Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you Mr Speaker. Can I just say to Louisa Wall who I have the utmost respect for thank you for your contribution but I respectfully disagree because what we have heard tonight very clearly if you want to talk out there to those principals who support this bill is the Labour Party knows best. Principals supported this bill but Labour knows best. What we heard tonight—to those parents who expect that when they send their kids to school if a child sex offender or a sex offender has been placed near that school that school is notified; parents expect that—is the Labour Party knows best. What I say to those communities who support the bill because they want their schools informed—tonight we very much heard it loud and clear—the Labour Party knows best. What is the point of New Zealand's Parliament when it's called the House of Representatives? What do we do in here? We represent the people. We represent their views. What we had tonight was an academic argument. Well I stand up here tonight I stand beside the principals who are concerned I stand beside the parents who are concerned and I stand beside the communities that are concerned because I'm prepared to get up and represent their views because parents expect when they send their kids to a school that those schools are notified when a sex offender is placed in the community. What is very clear from the research into this issue is that we've got a Minister with his head in the sand—Kelvin Davis the Minister of Corrections who says there is no concern. He is satisfied the system is safe yet there are glaring gaps in the system. There is no oversight in the system if corrections who should be informing a school currently do not inform that school. There is no auditing of the files to make sure that corrections who should be notifying schools notify that school. How can you have a system where there is no oversight no auditing of the system and we find out through written parliamentary questions Official Information Act requests over a time period that there were hundreds released into the community under parole whose lead offence was a sex offence yet the Ministry of Education could only recount seven instances where they were involved in notifying the schools? There is a big gap here and a risk and I'm warning corrections: don't come back into my electorate and tell me you're putting sex offenders in my electorate and you're notifying schools you're notifying local residents and then you don't do it. Don't come to any MP's electorate and tell them that you are doing the due notifications and then you don't do it because you are putting our children at risk. Finally I do want to acknowledge the ACT contributor Karen Chhour who I think very articulately said that this is a members' day; this is a members' night. I'm not a Minister. I don't have a fleet of officials to call at the drop of a hat and write a bill. If there's any issue in it you send it to select committee you let stakeholders and you let the public have a say and you kick the bill round. Look if it doesn't work after the select committee stage that's the whole point of the legislative process. It comes back to the House—vote it down in the second reading. But don't expect every member's bill to be 100 percent and the arrogance I heard tonight from Labour Party members of Parliament who had the nerve to critique whether the subject of someone else's member's bill was valid or not. Everyone in here has the right to turn up to Parliament put whatever subject they want in a members' bill and put it in the ballot. It's not for you to decide whether that's right or wrong. Thank you Mr Speaker.