Maurice Williamson announced last week that there will be changes to pool-safety laws which, he says, will make things simpler and safer for all.
He's going to have to do a better job selling this concept than he did with the 10-year drivers' licences, because a lot of people see the fencing laws as irrational.
I'm all for making pools as safe as possible. It's bad enough finding a hedgehog floating in the pool so I can't imagine the horror of finding a child drowned.
So I'm happy to put up a fence to protect neighbourhood kids, and myself.
But it seems absurd that the council will come round and tick off a checklist of costly things to do to make your pool fence secure when there is an unfenced stream or a river running through the back of your property, or an open pond 10m up the road.