McKelvie Ian: Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration (Preventing Name Change by Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMcKelvie Ian: Births Deaths Marriages and Relationships Registration (Preventing Name Change by Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 02 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8513. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]IAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): It gives me a great deal of pleasure to speak on a bill introduced to this House by a colleague of mine sitting next to me Dr Jian Yang. I think it has taken a great effort in fact to get this bill to this point. I want to remind a number of speakers who have gone prior to me that the process of Parliament enables bills to be introduced to the House and then discussed at length by select committees. It seems to me that a lot of the criticism that I have heard tonight from both the Labour Party and the Greens could certainly have been furthered in the course of a select committee discussion. I think that is the first point that I want to make.At the core of this bill is yet another effort to make the lives of some of our children better than they already are and to protect them from those who can only be called predators. I think that the attitude of those opposed to this bill at the first reading is a little sad because I think it is an opportunity for us to make some progress on a very difficult topic a very difficult issue for our communities. The issue of name changes of course is also a difficult issue for our law enforcement agencies and for those around them. I accept the fact that you cannot stop someone from changing their name by passing some legislation but you can certainly make it illegal to do so by passing some legislation. I think that that is really important for this Parliament to consider as it goes through this process.David Clendon talked about the low levels of offending that could lead to the conditions of this bill kicking in. Again this is an issue that could well have been dealt with and could well be dealt with by the select committee in the course of the discussions it has. That is why we have select committees. I congratulate New Zealand First on recognising this andon in fact wishing to take this discussion further and get some progress on the issue through the select committee.Very recently Minister Tolley launched the Wanganui children’s team which covers the Taihape Marton and Raetihi part of my electorate and which will be most welcome in those areas. When you get these diverse rural electorates of course the challenges right throughout those electorates are very different in the different areas. Wanganui touches on the edge of the Rangitīkei electorate and that Wanganui children’s team will certainly have a good impact in my view in all three of those towns I have mentioned and the communities surrounding them. It is further evidence of the effort put in by this Government to the protection and safety of our young people.Also just recently I had an organisation from Taumarunui a Whānau Ora provider the Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust bring its presentation to Parliament looking at a lot of the issues that this bill aims to deal with as well. Although this bill deals with a very very narrow part of the challenges we face in respect of child sex offenders and the impact they have on the young people they come into contact with all those providers out there are working very hard to try to alleviate this situation. Every piece of legislation we can put in place to assist that process is a good one. So I fully support even the smallest progress that we might make through this bill and I support the bill because of it. I think it is really important. If we impact on the lives of only two or three children a year we have made a significant difference to those children’s future and no doubt to the family that lives with whomever that offender might be.I have read the report of the Attorney-General and the issues raised in this report will of course be discussed in the select committee. There is always opportunity I think to alleviate some of the concerns expressed in that report. There will be some concerns that will not be able to be alleviated and the select committee will at that time make its judgment on that.Changing one’s name is no doubt a freedom that most deserve. However everyone has a responsibility to their fellow humans and to their neighbours. In some cases abuse by these people and abuse of that freedom should lead to some rights being withdrawn. I think that there is often evidence that we can make a very strong case for some rights being withdrawn from offenders particularly offenders of this nature. I have got a great deal of pleasure in supporting this bill and I hope it makes good progress. Thank you.