Goldsmith Paul: State Sector and Public Finance Reform Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeGoldsmith Paul: State Sector and Public Finance Reform Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 02 July 2013. Volume:691;Page:11670. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PAUL GOLDSMITH (National):I am very pleased to take a quick call on Part 3 of this bill the State Sector and Public Finance Reform Bill. We have had a very long and thorough debate on this legislation so far and—Hon David Cunliffe: More to come.PAUL GOLDSMITH: I am looking forward to further comments from the honourable member Mr Cunliffe. I was just interested to see that the main point of Part 3 is to create a range of public sector management tools to foster an innovative effective public sector to deliver better-identified results for New Zealanders. What we mean by that is that all these public entities these Crown entities have grown likeTopsy over the years. Some of them are doing their own thing and it is not unreasonable—indeed it is a perfectly reasonable idea that we would—Hon David Cunliffe: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. The Standing Orders provide that in instances where a member is reading from an official document there is an opportunity for that document to be tabled so that the Committee might have access to the underlying information. If the member is reading from an official document I seek leave for it to be tabled.The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson): I thank the honourable member for that. The member should know that normally a request like that is done at the end of the member’s speech.PAUL GOLDSMITH: Given the fact that we have heard many lengthy comments from that member perhaps he might have the courtesy of listening to the short and succinct comments that I prepared to make on this bill. As I was saying the member did ask and question—Hon David Cunliffe: You write books.PAUL GOLDSMITH: Well yes but I write about successful people; that is the difference there. I want to remind the Chamber that we are talking about—Hon David Cunliffe: John Banks.PAUL GOLDSMITH: That was one of the earlier ones. I want to remind the Chamber that the member was talking about the lack of overall direction by this Government so I thought I should just remind him that there is no lack of direction. It is very clear that we are focused on those four things: getting the books in order creating a competitive economy building better public services and rebuilding Christchurch. That direction is very well articulated and it is consistently prepared and consistently driven forward by this Government.This legislation is one piece of the jigsaw one piece in that delicate lattice structure that is the arrangements of the Government in order to enable the Government of the day where it has worked out what its priorities are to effect those priorities through the work not just of Government departments but also of Crown entities so that we working together and pulling in the same direction.One of the details is around the area of statements of intent and one of the proposals in this bill is to enable a Crown entity’s responsible Minister to require the entity to prepare a new statement of intent at any time. Again this is just another mechanism by which we can call the parties to account and make sure that everybody is singing from the same song sheet at the same time. So on that basis I am very keen to have continued with this detailed discussion of Part 3 of this bill this morning. Thank you.Dr Rajen Prasad: Mr Chair.Jacinda Ardern: Mr Chair.Dr Rajen Prasad: Oh a difficult decision.