Leary Ingrid; Pugh MaureenINGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): I am disgusted that that previous speaker Carlos Cheung on this important kaupapa gave 12 seconds of his care his life and his attention to this incredibly important matter. It is not too late for members of the Government to do the right thing and that is to do the right thing in principle with a moral compass and to do the right thing by their constituents who overwhelmingly do not want this repeal. I can tell you that the latest data from the Health Coalition Aotearoa is 53000 signatures not 45000. Today there has been a groundswell of signatures from people imploring their MPs imploring their Government MPs to do the right thing. It is not too late as I said previously. They can cross the floor tonight. They can treat this with their conscience and do the right thing and make history and restore faith in our democratic system.This is a very very sad day for New Zealand democracy. We have lost the Māori Health Authority under urgency. We are losing this battle. We have got moments to go in which these MPs can do the right thing. We have lost a major news organisation. These are the checks and balances on unfettered power and what we have seen has been wholly inadequate in the way that this Government has treated this bill. I would like to say that the sniggering and sneering and treating with contempt and the joking kind of approach that we have seen from members opposite says so much about the fact of what they think about this kaupapa and how they feel about the fact that 8000 lives are at stake—8000 lives that could've been saved. They will have blood on their hands.What was so appalling tonight was the committee of the whole House stage. We tried to get answers out of the Associate Minister of Health the Hon Casey Costello and to her credit she is not the one doing the sniggering. She is sitting there but she did not answer our questions. She went round and round in circles. We asked her about the rationale. We asked her what was so prescient to make this a bill that had to go through urgency and that needed to happen with very scant evidence if no evidence because we could not get any evidence of the evidence. We got no answers from her. There was a reference to a coalition agreement; it was a tautology. It was just useless. We are seeing the removal of the smoke-free generation in one fell swoop.When people put amendments forward to say What about just changing the number of retail outlets? Let's just compromise a little bit." this Government was not having a bar of it; the Minister was not having a bar of it. Denicotinisation that very difficult word that we struggle with—that would've made a huge difference even if we didn't go the whole hog. The Minister was not prepared to budge on it and there were no reasons given as to why she was so firmly positioned supporting the tobacco lobbies with this bill.There were questions about regulation about normal consumer protections that apply to every other retail sector. We didn't get any answers. The way this has been done it has been—pardon the pun—smoke and mirrors. There was no campaign on this. There was no select committee. There has been a shameful abuse of urgency in my view and there haven't really been adequate interviews in the media the fourth estate which is one of the last checks and balances—the Minister has refused to engage with them. Then we find out today in question time oh there's going to be revenue gained revenue that will help to pay for tax cuts.The members opposite have some time to cross the floor. In the meantime as they ponder that whether they will do the right thing I promise New Zealanders that we on this side of the House will continue to remind them every single week of this shameful piece of legislation right up till the election. May I implore through you Madam Speaker to those outside watching this: do not forget this moment. Do not forget that this Government has thrown our children under the bus our smoke-free generation. When it comes time to the election whether that is in 18 months or whether that is in three years this should be what makes you cast your vote. Don't you ever forget because they have blood on their hands.Todd Stephenson: Point of order Madam Speaker. That is unparliamentary language. "Blood on their hands" infers that the members of the Government are actually murdering people and that should be a withdraw and apologise.Shanan Halbert: Speaking to the point of order?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): I never actually called the point of order.Todd Stephenson: Oh well I'm going to say it again then. Point of order Madam Speaker?Shanan Halbert: Just checking: are you calling the point of order?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): No."