Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'd like to be the first one to speak and give some clarification to Mr Bishop across the way but before I get into that I'd like to commend Louisa Wall for the work that she's done on this. I know the intention of this bill is absolutely spot on and we know what she's trying to fix. It was 12 minutes to midnight and we were not going to be supporting this bill when a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) came across which has gone some way to amending some of our concerns. We will be supporting this bill through to select committee—with reservations we have to say. I think some of the points that have been raised by Mr Bishop are genuine and real and we want to make sure that we don't have unintended consequences if this bill proceeds beyond the select committee.One of the concerns that he was raising and questioned was What is the problem that this bill is trying to address?" The reality is and he will know this himself if he is in tune with his community when we go into certain parts of our community—and it's generally low socio-economic areas—we see a proliferation of alcohol stores. They are around schools whether they be primary schools or high schools and the access to alcohol and the promotion of alcohol in these areas is not like you see in other areas. That's what Louisa Wall I'm suggesting is trying to sort out. That's what New Zealand First would like to see happen also. But we do not want to see the unintended consequences of other businesses being affected by this bill. The SOP that has just been tabled—I've had a good look at it and it is very very targeted and very very specific on the intent of the people that this bill is intended to deal with and that is off-licence premises not on-licence premises.We have seen in this House even last term when we had the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Rugby World Cup 2015 Extended Trading Hours) Amendment Bill come back to this House for discussion and this was over the anomaly that some liquor authorities had a different view of licensing than other licensed areas. This was over the Rugby World Cup. Some licensed areas did not allow extended or special licences to be applied for for the Rugby World Cup. Common sense prevailed and this House unanimously came together to resolve that issue so that people could enjoy having a beer enjoying it with friends and watching the Rugby World Cup. These are the sorts of things that we need to be very very mindful of and how the interpretations from certain sectors and certain people in our community can see great events such as the Wellington Rugby Sevens being shut down because somebody's interpretation of that was different from for example what's happening in Hamilton—same event just relocated.So we've got some work to do as a Government on this particular area. New Zealand First supports the intent of this bill. We are not guaranteeing our support moving forward from here. We are very very interested to hear from submitters—hear their thoughts on this. I know this SOP will go a long way to remedying some of these issues.The other area of concern that we do have—and something that I think may be able to be amended through the select committee process—is enabling a grandfather clause. For example if you have a licensed premises an off-licence premises which we are talking about now in a community that has been operating for some time and inadvertently another business comes into that area which happens to be a childcare centre or a school—for 20 years this business has been operating in a very very mature sensible responsible manner and we don't want this bill to have an effect on that business. This is what we are very very unsure of—how we can move forward from this.But there is an issue here. We see it in our communities. We understand the problem that alcohol can have on our communities if it's not dealt with responsibly and sensibly. We will support this bill through to the select committee so we can hear from submitters. Just to reverberate what I've already said this is a very conditional support. We have reservations but we hope that we can get through with a positive outcome. Thank you."