Genter Julie Anne; Tisch LindsayJULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): I want to pick up where that last member Jonathan Coleman left off in saying that New Zealanders want the law to be upheld and respected. I completely agree with that. I also think New Zealanders want to live in a society where everyone has a fair go and where everyone suffering from various challenges—whether it be alcohol or drug addiction or other challenges in their personal and professional lives—is looked after in the community because that is the way to ensure that we have a happier healthier safer country for everyone to live in. Addiction is not just a personal individual problem; it is a social and environmental problem in many ways. Drug and alcohol abuse obviously affects people beyond the people who are suffering from the addiction so this legislation will hopefully enable more help and support to be given to those community-based offenders and bailees who are struggling with addiction and will enable them to turn their lives around. That is why the Green Party is supporting this legislation. I think it is particularly important as my colleague David Clendon mentioned earlier in this debate that the three principles established by this legislation are upheld in the implementation—that is that testing should be no more intrusive than is reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with a drug or alcohol condition that testing should take place no more often than is reasonably necessary to ensure compliance with a drug or alcohol condition and that those liable to testing and monitoring should be given as much privacy and dignity and respect as is possible. I think those are incredibly vitally important principles in this legislation because if those principles are not respected in the implementation of the legislation then there is the risk that this sort of testing could be used to harass people in the community or to infringe on their civil liberties. I think it is really important that we protect that and that we recognise that it is not just about identifying that people have relapsed and that they are still partaking in drugs or alcohol when they have been released back into the community but about providing the wraparound support of the health system to ensure that people are able to overcome their addictions. It is really interesting. The latest research on addiction actually suggests that people are far more susceptible to it if they are living in conditions that are not great and so it is not surprising that some people who are homeless suffer from high levels of addiction. You could say: Well that's the reason that they are homeless—because they suffer from the addiction." but actually if you provide people with homes it is much easier to treat them and for them to overcome their addiction. So it is really important that we embrace this paradigm shift in how we approach alcohol and drug addiction and crime and recognise that all of these problems are interrelated and that we are not going to get anywhere by blaming individuals and trying to take a punitive approach to discourage them from engaging in behaviour that really is not necessarily of their choice. We have to take a social and environmental approach to public policy which would reduce the harm for all people in Aotearoa and is simply more effective and so I am happy that this legislation is going in that direction. It is not just about testing and punishing people who are suffering from drug and alcohol addiction but actually—hopefully—about providing the wraparound support that they need so that they can overcome their addiction and in fact live happier healthier lives in which they are not offending and are not interfering with the ability of other New Zealanders to live happy and healthy lives. That is ultimately what we all want. Certainly what the Green Party wants for Aotearoa is a happier healthier society with less crime less inequality and less addiction to things like drugs and alcohol. Thank you.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Peeni Henare tēnā koe—5 minutes."