Whaitiri MekaMEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): Tēnā tātou katoa. Labour values the thousands of volunteers around this country who contribute thousands of hours to community organisations up and down this country. Often those very organisations that these volunteers work for are the only organisations in many of those communities—they are often vulnerable communities whether they are based rurally or are urban-based—and Labour acknowledges and values their role. Labour also values the hard work our police force does. When we take Government next year we are going to ensure that our police force is adequately funded.To this bill here the Policing (Cost Recovery) Amendment Bill—I understand that the Government is also committed to ensuring that it will reduce obstacles for volunteers contributing time to community organisations but this bill puts all that at risk. In fact when I read the bill it has a kind of hide-and-seek feel about it. The seek" is that this bill is intended to recover costs around vetting services but it hides the fact that it can also perhaps down the track when we pass this legislation recover costs for what are called "other services". I note that in the report to the Justice and Electoral Committee officials could not provide any exhaustive list to committee members on what those other services are likely to be. My point is does this potentially open up to abuse the charging for other services that police may feel they have been inadequately resourced by this Government to cover? That is a question that maybe the Government members can get up and respond to.The other "feel" I have with this bill is that it feels incomplete. It is not only open to inventing new services to charge for in order to recover costs but it clearly did not at the initial reading talk about or give a list of the criteria for those exemptions. I will come back to that because I know that Mr Young did explain Cabinet's decision made on Monday.I just want to acknowledge the submitters who came in front of the Justice and Electoral Committee. Can I just quickly list them: the New Zealand Public Service Association the Citizens Advice Bureau New Zealand the Plunket Society and of course the National Council of Women of New Zealand which also had issues with this bill that it clearly articulated to the select committee around confusion and around unnecessarily disadvantaging certain communities and organisations that it represents.But it is that statement around cost recovery versus the potential for this bill to enable the police to actually generate income—that is what it can potentially become. The extensions to the statutory powers given to the New Zealand Police do not just limit it to charging for vetting services which we would support but actually open the potential to look at generating income through other means. I have a problem with the lack of closing that potential question mark and ensuring that if we are opening the police up to charging for other services we actually define that. We should not leave it so open.I want to go quickly now to the comment that Mr Young mentioned around Cabinet agreeing to the waivers that he mentioned around registered charities and organisations facing severe hardship. I guess my concern when he shared that with the House was that that is the role I thought of the select committee. That is where we debate fixing up legislation. I want to acknowledge the Opposition members who suggested writing criteria which Cabinet has obviously taken on board and passed. But then it just begs the question—if we cannot sort out stronger legislation in select committees and we leave that up to Cabinet decisions then that questions the value as I see it from where I sit of the role of the select committees.Labour will not be supporting this bill. Kia ora."