Lees-Galloway Iain: Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
Lees-Galloway Iain: Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
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IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North) 
: 
 I will pick up where I was cut off just before. I am looking for clauses in Part 5 of the Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill that can give me some reassurance about this part. I was looking at clause 60(6) which says that when “the administrative secretariat forwards an application to the Authority the administrative secretariat must provide a copy of each application to—(a) the constable in charge of the Police station nearest to the premises or area in respect of which the licence is sought; and (b) the Medical Officer of Health of the district within which those premises or that area is situated; and (c) an inspector; and (d) the chief executive of the New Zealand Fire Service.” It is extremely reassuring that all of those organisations and individuals will be consulted about and will be aware of liquor licences that have been applied for under this legislation. Again I think this clause is another example of how this part does a reasonable job of balancing the need to make venues and alcoholic beverages available with the need to have a focus on public health and public safety as well. 
As Jacinda Ardern picked up on it is somewhat unusual that this legislation has a fairly good public health focus. That leads me back to the comments made earlier in the debate about which vessels should be used as containers for alcoholic beverages. I believe that the Government should have been a bit bolder resisted the influence of the liquor industry and actually said yes it was OK to have alcoholic beverages in paper cups or in something other than bottles and cans. There are numerous examples of fans having become intoxicated in a group and of a pack mentality starting to set in. People do things that they would not ordinarily do and they probably feel quite ashamed about them the next day. Those vessels quickly become missiles and they can become dangerous not just to the other people who are watching the matches but also to the players themselves and potentially to people out in the streets as well. 
I think that the Government should have taken a tougher line on that. It is not unusual for this Government to—I think I should be careful with the words I use given the warnings that I was given earlier in the night but when it comes to corporations especially multinational corporations this Government is not inclined to stand up to them. It certainly does not say we have a Kiwi way of doing things and that is the way we will do things in this country. It pretty much just says yes to anything that any corporation says. 
Jacinda Ardern 
: It’s not unparliamentary language. 
IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY 
: My colleague Jacinda Ardern is assisting me by saying that the phrase that I used earlier was not unparliamentary. That is true but I do not really want to trifle with the Chairperson any more than I did. I certainly would not want to see Jacqui Dean need to take any more points of order because I offend her in some way. 
I would like to move on to the amendment that is in my name. It is to make a small amendment to Subpart 3. Subpart 3 specifically subclause 72(1)(a) deals with the signage that licensees are required to place in their venues. I saw this as a practical opportunity to improve health and safety for partygoers and people who are at the venues by requiring the signage to include details of transport options that are available near the premises for patrons to encourage them to choose safe transportation. There is a reason why I chose that particular method of mitigating the harms related to alcohol: because a lot of the other ones are already well and truly on display and available to patrons. Low-alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages will be clearly visible in the premises. The food that will be required will be clearly visible on the premises as well. Even though venues will be required to make available to patrons transport options to assist them and ensure their safety there is no requirement—