Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare huri noa ki ōku hoa kaimahi tēnā tātau katoa.[Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker and to all my colleagues greetings to all.]I rise with pleasure to support the Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Bill. I welcomed the opportunity as a member coming into this particular issue quite cold to be honest and also as a non-Cantabrian a non - Christchurch resident. I really enjoyed I have to say the process that this particular legislation has been through to this point which allowed me to get a clearer understanding of both the importance of this bill and what it is attempting to do to reinvigorate the community in the heart of Christchurch by reinstating the cathedral which of course was badly damaged by the earthquakes in February 2011.As we heard from many of the submitters and many of the local MPs from Christchurch as well it almost has not changed its look from the time it was actually damaged. People were quite concerned that even today almost seven years later it still looks somewhat the same. It still is an eyesore in the community and has not allowed people to move on—not to move on to forget the tragedy but to move on and acknowledge what has happened in a way that is positive where people can see a rebuild a re-enjoyment of what the Christ Church Cathedral has to offer and the absolute impacts that the current broken state of the cathedral—the state of disrepair of the cathedral—has on the whole regeneration of Christchurch and not just its immediate surroundings.So we know that the recovery the reinstatement of the cathedral was delayed a bit by some of the stilted conversation and the stilted debate including litigation and so it came to us the responsibility to somehow try and restore the process alongside the cathedral itself. That is where this bill has come from in my understanding: to make sure that with expedience in a way that is cost-effective and gives earlier and greater certainty for the community of Christchurch we can actually move forward and progress the rebuild.I have enjoyed being our permanent member on the Environment Committee for the Green Party to sort of walk me through this process. I too welcomed the select committee's advice our advice to make sure that the work of the Cathedral Working Group and their report was put front and centre into the consideration and the read of this legislation. It is the spirit of the recommendations of that very report that this legislation balances on.The report from the Cathedral Working Group concluded that to repair only or to restore only would not be viable engineering options because they would not bring the cathedral either in part or in whole up to 100 percent of the seismic requirements of the new building code. And so we have this legislation to facilitate a building that also helps us to live up to those safety requirements.So what does the bill actually do? And this is where I do appreciate the process of the Environment Committee because the bill most certainly does give extraordinary powers to the Minister responsible for the reinstatement work of this cathedral and we must at all times be cautious and considered with granting extraordinary powers to any representative in this House. And so cautious and considered we have been I believe and someone might want to correct me if I'm wrong but that is indicated by the fact that this may be one of the first unanimously agreed pieces of legislation in this parliamentary term so far I think. That is because we did absolutely take care in the granting of these extraordinary powers bound and restricted by the checks and balances also contained in this legislation. The extraordinary powers manifest by an Order in Council and an Order in Council are simply a way where the relevant Minister will be able to perhaps put to the side extend or add extra bits on to specific legislative requirements.Now the reason why this is extraordinary is because it you know on face value can seem like it's a way to step around laws that we have made—and it is. And that's the heart of why we've had to be so careful about this. But I am satisfied—which is why our Environment Committee report was unanimous—that we have got in place good careful checks and balances.I do want to touch on the select committee process and the submissions that we heard and I absolutely have to thank the officials who in this truncated process did some incredible work for us to bring to us all of the changes and all of the suggestions and did the investigations for us on the questions that we demanded an answer to so that we could be sure that we were granting extraordinary powers in a way that was appropriate and safe. So thank you so much to those officials.I want to mention in particular the submission from the Christchurch City Council who in all fairness wanted to be heard: that they needed to be involved from the get-go; that they want to be a close partner in developing and commenting on those extraordinary orders with the Minister. And I absolutely understand and hear that which is why the select committee included into the legislation a proactive engagement with the Christchurch City Council and we urge with the leadership of the Environment Committee that that be one of the many relationships that must be upheld and handled well.We did absolutely add more pieces of law to the schedule so we sort of said—we did agree—that there were other Acts that should come under the net of these extraordinary powers. That can seem like a dangerous thing and it should be seen like that and so we had to again make sure that the Acts were relevant and that the relevant Ministers of those pieces of legislation will be consulted with. So I'm happy with the way that we have added more pieces of law into the net of the Minister's extraordinary powers.I want to talk about the select committee making sure that reinstatement—the definition of it in the bill—includes construction reconstruction and restoration. We wanted to capture the heart of what we mean and allow for the necessary flexibility when reinstating the cathedral and it included as the Hon Maggie Barry has already stated the new materials which could include new technologies. So that's about understanding that there is more than one way of us getting to a place where the mana and integrity of the cathedral are upheld in the spirit that the Cathedral Working Group have intended.So moving forward—oh a little bit more on the checks and balances because that is really important. The Minister's reasons for making an order for these extraordinary powers have to be published and again the select committee noted that those publications should be dispersed in a way that is proactive and that for relevant organisations and people regardless of whether it's in the actual legislation we fully recommend that those proactive approaches to those organisations are made where at all possible.The review panel absolutely must review the draft of that extraordinary order and make sure that it checks that this is OK that this is safe and appropriate for what is intended and of course that the public engagement mechanism is still included in this draft. I think just to end off really what we want here is the balance of making sure that we can heal and assist the Christchurch community to heal heal the cathedral and maintain a balance of making sure that the relationships and the community are taken with this process and that they are never forgotten. And that was in particular one of the recommendations from the Christchurch Heritage Trust: that there is a way that we can do this that takes the community with us. And so I endorse this bill to the House. Thank you.