DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the ACT Party in support of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill. This is a piece of legislation whose original genesis might have been described charitably as pedestrian. Rearranging some of the administrative provisions in law for the registration of births, deaths, marriages, and relationships may not have been the kind of political projects that brought the original Minister to the House and made them want to pursue a political career. Needless to say, as people who have followed this issue will be aware, at select committee stage it entered into political controversy that is best located in a long tradition of New Zealanders moving toward the light of liberty, a tradition that has seen New Zealanders, over time, gradually gain additional freedoms and additional equality between different New Zealanders. It's a very proud history, although it has often been a fraught one.