Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. Look I just want to acknowledge the fact that the bill is in the House even though it is the last sitting day. We have a responsibility as a House to be able to support the Government in addressing this issue. I want to acknowledge the Green speaker Golriz Ghahraman who highlighted the fact that it goes back to 2016 when the issues were raised but it's apparent that those issues were probably contested and the Government finally decided to seek some advice and take it to the High Court and get a judgment on it which they did. But the thing that really concerns me is the fact that the judgment came back on 21 June; that's two months ago. I don't know whether the Government had done any prior preparation in terms of if the judgment was against the current rules or whether it was going to support the current regime but it clearly came back and it said: no the current rules—there is a breach. I don't know why we've waited two months—on the last sitting day of Parliament—to bring this bill into the House when we are talking about some of the worst recidivist and dangerous offenders that we can have in our community. Not only that but they are the biggest risk to the most vulnerable people in our community and that's our children. So I really am puzzled as to why this bill was not brought to the House within a week maybe within a fortnight of the Government receiving the finding—why we've waited two months to continue to operate a system that we know and the Government has known is in breach of the law.I just want to take a minute too to acknowledge all the staff—the front-line staff in particular—that work in our corrections system. We often stand in this House and acknowledge rightly so our first responders whether they be front-line police officers or our paramedics or our ambulance officers or our fire fighters or our nurses and doctors manning our emergency departments. But we very rarely stand in this House and talk about and acknowledge our corrections officers. They have got just as important a role to play in our community in terms of keeping us safe but they're often invisible. They're doing the work that we don't see.It's been highlighted that they have a pretty tough work place that most of us wouldn't want to take on and they deal with the people that as a society we say are too dangerous to be out in the community. I think that we owe it to them that if there is a High Court ruling showing that they may be themselves put in a difficult position because there is now a breach of the law we act quickly and far more quickly than waiting two months in getting this bill into the House. But in saying that of course we're going to support the bill. It's important that this is passed under urgency today and it's important that the public can be confident that our laws are actually supporting our front-line corrections workers and they are able to actually keep these people under control.I'd like to talk to the issue around the fact that we should not for one minute kid ourselves around the serious risk that these people—often they show no remorse they show no empathy and it's probably highly likely that you'll never rehabilitate a serious recidivist child sex offender. So it's important that we do pass this bill but I just want to put on the record that I don't think it's good enough that the Government waited two months to actually bring this to the House. Thank you very much Mr Speaker.