Faafoi Kris: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Exemption for RNZRSA Clubs from Special Licencing Requirements for Anzac Day) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFaafoi Kris: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Exemption for RNZRSA Clubs from Special Licencing Requirements for Anzac Day) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee[Sitting date: 06 April 2016. Volume:712;Page:10260. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I plan to make a very short speech in the Committee stage and I will not bother reading the bill name because that will take up too much time. Can I commend the member in the chair Paul Foster-Bell who has put forward this bill. I want to point to Supplementary Order Paper 168 and to new section 47A(2) which sets out in the legislation that RSAs that are licensed and registered with the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association will be able to be open between the hours of 4 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Anzac Day itself. It seems odd that we have to come to this Chamber to do that but it is in fact that we are correcting a piece of legislation and I acknowledge—Paul Foster-Bell: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I apologise to the member for interrupting. The point of order is that the clauses contained in bill all be taken as one question for the purposes of the Committee stage.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): You are seeking leave for that purpose?Paul Foster-Bell: Yes.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is not. Leave is sought that clauses 1 to 4 stand part and the question is that clauses 1 to 4 stand part. Kris Faafoi—as a continuing call with 4 minutes and 15 seconds to go.KRIS FAAFOI: I am glad; that will make the process even more efficient. There will be many presidents of RSAs around the country who will be happy that this piece of legislation will go through this Committee in the manner that it is today. It will ensure that they will get to have a beer if they want to enjoy a beer or a drink on the morning of Anzac Day and not have to go through the rigmarole of having to apply for an exemption or a special licence for that purpose. It will save RSAs around the country a fair bit of money especially if they are a smaller struggling RSA.I found myself in the good position of sharing a beer with one of my local RSA presidents last Friday who was one of the RSA presidents who called me and said it was my job to try to help sort this out. So I do acknowledge Roger Kingsford the president of the Porirua RSA and also acknowledge the president of the Titahi Bay RSA which is my local RSA John O’Hara who at Easter also told me of this issue. It is one of the smaller clubs that I spoke of and $265 within the jurisdiction of the Porirua City Council is a lot of money. So they will not have to face that financial burden in the future because of this.I would like to thank the member again. I acknowledge the process we have to go through to speed this through but I do think it is a good thing that we can have this law in place by this Anzac Day so we do not put extra pressures on our RSAs around the country.