Logie Jan: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLogie Jan: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6196. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAN LOGIE (Green): I rise to take a call on the second reading of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill. This is a bill that currently has already delayed discussion on organ donations and is most likely to delay tonight the introduction of another bill to provide paid parental leave in this country.The Green Party is opposing this bill. My colleague Kevin Hague who outlined the core reasons for our opposition earlier this afternoon in his speech negotiated with the member whose name this bill is in David Seymour and the Government to allow this bill to go to the Justice and Electoral Committee. We heard arguments that there was something wrong with the existing regime and we wanted to ensure that if this bill did go ahead and there were indications that the numbers were there for it to go ahead we had the opportunity to try to limit the harm that we saw in the initial proposal. That is part of using our power in this parliamentary process and we do not resile from that.However what has come out of the select committee does not address our concerns. I personally am proud to stand up in this House and represent the New Zealanders who contributed to the discussion around the sale and supply of alcohol legislation—the majority of this country who forcefully advocated for restrictions on the hours for the sale of alcohol and the provision for local democratic control over that process. I am very disappointed to see in this House that piece of legislation being overridden through a process of urgency to undermine the work of the majority of the country and the majority of the members of this Parliament in 2012.I am proud to stand here and represent those people in this country who have been harmed by the association that we have between alcohol and rugby. There is harm caused in this country by that close association between alcohol and rugby. We heard from the member Chris Bishop who in his speech spent most of his time basically saying that there is no problem with alcohol in this country. I agree with him on one point: it mischaracterises the problem for young people. But when there are 600 to 1000 deaths a year from alcohol misuse and the police is reporting that alcohol is associated with 50 percent of all serious violent crime 20 percent of sexual offending and 33 percent of family violence incidents in this country and we know that the police are called out every 6 minutes as a result of domestic violence call outs we know we have a problem.For Parliament and that member to bring a bill to the House that will be interpreted by many as saying that you cannot enjoy a game of rugby without a drink is irresponsible. You could have brought a bill to this House that said all licensed premises can open to ensure that people can watch those games but there will be no sale of alcohol. That could have happened and that would have said yes we treat rugby as a religion in this country—that is true—but not every church service has communion. There is no need to drink to enjoy a game of rugby. The fact that that is the perception that you need to do that is why we have so much harm caused by drinking in this country and why so many women and children are harmed particularly when we lose—and let us hope we do not.I would like to bring members’ attention to the submissions that were made during the very very truncated select committee process from Women’s Refuge from Debbie Hager and Neil Miller and from Waitakere Anti Violence Essential Services which all pointed out those links and asked this House not to pass this legislation. They see the results of our association between rugby and alcohol on a very real level in their communities. I am proud to stand with them in opposition.