Rurawhe AdrianFIRE AND EMERGENCY NEW ZEALAND BILLIn CommitteePart 1 Fire and Emergency New ZealandADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Just some overview first of all. I want to acknowledge the more than 110 submitters on this bill. I thought that our Government Administration Committee worked very well to address all of the issues. I will go straight to a tabled amendment that I have put forward for the Committee to consider. A number of submitters talked about the importance of service. In this House in the last few days there have been a number of members who have acknowledged the difficulties that people are going through right now with flooding and other issues and it happened today in the House as well.I just want to highlight that a key part of that acknowledgment was acknowledging the service that had been given by the Fire Service and others. I think the word service" is a key one. In the dictionary when I looked it up service actually means "a system supplying public need" and service can also mean "helping or doing work". For this reason I have put forward an amendment which has been tabled to add the word "Services" to the name of both this bill and Fire and Emergency New Zealand as it is called under this bill so that it will now be called Fire and Emergency Services New Zealand.That is more specifically in acknowledgment of all of those wonderful people who provide that service and take pride in providing that service. It is seen as a badge of honour that they are part of what is now the Fire Service and other services. So establishing the new entity under this bill although it is really important I think it is really important that we acknowledge all of the thousands of men and woman who provide the services. That is the reason why I have put forward this particular amendment. Of course along with that it makes a number of other changes as well throughout the bill. It is not an easy thing to change the name but I have put this forward because I want to acknowledge all of those people who have made submissions. I believe it is important that they have their voice heard in this House in this debate.In the Minister's Supplementary Order Paper 262 and I want to go through quite a number of the amendments—can I first of all say that I acknowledge that we went through what I thought was a really good process in the select committee. We debated those issues robustly. There are a number of changes that have been made since the select committee hearing that have not been considered by the select committee and I just want to highlight that as well.Also in my tabled amendment—after receiving correspondence on this matter and I am sure I will want to speak more extensively about this—is "to establish an independent complaints authority". The reason behind that again is an acknowledgment of all of those who are providing those services all of those people involved in this service who have asked that there be some independence hence the reason for calling for the establishment of an independent complaints authority so that there are much more transparent processes when dealing with complaints. That is the reason why I have asked for this particular clause to be considered by the Committee. Also within Part 1 of the bill I want to talk about the changes to the clauses that relate to evacuation schemes. This brings to mind one of the key points of discussion for submitters which was around the local committees and the planning processes that were included within Part 1 of this bill. I want to again acknowledge those people for bringing their thoughts and ideas around that. They had great concerns around how that would work and what the composition of that would be and it is really good to see that the Minister under these amended clauses seems to have heard the voices of those people and has changed those clauses accordingly. So I acknowledge that.Also I do highlight that in Subpart 3 clause 8(1) which states: "There continues to be an organisation …"—that is not it. Sorry Mr Chair. The same conditions that applied beforehand under that clause will continue to apply now. I look forward to making other contributions. Thank you."