Robertson Grant; Costello CaseyHon GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour): I agree with the Minister that we're on Part 2. It's one of the very few things that I suspect I will agree with her on tonight.Subpart 1 of Part 2 deals with the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022. The particular part that I want to focus on is clause 26 of this bill which amends the commencement dates in that 2022 piece of legislation. In a way for me this goes to the nub of the frustration that you're hearing on this side of the Chamber because what those provisions did do—or still currently do do until this part passes—is actually bring into force a series of initiatives that were part of Dr Verrall's legislation that she brought in to allow the three big things we've been talking about: denicotinisation retail outlet sales and the age changes. The specific commencement clause—clause 2(1)—brings a number of those sections into force on 1 January 2027. So I guess that's my question for the Minister because the Minister has made a significant amount tonight of the fact that some of these clauses weren't in operation and of course that's absolutely true. That's because we took the responsible action of rolling these out over a period of time to minimise disruption to be able to support the changes—particularly around the age issues—so that they were done in line with the purposes that we had in putting them in place.So where I want the Minister to respond to us on here is on what time line is now in place because for all of this debate I have heard the Minister say to us that this is not the end. Now it's completely ludicrous to repeal the legislation here and not have any idea what you're going to do. I mean I don't think you could be more irresponsible than repealing it because you said you were going to repeal it—I don't think I actually heard much about that in the election campaign. But anyway one party said they were going to repeal it and then that's the reason to do it.This is the opportunity here in Part 2 for the Minister to stand up and tell us what's actually going to happen and when—if I want to relate it to the commencement clause—it's going to happen because again all we're doing here in this clause as a Parliament is repealing some dates for this particular legislation and we're left with nothing. We're left with a void. We're left with no progress. We are as many members have indicated left with going backwards in terms of the number of people who will now suffer smoking-related illnesses or will take up smoking. So here's the opportunity for the Minister to tell us in repealing section 2(1)—and I believe it's actually most of that section; section 2(1) to (3) of the 2022 Act—what is the Minister going to replace it with and when is the Minister going to do that because otherwise we're left with this void that shows the Government doesn't actually have a plan at all and is simply doing this for political reasons which I think is particularly dangerous when we're dealing with tobacco.Hon CASEY COSTELLO (Associate Minister of Health): I just want to go back to the commencement dates challenge that you've talked about. This is where we're repealing these steps that are being implemented—I think we've repeated that as to this is the reason. You've talked about not hearing it from across the House but it was in both the ACT and New Zealand First coalitions with National so clearly it was important enough to be in both our coalition agreements and to suggest we're left with no progress—I think I've reiterated a few times here that we have made enormous progress. I have given credit to this side of the House about the progress we've made and that progress is continuing. There's no suggestion that that progress is levelling off and we will continue to focus on those achievements that the existing legislation has allowed us to achieve.