Fox Marama: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFox Marama: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6197. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARAMA FOX (Co-Leader—Māori Party): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. For fear that Mr Seymour is going to deliver a clothes line tackle to the whole of the country by having a blanket piece of legislation that allows this limitless supply of alcohol everywhere I think we need to stand up and accurately express what our issues are. Just for clarification as well a previous speaker asked that we clarify that we are going to vote as a party.Let us have a look at the facts. The misuse of alcohol has a devastating effect on our whanau. We know and it is proven through limitless cases and research that the consumption of alcohol to excess has a direct impact on the level of domestic violence in this country. For that reason we considered this bill very seriously. We were happy to support it at its first reading so that these things could be debated. Unfortunately we had a process by which no submissions were able to be questioned. There were no oral submissions. We did not have the chance to talk about or discuss these things. We have got local body authorities the police and community groups that have been preparing for this for a long time. They have considered all of the issues such as whether or not a premises is close to a suburban area and whether or not there is going to be an impact on noise in the surrounding neighbourhood. Under the special licence agreement you can already have the opportunity to open and all of those conditions will be on there.But now we have got this blanket approach across the nation to watch rugby and to extend the sale of alcohol. I do not have a problem with rugby. I love rugby. I appreciate the previous speaker Louisa Wall talking about the passion for rugby in this country. In fact in our house there is one rule. There are a number of rules actually that I try to implement but there is one rule that never gets broken and that is rugby before all else. In fact there are people in our family who will watch Georgia and Lithuania playing live at 3 o’clock in the morning just because. We get that. We get that this is important to the nation and we wanted to have the opportunity for community groups to come together and not be subjected to some of the Draconian measures that were being put in place by some of the local bodies saying you could watch only eight games. Well eight games? Which ones shall we watch? Which countries shall we not watch? I appreciate the reason as to why this bill is coming and we wanted to have a good strong debate about it.The Justice and Electoral Committee—and I have to commend the chair Jacqui Dean and the other members of the committee—met at all sorts of hours in a rushed way I have to admit to try to get this bill through in the best state possible. However we are concerned by some of the issues that have been raised. We are going to support the bill at its second reading in the hope that Mr Seymour will be able to make some changes. Actually there is no Committee stage to make changes. By some miracle whereby Mr Seymour might rethink some of these things we think that possibly there are some things that we would have liked to see changed. Current rushed law—the problem is that this bill has been conceived in a hurry with little thought given to some of those consequences.The legislation is going to test whether patrons are there to watch rugby or whether you will have as was mentioned before the TV in the corner and not a lot of rugby being watched. There has been concern that you possibly could be on the premises for 48 hours without stopping and in some instances—one or a couple—for 68 hours which seems ridiculous. We are concerned that there is no requirement to serve meals. It does not prevent cut-price promotion. There is no restriction on sensitive locations. There is currently no limit on the number of games and notice required has been cut to 7 days. All of those things are concerning to us. If Mr Seymour would like to respond to some of those depending on his responses we will reserve our decision as to whether to support the bill through to the third reading.