Salesa Jenny; Brooking RachelASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): I call on Dr Rachel Brooking.RACHEL BROOKING (Labour): [Uses sign language] Thank you Madam Speaker and thank you for the promotion as well. I have in fact not the patience to become a doctor but thank you for that.Chris Bishop: Oh give it time.RACHEL BROOKING: Ha ha! But I am very happy to speak on this Electoral (Integrity Repeal) Amendment Bill introduced by the Rt Hon David Carter and of course now taken up by the Hon Dr Nick Smith. I acknowledge the work that he's done on this bill and is obviously very passionate about it.I am a big fan of MMP. When I was still at high school I was able to—not vote on the MMP referendum but certainly campaign on it. Why do I love MMP? Well it brought to us this wonderful diverse and certainly on this side of the House talented different members—Hon Member: Oh don't be like that.RACHEL BROOKING: Even on the other side of the House—[Interruption] It's late at night ha ha!We heard from the Hon James Shaw that this bill was aimed at the Labour list MPs. Now I'm very proud to be a Labour list MP and I believe I'm the first to speak on this bill as a Labour list MP. All the others—they won all their seats and I'm so happy to be speaking against this bill and in favour of what is already the amended Act. There is the risk with this MMP environment that we're in that MPs will not be held accountable for their manifestos that they were elected on. And as we've heard from so many of the eloquent speeches before me the proportionality of how people voted is of utmost importance. This—the amended Act not the bill in front of us—provides a check and balance to ensure that we particularly list MPs are accountable. This is because people vote for the party and like many of us—well everybody here obviously campaigned in the last election and what a wonderful experience that was. People voted for the Labour Party because of the great COVID leadership. They wanted Labour in Government. They wanted Labour values. They wanted Jacinda as the Prime Minister. They wanted our Ministers. I see Minister Woods is here—strong leadership through that COVID time as well as dealing with all the other difficulties that New Zealand has. They wanted our talent. They wanted the people who are on the list. We saw Dr Ayesha Verrall—honourable now. Dr Ayesha Verrall was placed high on that list so people knew that we were a talented bunch of people. And also they wanted the local candidates. So they voted for the Labour Party and that was great. Thank you.So what the amended Act—not the bill—does is that it enables the benefits of MMP: supporting the diversity and the talent without the risk of people going against all of those things that I just talked about that people voted for. Now I was going to talk a little bit about the amendment bill specifically but we've heard some of that from my colleagues Vanushi Walters and Tangi Utikere as well. But I think it's important to go back to the—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! This debate is interrupted and is set down for resumption next sitting day. The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. tomorrow.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 10 p.m.