SpeechDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): Kia ora e te Māngai o te Whare. I rise today to take a call on the counter-terrorism bill and I do so as a member of the Justice Committee that actually heard the inquiry into this bill. I first want to acknowledge the legitimate concerns that have been raised by my friend across the House Ms Ghahraman because this is a weighty bill and it is right that we should think carefully about the things that we are doing. It is therefore really relevant that Ms Ghahraman mentioned the fact that we are coming up on a thorough review of this regime as set out in the legislation. But while we have that care to take—and we must take it because we are dealing with people's fundamental rights and it is their liberties and those are not things to be trespassed lightly. While it is hugely important that we take that care while I am sure that all of us look toward the review process that will happen in due course to ensure that we are tightening and getting the regime right for both sides of the spectrum—both the affected people or entities and also for the safety of the ordinary Kiwi citizen—it is also important sometimes that we move fast to adapt to changing circumstances and to gaps we find in our legislation that emerge as events transpire. One of these has brought us the need for this bill.We all are aware of the appalling LynnMall attacks and we all are aware that when we looked at that particular person the regime as it stood was simply not sufficient. So it was necessary to bring something to this House which will ensure that until we have that chance to do the longer review we are covering those gaps in the system that we know about. That is our basic responsibility to Kiwi citizens: to not leave citizens at risk where we know that there is a risk to them theoretically in existence and we know that we have not got the powers to deal with that situation should it arise.I do however want to speak to the 210 submitters who we had write in on this bill many of whom were concerned that the bill is in some way an arbitrary power of the Prime Minister to designate entities and people as terrorists and then to slap restrictive control orders upon them. There was a lot of concern that somehow this was an authoritarian and arbitrary power given to the Prime Minister personally. That is not so. When you actually understand the bill and you go through the bill here there is a careful considered and quite difficult series of stages that must be gone through before anyone can either be designated or can be the subject of a control order. So I would just caution anyone who is concerned and sees this bill as a major step towards the sort of State that we would never wish to see New Zealand become: it is not. This is quite targeted it is quite careful and hopefully will rarely be applied because it will rarely be necessary.But I do now just want to step very briefly through what it will do. So it covers two things: the first bit is that we have tightened up the designation scheme which is the scheme that allows us to talk to what is a terrorist entity. It's pointed out that if one of those people is in jail so that they are no longer a present threat we're still going to be able to keep their designation there because they will become a risk when they come out. The other one is to make the control order regime more workable and to enable it to cover those who are not in prison but who are sentenced to a broader range of sentences such as home detention or electronic bail monitoring. It also enables judges to have more discretion to tailor control regimes so that they are effective and not too onerous and it also involves a wider range of objectionable publications in the test for eligibility. It has gone from merely objectionable publications that are terrorist events to also extreme violent events because as we will explain there is a link. On that basis. I commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Members the time has come for me to leave to the Chair for the dinner break. The House will resume at 7 p.m.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.