Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Mr Speaker thank you for allowing me to have a call in this very narrowly defined debate which is really about the report-back date for this bill. I rise to take my first ever call in a report-back debate because I am shocked that in the interests of good policy-making we are in fact shortening the report-back time line to within three months I would like to remind this House—to 2 June.As well as echoing the comments of my colleague the Hon Michael Woodhouse I would like to just raise another point of matter around the industry and the way it's changing. We've heard from the other side of the House how fast this industry is changing and how many products are coming out in the market. There's research every day done to you know bust some of those myths around vaping and shore up exactly what the impacts of this legislation are and particularly in the US. I just find that we ought to consider having the normal process in place so that we can get a fuller understanding of some of those changes and how they're actually going to implement and have an impact in New Zealand.So I think the way the industry changes is actually an argument against shortening this select committee process from six months to within three. Let's get it right because we don't argue over the contents of this bill; we all want to see regulations for the vaping sector. We just want to make sure that it's done right. I ask this House to reflect on why we have a six-month select committee process. We have that in the law and in our constitutional arrangements for a particular purpose: to make sure that this is a robust and full select committee process and Mr Speaker I know you understand this very very well.Hon Tim Macindoe: Don't bring him into the debate.DAN BIDOIS: Not bringing you into the debate on this matter. But coming back to the point of this the Hon Nicky Wagner put a member's bill on the ballot in October 2018.SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume his seat when I stand up. The member spent quite a bit of his substantive speech off the topic and commenting on this issue. I'm taking that into account now and I'm going to hold him very tight to the topic. Historical matters are not relevant.DAN BIDOIS: Thank you Mr Speaker. Look what I want to say is this. This Government is asking the House to shorten the select committee process from six months to three months when we've had 2½ years where we could have put this in place. And I just don't think—SPEAKER: Second and last warning.DAN BIDOIS: —that the democratic processes should be curtailed because of the inaction of this Government.You know reflecting on the comments from the Minister around why they want to in fact shorten the process those arguments were not clear at all.Hon Nathan Guy: What were they? What did she say?DAN BIDOIS: It's time"; that is what she said—it's time.Hon Michael Woodhouse: There's always time; that's why we bring bills in.DAN BIDOIS: That's right and if we could wait as long as we have for this law surely we can wait another three months to get it right. I ask this as a genuine question.The other argument that was made is that the select committee process is important. Well if it is important why are we shortening it to three months? So it's about the importance of getting this law right because once we've got these regulations in place it's difficult to change them. So I would ask this House to reflect on why they're doing what they're doing. You know there's a quote that I like to say often: it's not what's often said that's important; it's what's not said. And what was not said on that side of the House is the true reason they are considering reducing this report—Hon Nathan Guy: What's the true reason?DAN BIDOIS: It's because there's an election on 19 September and they want to show that they've made progress on this given that in the last—well not reflecting on it but given that they haven't actually made progress at all.So I oppose this motion to reduce the select committee report-back date from six months to three months and I would ask the House to reflect on this and to vote accordingly. Thank you."