Hon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Well, thank you, Mr Chair. I wanted to thank the member who has been sponsoring this local bill, the member for Palmerston North, Tangi Utikere. He's given a very fulsome historic analysis of this small but quite important piece of legislation amending legislation to the Palmerston North City Council. It should be noted at this stage in committee that there is, I think, unanimity across the House in support of this piece of legislation. It's to the credit of the sponsoring member and the council that they've been able to achieve that, because that wasn't the case some 15 years ago when a similar attempt to resolve this issue was brought before this House and was not completed, and actually withdrawn and failed finally. So credit is due to both the council and to the sponsoring member.