Nakhle Rima; Tuiono TeanauRIMA NAKHLE (National—Takanini): Thank you Mr Speaker. Look it's my absolute pleasure—[coughs to get silence]. It's my absolute pleasure to stand here as the final speaker for this evening with my husky throat voice. But anyway—Katie Nimon: Bit of red wine might solve that.RIMA NAKHLE: After the Hon Matt Doocey I mean what can we add? Pardon?Katie Nimon: A bit of red wine might help.RIMA NAKHLE: Kate Nimon is such a great local MP encouraging red wine from her area Hawke's Bay. Not the Hawke's Bay but Hawke's Bay. That's right.I stand in support of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill. The principal Act is the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012. In essence in a nutshell what does this amendment seek to do? It allows cellar door wineries to charge people for tasting their wine for tasting 35 millilitres of their wine at a time. That's part of what's going to be added in the bill as well—that a sample size is 35 millilitres. What this will also do is these cellar doors that have a dining component can hold both an on-licence and off-licence simultaneously. Also in a nutshell this bill seeks to define intentionally and more clearly what a winery" is and what a "winery cellar door" is.Now I'd like to canvass why we support these changes. Now we've heard a number of reasons but I'm going to share with the House my perspective. I think a major part of why we support these changes is we want to cut red tape. Now I know that we hear in the House about our values a lot and in the National Party one of our values is limited government. Limited government is a core National Party value. It's about stripping back unnecessary regulation as much as possible so businesses can just do what they love doing work the mahi they enjoy to do. And of course we want to ensure this happens while still maintaining that standards are met. So we support initiatives and implementations like this in the amendment bill the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill that make it easier for hard-working businesses hard-working Kiwis to operate and indeed grow our economy.As we heard so valiantly by the Hon Matt Doocey we do need to grow our economy. It's a serious situation that we're in and any way we can help facilitate that—for example here with this amendment bill—we will be growing the economy. By allowing flexibility with licensing where cellar door wineries can hold both an on-licence and an off-licence under the same legal entity this bill will reduce unnecessary costs on the businesses therefore once again cutting red tape and pulling back regulations. We heard about how beneficial this would be by a number of submitters that submitted on this bill which if I have the chance—because I only have 6½ minutes left—I'll read some quotes later.Stuart Smith: It's a great speech so far.RIMA NAKHLE: Oh wow thank you. Another reason why we support this bill is that it promotes responsible wine consumption. I hear the concerns by some people across the House; I really do. But I was surprised that the concerns were so strong when in fact this amendment bill as I said promotes responsible alcohol consumption and it does this as I mentioned earlier by stipulating the sample size. The sample size will be no more than 35 millilitres of wine. Also what it means is that by charging for these samples of wine we're also giving that message to the public that "Hey we encourage responsible drinking." So these two points indicate the Government's commitment to responsible alcohol consumption. These changes we truly believe will enhance local businesses communities and New Zealand's tourism. As we've mentioned areas like the Marlborough region produce over 80 percent of New Zealand's wine and over there tourism accounts for 6 percent of the gross domestic product.So imagine Mr Speaker—and I encourage my colleagues in the House to imagine as well—how helpful these amendments will be for the cellar doors that create so many opportunities for locals and Kiwis all over the motu.Here I'd like to just mention if I may I'm sure many in the House know by now that my whakapapa is Lebanese and I'd like to mention what the Lebanese in New Zealand have contributed to the wine industry in New Zealand and acknowledge it if I may with your allowance Mr Speaker. The Lebanese community established the second winery in New Zealand. That was Corban wine yes. Someone earlier was talking about no wines in Auckland well Corban wines—West Auckland. I'm not a Westie but we have Westies in the House. The word Corban is the Arabic word "qurbān" which means "Eucharist". So the Corban family they established the second winery in New Zealand and I'm proud of the fact that Lebanese have contributed to this extremely important commodity for New Zealand.I'd also like to mention Mr Speaker if I may there's a gentleman by the name of Terry Dunleavy. Terry Dunleavy—many of the National Party folk would know him. He was a staunch National Party supporter and he was a lovely and fair guy. He passed away in March 2022. But as Tom would know Terry Dunleavy made a massive contribution not only to our National Party remits but did you know—did you know James Meager?—that Mr Dunleavy was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the wine industry. He was also the founding editor of the New Zealand Winegrower Magazine amongst many others. May his soul rest in peace and may we remember him.Hon Member: Aw very nice.RIMA NAKHLE: Yes. Absolutely very nice.Another point I'd like to mention if I may is there was some kōrero in the Justice Committee about whether we can expand the bill to distilleries like gin distilleries whiskey makers craft beer brewers. I thought it's important to bring attention to this kōrero that we had. The majority of the committee decided to stick to the intention of the bill with our wonderful member here the honourable Stuart Smith member for Kaikōura saying that we stick to it being about wine. But there's another reason why I personally felt the need to stick to it just being about wine and this is because with those other industries we don't have the definitions for for example "craft beer" that we do for "wine" and this was found even when we were speaking. We were hearing a submission by the New Zealand Craft Brewers—please forgive me; I've forgotten the name exactly right now. I specifically asked him: "Is there a definition for 'craft beer'?" and he said "No." And I think in the absence of established definitions for these other alcohols—for example craft beer gin etc.—and what component of alcohol is acceptable what would make a sample at this stage? And we said this in our report—the majority of the committee said this—that at this stage we just want to stick to just wine. But you never know what can happen in the future. I'm personally open in the future. Do we extend this bill for other craft breweries and distilleries as well? This bill will make it easier for our wineries our family-owned cellar door wineries to operate and to also get back a return. I know that many of us not all of us but many of us have enjoyed the beautiful quaint moments where we might go with—for example my husband Roger for my birthday Central Otago wine tours. But specifically I look for those family-owned cellar door - only wineries. Not because I'm a snob as was referred to by a previous speaker in the last time we were speaking about this bill not because we're snobbish but because there's something beautiful about it. Also I love to support our local businesses in particular our smaller businesses. With the changes we're making in this bill it will help so many businesses and add to growing the economy of New Zealand.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Teanau Tuiono): I have determined that the subject of this vote will be treated as a conscience issue. In this case I know there are members who want a personal vote and I am prepared to accept one. This is the process we are going to follow: I am going to put the question and I'm going to announce the result. At that stage any member can ask for a personal vote."