Bennett David: WorkSafe New Zealand Bill Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill Mines Rescue Bill — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: WorkSafe New Zealand Bill Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill Mines Rescue Bill — Third Readings[Sitting date: 14 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:14735. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): I just want to follow on from the two speeches we have had first up and pay tribute and our respect to those miners who were lost in that terrible tragedy. I think the Minister of Labour Simon Bridges expressed that very well and Andrew Little also expressed that very well in his speech just passed. The Transport and Industrial Relations Committee did travel to the region and I would like to acknowledge Damien O’Connor who will probably be speaking soon and Chris Auchinvole. Both have a special interest in that area. I also acknowledge our Green members as well for their work in that event when we went down there.This is not a pretty occasion for any Parliament or any community to have to go through. It is something that I guess brings home the dangers that a workplace does involve. It brings home the danger that many people engage in every day in trying to make this country the productive place that it is. It also brings home the role that the Government business and the community have in protecting and looking after people who are engaging in work that may involve that kind of level of danger.As the last speaker said this legislation—the WorkSafe New Zealand Bill the Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Bill and the Mines Rescue Bill—is overdue and is probably something that many parliaments should have done a long time ago. Unfortunately that is the situation but this is the nature of this legislation and the circumstances we are now in. In saying that this is good legislation. I would just like to thank the Minister Simon Bridges who has done an excellent job in listening to the community being aware of these issues and trying to find a way to incorporate into legislation the needs of our communities in a way that is practical and will work going forward. I also thank the members of the select committee—National Labour and the Greens—who have been part of that committee and have worked conscientiously to get the best result for the community.When we look at this legislation it does make some significant changes which have been canvassed by both speakers and there have been some changes at the select committee really just to accommodate some practicalities of different industries looking at finding the balance that will be the best so that we can maintain safety in a very dangerous mining industry especially where coalmining is involved. It isunderground and there is the possibility that gas could explode and then cause loss of life as we saw at Pike River.This legislation is a balance in trying to achieve the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy in regard to that situation but at the same time being the right balance for business community and also employees as they go about their daily work in our best industries. This is legislation that all political parties have shown an endeavour to work towards getting through this House and we commend it to the House.