Muller Todd; Tolley AnneTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you Madam Speaker and I appreciate the opportunity to stand and take a call on the Electoral Amendment Bill third reading and reflect on the contributions that have been made across the House actually. It's interesting; this is a fundamental change to our electoral processes particularly of course leading up to and on election day. What have we heard from the contributions from the Government side? They've got their little talking points they jump up and they give 15 seconds' worth of unbridled resentment and then quickly sit down and resort to Twitter and Facebook. But actually there are some fundamental issues that need to be addressed.I mean I'd like to take issue with the Hon Ron Mark who says this is Much ado about nothing". Actually when he said that out loud I thought that would be a good title for his autobiography when it appears in time. It will be a good read because I heard—Hon Nathan Guy: He's writing it down!TODD MULLER: He is writing it down because actually when you—Hon Nathan Guy: It'll be a best seller in Carterton!TODD MULLER: Ha ha! Sorry I'm supposed to concentrate here but I've got someone to my left—Hon Ron Mark: I'll write a song about it!TODD MULLER: Yeah write a song about it. Actually the member's contribution last week when you reflected on some of your own political history and connection with the great late Rt Hon Mike Moore suggests that when you do put pen to paper it may well be a book worth traversing for those who are waiting for political autobiographies.So the issue that I want to touch on today is really just reflecting on the approach that the justice Minister has taken. Now I have been in Parliament—now this is my second term. I can recall many times that he stood up as the Opposition justice spokesman on this side of the House and he was always the first to stand up and talk about the importance of appropriate process of respecting convention of ensuring that the way we approach the issues that are—everything that we debate in this House is of course some degree of seriousness and moment but there are certain others that are more constitutional in nature and convention in nature that actually deserve considered reflection. The justice Minister Andrew Little would be the first many times to stand and hold the previous Government to a very high standard with respect to those principles but here we have a bill that sits in his name where—as you've heard through the contributions from particularly the National Party side over the course of this whole debate not just here in the third reading—he has in my view deliberately distorted that process and ridden roughshod over a process which we have always followed where the Justice Committee reflects on the outcomes on the learnings and the opportunities to improve—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am sorry to interrupt the member but the time has come to leave the Chair. This bill is set down for committee stage next sitting day. This debate is interrupted and the House stands adjourned—Hon Andrew Little: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. It's not committee stage.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I beg your pardon. This debate is interrupted and set down for resumption next sitting day. The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. on Tuesday 3 March 2020. Kia ora tātou.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 6 p.m."