Hudson BrettBRETT HUDSON (National): Thank you Madam Chair and of course you're aware of why I'm rising to speak but members across the committee may not be. I've taken my own advice and have submitted the amendment that will give the effect to clause 3 that I spoke about first on the Gore District Council (Otama Rural Water Supply) Bill that will change follow to authorise a transfer" to instead "to return" those assets to the Otama Rural Water Supply scheme users through the vehicle of the company.So I took your advice Mr Seymour and I do thank my staff member Mr John Brinsley-Pirie who has worked feverishly in a few seconds to make sure that that amendment would arrive in this committee in time for it to be tabled and considered. I will just simply reiterate—I'm not going to waste time by taking 4½ minutes on this—to members that this is completely in good faith. I offer this change because I as a member of the Governance and Administration Committee travelled to Gore and heard from the scheme users and I think this better reflects the purpose of this legislation from their perspective. I would ask the member in the chair and members across the committee to support the amendment.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Mr Hudson the difficulty I have is that we're still getting copies for members to have a look at. I'm happy to give the call to Mr Patterson but he hasn't actually seen the amendment yet. So you might like to talk a little longer.BRETT HUDSON: OK. I can keep going Madam Chair. Thank you very much. So I can now slow down. I thought I was being rushed to be silent and I certainly wasn't going to muck around with the Chair at this stage.So an amendment is now coming to the table and copies are being made for members to peruse. It is a simple change; it is what I suggested in my first speech. It simply reflects a very significant thing for the people of Gore and the Otama scheme users but a simple thing in terms of this Parliament. The clause currently talks about a process that the council must follow to authorise a transfer of a scheme which includes assets to Otama Rural Water Ltd. While legally that is an accurate description my point that I made that I learnt from our visit to Gore and from listening to the words of scheme users—many scheme users—was that they felt the assets should always have been theirs. They didn't ask for the entity they used to manage it—which was a pragmatic entity it was a group of scheme users getting together using elbow grease using their own knowledge using their own tools using their own equipment to first build a supply system then to maintain it then to upgrade it and to have the will to continuously maintain it. They felt they were dispossessed of what were their assets and their system. They felt very strongly about this. They didn't use the word "theft" that I recall but one could tell by listening to them that that's exactly how they felt about it—that the legal system had dispossessed them of a system that they had always felt was theirs.So this small change—small change—which reflects an understanding of a return of assets through a company to the people who had first created them and had spent their own time effort and money in maintaining and upgrading them for what is now approaching 50 years gives this Parliament the opportunity when—and hopefully it will—this bill becomes law to be absolutely sure that it is written in a way that reflects the purpose of the legislation not simply from a dry interpretation as members of Parliament or the legal system but indeed for what it means to the people who have always in their view owned and always run the scheme. I ask the Minister and all members to support this amendment."