Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's my pleasure to take a call on this the second reading of the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Bill. Firstly can I just take a moment to acknowledge the outgoing chair the Hon Ginny Andersen who has become a Minister and the incoming chair Vanushi Walters who is doing an outstanding job and making sure that us on the Opposition are given a fair chance in the Justice Committee. So can I just—Chris Penk: Don't tell her that!Hon MARK MITCHELL: No well it's important to acknowledge that because we want to continue to operate like that. So I just want to acknowledge her and the work that she's done. Can I acknowledge the Minister Kiri Allan. I have to say that it's probably no secret in this House how I feel about the current situation in terms of lawlessness and crime in this country and I've got my own very clear ideas how that has happened and why it has happened. But in saying that I want to acknowledge the Minister for bringing a bill to the committee that at least has got some teeth in it and will go some way to at least giving the police the ability to be able to respond—what we all saw last year with the gang violence in South Auckland and West Auckland with drive-by shootings; none of us want to see 23 drive-by shootings. How an innocent member of the public wasn't badly hurt or killed is a miracle.But we did actually talk a lot in the committee about balancing up or capturing—when you start to talk about fairly broad powers like this when you start to talk about the police having to respond quickly to try and identify who the offenders are who the perpetrators are being able to get warrants issued and then start to take action there is a chance that you could end up with a situation where police thinking they're doing the right thing are entering a home of someone that may be on the fringes but aren't actually directly involved with that gang activity—in fact may not be involved at all. It is a massive invasion of someone's privacy of their property rights to have police officers burst into their home and it can be deeply traumatic and stressful on any children that might be in the house.So we took that really seriously and so it was very good to see—and we actually made sure that there were some measures put in place to assure that there was actually a threshold that the police had to meet to get that warrant issued and also as the Minister said to actually provide even if it is redacted a copy of that search warrant so that there is actually some rigour put around the process of making sure—if we're going to give the police those sorts of powers then we have to have a high level of confidence that they are capturing the people that need to be sorted out.In terms of the cash the $10000 threshold: fully support that. The Minister made the point that people just don't have tens of thousands of dollars lying around their home and so it's going to be incumbent on them to be actually able to show what is the reason for having that money and where did that money come from. So that's another very good part of this bill.I just want to add very quickly—I didn't hear Marja Lubeck's last contribution but I got a text from a retired police officer who served in the Ōrewa Police Station who said the Ōrewa Police Station's never been closed. So I'm not sure what she said but yes I can confirm that: the Ōrewa Police Station has never been closed. Perhaps if the member was attending victim support meetings there in the last five or six years she might've realised that that was the case. But I'm very happy to stand and support this bill. Thank you.