ANNA LORCK (Labour—Tukituki): I rise to speak as a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee. This bill is the result of extensive consultation and stakeholder engagement. Critical to the modernising of this bill has been to ensure we protect the Reserve Bank's operational independence and its governance and accountability, and those have been two of the most critical things in setting up for this bill here today. I have really enjoyed being part of this process and seeing this through. When the finance Minister said that he was in the seventh form in 1989 when this bill first came in, I can say that I was in the seventh form too, and what a long way we've gone. I commend this bill to the House.