O'Connor Simon; Borrows ChesterSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): I just want to touch on two points that were raised. The first was a question—the member just seated Ria Bond asked where National members come from. I am not going to draw you any pictures but it is pretty normal and natural. Second there was a person earlier talking about lack of retail experience. I know many of my colleagues on this side have a lot of retail experience. For myself it was working with my parents in their shoe shop pumping gas at the petrol station rolling ice creams working in cinemas and so forth. What I want to say in my contribution today is first and foremost thank you to everyone who has submitted and been part of this process. Those of us on the Commerce Committee myself included sat and listened to a range of views and I think it is important to note that there was a range of views—Iain Lees-Galloway: Tell us what Caritas said.SIMON O'CONNOR: —that were understandably really strongly held. Someone just asked about the view of Caritas. It is very clear what Caritas said. Representatives may even be here today. Caritas was opposing this bill and from its perspective it is quite understandable why. But it has been a good process. I also received some feedback from constituents—not all that much—but again they were quite split between those who see this as a special day and those who do not so much. In fact a number of businesses in my own electorate have approached me and said this is a good piece of legislation. As one business owner noted to me Easter Sunday currently is not a public holiday; it is actually what we call a non-tradable day. The best way to imagine that is that businesses actually can call in staff to work on Easter Sunday. They can stack the shelves or clean the floors but fundamentally what the business cannot do is open the doors to trade so it is slightly incorrect to suggest that people are not already working on Easter Sunday.Ultimately I think this is about local democracy. We hear a lot in this Parliament at times about giving local councils and so forth a voice and this is an opportunity here for local councils to speak and make decisions according to what their communities want in this space. I am quite comfortable with that. In closing I just wanted to make a couple of comments on the discussions we have had around conscious and conscience votes. First and foremost all my votes are always conscious—I have never been known to not be conscious when making a vote. But importantly people are noting that this is a conscience vote. Strictly speaking the Parliament has personal votes now. I think it is really important to note that yes all of us in National are casting a vote that is the same and people are construing that quite wrongly—that somehow that is whipped or forced. No that is actually 59 members of Parliament who have made a similar decision. But I want to point to something that I find—[Interruption] That is right actually. I know I have absolutely got to get the grammar right. That is right—59 National MPs have exercised their conscious conscience and decided to vote in a similar way. But I think what I have found most fascinating—most fascinating—is that for all the vitriol and rhetoric from the other side about what we are doing as a bloc I noticed in the second reading that not one Labour Party member voted against the whole group. All Labour Party members as a group voted against this bill in the second reading. All of New Zealand First voted against this in the second reading. All the Greens voted against this in the second reading. I find that a very strange irony—Hon Member: Coincidence.SIMON O'CONNOR: —a coincidence as one of my colleagues here said—that somehow we are being attacked for all making a conscious conscience decision yet all the other parties seem to be voting as a bloc. With that little gem I end my contribution.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: A 5-minute call on behalf of the Green Party—Mojo Mathers.