Members opposite have raised three points that I take this opportunity to address. They said that National toyed with the process by voting down the first part of the SOP, the proposed amendment by the Green Party, and voting in favour of the second, which passed. As I am neither a skilled or a fiery interjector myself, I wish to apportion a small portion of my time to speak on this point: firstly, to say that there has been little opportunity for National to win votes in this House, as we're outnumbered by the coalition Government, and so ascribing blame for the second amendment to have passed to National is totally and quite simply pointing the finger for that resulting inconsistency in the wrong direction. Secondly, as previously mentioned, National, through my colleague the Hon Dr Nick Smith, did attempt to have the bill referred back to the Justice Committee to correct the errors, and the Government simply refused to do so. 