Bennett David: Passports Amendment Bill Customs and Excise Amendment Bill New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Amendment Bill — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: Passports Amendment Bill Customs and Excise Amendment Bill New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Amendment Bill — Third Readings[Sitting date: 09 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1267. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East):I would just like to congratulate this Parliament on passing this legislation tonight. I think that many times we hear that this Parliament does not act in the best interests of all New Zealanders and that it takes a very adversarial approach to debating issues. I would like New Zealanders just to reflect on the way that this Parliament has come together in some very quick time—and nobody is debating that—to come to a good solution.I would like to congratulate all those involved in that process—first of all the Minister in charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service Chris Finlayson who is here and has contributed through the debates tonight to give detailed analysis of the decisions that were made. I would like to draw special attention to the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee chair Mark Mitchell who did a fine job in enabling all people to have their points of view well known and took on board the comments made by the Opposition to come to some constructive solutions; to other committee members from the National side who worked hard to achieve that; and also to two special members of the Opposition David Shearer and Phil Goff. I think their experience in the political process was important for the decisions that they came to in this legislation and also their understanding of foreign affairs was I think essentially a big part of where we got to as a committee.I would also like to thank our officials who are here. They worked tirelessly in short periods of time to deliver draft on draft of legislation and to give very strong and solid advice so that the Parliament could come to the solution that it did reach. Last of all and most important I would like to thank the submitters. We did get some people whom you would expect to submit who were against this bill but we also got a lot of ordinary New Zealanders who wanted to have their say. They had genuine concerns whether it was around the timing that the bill took or some with a religious or ethnic basis who saw some issues in the process and also the legislation.It is not perfect but this Parliament is never perfect. This Parliament has passed many laws under urgency that have never gone to select committees. This Parliament will continue to do that in the best interests of the country going forward. The two main political parties agreed on that and came to a compromise that is workable efficient and in the best interests of New Zealanders.I want to emphasise that today because the bill is about keeping New Zealanders safe and that is all New Zealanders. It is not just the people whom political parties may represent in their voting bases; it is all of us. It is all the different ethnicities religions and cultures that make up this country.I just want to give special credit to Phil Goff as well for the way he took on New Zealand First then. It is disgusting that in this House a political party can do what New Zealand First has done tonight and politicise this issue. It is absolutely disgusting. Fletcher Tabuteau—at least he spoke in the third reading. I give him credit for that. He is a new member so he will not be able to go against his leader but to make this a political football to take on some of the most vulnerable people in our communities is a disgrace from the New Zealand First Party.That was one of the things that many submitters did raise with us. I know in my community we have got a large Islamic community. They are great people. They are people who have come here to make a new life for themselves in this country. The last thing we need in this Parliament is for parties like New Zealand First to attack them politically and publicly. We should be supporting those communities not trying to take them down. That is something that New Zealanders want to see and both Labour and National have achieved it.Ron Mark: Name one.DAVID BENNETT: Name one what?Ron Mark: Muslim person you’ve ever looked after.DAVID BENNETT: Name one? Well if you ever won an electorate seat you would actually have to do a lot of immigration work. We have got thousands of people there whom we have done immigration work for. But that member would never know because he will never win an electorate seat. He has always been on the gravy train that man. He is in here just because his boss gets him in here. Look at the reality—[Interruption] That is it. You actually go and do some work and then come and tell us what to do.But members of this Parliament be proud of your Parliament tonight. Your Parliament has stood up for the good things that New Zealanders wanted to achieve. It has stood up for the security of New Zealanders going forward. It has achieved that through working together as both main political parties have done. That is a credit to our political system and it is a credit to I think all members of those two main political parties. The Greens were never going to vote for the bill. It does not matter what you had in it; they would never vote for it. New Zealand First is just a disgusting party that should not be in this Parliament. That is all that you need to say.Moving forward there are and there always will be threats to the security of a country. We do not know necessarily what those threats may be. They will morph and change and the organisations involved will not be something that we can put in a box and say this is going to happen this is the time it will happen and this is the place. It does not work that way. But we need to have flexibility in our rules. We need to give our institutions that protect New Zealanders the skills and resources to do that. We need to take that insurance to protect the future of our people and our country going forward. That is what this bill is about. It is about giving the tools to the communities that are there and that are vested with the interest of protecting our whole country of protecting the reputation of New Zealand going forward as a free and open country of protecting our young people who go about their business on a day-to-day basis and of protecting vital interests that we have as a country. Labour understood that National understood that and we worked to get a solution that is a good compromise.I think if you had this legislation when it first came before this Parliament and then you had a look at what you have got at the end here now you would be very happy with what you have got here.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order!DAVID BENNETT: This legislation is a very good compromise. It is actually probably where it would have started off and ended up if we had had more time. It is actually something that I think you would have found that whether National or Labour had promoted it it would have the same result.This is good legislation. It shows New Zealanders that this Parliament is serious about it. The good people who are in this Parliament—and I take into account both parties for that—have delivered for New Zealanders the safety and security they need for their country going forward. I would like to thank everybody involved especially the submitters and those who helped with supporting Parliament to achieve that. Thank you.