McKelvie IanIAN McKELVIE (National—Rangitīkei): I will take a brief call on the second reading of this bill with a very long name. It is amazing how often legislation comes to this House that is caused by the action of a single person or of one or two people and this piece of legislation—and I listened to David Clendon speaking earlier about the complexities of it. For a very simple issue it is actually quite a complex issue and it is quite complex when you start to follow the process that the law takes to get to the point of designing this new piece of legislation. So it was very complicated to understand some of the connections between the various departments and the various pieces of the legislation that made it up in the end.I certainly have a great deal of pleasure in supporting it because I think it is hugely important for New Zealand. If you think about us letting our crims hop out of prison or wherever and leave the country—that really is damaging to our international reputation. We do not want our international reputation damaged by one or two people who get away with things they should not get away with. Of course the reasons for this bill have been well documented by many others in the House already so I am not going to talk about that at length but I do think international reputation is a pretty important thing to understand that we need to protect and this piece of legislation goes a little way towards doing that. There is no simple way from what I have seen in my time in this House of fixing any problem and so—again to go back to David Clendon—there was never going to be an easy way of fixing this challenge for this Government. I think that this bill is as good a solution as we were ever going to get to that.One of the things that I found quite interesting was that those people who are being managed by a probation officer could come and go as they wished. It seems extraordinary to me that people who are serving community sentences for one sort of crime or another could hop up and leave the country without having to get permission from their probation officer. That little loophole has been tied up now and they have got to get written permission if they wish to leave the country. I am not sure which country would want to have them but that sort of thing has been tidied up.Lastly I just want to go very briefly into the issue of biometric data because frankly wherever we go in the world if we do not give away voluntarily our biometric data it is nicked off us by something in the sky anyway. So I do not think that there is any threat to privacy around that sort of thing because that is just the way the world operates now. Whether we like it or not we are not going to change it. So we are driven by the actions of almost every other country in the world which as we go through their borders collect all this stuff on us whether we like it or not. So I think it is just part of the way we need to behave nowadays. I think it is also hugely important that our departments—particularly in this instance where they are dealing with people who have a criminal conviction of one sort or another—have the ability to share that information so that we do not get a repeat of what happened in the case of Phillip Smith.I have got a great deal of confidence this bill will make a difference; I also have pleasure in commending it to the House. I look forward to it going through the Committee stage and its final reading. Thank you.