Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): There are 51 days until the All Blacks and France run out on to the field of Stade de France for what is going to be a cracking good game at the start of a cracking tournament I hope. One of the features I think of the 2023 World Cup is that for the first time in 10 tournaments six seven or eight teams could well lift the trophy at the end of it. I think world rugby has tried to grow the game to the point where it is a truly global sport and while it means that the All Blacks perhaps aren't always the dominant force that they have been in the past we get a much richer tournament as a consequence.So I'll be somewhere watching the All Blacks and France on 8 September but also watching those many other teams who will be vying for the trophy. Now if that is in a pub somewhere near the Octagon—or in the Octagon—on that morning the greater likelihood is not that I'll be holding an Emerson's pilsner but that I'll have a long black and a bacon butty. But if it is the prerogative of those patrons and me and anybody else to actually have a beer with their breakfast—or a champagne or whatever other beverage might suit them—then this bill is going to enable that. Now what was interesting about the select committee process was that I think we have now become so used to the idea that this an appropriate safe and good thing to do that there were only 10 submissions and I acknowledge those who submitted in opposition to it on the basis that alcohol remains potentially harmful for a small number of members of our community. I agree with that and it's incumbent on this House to manage that risk where it occurs. Overwhelmingly it's not going to be in a pub at 8 o'clock in the morning watching the All Blacks play France Ireland play Namibia or any of the many other contests that we're going to have so I just want to acknowledge that.Just a technical matter: we are doing this under urgency and I note that there could be a potential issue that might need to be addressed in the committee of the whole House at clause 4 inserting new section 45D(3). This is the provision where if a pub closes or its licence requires it to close within two hours of kick-off it is nevertheless entitled to stay open for that period rather than close and re-open. But the wording of that is However if the first or only game to be televised is to start no more than 2 hours after the end of the last period of permitted trading hours for the premises the premises can stay open after that period and until that game starts." One reading of that is that it then has to close which is actually the opposite of what we want to occur. Now if one reads it in concert with new section 45D(4) inserted by clause 4 it then says "The premises can be open during each game televised."—I just think there's rather sloppy wording in new section 45D(3) which may need the word "starts" to be changed to "30 minutes after the game ends" which is actually the intent of the bill overall. That little technical issue notwithstanding I think as Mr Goldsmith says we continue to have to do these things quickly and under urgency—and there's another milestone in 87 days after which a more sensible Government may actually make a permanent change to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act in order that we don't have to keep doing this every time we have major global events."