Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you. Look firstly can I acknowledge the Minister that just stood and took the call Willow-Jean Prime. This is a really important piece of legislation and when it comes to national security it should be a priority for any Government. And of course the Opposition has taken the position that we must support the Government and work with them. But I'm disappointed that the justice Minister who has been very good and we've dealt with throughout this bill didn't get here in time to take the call herself. But I want to acknowledge the member that did take the call and she did well. So well done.It is a really important piece of legislation. We have worked closely together in the select committee. The Minister also involved us early on in terms of reviewing and having a look at what was being put forward. And we've worked well together to make the changes that now the House is happy with and putting the bill forward. Can I acknowledge the chair of the Justice Committee who is in the House Vanushi Walters who does an excellent job of chairing the committee and has done a very good job herself.There's one issue and the Minister raised this and I do want to speak to that. And it is around the royal commission of inquiry into the Christchurch attacks. I think that when I spoke on this through the committee stage I did highlight the fact that it's two years since we had that terrible tragedy at LynnMall. But right now I think there's no greater need to be hyper vigilant around the fact that we have massive confidence and faith in our security agencies our police—the agencies that are responsible for keeping us safe. But we are in a difficult situation at the moment where vulnerable people are becoming more vulnerable. We know that we're struggling in dealing with mental health issues and we know that terrorists look for and recruit those that are most vulnerable. So I think that there needs to be even more of a tighter focus around looking at what's happening inside our country at the moment around national security. If I can come back to the royal commission of inquiry—this is really important. There are actually only one two three four five six seven eight—there's only been eight recommendations that have actually been completed. The rest are under way. If I go through them: recommendations 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 30 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 40 41 and 42 are still under way and that is not acceptable. There has to be some urgency shown towards this. These recommendations have to be implemented. There has been enough time. The three recommendations that we really want to focus on and just highlight tonight is recommendation 1: appoint a Minister to lead and coordinate counter-terrorism efforts—we think that's very important—recommendation 2: establish a new national intelligence and security agency to be able to handle that intelligence and to be able to coordinate across our security services and in law enforcement agencies; and recommendation 4: develop and implement a public-facing counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism strategy. This is critical because at the moment in this country we have got all sorts of issues and terms we are grappling with: division freedom of speech issues protests; people have become polarised. And so actually we need to have a mechanism to be able to deal with anything that may flare up and morph into something that of course all of us as a country would reject.So I just encourage the Government to please stay focused treat this with urgency. It is important. It is serious. Like I said I would have preferred to have seen the justice Minister here in the House actually taking the call but we do—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes and I'd prefer you to now start talking about the bill Mr Mitchell. You've had a good four minutes now so on the bill please. Hon MARK MITCHELL: Yes so I was just responding to the comments that were made by the Minister. But we do support the bill and we do think that it's important and we commend the bill to the House. Thank you Mr Speaker.