Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to be able to rise and speak on this bill. I note that we are supporting this so it's great to have bipartisan support on what is a significant electoral change. Before I even joined Parliament it is something that I had heard concerns about and they were raised by my brother-in-law. He has Māori ancestry and is on the Māori roll and he wanted to move on to the general roll but he didn't have that flexibility. He was asking me because he knew I was a member of the National Party and was interested in politics as I was at the time—helping out my colleague behind me in the Bay of Plenty. He said How do I move from the Māori roll over to the general roll?" I think he wanted to have a chance to vote in the East Coast and take down the current justice Minister but it didn't quite work out that way. Anyway he didn't get that opportunity because the opportunity wasn't available. To have this option available is fantastic. This flexibility is really good because I know Matthew who's probably not at home buckling into Parliament TV at the moment—Hon Member: You never know.SAM UFFINDELL: —you never know—will have that opportunity and he will be no doubt moving to the East Coast electorate to vote in the upcoming general election next year. But moving away from my anecdotal story—I know it's interesting; other people are probably drying up a bit now. Matt Doocey: No. Keep going.SAM UFFINDELL: No we still have some support in the back rows. Fantastic. Very good. I do want to talk about how this bill is good because what we do want to do is increase participation. That's a fundamental part of a democracy—making it easy for people to be involved and participate. As the National Party would know if anyone was here for the Fair Pay Agreements Bill we do support flexibility and choice and this is a bill that will further that.I would also probably take a little bit of exception to what my colleague across the way mentioned before around not giving rise to potential—well you call it tactical changes so as to influence an outcome. I would say that you probably could do that because if I was a voter and I was voting in a safe seat but I had the option of switching into a marginal seat then I would probably be politically active enough to do that. And I would say that there are probably quite a few other people in this House who would do that. I see my colleague Erica Stanford nodding away there. So I think the point the member across the House raised is probably not an accurate one. It's one that she may perceive and people probably wouldn't think that way or they wouldn't be so suspicious as to be as tactical as that. She may have been tactical in her time in her electorate—I don't know. But I do think that this does close that down.Also the five-year provision after a census—I mean who even engaged? Did many people even engage in the census last time? I'm not sure everyone even got their forms. But I think—Anna Lorck: Everyone should. We should be encouraging people.SAM UFFINDELL: We should be encouraging people and I have met with my local census officer so you will be happy to know that. But I am happy that there is bipartisan agreement on this bill because it is something that we need have on major pieces of legislation like this. So I do want to commend the Government for listening to our comments. [Interruption] I never knew I'd get heckled by my own side of the House. If I am going to be critical I'd say the Government probably should have listened to us before the bill went to the select committee but that didn't happen. But we did finally get there and we do have bipartisan agreement and we do have the 75 percent that we need. So on that note—Matt Doocey: Keep going.SAM UFFINDELL: I'm looking at my colleagues in the background. They're egging me on. They don't want to talk before dinner. I see that Rawiri also wants to have a crack. I'm sure Rawiri won't be switching. He'll probably be going again in his seat and good on him. I may actually get my wife and my extended family on her side to switch and vote against Rawiri. I don't know where Tāmati is at the moment but anyway we will consider that.Well done to everyone for getting on board with this. We got the 75 percent and I commend this bill to the House."