Dr DUNCAN WEBB (Labour—Christchurch Central): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. Thank you for giving me the call on this bill—an excellent bill, and I am sure it's going to get a good working over in select committee, because it's a very simple precept. The premise is very simple, that we want people who are making important decisions to be transparent about their interests so that they can be scrutinised in terms of the motivations they may bring to the decisions that they make. I do think that it is time for a good look at conflicts of interest at local body, and I know the Auditor-General did have guidance that, in fact, he withdrew from his website because it was a little outdated.