Leavasa Dr Anae NeruDr ANAE NERU LEAVASA (Labour—Takanini): Thank you Madam Speaker. I just want to say thank you for this opportunity to take a short call for this bill. It's an important bill due to its implication for the safety and wellbeing of our tamariki our children and their whānau but also the implications for their future. I say this due to the long-lasting effects it does have into adulthood and from what I've seen as a clinician. I am the father of an eight-year-old son and many of our parents who are in the House would speak passionately about this particular bill as well. So I would just like to take an opportunity to speak firstly to the wellbeing and safety of our tamariki. They don't usually tell us things that may be affecting them but usually show us in different ways.I just want to say just in my work as a clinician in Auckland we are always looking for red flags when it comes to our tamariki as we do know that much of the offending happens from someone that knows the child whether it be a family member or friend. So when we have whānau bring tamariki into the clinic the actual consult starts in the waiting room. When we call your name when we see our tamariki walking in with their parents—the parents may be holding the child—from all of that data and how they're speaking before you've even reached the seats of my clinical room I've already formalised about 30 percent of the diagnosis. And then much of it is about the history taking and we do take a history of what's happened to the child. Ninety percent will get a diagnosis right there. And then when we start laying hands and doing our clinical examination that formulates the entire diagnosis. I say this because sometimes when that 90 percent of the diagnosis has already been formulated the examination doesn't fit the history and that's when red flags pop up. I say this because there are—when I look at physical injuries that is one thing. When the history does not match the examination when there are infections happening quite often in particular parts of the body and it does not match the history that is a red flag for us.So I talked to this bill where I acknowledge the many clinicians the social workers in schools our school nurses our people who are out in the community who do face our whānau and their tamariki that do recognise these sorts of red flags and take action—they play their role and this legislation plays that role in a much broader sense to help safeguard the wellbeing of our tamariki and also the long-term effects. I acknowledge the many providers such as Whirinaki that we do refer many of our children to because of the effects the mental health effects that take hold of our tamariki once they suffer from an issue such as this. The urgent amendment that looks to retrospective provisions of the Act is essential for this wellbeing and safety of our children. But number two I would look to the amendment that ensures that those who like Parliament was supposed—or I guess the intention in 2016 was always intended to be that they remain on the register.So there is a risk of reoffending and I just want to talk to the continuing monitoring of our offenders because I do not want to see another victim added to that person. We do not want to see the issues that we're seeing in the clinics in our communities of the effects of sexual abuse in our tamariki. Because what I've seen from our children right through adolescence to adulthood—the effects of socio-economic issues that are a by-product of this; the mental health issues that are a by-product of this. So when we do these sorts of things—whether it be Whirinaki being a child and adolescent provider; when it goes to our adult mental health issues that are a by-product of this—it is that whole life-long journey of issues from sexual abuse.So I just want to finish off that when we talk about this monitoring of the register and those who are on this private register for our Government agencies—I just want to acknowledge what the member Rachel Boyack has said about those who have had an opportunity to rehabilitate and there are instances like that but I just want to say that this is more of a safety mechanism that is all about accountability as well. So that's why I want to commend this bill to the House to make sure that there is that accountability for those to reduce the risk of offending again for those victims. So that's why I commend this bill. Thank you very much.