Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour—Hutt South): Well there's a nice surprise. That was quite lovely. Thank you to Mr Goldsmith. The timing of the Māori electoral option creates a real barrier to voters. So it's great to have general consensus on the passageway forward for this piece of legislation.I believe wherever possible changes to the voting system should be done in a bipartisan manner and the Government continues to work in that way so the fact that there have been good-faith discussions across this House and we're able to make amendments to the bill in order for it to be agreed upon is a good thing—not only for the members in this House but also for democracy in wider New Zealand. This I believe is necessary for this bill because it's important that we promote the ability to vote and make that as easy as possible. We know that this bill will remove a barrier which allows Māori voters to change rolls more regularly. We know it does happen every election and we know many people try to do so and are prevented from being able to do it. So the fewer the barriers the more we can participate and the stronger our democracy.As we've heard from Mr Goldsmith there is potentially a requirement depending on the Speaker's ruling that a 75 percent majority may be required to progress this bill through the committee of the whole House and with that change to put in that three-month buffer—already we discussed that for a by-election—but to include that for a general election as well; it's good to see there's support across the House.So as this bill is currently drafted it will let Māori voters change rolls up to any time but now with the Supplementary Order Paper that will be introduced excluding a buffer of that three-month period. Māori voters will not be able to change between the Māori and the general rolls; already it's specified during a by-election if that change replaced the vote in the electorate where a by-election is occurring. It also makes changes around how the Māori electoral population is calculated under the Act for electoral boundary review purposes and it also makes changes that may result from cross-party discussions prior to the committee which we've discussed just now.So overall I think it's important to note that this bill fits with our larger plan. It's part of our commitment to continue to protect the integrity of New Zealand's elections and voters' access to the polls. And that's a wider review of legislation. That's including the financial rules and it's also part of the two-track process—that we've got a whole range of areas being looked at as part of that independent review panel that has been established. The fact that we've got some changes happening before the election and also some longer-term ones shows that we're a Government committed to always looking at how our electoral rules are operating trying to make sure we are doing those with consensus as much as we possibly can and making voting and access to voting easy for every New Zealander.It was really good to hear the submissions that we heard at select committee. There were some interesting discussions had at that committee process and I believe that the changes that we have made have strengthened the bill. I'm looking forward to this bill passing and I'd like to acknowledge the members opposite for supporting this bill to be supported right across the House. I commend it to the House Madam Speaker.