Dowie SarahSARAH DOWIE (National—Invercargill): I am very pleased to rise as the newly elected chairperson of the Justice and Electoral Committee. It is interesting to follow after Ms Curran because Ms Jacqui Dean who was the outgoing chair of the Justice and Electoral Committee and has now risen to ministerial rank explained to me what a collegial—Chris Bishop: A bright future!SARAH DOWIE: A bright future—absolutely Mr Bishop. She had explained to me how collegial the committee was. There seemed to be a bit of jostling there so perhaps we will move this discussion back to talking about the select committee process and how it was that at the end of the day the findings in the report were unanimous.Look as I said I am very pleased to be taking this call as the new chair. I acknowledge the sponsoring Minister the Hon Amy Adams who has spearheaded this review and of course the Hon Jacqui Dean outgoing chair. I want to thank Mr Jono Naylor the deputy chair of the Justice and Electoral Committee for making me feel so welcome and actually the members opposite because I have chaired only one meeting—let us be fair about it—but from what I have seen it has been a very collegial committee. So the Hon Jacqui Dean was correct in her description and I think that all of the members of the committee are willing to discuss things openly and move things along—nuanced findings and hopefully get agreement on most things.Although I did not sit on this review and was not present at the debates my understanding of these bills is basically that the substance of them are in respect of the opening and closing addresses of electoral broadcasting. Let us face it: time has moved on. We are now in an age when people are using the likes of the internet apps like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. I have to admit I am Generation X so I do not understand them all—Paul Foster-Bell: Surely not!SARAH DOWIE: Well I am trying to learn Mr Paul Foster-Bell but look we will continue with that education as we go along in my political career. It is about modernising this legislation. It is about allowing more flexibility to political parties to get their message out to voters. As we have seen as technology has advanced people are gaining their news in many many different ways and—especially Generation X—are turning to such apps as Twitter. We only need to look overseas to the likes of Brexit and the American election where Twitter was greatly used. That is fair enough. It is about engaging people in democracy and it is about again informing voters through whatever vehicle the political parties see as appropriate and necessary.To pick up on what some of the other speakers have talked about we have seen that engagement in our democracy has dropped so it is important that we use those alternative vehicles to engage our voters. Fewer people were found to be tuning into the opening and closing addresses with TVNZ—a 25 percent drop apparently in the average audience since the 2014 election. So we need to—[Interruption] Sorry—Denis O'Rourke: All programmes have dropped. Nobody watches TV any more. Why would you?SARAH DOWIE: Thank you. Thank you Mr O'Rourke. You are helping me prove my point in that technology is advancing and people are turning to different vehicles to get their news to get their entertainment. So thank you very much for that contribution and I will look forward to your contribution on Thursday as well as we move our agenda forward in the Justice and Electoral Committee.I think realistically that although these bills make other technical changes to move electioneering forward in respect to this framework these are good bills they were unanimously supported across the House. They are about making things fairer about communicating with the voters and about helping them engage in democracy. With that I commend these bills to the House.