ARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa): Madam Speaker, tēnā koe. I oppose this bill, but the member who brought it the House is a well-respected member with his community at heart and it's an important issue, so it's important to me to be able to speak about why. The purpose of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act, when it was introduced, was to increase community say over alcohol licensing decisions. This bill silences the community in the particular case of race meetings, and drags this Parliament even further into the regulatory black hole of an Act which has not given communities—that's the mums, the teachers, the principals, the other business owners, and the churchgoers who live near these venues and alcohol shops—the clout that they need in licensing decisions. 