this bill.I could speak on this topic for a long time but I am not going to. All I can say is that I am most grateful to the Minister for referring this issue to the Local Government and Environment Committee of which I am the chair. I am looking forward to working through this issue because it is vitally important and I see it as a legacy of the late Sarah Higgins. Thank you very much.