Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): As with past legislation the Greens will be and are opposing the Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Rugby World Cup 2019 Extended Trading Hours) Amendment Bill. This bill enables club licence and on-licence holders to extend their trading hours in order to televise the 2019 men's Rugby World Cup games. We know that licensed premises would normally have to apply for a special licence to operate and serve alcohol outside of usual hours but this bill will allow them to bypass the special licence process that we already have in place. It follows a similar bill that we've passed before. How much longer are we going to continue to tag the sporting culture of our country—which I am incredibly proud of and have a strong affinity with through myself and my family and my community—to drinking? How much longer are we going to justify this gift to the alcohol industry that says that the only way that we can enjoy the world cup as true New Zealanders is if we rush through urgency this legislation to extend opening hours and for the sale of liquor? What an incredible gift to the alcohol industry. What a culture we are upholding that continues to allow drinking as part of the ordinary normal way that we do sports in this country. I want to offer at this point a massive shout-out to the sports that happen around our country every day every week all year long. That happens without alcohol. That happens based on the values of bringing people together socialising with physical activity and connecting and learning about how we are as a society. For the Greens I'm very proud to be opposing this legislation. I also am proud to oppose this legislation on behalf of the Greens because apparently we do have warning about this men's Rugby World Cup competition. Apparently there is cause for us to not have to rush things through urgently. I hear that this thing happens—I don't know is it every four years? We knew it was going to happen the last time we rushed this through the House so the need for urgency is not clear to me and my colleagues. If there are indeed problems with the special licensing process that we currently have then let's fix that with some proper robust debate. Let's hear from organisations at the forefront of eliminating violence connected with alcohol. Let's hear from the sporting industry. I wonder if after this world cup we are going to see some actual proposals to get some robust debate put through for urgent legislation. Is this the threshold for urgent legislation that we want to put through this House? I listened to Gerry Brownlee the previous speaker talk about the last time we passed this legislation and he said that there was no such bleak picture of people staggering out of bars at all hours of the night. The absence of that particularly bleak situation is not good enough because we need to also keep investigating the long-term narrative of attaching drinking culture to sporting culture. Sporting culture is beautiful sporting culture is positive and sporting culture is something that we all can sign up to be a part of and contribute to. I do not see the need for us to continue to uphold and connect that to having a beer. That has got nothing to do with denying people an ordinary and responsible way to be able to drink alcohol in and of its own self but connecting it and continuously tagging it to sporting culture is why the Greens will continue to oppose this. Thank you.