Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise proudly on behalf of the ACT Party in support of this bill which I think is a wonderful achievement for our Parliament and is politics at its best. But it's also a defence against one of the dark forces of New Zealand politics. You see even the greatest political achievement of our country which in my view happened in 1893 we should never forget was part of a dirty deal with the prohibitionists to achieve universal suffrage. The wowsers are never far from our politics in this country and they lie in wait to ruin anyone's fun that may seek to have it. It's been the case in 2015 with the Rugby World Cup then when the All Blacks were victorious and it has been the case in 2019 when the All Blacks of course will again be victorious.It's a wonderful thing that this Parliament has been prepared to put aside all of its usual differences to work together to beat the wowsers to beat the prohibitionists and to allow sensible and sane laws so that people can do something very innocuous. I want to thank in particular the Hon Nikki Kaye and the Hon Andrew Little from National and Labour respectively who have worked with me and I've worked with them to make this possible. It's politics at its best working together for the people.I want to say to the people who are worried about what this might mean: don't worry. I have to confess being a little bit nervous in 2015 when I was somewhat responsible for a similar bill about what might actually happen because there were those who said—those wowsers of whom I warned us earlier—New Zealanders can't handle it. They'll go and they'll be lying destitute and pissed in the gutters up and down this country because they just can't handle an extra couple of half-hours or hours of the pubs being open outside their usual licensed hours." Yet what happened? Nothing brings together New Zealanders better than sport. New Zealanders up and down this country went to their pubs went to their clubs and enjoyed the game. If I remember rightly the main thing that was sold was actually eggs benedict given the timing of the games in 2015. There was no trouble.Let me just say that again: last time we extended the hours so that people could watch the Rugby World Cup at a pub there was no trouble as a result of that law change. My suggestion is that there will be no trouble this time—Chris Bishop: What about the eggs bene?DAVID SEYMOUR: —because New Zealanders—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Will there be enough eggs?DAVID SEYMOUR: —are fundamentally good people. Gerry Brownlee is asking about the eggs benedict. Mr Brownlee I am sure that even though the games are much later—more towards 11 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 a.m.—if Gerry Brownlee asked very nicely they will whip him up something special out the back.Chris Bishop: It's never too late.Andrew Falloon: All day breakfasts.DAVID SEYMOUR: All day breakfasts. All day breakfast for Gerry Brownlee doesn't just stop at midnight; it goes into the next day as well. I'm saying—Hon Carmel Sepuloni: That's bad.DAVID SEYMOUR: He's asking and Chris Bishop's asking as well.I'd say to people that New Zealanders are going to enjoy the game at their local pubs and clubs responsibly. But I'd also say that eventually there needs to be a long-term fix and I think that this Parliament should be looking—not often; I wouldn't make a habit of this—to our cousins across the ditch because there is one area where the Australians have actually got something right and it is in the way that they allow a Minister to issue an edict to have the pubs open for a particular event. It saves their Parliament having to go through the rigmarole of changing the law every four years for the Rugby World Cup and it has the advantage that they can be a bit more equitable because they can do it for a range of other events as well as their particular favourite one which I'm sure will not be the Rugby World Cup this year.So it's a great day for Parliament a great day for rugby a great day for democracy a great day for pubs and clubs. I commend this bill to the House. Thank you Mr Speaker."