Nakhle RimaRIMA NAKHLE (National—Takanini): Thank you Madam Speaker; I'm sure the Speaker can bring everything into order. I rise to speak in support of the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) (Overseas Travel Reporting) Amendment Bill. In essence this bill seeks to amend the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Act from 2016—that's when it was made into legislation. So that's our principal Act for the purposes of today.Essentially what this amendment bill seeks to do is make it a requirement that registered child sex offenders provide additional information to police before travelling overseas for more than 48 hours. Now currently there is section 21 of the principal Act which requires sex offenders to advise the registrar of their travel plans—but this is seeking to make it mandatory for them to provide a lot more detail to the authorities.So what the amendment bill will mandate is the following: that each address at which the offender intends to stay while overseas must be noted must be given; the date on which the offender intends to travel to that country; the date on which the offender intends to travel out of the country; and where the offender doesn't intend to come back to New Zealand that country must also be given to the police. The passport number the place of issue date of expiry of each valid passport held by the offender must also be given to the police.What's the purpose of these amendments?" we can ask the House. The purpose is to allow police and customs networks to better protect children in the countries that offenders travel to and support identification of cases of sex tourism. These amendments are specific and they're deliberate and they aim to fill some of the concerning and alarming gaps present in the principal Act in its current form.Registered child sex offender—what a horrible repugnant set of words. I'm saddened—I'm saddened—to hear that the Green Party is not supporting this bill because children are children no matter where they are around the world. The former speaker from the Green Party Kahurangi Carter said that it only captures convicted known offenders. That breaks my heart because as one of my colleagues said if these changes save one child from the sexual violations of sex predators—because that's what they are—Hon Karen Chhour: Worth it.Hon Members: Worth it.RIMA NAKHLE: —then we've done our job. Then it's worth it.Sexual abuse against children is a different level of abhorrent. The child sex abuser is not in my opinion merely an offender. He or she is a life-wrecker a youth destroyer and a thief of innocence. So it's our obligation as legislators—and more importantly as New Zealanders—to protect children from the desecration of sexual violence against them. Because that is what child sex abuse is: a violation of the worst kind—against an innocent pure child. This amendment bill if and hopefully when translated to law will communicate to the world that New Zealand sees it as our duty to protect children from sexual exploitation in whichever way we can.I acknowledge the Attorney-General's report on the consistency or lack thereof of this amendment bill with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. There's issues like the right of a person—in this case a registered child sex offender—to benefit from the lesser penalty and the issue of freedom from double jeopardy and retrospectivity. But these issues have been discussed in the past and were discussed recently by the current Justice Committee and indeed we need to carefully balance these.I and we commend this bill to the House. Thank you Mr O'Connor."