SpeechHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National): Mr Speaker thank you for the opportunity to take a shorter call on this bill. I wish I could have been here sooner but I had other obligations that I couldn't get out of and I do want to go on record for the third reading of this bill. First of all just to be really clear and get it on record we certainly support that changing of classifications particularly of the two drugs around synthetics. We want to see that happen. We would have supported it going through quicker quite frankly. I like that the Minister gets discretion. I think that that's important as new drugs come on the market or the way that they are creating particularly synthetics and with the kind of products that they use we certainly want to see us being able to move quickly to reclassify as is needed to try and get those drugs off the streets and to give police the kind of powers that they need. So the temporary drug class orders we think are really important—the different components that are coming out. So really that is for us vital that that's on the record—that we feel like that. Around the police prosecution—and I listened to the member before me quite earnestly and I get with him on the politics of it all. With all respect we can kind of all stand here and give a story about someone we know that has gone through drug or alcohol serious addiction and we have got family and people that we love that have struggled in our lives and we feel it personally. I think you know we are people that have all the normal experiences of every New Zealander in our own and in our extended. So you know I get that. And you know what? I get the addiction treatments that are needed and the increase in them. I'm someone that sat in the very early days of Te Ara Oranga in Northland which I actually helped create as the then Minister of Police. I believe in an all-of-Government community people approach. You can't deal with someone's addiction if they haven't got somewhere to live. You can't deal with their addictions if they're living in fear of violence. You know quite frankly drugs are an escape from some hell that people live in that create another spiral of hell for them. So to be able to look at it from a health perspective along with the assistance of police and everyone else—and as I say you know the best programme I've ever seen and it's not a programme; it's a way of getting alongside and supporting whether it's with Whānau Ora or whether it's with all of those particularly in somewhere like Māngere. To see them looking at the person with all of their needs and wrapping them around—bring it on yeah?We've tried different ways of creating a power base in our communities that identifies people for their individual whānau needs—not necessarily me as an individual but each family is different each person is different and how we do it. Bring it on. You know we've trialled stuff and not all of it worked. Learn from those mistakes because we knew that those would happen. As you say not everything works Mr O'Connor first time so we wanted to trial a whole lot of you know social sector trials place-based initiatives—those were all ways to me of devolving power back into our communities so that we could work with the needs in our streets and in our homes.So my cry for this is not against a health response if that's what you want to call it because quite frankly it should be an all-of-Government society community response. You know it's not about being against it not being a criminalisation. It's that we're in the infancy and we're almost setting—I worry about police where they haven't got the referrals to make where instead they're sitting there and they're literally making the judgment of the person in front of them as to whether or not this is light recreational or whether or not this is full-blown addiction that needs to go through Housing First and needs something much more intensive. Then we're treating them like social workers without giving them the resources—in our communities by the way. You know not just within police—within our Whānau Ora or within our iwi organisations if that's what works best for that family; within Housing First if it's that. We're setting them up—police and those that are stuck in a cycle of despair—to expect a different response that actually most of our communities do not have the means the funding the professionals alongside of them to provide. That's my shout-out. You know it is not coming from one of We've got to be tougher on"—yeah let's get bloody tougher on gangs let's get tougher on those that are manufacturing and distributing. I get where you want to come from on helping people. This feels like it is political. You didn't discuss it with us. If we really wanted to do something differently it could have been handled differently and with people as the focus."