Pallett SarahSARAH PALLETT (Labour—Ilam): Thank you so much Mr Speaker. I rise this evening to speak to the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Bill that has—and I congratulate Mr Todd On-trend" Muller for bringing this bill to the House for our discussion. I was really interested to hear my colleague Naisi Chen talking with such enthusiasm and information sharing. I didn't actually realise that you could get sunscreen in powder form but it does sound like a really good opportunity for those of us who actually want to continue to apply it over our make-up. But it is a serious issue and as you've heard my colleagues on this side of the House say we are supporting this bill to go forward to select committee.I was actually genuinely quite shocked to see when the news came forward about five out of 10 products as we've repeatedly heard being tested by Consumer NZ not meeting the SPF claims and rather than mention brands I just would direct people towards the article by RNZ if people want to get further information on that. Because I do think it's really important that we're aware of what's in the bottles of sunscreen that we all rely upon—and we really do rely on them being accurate. New Zealand as we've heard has a really high rate of skin cancer and melanoma and if this is preventable it's really important that we're able to prevent that accurately.Now looking at me you correctly guess that like Mr Muller I do need to apply effective sunscreen. I'm looking at many of my colleagues across the House who would fall into the same category. My partner would also be on the fair side and probably burns even more than I do. I know that in my youth which was not in the 80s we used to go to the—well I say "we"; I actually didn't do this—but my friends used to go to the chemist which was the only place you could buy olive oil and apply it to themselves in order to actually achieve that desirable tan. I mean here you wouldn't—I was in the UK and even though I was in the beautiful and very sunny island of Jersey the sun didn't carry quite the same strength to it in terms of capacity to burn as it does in New Zealand. My partner as I said who is fairer than me actually was raised in the north of England where I don't believe the sun shines very frequently. But when we came to New Zealand we found ourselves covering up and scampering from shadow to shadow and relying really heavily on that sunscreen.Of course the sun is almost always shining in Ilam the electorate that I represent and it's very important that we are covering up and using good sunscreen. But I did myself fall foul of this sunscreen inadequate labelling. Earlier on in my time in New Zealand I had to spend much of the day outside and couldn't achieve the shade that I would have preferred to achieve and was really relying on constant application of sunscreen. Unfortunately I was using one of the brands that was found to be actually delivering a less-than-adequate level of protection and burnt really badly. Fortunately I haven't ended up with serious consequences so far that my colleague Elizabeth Kerekere described earlier.I was interested to find out too that SPF—we've heard lots of people talking about it but I didn't actually realise until this evening that what it actually means is that an SPF 15 for example would mean that 1/15th of the burning radiation reaches your skin. SPF 50 would mean that 1/50th of the actual burning radiation would reach your skin. So you can see there's a really big difference in the impact on your skin and it's incredibly important that we are able to achieve an accurate understanding of what we're applying to ourselves. So I do look forward to receiving this in select committee should this bill pass forward which I hope it will and certainly we are in support of that.I'm looking forward to hearing more from the public and I'm looking forward to hearing more from people like my colleague Naisi Chen who may be able to share some even more interesting experiences and further products that can mean that we're further on trend. So I do commend this bill to select committee and thank you again for bringing it forward."