O'Rourke DenisDENIS O'ROURKE (NZ First): New Zealand First continues to support this bill. It is a very simple bill and it is a very common-sense measure and I think that the Justice and Electoral Committee has done a great job in bringing it back to the House in the way that it now is.I would have to say just in passing that I think that in terms of the principal Act there are many things wrong with it and that this Government has not done very well indeed in terms of the provisions of that Act. You can see it in a number of areas today. One of them is the fact that many country pubs and other organisations that wish to sell liquor such as at race meetings and that kind of thing are finding it very difficult to do so and to make a living these days. That is because the principal Act is pretty bad in the way that it deals with those issues. I feel very strongly as do we all in New Zealand First that those things do have to change.In addition to that there are other parts of the country in which liquor outlets are actually being placed in areas that are very sensitive where they should not be and by the way where there are far too many of them. That is another issue that needs to be addressed in the principal Act. But those are not debates for today. They are something that I will certainly be having some comment on at a later time but for the purposes of this particular simple measure New Zealand First is as I have said in support.There are two main issues as far as I can see. The first is simply this: we should not underestimate the intelligence of purchasers who know what they want and are not likely to be influenced in their purchase by where the product that they seek is displayed in a supermarket. So it is appropriate that they should be able to find those products easily. It is simply a matter of freedom of choice and ensuring that they can find the products they are after with the utmost of convenience. That is why New Zealand First does support the provision in this bill that allows non-alcoholic and low-alcoholic products to be displayed in a single area along with alcoholic products. It is simply common sense. If you go into a supermarket that is where I think most people would want to find those products and now they will be able to do so.The second issue is simply this—that there does need to be flexibility. I am glad to see that that is being preserved in the bill because supermarket operators do know their customers and do know how to set out their supermarket so that they provide convenience for those customers in choosing their products as I have said they will do. It is very appropriate that we leave it to the supermarket operators to decide whether to display these products in the single area or elsewhere or both. I think that is very appropriate.As far as New Zealand First is concerned this is a very common-sense bill. It allows that flexibility. It preserves the freedom of people to buy the products they want and to find them conveniently in the place they would expect them to be. Again we will be voting in favour of the bill but as I have said there are a number of other things in the principal Act that are much more important than this provision that need attention and New Zealand First will be raising those again at the appropriate time.