SpeechJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to take a call on behalf of New Zealand First in support of the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Bill.I'd just like to start my contribution this evening by acknowledging the Associate Minister of Health the Hon Jenny Salesa for bringing this bill to the House and congratulating her and the officials as well from the Ministry of Health for all the work that they have done. It has taken some time to finally reach its third reading this evening and it had its genesis a number of years ago. In fact about a decade ago there was the opportunity to bring such a bill to the House but unfortunately the previous Government did not see fit to do so. That was following the Māori Affairs Committee saying this was an urgent response that needed to happen to stop the number of tamariki and rangatahi being trapped inside a smoke-filled car because the health impacts for them were so great. So it was an absolute pleasure to have been part of the Health Committee as we took care of this bill shaped it into the bill that is before us today and that we will pass this evening. To the Health Committee it's been a pleasure to work with you all. We generally are fairly collegial and maybe it's something to do with the gorgeous cheeses and crackers that we tend to eat for morning tea. So thank you to all the members and particularly the good doctor Dr Shane Reti for your contribution just now relating to the health impacts it has on our children particularly tamariki Māori. This bill is all about protecting children because smoking is a killer. Five thousand people per year are either killed or have some kind of health impact from smoking. A hundred people a year die from second-hand smoke. So although the bill has a narrow focus it does have a ripple effect out into our community and out into our families and whānau. So it is a sensible and practical bill before us and it will change the social norm of smoking in vehicles with children. Back in the day when I was a young nipper in the back of the EC108 Mini that my father drove to work—we had a family car which was a Holden station wagon. All the kids we were always in the car without seatbelts because you didn't buckle up; it was the social norm back then not to wear seatbelts. But over a period of education and changing what was required it is now something that you do automatically when you get in the car. So hopefully this bill will change the social norm of people smoking in their vehicles with children so that you automatically won't smoke you won't light up when you've got your kids in the car.Children and tamariki the rangatahi that came to the select committee—they really added value to the discussions and the considerations that we made inside the committee so a big thankyou to those young people who presented to us. I'd just like to mention a former colleague of mine Duncan Garner. He has a television show some of you may have had the fortune to have been on. At one point recently it was about a year ago now he actually made an interesting comment. It wasn't really that controversial but he did wage a bit of a campaign to make sure that the Government actually took up this challenge and banned smoking in cars with children. In fact he was having a conversation with my leader the Rt Hon Winston Peters when he said that the common-sense strain of the Government strongly supports the ban and so actually it was good to hear Duncan Garner speaking well of Winston Peters.The Māori Affairs Committee—as I mentioned before I was a member of that while I was here at Parliament in my first year and we joined with the Health Committee and heard submissions on the smoke-free. And particularly one of the themes that came through—we sat in the Legislative Council Chamber as the two committees joined together and one of the strong themes was we needed to have a piece of legislation that would ban smoking in cars with children. So that has been a topic that has been discussed publicly. There has been a public call for this legislation. The Māori Affairs Committee 10 years ago was asking for it. This Government has now taken the opportunity and I'd like to congratulate all the members of this House who have worked on this bill as I now am very pleased to commend this bill to the House.