Henare Peeni: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Peeni: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 12 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5741. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Thank you for this opportunity. I rise to take a short call and speak to the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Extended licensing hours during Rugby World Cup) Bill. It might interest the House to know that during the 2011 Rugby World Cup I was an employee of the Māori Television Service and I had the good fortune of commentating most of the rugby games held here in this country of course all the way up to the final. Although rolling down to the local pub and sharing a few beers with your good friends is not quite up close and personal—certainly not as up close and personal as my experience during the 2011 Rugby World Cup—it was one of those fantastic opportunities to see so many people come out and support the Rugby World Cup; not only just the locals but of course the many tourists who came to New Zealand to support it.I do have a few numbers here that I thought might interest the House. These numbers are around the viewership of the Rugby World Cup of 2011. Over 2 million viewers tuned into the Rugby World Cup final in 2011 from here in New Zealand. That actually makes it the most watched event in the history of television in New Zealand. It is interesting to note that in the top 10 of most watched events most of them are sport with the exception of the tragic passing of Princess Diana. That speaks a lot about just what our people think about and how we feel about certain things. I just want to point out that most of the most watched events in the top 10 are sports-related. Of those rugby certainly dominates. So that is the viewership locally.I want to touch a little bit on the international viewership. The Rugby World Cup 2011 final was the most watched event in New Zealand as I have already mentioned. In France however the final attracted the largest television audience for the calendar year with an average of 13.4 million viewers a peak of 18.1 million and an audience share of 82 percent despite the early kick-off in France. Seventy-three percent of France’s total population of 63 million watched at least 15 minutes of the Rugby World Cup final. Those numbers are staggering. Those numbers are absolutely staggering and although I do not think we will quite match France’s viewership numbers I certainly do hope that we will get along and support our team in black.However I do welcome this bill’s referral to the Justice and Electoral Committee—the hardest-working select committee in the Parliament I would argue. We look forward to debating some of the more technical points with regard to the bill. Some of those are around compliance and some of those are around the licences and I think it is timely just to remind the House as our colleague Kevin Hague did of some of the social costs around alcohol abuse.Although I could not quite find the numbers in respect of when alcohol abuse numbers spike—at what time of day—I think it is fair to say that a lot of those crimes that are alcohol-related do happen in the wee hours of the morning. So I do have a wee concern about those numbers. One of those numbers that members might be interested in is that the tangible social cost of harmful alcohol use was just over $3.3 billion approximately a decade ago. Those numbers are concerning.What is also concerning in the breakdown of those numbers is the labour cost. We know from extended hours—so you can go to a pub enjoy yourself between the hours of 4 and whatever it might be share a beer with your colleagues and hope that you are OK to go to work—that over $1.7 billion in labour costs was lost just in relation to alcohol use. So those are some numbers that I do have a few concerns about. I do hope that that can be fleshed out and discussed robustly at the select committee and I look forward to making this bill a bit more robust to ensure that firstly we enjoy the Rugby World Cup and secondly we do it safely. Kia ora.