Ngaro Alfred: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Rugby World Cup 2015 Extended Trading Hours) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNgaro Alfred: Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Rugby World Cup 2015 Extended Trading Hours) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6217. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALFRED NGARO (National): That was a very interesting speech and true to the name of Mr Clayton Mitchell it was a Clayton’s: it promised all the punch it was a placebo in disguise but at the end of the day he votes for it. New Zealand First will vote for this bill and the only reason why we had that speech that attacked the Government on all different sides was so that he could justify the fact that—“Yes we are voting for it; however we do have concerns.” If you are going to vote for it vote for it. Support it wholeheartedly. Do not get up and be half-hearted not like when you are going to have a bit of a bet and you have one each way. That is right—one foot this way: “I will have one on the win and one on a place.” Just in case the horse does not get through right you take one each way.What we over here in National in Government are about is making decisions and turning round and saying that actually we are putting it all on the nose we are going ahead and we are going to support the bill. Yes we have had some concerns. We have heard we have listened but we believe that this is the right thing to do. Here is the tell of the tale. The fact is that most New Zealanders have turned round and said: “Actually this is the right thing to do.”—this is the right thing to do. This is what this bill is about: it is about extending trading hours simply and quite clearly. It is about the sale and supply of alcohol and extended licensing hours during the Rugby World Cup. It is about extending those hours.I want to acknowledge Mr David Seymour who is here. He has put this bill up. Also too there has been great support. We know there has been support because even the Greens turned round. They did the old flip-flop. First they were against it then they had to go for it. They went for it because even their own supporters turned round and said: “Don’t be haters—don’t be haters. Don’t be joy killers. Instead what you should be doing is supporting this bill.” So what did they have to do? The very next day when the leave was put forward they had to retract their opposition. Instead they had to vote for the bill and so they did. The Greens went into the Justice and Electoral Committee. Yes Mr Hague was there. He heard the submissions but again he has come out fighting. Why? Because it was not quite where they wanted it to be. He has talked about the rhetoric and talked about the concerns. I think that is going to do some damage to their brand because at the end of the day this is about extending trading hours. It is about giving an opportunity that is part of the celebration of who we are as Kiwis. It is part of the All Blacks. That is what it is actually all about.We know that the Rugby World Cup is the third-largest sporting event in the world. In 2011 we made concessions. In 2011 we hosted the Rugby World Cup and what a great occasion it was. I know that before the dinner break Mr Peeni Henare was talking about some of that celebration. In fact I would like to acknowledge that if it were not for the Tongan community that came out which gridlocked Auckland International Airport—there was a sea of red. The colour may not have been right but the passion was. That is what was there. There was a great passion that was there. What those people did was they celebrated the welcoming of their team coming in. They had brass bands. They turned round and said: “This is great. This is for our community.”You see this is what the medium of rugby will allow us to do. Even small communities like our Tongan community like the Fijian community and even like the Samoan community were out there. Their teams were able to be celebrated. New Zealand is a diverse culture of people and inside of that rugby has become one vehicle a vehicle—a very powerful vehicle—for them to be able to acknowledge and celebrate and also for their young men and women to be able to excel in sports and also to travel the world. We think it is a great thing to do.I also want to put on record the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup. Mr Mallard will know about this. In 1995 Nelson Mandela—Mr Mallard will remember that the letter that was sent. Here is the reason why. The nation of South Africa wanted not only to celebrate and host that world cup but also to say through Nelson Mandela’s words: “Let’s invite the world to come to us.” They put the invitation out to all the different parliaments.Hon Trevor Mallard: And they had Suzie deliver the food.ALFRED NGARO: That is right. Something about the food Mr Mallard. The invitation went out to all the different parliaments of the world to come and use the medium of rugby as a way of uniting nations together.Hon Trevor Mallard: No no. The invitation came from London.ALFRED NGARO: London South Africa—we know what the story is OK. Do not destroy the story there Mr Mallard. Do not destroy the story. He is the legend—Nelson Mandela. It came from Damien O’Connor who told us the story OK? He told us the story. Damien O’Connor shared it with us. Nelson Mandela welcomed all these different parliamentary teams and it was the medium and the sport of rugby that allowed the nations to be united in one place at one time. What a great story. What a great place to be able to do it. Here again rugby is the medium to allow us to be able to exercise that great ability as well.So here are some of the bits of the bill that I think are also very important. We heard in the Justice and Electoral Committee about special licensing. There are a lot of acronyms here—DLCs LAPs. Here is an opportunity in the hands of those communities. We are not removing the ability for those district licensing committees with their local alcohol plans to be able to put those plans together so they can work with them. We also realised that some of them actually had not put those plans together so here was a chance for them to be able to put in place local alcohol plans that would address some of the issues of concern. Yes it is about the binge drinking. Yes it is about the hours. It is even about noise control as well. We think those things are important.Submitters expressed their belief that special licences negated the need for the bill. However concerns were raised that some district licensing committees were requiring licensees to provide complementary entertainment. In other words they made it slightly difficult for licensed premises to be able to receive their licences. We think this bill will be important for addressing those issues as well.There was also a concern around eligible games. At first in the journey of that select committee to hear submissions we thought: “Well let’s restrict that eligibility.” In fact it came directly from the Green Party: “We would vote for it if we could restrict those games to around about 16—around about 16 games.” Why? Because then you could do four pool games and then maybe 12 other games. That would allow you to have 16 games that were in there—the semi-finals quarter-finals and also the final. We went back and we discussed this. That would be discriminatory. It actually would not allow for some of the smaller nations like Tonga like Fiji and like Samoa that have got different pool games. Why do we not make this eligible for all 48 games? We believe that that is important. It will enable licensees to open up for all matches during the Rugby World Cup. We think that is important as well.The other area and Mr Hague made the point is that licensees will just buy a little TV—maybe a 20-inch flat-screen TV—and put it in the corner and they will be able to do that. We know that it is really clear that it clarifies in this bill that the games must be a live audiovisual feed not delayed or replayed and the displaying of those licence conditions is also made important in this bill.I think one of the things that are important that has been raised by Mr Mitchell was around binge drinking. We know that controlling binge-drinkers just by putting more restrictions and regulations in place is not part of it. Instead it is by role modelling and having good behaviour. So trading hours become really important to this issue. In short the select committee has made the trading hours more workable. The bill as introduced specifies that the licensee would have their licensing hours extended for 1 hour before and 1 hour after a game that has been broadcast outside normal licensing hours.I want to touch on the issue of noise management. We know that there are some concerns because of the odd hours about where some of these licensed facilities may be and around noise control. Again we wanted to make sure that we did not burden our communities. The noise-management provisions have given the extension of licensing hours so the committee has recommended that there is no discarding of empty bottles during the extended hours or use of outdoor courtyard areas either.There are just a final few comments that I would like to make in my speech on this bill. I think one of the areas was around the one-way door policy. We know that there are a number of people who will frequent a number of other liquor-licensed premises. We wanted to make sure that many licensed premises are subject to the one-way door policy as a condition of their licence or as implemented by their local alcohol policy as well. Although there are generally good reasons for one-way door policies where they apply to premises they do not fit well with the intent of this bill.We have had this bill come through. Yes it has been a truncated process but the intent has been right. I want to acknowledge Mr Seymour. He has come through. I know there was some comment about his bill being like a Magna Doodle that he had to shift and change in some ways. I think that is part of the process of ensuring that we could get enough support in here to make sure that this bill—which at the end of the day is around celebrating I suppose the culture of rugby and also its part in New Zealand’s culture—provides the opportunity for New Zealanders who cannot go to the Rugby World Cup to still celebrate that by the extension of trading hours under this Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Rugby World Cup 2015 Extended Trading Hours) Bill. I support this bill and commend this bill to the House.