Kuriger Barbara; Menéndez March RicardoDEPUTY SPEAKER: Members the House is resumed and when we suspended for the dinner break we were doing the third reading of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Winery Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill and we're up to speech number seven.RICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. I don't think this is so much a competition as I think just this speech is being pushed back. But look it's a pleasure to speak on the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Winery Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill. We support this bill. My colleague Celia Wade-Brown spoke previously about the Greens' view around how this would improve the hospitality and tourism industry and I agree with those assessments that she has made. I want to offer I guess a few more reflections particularly from a drug harm - minimisation point of view and as somebody as well who worked in a licensed premise prior to being in Parliament for about seven or so years.First of all I want to say that as somebody who worked in a licensed premise I wanted to once again welcome the amendments at the select committee stage that I know were canvassed—both at the committee of the whole House and in the second reading—particularly around the provision of snack food and water. I think what this bill shows is how we can evaluate a bill and look at the impacts substances will have in our communities when we do regulations in relationship to access to a drug in this case alcohol and whether we can come together as a collective of politicians to actually think of: (a) what's a consistent approach that's been taken and actually how we can minimise harm because the provision of food or snacks and water here is actually about minimising harm. We know as hosts in licensed premises that one of the key factors of having things like food and water has to do with ensuring that people who are consuming alcoholic beverages can actually not get intoxicated really fast. Then we can minimise that harm. And I think for the for the wellbeing of the hospitality industry we also have to think of the wellbeing of the people consuming that wine. And those are really really welcome amendments.And as I've said in previous speeches to me the key reflection is that I wish we could take this very same approach that we have done for alcohol and how alcohol is treated in different venues and apply that to other substances to come from an evidence-based constructive approach rather than I guess just picking which substances we're comfortable regulating in a way that seems really sensible and collaboratively.I want to reflect as well on the amendments that the Hon Duncan Webb had been trying to work through. And I do think these are conversations we're going to need to have at a later stage because the door's been opened now around samples for wine effectively. And I think that there's a very fair conversation we need to have around whether other industries are going to be—not so much disadvantaged but whether we're leaving behind other industries that could have benefited from this.And more than anything again if we're going to take a drug harm – minimisation approach to this piece of legislation to actually just kind of be consistent about it and to not just make a carve-out for wine and not actually then discuss what other alcoholic beverages we could have included in here. But I do encourage Government Ministers to think about what else they can do to have some consistency on the issue. I do think what the Hon Duncan Webb was trying to do was actually quite generous in the sense that it was a generous improvement to this bill.Nonetheless we do think that the bill in and of itself does not cause any harm and if anything again just provides an opportunity for us to have those sensible conversations in a cross-party way around how we can regulate substances and access to those substances.And finally I just want to say that I really do hope that the businesses that are going to be having those samples continue to hold the wellbeing of our communities paramount. You know New Zealand continues to have quite a high rate of use of alcohol and alcohol harm and so I guess my message to those businesses that will now benefit from this piece of legislation will be to continue thinking of how we can centre the wellbeing of our communities when it comes to the consumption of alcohol.But as we've said we do think this bill has merit. And I do once again want to welcome the collaborative approach that we've taken with this bill and I do wish those amendments could have been taken on board but that'll be a conversation for another day.