Hon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Kia ora. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I want to commence my contribution on behalf of the National Party Opposition by acknowledging the very articulate contribution just made by the Minister Kiritapu Allan. I don't have her skills in te reo, but I was listening intently to the translation of her speech. She gave a very fulsome, a very adequate, and a very good background to the reason why Matariki is an appropriate subject for the creation of New Zealand's 12th statutory paid annual holiday each year. She went into some detail about the difficulties in terms of identifying a day each year that could be the appropriate day to mark this event on our calendar. I'm not going to reiterate that at all, other than to say that this piece of legislation establishes that 12th statutory paid holiday, and it will be a Friday each year, and the statute that we are considering today here at first reading prescribes what will be the date for the next 30 years, and that's actually quite good because it gives some certainty and some focus on planning, if nothing else. So that's all quite good. 