Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. I think it's really commendable that the House is debating solutions for vulnerable people particularly elderly who will do well by having access to better cold and flu medicines. But what I do want to do is take another step in this debate.I come from communities where the average income for many is around about $29000 a year. There is an assumption that those addicts and those people in those desperate situations are following a common-sense approach to their addictions and to their drugs. I come from communities where we see the kids that have fried themselves on synthetics that they've mucked around with because Governments—and actually the same Government that got rid of this bill in 2011—allowed synthetics to be sold and to come into our communities. There's an assumption that there is a common-sense approach to how it is that they are going to get into drugs: in any way that they can.So when we had this discussion about not harming others where I come from in the debates and discussions and the decisions that guide us is that the potential harm outweighs the common sense to medicinal needs for communities who are obviously living different lives to some of the lives in the communities that we represent. I wish—I wish—that it was as simple. The reality is we have a massive addiction issue and there hasn't been the investment into the support in the communities that are the most vulnerable to address that. So when we talk about things like this I can't help but see those kids and see those families that are doing anything they can to get their hits.Changing the classification of class B to class C—again I totally get it I hear the discussion and in fact went back and looked at the submissions to the Health Committee. This is a Government that prides itself in removing bureaucracy but what we're going to have now is pharmacists who are going to have to do face-to-face transactions process records of information and highlight advice including counselling and any trends with patients that shouldn't be taking things. We haven't really heard what and how the register's going to be managed—I'm assuming that that will be coming. We have heard I guess some versions of what that may look like: customs and police still have powers to control like it is an illicit drug-use and they have the licence to import and export. Nothing in there says that there's any less bureaucracy; in fact it says that we're piling back more.Again I just want to put on the side that we still haven't addressed the massive addiction issue predominantly in our vulnerable communities and for us as Māori. Yes again it's pragmatic it makes perfect sense but this is a drug that is a drug of abuse and it's used to produce meth. That is the but".We will be the only party in the House not supporting it and it's on the basis of the "but". I guess as the smallest party we've always got to have that one party that says "But this is what our community looks like and this is what we're concerned about." Meth hasn't gone away.One of the important things when we go and we ask the kaumātua and we're talking is asking "What would you prefer that we have access to a really good medicine for you or we could bring this drug back into your communities?" And we've been getting a resounding "We don't want it back."We supported National—what they did in 2011. In fact the Prime Minister at the time John Key was adamant—in fact I think he got robbed by somebody who was looking to get money for P. That's how bad it is. It hasn't gone away. The sophistication of the access to it may have gone away for some of your communities but it certainly hasn't gone away from ours. It's good to hear that National sort of admit that hey it hasn't worked.But what I do want to do is say that we have seen submissions where recovering P addicts had pleaded "Please don't make it accessible for vulnerable communities." So when we look at this I want to highlight the risks. I want to highlight the risk of organised crimes even though we've been assured that it won't be to the scale and the sophistication that we've previously seen. I want to highlight the increase in bureaucracy although we've been told that that's not going to be a big deal. I want to highlight the pressure on pharmacists and communities attached to those pharmacists. I want to also highlight the "back on track" to risks to communities that are vulnerable and don't have any other way of getting over some of the pain that they feel economically. But most importantly we don't have enough addiction support in vulnerable communities. I do want to leave that with this House to think about. We won't be supporting this Bill. Kia ora rā."