The timing is about priorities that our country has been confronted with and the hardships that have been imposed on our people, struck down with COVID, the cost implications, not just fiscal but the impact on our communities. It's known that the National Party does not support this bill, not because of the significance and the cultural relevance of this as a calendared marker within the shaping and history of the nation and where we are striving towards but because of the timing of the impact on our society. It's all very well for members in the Labour Government to diminish the relevance of the fiscal cost and implications.