It's great to be speaking on this bill. It is an important bill that was originally introduced by Mark Patterson, who was a member of New Zealand First during the 52nd Parliament. As he lost his seat, he asked me to take over this bill, which I gladly agreed to do. I'm hopeful that both the Government and ACT are going to support this bill, and I think the biggest issue in getting here tonight is how the Finance and Expenditure Committee has had to address one of the crucial deficiencies in the original bill that was put in: namely, it didn't really deal adequately with the issue of the transitional arrangements in terms of if we are to move to a longer period of required service or living in New Zealand, what would be those transitional arrangements? And I just want to particularly acknowledge the Hon Carmel Sepuloni, first for allowing the officials to support and work with the committee, and I think, hopefully, she will also be supporting this bill. 