Tuiono Teanau; Faafoi KrisTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Minister. Of course I join with everybody else in terms of thinking of our communities up there in New Lynn as well but then also our communities that were impacted in Christchurch as well. Thank you for reminding us about the changes in terms of the planning and preparing of terrorism. Some of the conversations that we've been having is that there's a lot of concern around that and around how agencies might be enacting that given the history of agencies in the past in terms of targeting in particular tangata whenua but also peoples of colour as well. As we know in the case of Christchurch the agencies were looking everywhere except for the right place and they were primarily targeting peoples of colour. So my question is—questions—given cases like Zaoui v Attorney-General are a part of Aotearoa's history is the Minister certain that new preparatory offences under the Act won't be used to indefinitely detain arbitrarily prosecute or search or surveil people without warrant and with insufficient evidence of preparation of any wrongdoing? A follow-up to that is: how will the Minister prevent preparatory powers being disproportionately used against people of colour and tangata whenua given the royal commission on the Christchurch mosque attacks found that public agencies have been overly focused on the threat of Islamic extremism and that Māori and Pasifika are also overrepresented in our justice system because of racial bias? Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Justice): I think it was plain to see through the findings of the royal commission that it was a wake-up call for a number of the agencies that the member has suggested. When we do acknowledge the past history of the actions of some of those agencies around the predecessor to this bill there are a number of protections which give me confidence that any misuse of the powers within this legislation will be there to ensure that they are not misused. I've already mentioned one before around the Attorney-General having the final sign-off on any prosecution that may come about from any investigation under this legislation and I'd also point out—and the member will know this but for those who may be interested at home—that the three legs of motivation intent and purpose all have to be met in order for a terrorist charge to be brought. One of the aspects that is new in this bill and that will be developed over case law around planning and preparation I think is if you tick all those three boxes then a court will rule in terms of a series of events that an individual or an entity may undertake which will meet the threshold of planning and preparation. So I think all eyes will be on that. I think the other concern that I believe was raised in the Green Party minority view in the report back from the select committee was around the right to protest. There are protections within the legislation to ensure that lawful protest is not impeded and that people still have the right to undertake and express their views through lawful protest. I guess I would go back to my first point which was that all three arms of that terrorist definition have to be met. It's a high threshold and again we believe there are the protections to ensure that only those cases that meet that threshold and that are in the public interest will get taken to a prosecution. TEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you for that answer. Just in terms of the timing aspect as well because you talked a little bit about that and of course the pressure that particular groups feel—particularly social justice activists and environmentalists who also often get picked up as well. I'm just mindful that there was for example spying done on Greenpeace and for the House to remember that actually Greenpeace suffered one of the horrific terrorist attacks in our history as well with the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior that there is a lack of trust amongst certain communities with the agencies and having that time to actually unpack some of that with our communities would actually help to sort of really walk this legislation through.I guess my question is: given one of the bills that we passed earlier was to actually have the opportunity to grill this year the SIS and the GCSB and to really find out actually what happened down in Christchurch why they were so obsessed with the wrong people and the sorts of things that that inquiry will throw up; why the speed of this particular legislation given that there could be a lot of other things that we could be missing out on and that many of our communities are quite concerned about that and also people who often get caught up as political dissenters or protestors or whatever you want to call it?Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Justice): I kind of go back to some earlier comments about trying to ensure that we strike a balance between ensuring we have given our agencies the tools to counter some of the national security threats that they are constantly facing in terms of monitoring other individuals or groups.Again—and I want to acknowledge some of the contributions at the second reading of this legislation—the consideration at the Justice Committee was thorough it was considered and I also believe that the select committee members came to agreements on a lot of the substantive amendments and those things that stayed the same within the bill. There has been some criticism around the timing of the announcement of getting this piece of legislation through the House before September but again I would acknowledge that there was essentially a small piece of administration needed from the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) in order to get the changes made and I want to acknowledge both Justice officials and the PCO for getting this piece of legislation to where it is now. It did have full consideration. Again I think the events of the 3rd of September are a reminder that the threats remain real. Ensuring that the authorities have the powers to make sure they can do everything they can to prevent further attacks was the balance that the Government has sought to strike.