Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia ora. This is a really interesting bill because essentially it amends the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act and within that Act the definition of alcohol" is a product whose content is 1.15 percent ethanol by volume. Under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act that is what alcohol is. What we have discovered through this process is that actually through the food standard and through the ingredients of certain products and the process by which they are made—that is if hops are included and through the process of fermentation through the Food Standard 2.7.2 the process enables products to be labelled beer Food Standard 2.7.3 says fruit wine vegetable wine and mead products are able to be labelled as alcohol and Food Standard 2.7.4 is wine and wine products.The reality is that the definition of alcohol is not only contained within the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act but it is also contained within the Food Standards Code which is how we have got into the dilemma that we have got. Under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act only alcohol can be displayed in alcohol areas of supermarkets but what that particular Act failed to do was to acknowledge that under the Food Standards Code there are certain products that because of what they are made of and the process they are made with can also be labelled alcohol when in fact they are not.So this is an opportunity for legislation to actually get with the programme and the reality is that in 2012 we had no low-alcohol products for sale in New Zealand. But there has been a huge explosion in the number of low-alcohol products that do not meet the definition of what alcohol is by content and that market is actually quite huge. As of May 2016 that is 4 percent of alcohol sales which is $14 million. In Australia the size of that market is 20 percent so if we equated that out to New Zealand we are actually talking about a $70 million market.I think that we had some incredibly robust discussion within the Justice and Electoral Committee. We did not choose to extend the definition of "alcohol" in the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act. What we have done is chosen to ensure that the effects of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act now take into consideration products that by ingredients and by process also meet what we consider to be alcohol so that they can now be displayed in a single area. I am going to highlight that a bit because we did have quite a few submitters—we had 30 submitters and six oral submissions—and the one issue that many of the submitters were worried about was that the supermarkets would get to choose whether or not products—not by content but by definition in terms of the Food Standards Code—were contained in the alcohol section of the supermarket. With the agreement of the industry—I want to highlight that the supermarkets and everybody who submitted wanted alcohol products whether they were defined by 1.15 percent ethanol or by what they were labelled as to be displayed in one area of the supermarket. I think that consensus really has driven the changes that the select committee made. I know that other members of the select committee might not think that is a big deal but I think it is a big deal and I think that New Zealanders think it is a big deal. They want to see alcohol products sold only in the alcohol area of the supermarket and this legislation will enable that. Thank you."