McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): Well everyone dreams of coming to Parliament and talking about rugby racing and beer—oh not the racing; rugby and beer. Where better could you get than this to talk about the things we were brought up on? I'm not at all musical but many of you—not many of you actually—will remember John Clarke very famous; known alias Fred Dagg. All he could sing about was rugby racing and beer and Taihape and gumboots. I think it just shows that—I suppose it's what New Zealand's made of and it's what we make of what we're made of that's important. I just want to touch on a couple of things said by other speakers. Of course there is a Rugby World Cup going on during the election campaign this year. I did offer my services to Mark Mitchell but he turned me down—never had a reply. So obviously they don't want my talent there. But the other thing I thought was really intriguing tonight was the Green speaker Chlöe Swarbrick talking about how they voted something down. My recollection of the Greens is that in the history of the Greens they've never voted anything down in this Parliament because they've never put themselves in a position to vote anything down so that clearly was never going to happen. I think that probably sums up what we need to have in this Parliament. We need to have people who are prepared to take a stand on things and take a stand that they can win not a stand that they lose every time. I think that's really important.I want to talk just before I get on to the things that really matter with respect to this bill about rugby in New Zealand because I think it's hugely concerning that the sport that I grew up I guess playing loving going to every Saturday—and still do as often as I can on a Saturday. The difference is that when I played and when I chaired a rugby club not that many years ago there were 13 senior teams in Manawatū Rugby. There are now seven. There are now seven colts teams in Manawatū Rugby. Massey University used to have 14 of them. I think that's the great tragedy we're seeing with sports that we've known for so long. So you've got to ask yourself whether it's just the changing times that make a difference to these sort of things or whether in fact the administration of some of our sports is not what it could be. I unlike Mark Mitchell and Peeni Henare never reached international standards but I think that the key to all sports in New Zealand and the key to racing in New Zealand and the key to everything else we do in New Zealand is the people at the base and the grassroots of all of these activities. If we don't have those people encouraged and doing what they can do we won't have any sport at all in due course. I think one of the keys of this bill really is enabling those people who enjoy sport who like what goes on who enjoy competition who enjoy New Zealand being successful actually who want to participate in the activities that will be enabled by this bill passing—that's the key to sport in New Zealand. So I think if it does nothing else this bill it does give many of those people who participate actively in administration and supporting sportspeople in New Zealand the opportunity to participate in an international event of significance. So I think that's the key to the bill. Just one other thing I want to talk about and which has been touched on by a couple of others including Chlöe Swarbrick: I think that the fact we've had to bring this bill back to the House three times now signals to me that there's something wrong with our alcohol law in New Zealand. I think it's urgent that we reform all of the alcohol law in New Zealand. In fact we've had a number of alcohol bills in this Parliament—probably four or five of them now—that have come through because our base legislation doesn't deal with the issues. Tāmati Coffey himself talked about the responsibility of licence holders. Licence holders really are the key to upholding all of this stuff. They are the key to our law and order officials and our police having less to do having less problem with what goes on as a result of alcohol. There's no doubt that consuming alcohol in licensed premises is vastly superior to consuming alcohol in a boy racer's car down my street which happens just about every Saturday night—in fact it does happen every Saturday night. You can clean up the mess if you want to but it's really important I think that we encourage those licence holders—there must be thousands of them throughout New Zealand—and give them the power to operate as they see fit but make sure they're compliant. I think that when we do look to review the alcohol laws in New Zealand we do look to put more emphasis or onus on the people that control these entities and dispense alcohol throughout New Zealand. That in my view will take a lot of the onus off our law and order community and also probably take a fair bit of damage off our streets. So I think there's a reason for us to look beyond what's going on with this bill and a couple of others we've got in the House this week and make sure that if we do reform this it does cater for all these sort of things. So I clearly support the direction this bill takes. As I said we've had two previous bills of this nature through the House and I think it will add a lot to the event. I probably won't be out there at 4 o'clock in the morning myself; a bit too late at night for me. I might be up by then. Anyway I support the bill and National clearly supports the bill and I think it's a good thing for New Zealand.