Trust Horizon (Trust Variation) Bill

on behalf of Dana Kirkpatrick (National): I move, That the Trust Horizon (Trust Variation) Bill be now read a third time.

Today marks the final stage of a bill that is simple in its drafting but potentially transformative in its impact on the communities of Whakatāne, Kawerau, Ōpōtiki, and Kaingaroa.

Before I dive into the detail around what this bill is actually doing, there is a person who is not here this evening who deserves a huge amount of credit for the work that she has put in to get the bill to where it is today, and that is the local member of Parliament Dana Kirkpatrick, the member for East Coast. I know you’re going to give me a telling off, Madam Speaker; I can see it in your eyes—I can see it in your eyes; say less, say less.

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): It was probably the shaking of the head.

TOM RUTHERFORD: But Dana Kirkpatrick has been the leader of this piece of legislation from day dot as the local member of Parliament. She’s done phenomenal work getting it to this stage, and to Dana we say thank you for your tireless advocacy on behalf of your local East Coast electorate and getting this bill here today to its third and final reading before the House rises.

Dana Kirkpatrick is proud to sponsor the bill on behalf of Trust Horizon and the people the trust was created to serve. Trust Horizon traces its origins to the electricity sector reforms of the 1990s. Established in 1994 as the Bay of Plenty Electricity Consumer Trust, it was created to ensure that the benefits of community ownership would continue to flow back to local people. Over time, it became the Eastern Bay Energy Trust and, more recently, Trust Horizon.

For more than three decades, the trust has been an outstanding steward of community assets. It’s distributed more than $50 million in grants and community investment, projects that have strengthened local communities, created opportunities, and improved quality of life across the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

Yet despite that success, the trust has been constrained by a trust deed that limits its funding to charitable projects that can be classified as energy-related purposes. Those restrictions may have made sense in 1994, but they no longer reflect the needs and aspirations of the communities the trust serves.

I refer to the example used at length in the second reading of the trust being able to pay for solar panels on the sports club roof but not being able to fund fixing the roof itself. One of the most important pieces to understand is why the trust could not just apply a rebate to all electricity users in its region, which many people asked about. I think it needs to be explained that the charitable status of the trust means this was not possible. Widespread rebates do not meet the charitable test, despite what many people think, and so this avenue was simply not possible.

This bill broadens the trust’s purposes from narrowly defined energy-related activities to the wider concept of charitable purposes, while preserving the trust’s focus on benefiting the people of its district. It also establishes a sensible mechanism for future amendments to the trust deed, subject to High Court approval, removing the need for a future Parliament to revisit every minor change.

The need for this change is clear. Trust Horizon now holds assets worth more than $200 million, yet under its current rules it’s found itself increasingly limited in the range of projects it can support. Meanwhile, the communities of the Eastern Bay of Plenty face very real challenges in areas such as housing, education, health, employment, environmental protection, and community wellbeing. This bill allows the trust to respond to those needs.

Importantly, the bill is not about abandoning the trust’s historical mission. Energy-related initiatives will continue to be supported. In fact, they remain an important part of the trust’s work and identity. What changes is that energy projects will no longer be the only projects that are eligible for support.

When we look at the trust’s record, we can see why this change is so exciting. Trust Horizon has invested in warmer, healthier homes and community initiatives. It has supported education and skills development programmes for rangatahi. It has backed community facilities, marae, arts and cultural projects, environmental restoration, and healthcare-related initiatives. Over the years, its funding has touched almost every corner of community life.

In the past year, the trust provided funding to support the construction of a new wharekai at Ōmaio marae—excuse my pronunciation, Madam Speaker—helping strengthen a vital community hub. It supported social and healthcare services to help power 15 new affordable homes. It funded lighting and sound upgrades for the historic De Luxe Theatre in Ōpōtiki and supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education initiatives in local schools.

Through its community grants programme, the trust helped purchase an electric van for Waka Eastern Bay, improving transport access for those who need it most. It funded predator control technology for conservation projects around Ōhiwa Harbour. It established a Community Energy Contribution Grant fund that has assisted dozens of marae and community organisations with energy costs and supported Galatea School to extend the use of its swimming pool through energy-efficient heating infrastructure.

Beyond grants, the trust has also taken a long-term approach to community investment. It has invested in local solar development, supported innovation in environmental projects, contributed to housing initiatives, and backed economic development opportunities that create jobs and prosperity within the region. It has demonstrated a commitment not only to providing grants but to building a strong future for the Eastern Bay.

When an organisation with that track record tells us it can do even more if unnecessary restrictions are removed, Parliament should listen. The overwhelmingly positive response from the community—the 80 percent of people that I just spoke about that voted in favour from the local community for this—confirms that view. The trust engaged extensively with stakeholders, iwi, community organisations, and the public. The support received demonstrated that local people understand the benefits this bill can unlock.

I want to acknowledge the work of the Social Services and Community Committee. The committee carefully considered the bill, heard submissions, and reported it back with unanimous support. The committee process reinforced the conclusion that this is a practical, sensible, and community-focused proposal. I thank the trustees of Trust Horizon: chair David Glover; chief executive Derek Caudwell, who was here this evening in support of me—and a big thankyou to you, Derek, and to Jono Orpin-Dowell KC for his advice as well—and their advisers, submitters, community members, and all those who have contributed to this process.

Most importantly, I acknowledge the generations of people across the Eastern Bay who have supported and benefited from Trust Horizons’ work over the past 30 years. Private bills are often highly local in their focus. They may not affect the entire country, but they can make an enormous difference to the communities that they serve. This bill, to the Eastern Bay, is one of those measures. It respects the original intent behind Trust Horizon, it preserves the community ownership legacy created through electricity sector reforms, and it allows a successful local trust to better meet the challenges and opportunities of the future.

I also wish to acknowledge the Parliamentary Counsel Office. While private bills may be local in their effect, they are no less important to the people who rely on them. The expertise, guidance, and professionalism of the Parliamentary Counsel Office throughout the drafting and legislative process has been invaluable, and I thank them for their contribution.

Most importantly, I want to acknowledge Trust Horizon itself. David Glover and Derek Caudwell, their advisers, trustees, leadership team, and staff have shown considerable vision, commitment, and perseverance in bringing this proposal forward. It would’ve been easier to continue operating within the existing framework, but instead they have looked beyond the status quo and asked how the trust can better serve future generations of its own community. For more than 30 years, Trust Horizon has been a careful steward of community assets, investing more than $50 million back into the people and communities of the Eastern Bay of Plenty. From supporting marae, schools, environmental projects, housing initiatives, community facilities, and local economic development, the trust has consistently demonstrated a commitment to improving lives across the region.

This bill is the result of that same forward-looking approach. It reflects a desire not simply to preserve a legacy but to build upon it. The trustees recognise that the needs of our communities have evolved, and the trust’s ability to respond should evolve as well. Their leadership and determination have brought us to this point, and they deserve recognition for that achievement.

At its heart, this legislation is about unlocking opportunity, empowering communities, and ensuring that the benefits of community-owned assets continue to flow to the people they were always intended to serve. On behalf of Dana Kirkpatrick, the hard-working local MP for the East Coast electorate, she is incredibly proud to have sponsored this bill on behalf of Trust Horizon and her communities of Whakatāne, Kawerau, Ōpōtiki, and Kaingaroa. So, on her behalf, I commend the bill to the House.

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): The question is that the motion be agreed to.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to join that member, Tom Rutherford, who has just taken his seat, in congratulating Dana Kirkpatrick for the work that she has done on this bill. Private bills and local bills usually do spring from that very important work of being someone on the ground in a community and understanding what the needs are. I commend Dana Kirkpatrick for that work. I also commend Dana for her work to get cross-party agreement on this bill, as is often the case with local and private bills. It shows how a local MP can bring other people from across the House around a local issue. Well done; it is an achievement for Dana to do that.

This doesn’t mean we don’t have questions about this bill. We are supporting it. It has been really stressed how important this bill is to a local community, but this bill sits in the context of a huge amount of change in the New Zealand energy system and what needs to happen. I think this bill really highlights the tangled situation we have when it comes to our distribution businesses in New Zealand. We have three categories of lines companies, as normal people would call them, or, as those in the sector would call them, EDBs, or electricity distribution businesses. But there are three distinct types of EDBs.

There can be private trusts, which exist to make distributions to consumers; there can be charitable trusts; and then there can be mixed private and charitable trusts. To make this even more complicated, what we are talking about tonight and what led to some of the questions in the chair becoming more complicated than they needed to is that the dividends policies of trust-owned EDBs can differ, as well. What we have is Trust Horizon owning Horizon Energy Group, including Horizon Networks.

I don’t expect anyone to be following along from that. My point is that we have an incredibly complicated and messy situation with what is one of the most important elements of how it is that we electrify New Zealand and we reduce bills for New Zealand households and businesses. This bill sits squarely in the context of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment being out at the moment for consultation around what we need our lines companies to look like in the 21st century, what we need to do.

Now, I don’t think this Government’s work is going far enough in terms of imagining what a 21st century New Zealand lines company ecosystem would look like. For example, we need to be considering if there is a requirement for a lines company to demonstrate that building poles and wires is the least-cost measure they can take, and that they have considered alternatives like non-network solutions, like putting batteries and solar in place before they just keep doing what they’ve been doing for 100 years, which is building poles and wires. When it comes to many of our rural upgrades, for example, or a number of our commercial or industrial companies, actually, poles and wires are not the least-cost option that should be followed.

I do not for a moment think this would be a reason not to vote for this bill, because this bill actually just brings Horizon Trust into line with many of its counterparts around the country. It does not result in Trust Horizon having an unusual purpose compared to other EDB-related trusts with charitable purposes that exist around the country. The opposite is, in fact, the case. Of the six EDB-related trusts with charitable purposes, Trust Horizon is the only trust that is limited to energy-related purposes. The other five trusts are for charitable purposes, broadly defined in a way that is analogous to that proposed in this bill.

If anyone is confused, I’m not surprised, and this is a big part of the problem: we do have this incredibly tangled situation. I think we need to ask ourselves, as a country: what do we need to invest in our distribution infrastructure to deliver low-cost electricity to New Zealand homes and businesses over the coming 50 and 100 years? Then we need to say: have we exhausted all the possible ways that we could be investing in our communities for cheaper power, for more resilient power, for power that we can trust and that we know best serves our community? I would be gobsmacked if any region of New Zealand can say, hand on heart, “We’ve got that covered. We’ve got all the money we need to invest in the infrastructure we need for electrification.” Simon Court asked some very good questions in the committee stage demonstrating that—what the requirements are of what we actually need to be reinvesting into those.

For me, that is what it comes down to—not just for Horizon Trust. I fully appreciate why Horizon Trust wants to make itself the same as the five others in the category that it belongs to, but as a country, we need to be thinking about: how do we do this properly and where does this bill fit within this? Now, of course, if there needed to be legislation that reorganised the way in which we required EDBs to do things—after all, there is a live consultation document—it’s not going to preclude us doing any of that. But we do need to be thinking, and this bill is a reminder of the very messy situation that we’ve got around our energy system: the way it’s owned, the way it’s operated, the way it’s held.

I know that there are incredibly good people up and down the country that are doing the best for their communities, and they do it with the best of intentions, but whether that is the way in which we can ensure that we have all the investment we need for the next 100 years is something we do, as a country, need to give thought to. I do think that local communities need to be incredibly involved in any decisions about their own electricity systems. They know where the pinch points are when the storm comes through; they know the areas where the power goes out—they know these kinds of things, and that is incredibly important. I’m not for a moment saying we shouldn’t be doing that, but we do need to take stock and ask ourselves: have we really invested everything we need to in the energy system we need for the 21st century?

That said, Labour is happy to support this bill, and I congratulate Dana Kirkpatrick for the work she has done on it.

Thank you. I rise to support the Trust Horizon (Trust Variation) Bill. I want to say a few things about community energy trusts, talk a little bit about why there is an uneven distribution of them, and then make a few points about what could happen in that beautiful region of Whakatāne and the East Coast. I would like to say that I have not been at the Social Services and Community Committee, but I have looked at some of the submissions and I’ve talked to our energy spokesperson, Scott Willis, on this matter, as well.

Community energy trusts in New Zealand have a unique and exceptional role to play to end our national exposure to volatile international fossil fuel prices, to electrify our nation, and to deliver affordable and locally resilient power. Our vision is distributed, affordable, decarbonised power for all of us—think distributed, not Think Big.

I was very interested to hear Mr Rutherford speak, first of all, highly of Dana, which I would absolutely agree—Dana Fitzpatrick, who’s led this—

Katie Nimon: Kirkpatrick.

CELIA WADE-BROWN: Kirkpatrick—thank you. I’d also like to endorse his particular example drawn from the select committee process of saying it doesn’t make sense to insulate the roof, to put solar panels on top of the roof, and then to not be able to fix the roof itself. That’s very sensible. But what I’d like to draw attention to was that very eloquent speech about how that side of the House really supported local trusts with elected members being able to do what they thought was right without direction from Wellington. Well, it would be lovely if you’d just spread that to include elected members and councils, as well—but it does show that I was listening to that third point. We do support this bill, but we’d like to make it clear that, instead of just broadening the trust’s rule, it was very important to make sure that the energy-related purposes remained, as well as being able to do other things, because there is a lot of work to be done.

I’d like to say two things about energy trusts, in general, that relate to this bill. Here we’ve got Whakatāne and that area—Kawerau and so forth—having a really good trust that has kept its assets and is able to do a lot of good work and wants to do more good work. There are gaps around this country where there are no energy trusts, and I’ll come to that in a moment, but I also want to think of the ongoing legacy of Jeanette Fitzsimons—not Fitzpatrick; Fitzsimons—because it was Jeanette’s idea to have the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority so that we could actually have warm, healthy homes across the motu, and that legacy has endured a number of different Governments. The money has gone up and the money has gone down, but it’s still there, thank goodness.

In a cost of living crisis and a global energy crisis—and it’s worse than it was in the 1970s; not that many of you remember the 1970s—it does make sense to use the resources of Trust Horizon to enable a transition to a more local energy system that is also more resilient. It was very interesting to hear Minister Mitchell talk about resilience in emergency management and to have a real endorsement from around the House, but we do have limited resources, and I think that examples like Trust Horizon can really contribute to that.

Let’s refer to why we’re not fortunate enough to have such an energy trust in Wellington. Back in June 1996, Sue Kedgley and I campaigned against the sale of Capital Power. If we hadn’t sold all of Capital Power—not retaining anything for a community energy trust—we might have been able to look at Trust Horizon and say, “Yes, Wellington too.” But the council of the time, including, originally, an opponent of the sale of Capital Power—my colleague Mr Foster changed his mind and enabled the sale of Capital Power.

Andy Foster: No, it’s because they changed the deal, unfortunately, Celia.

CELIA WADE-BROWN: Well, you’ll have your time to speak, but that’s, I think, what the record shows.

Andy Foster: No, I’m not going to spend that time, but you need to know a little bit more than that, because you don’t. You don’t know what you’re talking about, unfortunately.

Hon Member: Oh, the mayors are fighting—the mayors are fighting. Take off the chains—you’ll work it. Which one is the ball; which one is the chain?

ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Carry on.

CELIA WADE-BROWN: I think we’ve rattled the chains quite enough! While you start off by opposing the sale of the asset and then you change your mind—despite this, we had a fantastic citizens’ jury—some of us are going to Helmut Modlik’s really interesting Re:shape conference on Saturday, which is talking about how we can hand over some decision making to the public—but we ignored collectively, at our peril, that very sensible citizens’ jury.

Finally, I would like to give a shout-out to the Community Energy Network, of which Trust Horizon is a member. The aim is to put healthy homes and community energy in the public spotlight to get community organisations talking and to inspire citizens’ engagement in our renewable transition—electrify Aotearoa, indeed. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of ACT to speak in support of the Trust Horizon (Trust Variation) Bill. I want to again add our congratulations to Dana Kirkpatrick for getting this bill through the House. As we’ve already heard, it makes a change to the trust deed to allow these broader charitable purposes for the trust in the Eastern Bay of Plenty while retaining the existing energy-focused charitable purposes.

I want to thank the Social Services and Community Committee for their work on this. Any concerns that ACT had, we got on the record through Simon Court at the committee of the whole House, and I commend the bill to the House.

New Zealand First believes in community ownership, and I think that this debate demonstrates the value of assets remaining in community ownership. The bit that Celia Wade-Brown forgot is in the first part of selling Capital Power; council also sold the controlling management control, and that basically meant that what you had left was simply shares and not control of things. So I think she neglected that minor thing. But the Greens have never been able to adapt to any change. They just keep on doing the same thing that they always ideologically do. That’s the Greens for you.

This bill is common sense. All of those issues that have been filibustered about for ages here have been dealt with through the select committee. It brings Trust Horizon in line with the other energy trusts. It allows greater benefits across the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

Finally, I’m just conscious that the next bill is the one that we really need to get through tonight. If we’re going to save the lives of New Zealanders this summer, we need to get the next bill through, so can we please get this one through as quick as possible? I commend this bill to the House.

DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Green Party, and, as I sit, I commend this bill to the House.

Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I rise to commend this bill to the House. I’m very pleased I’ve had it go through the Social Services and Community Committee, which I chair. I thank everyone for all their hard work. It’s a brilliant bill. I congratulate Dana Kirkpatrick and everyone in her community. I commend the bill to the House.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I too would like to rise to congratulate the member Dana Kirkpatrick in bringing this bill to the House and shepherding it through and getting it to a point that across the House there is agreement in this. But I will say that the actual committee of the whole House stage—and it’s not often that we have a member in the chair that doesn’t understand or hasn’t done the work on that bill, but answers so clearly in the answers in that committee stage. I’d have to say that that was very, very well done.

I found that stage actually very enlightening, because, as the member Megan Woods said in her contribution at the third reading, this is not easy to get your head around. This is a very complex system that we have within this country, and this bill has highlighted the complexities that are involved here. While Labour has supported this bill—and I think I’ve spoken on just about every reading of this bill—that does not mean that we accept that energy-related opportunities are exhausted in our regions. I think that that is really, really important. I think that, as the nature of energy supply is changing throughout the country and technology is changing, we see that there are more and more opportunities that come in this area.

What we do agree with is that this excellent, outstanding trust has had its scope limited by legislation up until this point, and the legislation that we are passing through the third reading here this evening is a signal that the trust can go further in their scope, and that has to be a good thing. It has been pointed out tonight a number of times in a number of the contributions around the other trust areas across the country. Trust Horizon is probably the most limited up until this point of what they can achieve, so it is good to see that what we are doing here in Parliament this evening is taking that a step further and putting some purchase back into the hands of those local trust members, meaning that this particular trust will be able to make a bigger difference for their local community.

I remember saying in the first reading, when you go on to the website of Trust Horizon, how impressive this trust is. I look forward to seeing what they can do now, once this piece of legislation has passed. They already—and we heard that from the member tonight in his third reading speech—have done some incredible work in their local communities. It is good to see the many variations of people in their district, and demographics, that they have been able to support. Well, now we’re giving them the opportunity to take this one step further, and to look at different ways they can help, but making certain that energy is still at the heart of many of their decisions.

As I said, I look forward to seeing where the trust takes this with their new direction that they’ve got from this piece of legislation tonight. Along with the majority of people in this House, I commend this bill to the House.

I want to commend this bill to the House, and say thank you to Dana Kirkpatrick—who can’t be with us in the House today—for shepherding this through. This is obviously very close to me in Tauranga, and I know this is going to have a very positive impact in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, an area of high deprivation. They have a trust there, Horizon, with significant resources and a narrow scope. That will open up, and it’s going to benefit sports clubs, marae, many other social and community programmes. This is a very good day for the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Well done, Dana Kirkpatrick. I commend the bill to the House.

DEPUTY SPEAKER: Dan Rosewarne. I knew where to look this time!

Thank you. Yes, absolutely. Labour is pleased to support the third reading of the Trust Horizon (Trust Variation) Bill. This is a practical bill. It’s driven by the community it serves, and it’s been improved through the select committee process, as other contributors have mentioned tonight. The purpose of this bill is pretty straightforward. It gives the Trust Horizon more flexibility to support the people and the communities of Eastern Bay of Plenty, by widening its remit beyond purely energy-related purposes, while retaining its original focus on energy. That balance is important, and it’s one of the reasons that Labour supports the changes recommended by the Social Services and Community Committee.

The Trust Horizon has a unique history. It was established through the electricity sector reforms of the 1990s, and today owns the Horizon Energy Group, including the lines company that supplies electricity throughout the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Over many years, it has built up significant assets on behalf of the community. The challenge the trust faces is that its trust deed limits how those assets can be used, even when there are clear community needs sitting right in front of it. The district it serves includes communities facing real challenges. There are schools, community groups, marae, charities, and local organisations doing great work with limited resources. The trustees have looked at their roles and asked a simple question: if they have the ability to help more people, why shouldn’t they?

More than 80 percent of respondents in the community poll that they did supported widening and clarifying the charitable purposes of the trust. When you look at what the trust has already funded, you can understand why there is confidence in that organisation. We’re not talking about a trust that’s been sitting on the sidelines; we’re talking about a trust that has funded insulation and heat pumps, supported schools with energy projects—as has been mentioned—and provided assistance for community transport. There have been environmental initiatives, as well, and helping community organisations with power costs. That track record is very important. It tells us that the trustees understand their communities and understand how to invest back into them.

I also want to acknowledge the work that the select committee has done around this bill, and I commend it to the House.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I am very pleased to take a call on this member’s bill. Congratulations to Dana Kirkpatrick, like everybody else has mentioned. I think it’s really important that the trust does ensure that it meets its core purpose of energy-related initiatives, but of course, this bill provides their ability to go out for wider community needs. In the communities of Kāingaroa, Kawerau, Ōpōtiki, and Whakatāne, 80 percent voted for this to be changed, and so I commend it to the House.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It’s a real pleasure to stand and take a call on the Trust Horizon (Trust Variation) Bill this evening. We’ve heard some great contributions, and, at committee stage, too, the exploration of some of the complexities around both the context of the energy market in New Zealand but also the process of changing trust deeds like this one. The Trust Horizon charitable trust was established through the energy sector reforms under the Energy Companies Act 1992.

The thing that I really wanted to acknowledge in my contribution this evening is some of the amazing work that Trust Horizon does for local communities—some of the amazing initiatives that it supports, and the importance and the impact that this can have on the local communities. As we’ve heard, a lot of these communities are like so many in our country: communities that really are struggling with the cost of living and the challenges to be able to afford the basics at the moment.

The first one I wanted to single out here was really looking at the economic development impacts happening around the support of the Kawerau Enterprise Agency (KEA) Centre in Kawerau, which was established over 40 years ago, with the goal of stimulating new business in Kawerau, and just ensuring that the KEA Centre could be funded to be warmer, drier, and a healthier space for people to work and to get on with doing the important work that happens when businesses start up, when businesses can work closely together, share experiences, challenges, and what’s getting in the way of them being able to succeed. It’s great to see that Trust Horizon are able to support the KEA Centre to be an environment that’s going to be good and healthy and safe for people to be in, to get those businesses up and started.

The other thing that I wanted to look at here was—well, two others really. One was on this page here, which was the support of the Kiwi Trust—the trapping that they use in the Kiwi Trust to make sure that they’ve got predators under control. That’s by supporting New Zealand AutoTraps, which is a great innovative New Zealand company that creates fantastic traps that reset themselves. It’s an absolute game-changer, and it’s fantastic to see just the broad spectrum—or the full horizon, if you will—of support that the trust can provide to that community. It’s great to see that that been able to be progressed.

One that I really wanted to single out, because I think it’s so important—and we often find that, particularly in communities that don’t have access either to the funds or to the resources by virtue of not being in the major centres, often our rangatahi, our young people, miss out on the opportunities for taking those first steps into careers in our science and technology sector. There’s the STEMM support that we’re seeing that’s going into the Eastern Bay STEMM Capability Project with a grant from the Horizon Trust. All of these fantastic initiatives are supported by the trust, and, really, as others have, I wanted to single out and acknowledge the work of the local member Dana Kirkpatrick in bringing this bill into the House this evening, and, ultimately, in getting cross-party support to be able to support it, not only at this third and final reading this evening, but also to ensure that it was supported, and really robustly examined by a number of parties at committee stage. So I’m very happy to support this bill to the House this evening.

I’m really excited to see what Trust Horizon can do when this bill gets passed, so with that, I commend the bill to the House.

I commend the bill to the House.

Motion agreed to.

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