SpeechHARETE HIPANGO (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise as the last speaker for the National Party and have listened to the debates and contributions this afternoon from my parliamentary colleagues but also my National Party colleagues. Our lead our spokesperson for this Paul Goldsmith has signalled and indicated that the National Party at the second reading is supportive of this bill and we await at the committee of the whole House the Supplementary Order Paper. Members of the public who are listening in: a Supplementary Order Paper is a further amendment to the bill after it has gone to the select committee which was the Justice Committee with this bill having been referred there on 30 June 2022 and after it's been subjected to scrutiny from the public listening to submissions where there were some 121 submissions received from interested parties individuals and groups with oral evidence heard from 13 submitters at hearings in Wellington and by video conference. The Justice Committee has filed a report back to this House with proposed amendments as had been considered at select committee after submissions were heard from members of the public.So a Supplementary Order Paper is indicative that at the committee of the whole House which is the next phase after the second reading which we're at at this stage before going to the third reading and consideration for determination of the bill being passed into law—the Supplementary Order Paper that my colleague Paul Goldsmith had referred to after engagement with Minister Kiritapu Allan Minister of Justice is the concern that the National Party had about the continuous model for the changing of the roll from either Māori roll to general roll—that is for Māori voters those who are enrolled—or from the general roll to the Māori roll. What had been proposed and has been reported back to the House in the select committee report is an endorsement of the continuous model for the ability to change from one roll to the other for Māori voters where those who are enrolled as Māori voters have a choice in the ability to choose and move between—that that continuous model would be right up to the point and the day of polling day voting. So the National Party had expressed concerns about that. Other members in the House have spoken about and addressed that.We recognise the importance of flexibility and it seems that as a result of discussion appropriately held between the National Party with the justice spokesperson Minister Kiritapu Allan there is a recognition and that recognition has been very much driven by the fact that there's a 75 percent majority that must be secured from Parliament for any changes to this electoral law. So as a result of those considerations negotiations discussion the Minister has indicated to the National Party being amenable to that shifting from the continuous model up to at any time prior to an election except for three months before polling day the ability to change rolls.Now I speak from experience here as a member of Parliament but also as an enrolled voter in 2017 and I don't know if any of my other Māori parliamentary colleagues were in the situation that I was on polling day and even before polling day in 2017. I stood and was selected as the candidate for the Whanganui electorate and gained the confidence of the people to be voted in as Whanganui's member of Parliament for Whanganui electorate on a general roll. The problem that I was personally confronted with was that I was on the Māori roll and I was unable to vote for myself. So I may have been one of the few members of this House who was captured in the position where I was not able to change from the Māori roll which I was on on to the general roll to be able to cast a vote in favour of myself.Simon O'Connor: That's humility right there.HARETE HIPANGO: Picking up the compliment from my colleague in terms of humility it was a fact of the situation that I was caught in and many—well I don't know if any of my other parliamentary colleagues have had that personal experience but certainly I have three adult children and the most favourite child was my youngest daughter who at the time was a first-time voter and was able to enrol on to the general roll knowing that Mum was standing as a candidate in a general election. She was the only one of my three adult children who was able to be on the general roll to vote in support of her mother.My point is that there was a limitation and there is a limitation for those of us who are of Māori ancestry. The electoral law does provide us with a choice as to whether we are on a general roll or on the Māori roll but that choice has limitations. So I speak where I can in standing and addressing the House from personal experience and that personally impacted me in terms of a professional capacity that I had to be able to carry through and vote for myself. But I was fortunate that I did gain the confidence in 2017 of sufficient general voters those enrolled on the general roll in the Whanganui electorate to vote in support of me. So the National Party has expressed the consternation and the concerns associated with the potential that some may see as being able to ply or play or game the system in terms of—if it were to be continuous right up to the polling day itself to be able to shift or switch whichever roll one was on to strategically cast the vote.I won't take a long call but having listened to the—I won't utilise the full time but just to say having listened to the speeches in the House I was interested to hear my colleague Nicole McKee from the ACT Party indicating that there hadn't been engagement between the Government with ACT. All I say is that it does require proactivity. The National Party was proactively engaged. Paul Goldsmith had the necessary conversations with the Minister of Justice and we will wait and see at the committee of the whole House the Supplementary Order Paper being tabled so that the National Party on receipt of that are able to turn our mind to either giving this the fullest support that it would deserve if it were up to that three-month window and bracket prior to the election enabling Māori voters the choice and the ability to change from either general to Māori or Māori to general.So on that note as the last speaker for the National Party at the second reading we have indicated support through to receipt of the Supplementary Order Paper through to the third reading.