Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Madam Speaker. Look I just want to reiterate some of my earlier comments in the passage of the bill through the House today. Yeah I acknowledge the Minister and the fact that the bill is in the House. It's important that we do support it. It's important that it is passed under urgency because at the end of the day public safety is number one and we're talking about the worst offenders that could possibly be out in our community and those are child sex offenders and recognising the fact that although the number is relatively small the amount of harm that could be perpetrated is immeasurable. I think the other thing that needs to be remembered is that although we do all believe strongly in rehabilitation and trying to deliver programmes that will allow a person to stop their offending and re-join society in a positive way I think there has to be recognition of the fact that that some of these child sex offenders show no empathy they show no remorse and the evidence shows that they're virtually impossible to rehabilitate. So the focus from the State should always be that public safety and especially our children—our most vulnerable in our society—are protected. I'll finish off by raising a couple of the concerns that I have about the fact that the High Court judgment was two months ago and we're now using the last day of the sitting term to pass this under urgency. I want to reiterate and just reinforce again the outstanding work that our front-line corrections officers do. Without a doubt they do a job that many of us would not be prepared to do. They do a job every day where they are dealing with some of the worst violent and sexual offenders that we have in our country. They're in prison for a reason and that is quite simply public safety. We often talk about and we get up in this House and we recognise the outstanding service and often the bravery and the dedication of our front-line police officers our firefighters our ambulance officers our front-line emergency department nurses doctors and medical staff but we very rarely stand in this House and acknowledge the outstanding work that our corrections officers do. They have just as important a role to play in keeping our communities safe and they do an outstanding job but they are largely invisible. Sadly the only reason they normally come into public view is because something has gone wrong. I just want to acknowledge the fact that they are working under very trying and challenging circumstances at the moment not having the numbers that they need to be able to deliver rehabilitation programmes and other things that they want to go about and do and they have a very difficult job and I want to stand in the House and put it on the record that we thank them and we acknowledge the outstanding work that they do to keep our communities safe.The only other point that I'd make—and I acknowledge the Minister on this because the chair of the Justice Committee Vanushi Walters stood and said that we shouldn't be using public protection orders (PPOs) on these offenders; it's a breach of human rights. I completely totally disagree. I think that we've already outlined and we've talked in this House at length about the risk that these offenders pose especially to our children. If there was any time that a PPO should be used it is to keep these offenders so that we know where they are and that public safety and the community safety is put at the heart of those decisions.So I disagreed with that position. In all fairness—and I want to acknowledge the Minister because across the House he agreed with me and said That is right; we should be using PPOs." So although I'm on record saying that it's disappointing that it's taken two months to get into the House because I can tell you now our expectation on our front-line corrections officers is that they respond quickly and professionally. I don't know if they've necessarily been backed up by the people that had the responsibility to actually look at the amendments get them ready get them fit for the House and bring them back in. I think that if we expect our front line to be responsive and respond quickly they should be backed up by those that are actually dealing with the legislation in that back office role with this legislation coming into the House. So on that note we support the bill. Thank you very much Madam Speaker."