Arbuckle Jamie; Pugh MaureenJAMIE ARBUCKLE (NZ First): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of New Zealand First to speak on the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Winery Cellar Door Tasting) Amendment Bill. I also spoke on this bill at the second reading and I very much support this bill passing tonight. I also as the New Zealand First whip hold the proxy votes for our other seven members and we all would like to see this bill pass.Hon Mark Patterson: What does it say?JAMIE ARBUCKLE: The proxy votes say that we all agree. So that's very good. New Zealand First looks at this type of legislation this bill as common sense. We are a common-sense party. So this bill again is common sense.I'd also like to congratulate Stuart Smith who has put this bill through the House. Looking back through the time period that this has taken 2022 I believe it got pulled out of the magical tin" and it's taken until today to actually get it to this point. But it shows for all of us MPs the importance of that process and the ability of going through the select committee process and the readings. So that process has been tonight completed.One thing I would like to say is that my wife and I live in Marlborough and we very much enjoy the wine culture of Marlborough and the ability to get out on our push bikes and get out amongst the cellar doors. As I spoke in the second reading sometimes those ventures can take us on to some very interesting tours around Marlborough with a variety of different cellar doors that are available. You've also obviously at the moment got to watch yourself a little bit as you go on that push bike to the first cellar door offering to the second offering and if you can remember the third or fourth offering you've probably done pretty well.This bill is as I mentioned about common sense and it's about being able to charge for samples. That's something we've heard from a number of members that you would expect when you go to a cellar door that you would actually pay for those samples. As I mentioned with my wife and I as you go around those different offerings you actually feel quite bad sometimes that you don't actually pay unless you buy a bottle of wine and take it on your way. I've got to say for many years going around some of the local cellar doors they often used to say to me "Because you're a close neighbour we'll just give it to you for free." but there was actually another reason behind that wasn't there?Through the select committee process we did hear from 12 submitters but there were 72 different submissions that came in. A lot of those submissions were very very helpful. As was mentioned by Mr Smith one of those submissions from one of the wineries was quite detailed in the fact that people come on the cruise ships that come into Picton and they often get on a bus or the steam train they go out to maybe the Awatere Valley and ironically those tourists as they get there they're not charged for that sample. The unfortunate thing with the cruise ships is also they can't take a bottle back with them. So that whole offering apart from the experience—and yes there's probably some people who order that wine but it is a situation at the moment where a small charge that can now be charged through this bill makes common sense.Also Wine Marlborough who made a submission to the bill—Marcus Pickens the general manager spoke on behalf of the wider Marlborough industry and yes this is wider than Marlborough but it was very detailed in the benefits the bill would make to a number of the different wineries.Ironically this legislation actually makes things more restrictive and that's actually in a way good because as we have heard at the moment it's a bit of a free-for-all. As much as that's probably great for my wife and I as we go around and get all this free wine there is no need for host responsibility. So under this legislation now the ability of having to supply snack food and also water is something again that makes a lot of common sense.We also heard from a number of members about the scope of the bill. I support where we ended up in keeping the bill as it was first presented keeping it narrow. We hear about beer or gin or cider and that's a great opportunity for another member to bring that bill to the House and work through the process. We heard from Mr Webb asking why we couldn't add those to this bill; well quite simply those tastings or offerings would (1) be different; and (2) we didn't hear submissions from those people. So to us on this side of the House keeping it narrow and keeping it on track is the right thing.The sample sizes as well from that 30-millilitre pour is the standard but the bill gives you the ability to be able to pour up to 35. We heard from submitters of the efforts and the skill that actually goes into the wine glass and actually pouring that and by actually giving that extra 5 millilitres in case of someone measuring it to the last millilitre makes a lot of sense. So you can pour up to 35 but the standard is actually 30.The definition of a "winery" has been changed to the "winery cellar door" which makes a lot of sense. A lot of it ties back to being the land that's occupied by that person so meaning that you can produce something and then sell it through the cellar door.One of my portfolios is tourism. Wine tourism is a very important part of the Marlborough economy. When you think of the Marlborough wine industry it makes up 80 percent of the New Zealand production. It's also 20 percent of the GDP of the Marlborough economy. In the Marlborough region it also supports one job in every five. So it makes a lot of sense around the wine industry around wine tourism but tourism in general having this ability to actually charge for those samples.We've also heard that this industry is a $2.4 billion industry. But as I said in my second reading speech on this bill that's fast-approaching to be a $3 billion industry and is growing.It is very much true that this has been a very well-received bill. It was well received when it first came in for the first reading into this House but it's also been very well received through the election campaign that was recently held. Many people especially in the Marlborough area see that this is a very good piece of legislation.Through the Justice Committee we heard obviously those submissions we have made those changes that make a lot of common sense. Again just going forward I think this piece of legislation is common sense. Again I congratulate the member for his efforts to get us to the point we are. I would like to commend the bill to the House. Thank you.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Members it is time to suspend for the dinner break. The House will resume at 7.30.Sitting suspended from 6.03 p.m. to 7.30 p.m."