Hon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Just to recap on this bill, the big question is: do criminal offenders—indeed should they—have the right to vote? On this side of the House we say no way. On the other side of the House they say yes, but there is a little caveat. Now, this particular topic—looking back in Hansard and the history books of this Parliament—has been debated since the 1970s. Indeed, the National MP in the last John Key - Bill English National-led Government Paul Quinn—he proposed the change and indeed it went through and now we find ourselves back debating this very important topic now. Now, this bill received something like 2,500 submissions, and it meant that because the Government's got their foot on the throttle, they see that they may indeed need these 1,900 votes that they might get—or potentially may not get.