Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. How good is the Hon Nicky Wagner I thought—a fantastic speech—who has clearly outlined the research she has taken in this area. She is someone who will be missed in the new term with her new-found knowledge of vaping and she was able to clearly articulate to this House about the clear deficiencies we see in this bill that we are debating today in its second reading. The irony is that if we accept the Hon Nicky Wagner's three Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) that will be debated in the committee of the whole House then we will be accepting the bill that the Hon Nicky Wagner first proposed 2½ years ago if not three years ago. So then it poses the argument of why are we here two weeks before the House rises to ultimately it sounds like accept the SOPs that Nicky Wagner has put on the Table to end up with a bill that we had three years ago. Hon Maggie Barry: Remarkable. MATT DOOCEY: It is. It is very remarkable and it's not surprising. In fact when you look at the dates for this bill it was introduced on 24 February 2020 yet the Hon Nicky Wagner's bill was put on the Table in around 2017. It completed its first reading on 11 March 2020 and was then referred to the Health Committee and public submissions closed on 1 April 2020. So here we are two weeks before the end of this term and we are looking to end up with the same bill that we had at the start of the term. Hon Maggie Barry: Near midnight. MATT DOOCEY: Magic I'll call it. I must say though in fairness that we are in the second reading and as you would expect we should be talking about the bill that came out from select committee—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): Good—novel. MATT DOOCEY: —thank you Madam Speaker—and the process it took. I must say it's had a rather thorough look at. We have lifted up the hood and had a look at this because we did receive 1271 submissions. So we did hear largely from the public. What was concerning though was that obviously with the dates I outlined we did leave it to the last minute and unfortunately the public submission stage did coincide with the COVID lockdown. Although I must say we were ably chaired by Louisa Wall who is the chair of the Health Committee and we were effectively marshalled on to Zoom as most members of Parliament were and we were able to dispense with many of the submissions. But what was interesting when you thematically reviewed the submissions—and I must say full credit to the officials who I think have put together an excellent departmental report that looks at the feedback that we received—it's not surprising that we did have to wade through this because many of the submissions were actually contradictory or were taking opposing views. Many of the smaller retailers were quite rightly worried that they would be excluded and the highly regulated products they would not be able to sell. Clearly we had the voice of the consumers. Many of the vapers themselves were worried that they would not be able to buy the flavours that they wanted to buy if they were restricted to specialist services. Even when you looked at issues around the packaging it was pretty much a 50:50 split where some of our submitters agreed with standardised packaging and then the others disagreed. Even interestingly enough with the issue around vape-free workplaces whether that be in childcare schools or other workplaces there was a fair amount of submitters who didn't believe that those establishments should be vape-free and 60 percent who did. So I think we had a good select committee process. The over 1200 submissions were heard. I want to thank the officials who I think have drafted up an excellent departmental report that goes into the hundreds of pages and I will resume my seat now in anticipation of this bill passing in its second reading so that we can move on to the committee of the whole House stage and debate the very good SOPs of the Hon Nicky Wagner.