Lu NancyNANCY LU (National): I'm very very happy to stand to support the Fair Trading (Gift Card Expiry) Amendment Bill second meeting. First of all I'd like to say a huge congratulations to the National Minister Melissa Lee and senior MP for actually putting her name on this and being drawn from the biscuit tin from the ballot and also taking it through the first reading. And now it is transferred to the name of Dan Bidois MP my really good friend and a really good MP.So I am so happy with supporting this bill because a gift card for most people is a happy thing. You receive it—it could be either for a goodwill or a congratulatory purpose. It could either be in a physical card or sometimes actually it's a surprise because your family and friends from a different city or from a different country could send you something online and send it to you as a surprise to your email. And guess what? Most people would have hundreds and hundreds of emails. And sometimes if you get an email directly from one of those the gift providers you may not even realise it's actually a gift from a family member or a friend. So before you know it you could be very very close to a so-called expiry date. So this bill is very helpful for many of our Kiwis and New Zealanders because (1) it extends the time to at least three years for the gift voucher gift card and electronic vouchers. But also it allows actually consumers to have more time to go through a thorough process—especially now with our cost of living pressure in New Zealand—to really go through and find the item that they really need for their family or for themselves as individuals.So today is a really good day not only for the one in every five recipients of the gift cards to feel happy and actually they can put it into really good use.Now speaking of gift cards I actually have a very personal story to share and it's something that I have gone through when I first had my first daughter in 2020. So it was my first daughter. It was the first time obviously that I experienced something called a baby brain. And in Chinese there is a very similar word to it called一孕傻三年. Literally it means As soon as you're pregnant and have given birth you will be stupid for three years." In other words you will be forgetful you will be grumpy you will be deprived of sleep you'll be angry with your partner with your family with the baby and everything. And it goes for three years. And when you have two it goes for six. It doesn't condense into three. So because I now have two children I am still literally within the six-year period of a so-called baby brain. And so what happened with my first becoming a mother? I was gifted a total value of $700 from my friends and family. They got together and they wanted to give me something very special but very expensive but something I can actually put into good use. So for a lot of the mums out there $700 four years ago could get you a decent car seat. Not anymore. It is actually more expensive now but $700 for me and my husband then for our first daughter Amber—we were very very grateful for the $700. But we obviously wanted to wait until she was a bit older so we can get the right size and so we know what we're looking for. And as baby brains hit you forget about them. Because $700 is so expensive so much in value I store them somewhere—somewhere. And for the life of me I just could not find them.I was not comfortable in telling my husband about the $700 until he decided that maybe we should go now and buy the car seat for Amber. And when Amber turned one I told him the story that I couldn't find the gift cards. He was obviously not very happy but we still went ahead and got the car seat. And guess what? The minute we buy the car seat a week later I found the gift cards in my drawer and guess what? They've all expired. So I've tried communicating with the shop. It didn't work. So that was very very stressful for me as a young mum and very stressful for the family. And obviously we have just flushed down the toilet the goodwill and the good intentions from our family and friends. So as a young mother who is still experiencing the six years of my baby brain I really think that extending the expiry date for gift cards will be beneficial for many people including the new mums out there in New Zealand. So I commend this bill to the House."