Another issue is the very limited opportunity that the public had to give feedback on the Government's proposals on this electoral reform. The Ministry of Justice called for submissions over the Christmas and New Year period. Now, as anyone who spends any time in New Zealand will know, that is a time when most people aren't thinking about politics and aren't thinking about the law; they're thinking about where to go on holiday and spend some time with their family. It's quite cynical, it would seem, that the Ministry of Justice called for those submissions over the Christmas and New Year time period, an extremely short time frame, with submissions closing on 25 January. Critics could certainly be forgiven for being somewhat cynical about whether the Government really wanted to have public input—a substantive public input—on this change.