Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Thank you very much Mr Assistant Speaker. I just want to agree with what Mr Robertson has said in the House so far. This is a profoundly important bill for New Zealand's Parliament and for our democracy and it's fantastic that it will I believe receive unanimous support in the Parliament.Thirty-two years on from homosexual law reform in 1986 and the rancorous antagonistic—putting it mildly—debate and the tortured passage of that piece of legislation through the Parliament on a personal vote a conscience issue members divided morally and politically some of them engaging in appalling behaviour. Thirty-two years on from that it's just a testament really to how far we've come as a country that we will have a bill before the House that not only affirms homosexual law reform in 1986 but actually seeks to wipe from the record books convictions under the law as it existed prior to 1986 and that that bill will pass Parliament unanimously. And the apology that Parliament has given at the same time which the Hon Amy Adams delivered when she was the Minister of Justice in the last Parliament because of the bill passing unanimously—Parliament is every single person to a man and a women endorsing that message of reconciliation and of justice and doing justice to be more precise.I do want to echo what Grant Robertson said in his remarks about how we have a long way to go in that strive for equality and tolerance in our society and about creating a New Zealand where every young person in particular no matter their sexuality or their gender can grow up living in a society where they feel they are valued and they feel that they are respected and that they are acknowledged and that their dignity is upheld. We have a long way to go—we have come a long way but we have a long way to go. And I'm looking forward to being part of that conversation as we move forward into the 21st century.It was a privilege to work on this bill in the Justice and Electoral Committee in the last Parliament and in the renamed Justice Committee in the new Parliament. It's a shortened committee title but we seem to have picked up double the work because the Law and Order Committee has been folded into us—and I see my colleague Raymond Huo smiling perhaps a bit wryly because it looks like from the Order Paper we're going to get even more work over the next few months. But that's OK; we're a very hard-working committee. I know members from both sides really enjoyed working on this—my new colleagues Greg O'Connor from Ōhāriu and Ginny Andersen from Labour and Priyanca Radhakrishnan from Labour as well really enjoyed working on this really important bill.I think we've made some useful changes actually. We interrogated the substance of the bill really closely. We did get really down into the weeds of the bill because the operation of the expungement regime is of vital importance to the purpose of the bill and to giving effect to what the purpose of it is which is to wipe from the statute book and wipe from the record books the history of that conviction and the conviction itself. Members previously have gone through some of the quite technical changes we've made around criminal records what official records" means and amending the definition of "expunged conviction" in clause 9 of the bill and those are very useful changes.The only thing left for me to do is to commend the bill to the House. I'm looking forward to its speedy passage through committee of the whole House and also its third reading. Kia ora."