Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Tēnā koe Mr Deputy Speaker. I am pleased to speak in the first reading of this recovery bill. As has been mentioned this is the third piece of legislation in the trifecta of bills that we are enacting at an accelerated pace to address the earthquakes in the Hurunui and Kaikōura districts. I am very pleased to stand in support of this bill and I endorse all of the cross-party efforts and the collaboration that is taking place in the drafting and the passage of this bill to this point. This is an extraordinary piece of legislation in one sense in that it is granting powers to the executive to override legislation through Orders in Council. However it is necessary and it has been adopted before obviously with the Christchurch experience and it is necessary to facilitate recovery. We know that there will be a host of different requirements that will need to be compliant with the law but in some certain instances the law as it stands will need to be amended to ensure that we are able to conduct whatever it is across a range of different areas to facilitate that recovery. It could be in emergency housing it could be in roading or it could be in taxation. It could be in a whole raft of areas. The beauty of this bill is that although it does provide in one sense extraordinary powers it is very contained and it is very prescribed. It is not as if these powers will be abused—I certainly hope that will not happen. They are put in place because they are necessary. I do commend the drafting because as far as my reading of it is concerned every scenario that may be required is captured by the wording in this bill: modification extension and suspension. So any malleable twisting of the law that is required is catered for by the measures and by the drafting of the bill as I read it.But one point I want to raise—and I do not want to extend my contribution longer than required—and one point I do want to commend is the appointment of the review panel. I note that the review panel that will review the recommendations that will be made by the relevant Minister on whatever particular piece of the prescribed legislation that may be requiring an amendment or requiring an Order in Council requires the Minister to appoint one iwi representative.I just want to note that the affected area of this piece of legislation in this bill is beyond just one iwi. We know that in the Christchurch experience there was just one iwi affected and that was Ngāi Tahu. But in this legislation we are dealing with the upper South Island. We are dealing with the Marlborough and Blenheim areas and we are also dealing across Cook Strait into the Wellington area. We are talking about the iwi at the top of the South Island and in particular in the Blenheim and Marlborough regions: Rangitāne Ngāti Rārua Ngāti Toa and there is a host of iwi likewise up and over into the Wellington area. I am sure that the Minister will be aware of this. Because the panel has only one iwi appointee I am sure that that iwi appointee would have some endorsement or support from all of the affected iwi that are contemplated by this bill and not just one particular iwi. I would just draw that to the Minister's attention through that single person who is appointed as the iwi appointee.Apart from that yes these are extraordinary measures but extraordinary emergencies require these sorts of enactments of legislation of this type. I know that careful consideration has been given. I do acknowledge the select committee that will be meeting in haste—I guess on Monday—to hear submitters on this particular bill. I am sure that they will make any additional amendments that may be required. But apart from those points that I have just raised I do support this bill and I commend it to the House.Bill read a first time. Bill referred to the Local Government and Environment Committee.