Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's my pleasure to stand and take a call on this the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) (Overseas Travel Reporting) Amendment Bill first reading.Can I acknowledge the member Greg O'Connor as a past member of our New Zealand Police and as he said a detective. Certainly in that role he would have had a front row seat unfortunately to the type of abuse and offending that went on. I remember from my time in the police that often detectives that worked in this area could only work there for a very limited period of time normally only up to about two years because of the stress that you take on having to deal with these types of cases.I do agree with him in some sense that a lot of child sex offenders have been victims of sex abuse themselves. Some of them can be socially isolated and awkward. I agree with that. But I think more and more we see sophisticated highly organised child sex offenders and it's become an industry around the world. I think that we have to have legislation in place that actually can deal with that.I noticed that in the Attorney-General's report on the bill he has highlighted the fact that there could be some breaches in relation to the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. I think that they can be sorted out on the select committee. I think that a bill like this—we all have to remember as lawmakers that actually our children are our most vulnerable. If we can't as lawmakers step up and make sure that we can get legislation through that puts the best possible protection around them then we're not standing up and actually doing the job that people expect us to be able to do.So it is a very good bill. I won't go into it—it was a no-brainer. It was supported by our caucus. When I took it to caucus immediately everyone could see the sense in it. It's extending really what is domestic reporting that happens now anyway for international reporting and people that are travelling overseas. Although it's a very short bill and it is a very small bill going through it I can actually see where there's some places I think that if we work as a committee with Mr O'Connor we can actually strengthen it and maybe even make it a stronger bill.I thank Mr O'Connor for acknowledging Erica Stanford who approached me before going to Mr O'Connor about working together on this. I acknowledge him and thank Greg O'Connor for deciding that that was a good approach a bipartisan approach between the parties and both he and Erica Stanford have come to agreement whereby her bill has been tabled as a Supplementary Order Paper. It allows the committee now to work on that and bring the two together.So I just want to wrap up and finish by saying that it is a very good bill. It is good that when these members' bills come to the House actually parties genuinely sit down and look at them and see what the intent is and what we can do as a Parliament as lawmakers and we engage in that process in a positive way and in a bipartisan way to be able to make sure that we pass good law. So I recommend this bill to the House and I look forward to receiving it on the select committee. Thank you Mr Speaker.