The ACT Party looks forward to the bill being considered in select committee. We look forward to this legislation progressing to achieve the many noble—if pedestrian and, perhaps, perfunctory—tasks that it was originally launched to do, but also to resolve what has been one of the more controversial issues in New Zealand politics. That is the kind of progress that New Zealand has always managed to make in the end. It's one of the things that makes me proud to be a New Zealander, to live in a country where, through civil conversation, we ultimately resolve issues and manage to live together in relative harmony. 