Hon MICHAEL WOOD (Minister of Transport): I wish to start my comments today with a tribute to the late Brian Corban, the chairperson of KiwiRail and a great New Zealander who passed away suddenly and very sadly over the weekend. Mr Corban will be known to many members around the House. He is the kind of person who I think of as a genuine nation-builder, a man who had an incredibly successful commercial career but who then devoted much of his life to public service. At the time that he passed away, he was the chairperson of KiwiRail, but he held many other roles in recent times with Radio New Zealand, TVNZ, Genesis Energy, the Melanesian Mission, and many, many more which I won't take the time to mention here. I wish on behalf of the Government to pass on my condolences to his family and those who loved him very much. 