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Yang Jian: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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Yang Jian: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3529. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Dr JIAN YANG (National) 
: 
 I would like to add my support to the Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill. As a former senior lecturer in international relations I am just too familiar with topics like war and conflicts. When the Cold War came to its end in the 1990s people were saying that we were going to see peace and therefore no more conflicts. As a matter of fact we have seen more conflicts since the end of the Cold War. 
This bill is a good bill because it contains legislative provisions for New Zealand to become a party to the third additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 which are the primary source of international humanitarian and armed conflict law. New Zealand has always been a strong supporter of international humanitarian law and respects the noble humanitarian work of the 97 million volunteers members and staff of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in helping and protecting innocent people around the world who have been caught up in devastating wars or natural disasters. 
The road to adding this additional emblem began in 1992. Since then many lives may have been lost because some countries do not recognise the Red Cross or Red Crescent symbols. This bill will no doubt help to save many lives and not just those of New Zealanders in armed conflicts around the world. It will help to continue the valuable work of New Zealand’s armed forces aid agencies and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. I commend this bill to the House. 
Bill read a first time.  
Bill referred to the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee.
Henare Tau: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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Henare Tau: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3527. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 Can I say first of all that New Zealanders are not standing by and allowing anything to happen in West Papua. I have a great belief in our system and that whether it is a Labour Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade or a National Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade they sit down with their counterparts talk about things that are going on around the world and do our bit. Secondly can I say to Maryan Street that Robin Hood would have been proud of how long the arrow of her bow really was in terms of her criticism about the honourable Minister Tony Ryall. 
Having said that little bit about Maryan Street’s speech the rest of her speech was absolutely enthralling as a history lesson in terms of the Red Crescent the Red Cross and the new emblem that might help. But putting it in the context of my South Auckland way of thinking the Red Cross symbol was used in the 1860s and the Muslim nations thought that it reminded them of the crusades. That is basically how we got the Red Crescent. When the Israelis wanted to use some sort of symbol to denote the humanitarian work that was going on in the field they were not too happy about having either the Red Crescent or the Red Cross and so they had the Star of David. Following that the Muslim people did not really want to vote in favour of having the Star of David recognised as the premium symbol of humanitarian aid in the field so the Red Crystal appeared. 
I actually think that—putting all politics aside—one of the real cool stories of the world is how symbolism has developed and how symbols can bring people together rather than set them apart even those two symbols and what they represent. Now we have a third symbol to add to those great organisations and the great work of the international Red Cross and the Red Crescent. New Zealand has a longstanding position as a supporter of international humanitarian law and the role of the international Red Cross and the Red Crescent so I was gobsmacked when the Hon Phil Goff started his speech about what we were discussing with such a sanctimonious tone that it was unbelievable. 
I do commend this bill to the House and as a member of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee I look forward to our progressing this bill in a timely manner. Thank you.
Guy Nathan: Amended Answers to Oral Questions — Question No. 8 to Minister 
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Guy Nathan: Amended Answers to Oral Questions — Question No. 8 to Minister 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3526. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon NATHAN GUY (Minister of Immigration) 
: 
 I seek leave to correct an answer to oral question No. 8 today. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is no objection. 
Hon NATHAN GUY 
: In an answer to a supplementary question I gave a figure of 23000 urgent repairs that had been carried out on over 5000 Housing New Zealand Corporation properties in Canterbury since September 2010. The correct answer is indeed that 27000 urgent repairs have been carried out.
Hayes John: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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Hayes John: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3523. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
JOHN HAYES (National—Wairarapa) 
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 It is something of a disappointment to find an ex - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade rise in this House and turn a very serious issue into a light political joke where issues around UN conventions are being confused—absolutely wrongly—with issues around the Red Cross. The Red Cross has got nothing to do with the United Nations and the previous speaker Phil Goff ought to know that. The Red Cross is an international non-governmental organisation based in Geneva. It is the only institution explicitly named under international humanitarian law as a controlling authority. But to link the United Nations and the Red Cross and then to accuse Mr Ryall as Phil Goff has done is absolutely wrong and simply a demonstration of cheap politics. 
In our region we can think recently of events in Fiji where parliamentarians were locked in Parliament and where the senior Red Cross leader in Fiji a New Zealander made many many journeys to provide items of comfort and to negotiate between the hostages being held by the Government in Fiji the parliamentarians and the outside community. We can think about the Solomon Islands where in 2000 the then New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade botched our involvement and caused quite a lot of trouble in that country. We can also think about the activities then of the Red Cross in visiting people damaged by that conflict and very often under fire. Prior to that we can think about events in Bougainville where I can remember clearly that for a period the only people able to get in to the Bougainville conflict were people from the Red Cross—and again they were New Zealanders. 
What I am saying to you is that it is really important to support the role conducted by the Red Cross. The Government back in 2007 could have moved quite quickly if it had wished to between 2007 and 2009 and given effect to this legislation the Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill so again the crocodile tears being expressed by the previous speaker in my view are quite misplaced. 
I think that this is a valuable piece of legislation. I do not think it needed to be put on a particularly fast track in this part of the world because it is very clear that the legislation is aimed at accommodating two countries Israel and Ethiopia and they are not especially active in our immediate Pacific area. It is useful to pass this legislation. We should pass this legislation. We should pay due respect and homage to the great work that is done by the international Red Cross and for those reasons I am in full support of this piece of legislation as is our party. Thank you.
Roy Eric: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Roy Eric: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3518. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: This is a split call so we will start with the Greens.
Shanks Katrina: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Shanks Katrina: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3518. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
KATRINA SHANKS (National) 
: 
 It is my pleasure to take a call on the third reading of the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill. This bill has been well debated in the House especially in the second reading actually. Both Charles Chauvel and the Hon Judith Collins gave us an in-depth history on how this bill has got here and where they see it going so I am not going to re-debate the history in this House because I think  
Hansard 
 will have that in quite a lot of detail. 
This bill is a transitional bill. The purpose of the bill is to extend the restrictions on the rewarding of compensation for 1 year from 1 July which is next week until 30 June 2013. The main provision of this bill is obviously then bridging the gap between the expiry of the bill next week until the new bill the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Redirecting Prisoner Compensation) Amendment Bill 2011 comes through the House. That bill is going to progress through the House so this time next year we will have new legislation in place because obviously this has got a sunset clause in it as well of just 1 year. 
The bill provides for the existing victims’ claims process to be made permanent and redirects any prisoners’ compensation remaining after the process to fund services and programmes for victims of crime and I think that is really important. This Government is committed to being more responsive to victims and ensuring that their needs are met and building a safer New Zealand for our children our families and the older people in New Zealand—in fact all New Zealanders. Through this bill we are aiding the change of reforming our criminal justice system to put a stronger emphasis on victims because that is what the focus of this Government has been on in our law and order policy. We are committed to providing an effective remedy for victims of crime. I think this truly does help victims. It is putting them first. It is saying that they are a priority and with this levy I think it has made a difference to victims’ lives. Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. It is my pleasure to commend this bill to the House.
Blue Jackie: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Blue Jackie: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3516. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Dr JACKIE BLUE (National) 
: 
 I am very pleased to take a short call in the third reading of the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill. It is a very straightforward bill. The Justice and Electoral Committee received just 5 submissions on the bill and recommended it proceed without amendment. It does extend the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act 2005 for just one further year as the House has heard. 
This bill the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill which will come through the House in due course will therefore bridge the gap between the expiry of the 2005 Act while progressing the Government’s Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Redirecting Prisoner Compensation) Amendment Bill through the House. It really just maintains the status quo and will ensure that victims of prisoners who are awarded compensation will continue to have priority to claim against that compensation before it is paid to the prisoner. 
We are focused on placing victims at the heart of our justice system and directing prisoner compensation to victims and this supports this focus. Thank you. I commend this bill to the House.
Finlayson Christopher: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Finlayson Christopher: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3508. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Acting Minister of Justice) 
: 
 I move  
That the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill be now read a third time 
. As has been said previously this bill is straightforward. It maintains the status quo under the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act 2005 for a further year preventing that Act from effectively expiring on 1 July 2012. It ensures that compensation payable to prisoners for claims continues to be subject to the existing restrictions on awards of compensation. The bill also ensures that the victims of prisoners who are awarded compensation continue to have priority to claim against that compensation before it is paid to the prisoner. 
The existing restrictions in the current Act require that financial compensation can be awarded to prisoners only in extraordinary circumstances where no other remedy is deemed appropriate and only after the prisoner has made use of the existing complaints mechanisms that are available to them. If financial compensation must be awarded the Act requires that deductions are first made to pay any legal aid debt in relation to the claim any outstanding reparation and any earlier orders in favour of victims. The Act then allows victims of the prisoners to seek redress for the harms they have suffered through a simplified victims’ claims process. The prisoner can access the compensation only once the victims’ claims process is complete. 
Without the bill sunset clauses in the Act would take effect next week claims for compensation filed by prisoners would not be subject to the Act’s restrictions and any compensation awarded would not be subject to the deductions or simplified victims’ claims process. The 1-year extension in the bill maintains the status quo until the policy to redirect prisoners’ compensation to support victims of crimes is progressed. I commend the bill to the House.
Smith Lockwood: Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
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Smith Lockwood: Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3508. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I have given the member fair licence in this House today. The member is now disputing the Speaker’s ruling. Those matters were all taken into account by the Speaker in arriving at my decision.
Smith Lockwood: Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
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Smith Lockwood: Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3507. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: I have received a letter from Gareth Hughes seeking to debate under Standing Order 386 the Government’s measures to protect Maui’s dolphins announced today. This is a matter that involves ministerial responsibility. However for there to be a case of recent occurrence there must be a new situation of importance or a new development in an existing situation of sufficient importance itself to warrant the business of the House being set aside. The test is a high one. The authentication for the member’s application reveals that the further measures announced today are being put in place while the threat management plan is being reviewed. The business of the House should not be set aside just because a ministerial announcement has been made even though it may be important. There needs to be something exceptional particularly where a review is already under way. In these circumstances I am not persuaded that the setting aside of the House’s business for an urgent debate today can be justified. The application is therefore declined.
Calder Cam: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Calder Cam: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3514. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Dr CAM CALDER (National) 
: 
 We are continuing to work for a safer New Zealand. We are doing this through concentration on preventive policing through neighbourhood policing teams and public safety teams. The Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill extends the application of the provisions of the 2005 Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act to 1 July 2013 by deferring the expiry of the provisions relating to restrictions on the awarding of compensation until that date; 1 July 2013. 
The bill underlines the fact that we are putting victims at the heart of the justice system. We are directing prisoner compensation to victims to put them as I say at the heart of the justice system. This is just another example of the huge improvements we have made and continue to make in the justice system in New Zealand. I commend this bill to the House.
Dean Jacqui: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
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Dean Jacqui: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3500. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
7. 
JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki) 
 to the  
Associate Minister of Justice 
: What recent announcements has he made on addressing issues around youth justice? 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS (Associate Minister of Justice) 
: 
 This morning I announced plans to write an action plan addressing youth crime as a replacement for the 2002 Youth Offending Strategy. It will take into account changes in offending patterns and trends and the successes of the Fresh Start policies and address the overrepresentation of Maori youth within our youth justice system. 
Jacqui Dean 
: What specific areas of change will this work address? 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS 
: It will address a change in trends in respect of youth justice offending it will look at new ways in which the youth justice sector has addressed those trends and it will focus on the strategy of a 5 percent reduction in appearances before the Youth Court amounting to about 600 fewer young people appearing before our Youth Court year on year from 2017. 
Metiria Turei 
: What is the Minister doing to identify and contact young people who may have experienced abuse as a result of a gap in policy that meant that police checks for family group conference placements for youth justice were not done? 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS 
: In respect of the delegations I have as Associate Minister for Social Development that does not fall within my specific delegation because these matters come under Child Youth and Family and the Minister for Social Development retains that priority and that responsibility. 
Metiria Turei 
: What commitment will the Minister take in his ministerial responsibilities for youth justice to ensure that full police checks are undertaken for all current placements as a result of youth justice orders or family group conferences or current placements where those police checks have not been done? 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS 
: I can give an assurance that those police-vetting checks are done for all placements for young people being placed as a result of family group conferences and court orders now. 
Metiria Turei 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My question was not about where it was being currently done but all current places where it was not done. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Because there is the potential for confusion the member may repeat her question. 
Metiria Turei 
: Will he commit to ensuring in his ministerial responsibility for youth justice to undertake full police checks for all current family group conference placements under youth justice where those police checks were not done? 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS 
: Yes.
O'Connor Simon: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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O'Connor Simon: Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3528. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
SIMON O’CONNOR (National—Tamaki) 
: 
 I am pleased to take a short call on this bill the Geneva Conventions (Third Protocol—Red Crystal Emblem) Amendment Bill. We were speaking in the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee earlier today about immigration and New Zealand and so forth and some of the key themes that were coming out of course were humanitarianism the duty of care and the dignity of every person. I think that is a really good context to lead into this amendment bill. 
The bill itself is very simple. It is bringing in a third symbol for use under the Geneva Conventions. Along with the Red Cross and the Red Crescent we now have the Red Diamond or the Red Crystal. These are symbols as was rightly noted by a member earlier that people understand and attach great meaning to. I think the bill is a great opportunity for the work of humanitarianism to continue. I always feel that a word of caution is needed in terms of having too many symbols and it could be interesting to see what occurs in the future and whether we move towards a single one once again. In the spirit of importance but also levity I noticed in my own research on this that Sudan had actually once suggested we have the red rhinoceros as a symbol which I thought was interesting. 
Hon Simon Bridges 
: How does that sound? 
SIMON O’CONNOR 
: Well it is very alliterative. But I do want to acknowledge the work of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent and those who will work under the Red Diamond. They do have an important role in protecting humanity and working for humanity’s best interests. It is a pleasure that this bill is coming before this House and in accepting it we acknowledge the great work of the many men and women now and in the past who serve under the Red Cross under the Red Crescent and under the Red Crystal. Thank you.
Vote: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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Vote: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3520. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
A party vote was called for on the question  
That the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill be now read a third time. 
Ayes 103 
New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 34; New Zealand First 8; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1. 
Noes 17 
Green Party 14; Maori Party 2; Mana 1. 
Bill read a third time.
Smith Lockwood: Tabling of Documents — Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
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Smith Lockwood: Tabling of Documents — Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3491. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is no objection. 






Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.
Horan Brendan: Tabling of Documents — Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
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Horan Brendan: Tabling of Documents — Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3491. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
BRENDAN HORAN (NZ First) 
: 
 On behalf of the Rt Hon Winston Peters I seek leave to table a document from the family and community services group which is a service of the Ministry of Social Development showing that a grant of $80000 was made from the Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund to Te Roopu Whakaruruhau o nga Wahine Maori in Palmerston North.
Finlayson Christopher: Business Statement 
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Finlayson Christopher: Business Statement 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3491. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Attorney-General) 
 on behalf of the Leader of the House: I do not know but I will find out.
Hipkins Chris: Business Statement 
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Hipkins Chris: Business Statement 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3491. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CHRIS HIPKINS (Senior Whip—Labour) 
: 
 I wonder whether the acting Leader of the House can tell us whether bill No. 5 on the Order Paper the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill is likely to be progressed in the next sitting?
Finlayson Christopher: Business Statement 
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Finlayson Christopher: Business Statement 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3491. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Attorney-General) 
 on behalf of the Leader of the House: Next week the House is in a 2-week adjournment. When the House resumes on Tuesday 17 July the Government will progress the Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill and the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill. The Business Committee has determined that the House will take extended hours on Wednesday 18 July for the second readings of the Maraeroa A and B Blocks Claims Settlement Bill and the Maraeroa A and B Blocks Incorporation Bill the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill the Ngati Makino Claims Settlement Bill and the Rongowhakaata Claims Settlement Bill.
Sittings of the House 
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Sittings of the House 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3530. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Sittings of the House 
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (Senior Whip—National) 
: 
 The House has made good progress this week and consistent with an agreement of the whips I seek leave for the House to adjourn until the next sitting day. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is no objection.
Hughes Gareth: Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
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Hughes Gareth: Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3507. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
GARETH HUGHES (Green) 
: 
 I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. May I also draw your attention to I think Speaker’s ruling 191/2. I understand that this afternoon the  
Gazette 
 notice is being sent from the Minister’s office. What this means is that there will not be another opportunity for this House to debate this important issue given that a Governor-General never in our country’s history—
Amended Answers to Oral Questions — Question No. 8 to Minister 
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Amended Answers to Oral Questions — Question No. 8 to Minister 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3526. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Amended Answers to Oral Questions 
Question No. 8 to Minister 
Hon NATHAN GUY (Minister of Immigration) 
: 
 I seek leave to correct an answer to oral question No. 8 today. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is no objection. 
Hon NATHAN GUY 
: In an answer to a supplementary question I gave a figure of 23000 urgent repairs that had been carried out on over 5000 Housing New Zealand Corporation properties in Canterbury since September 2010. The correct answer is indeed that 27000 urgent repairs have been carried out.
Tabling of Documents — Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
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Tabling of Documents — Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3491. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Tabling of Documents 
Family/Whanau Violence Prevention—Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund Grant 
BRENDAN HORAN (NZ First) 
: 
 On behalf of the Rt Hon Winston Peters I seek leave to table a document from the family and community services group which is a service of the Ministry of Social Development showing that a grant of $80000 was made from the Family Violence Whanau Ora Fund to Te Roopu Whakaruruhau o nga Wahine Maori in Palmerston North. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is no objection. 






Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.
Stewart Barbara: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
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Stewart Barbara: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 28 June 2012. Volume:681;Page:3502. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
9. 
BARBARA STEWART (NZ First) 
 to the  
Minister of Health 
: What progress has been made towards implementing free after-hours medical care for under-sixes? 
Hon TONY RYALL (Minister of Health) 
: 
 Excellent progress. Free after-hours care for under-sixes has been operating in Greater Auckland since September last year and operating in the Waikato since 2 June—this month. 
Barbara Stewart 
: Can he explain why details of the funding for the free after-hours care for under-sixes set to begin on 1 July are not yet publicly available? 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: Yes they are publicly available. I have made comments on a number of occasions that the $7 million being put aside for this is being funded by drugs coming off patent. 
Barbara Stewart 
: Why have very few rural practices been involved in discussions with their district health boards and primary health organisations about the extension of the under-sixes policy to after-hours care according to a report published in the latest  
New Zealand Doctor 
? 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: That report is wrong. I know that there are significant numbers of rural networks that have been involved in discussions including Northland Waikato Bay of Plenty Taranaki MidCentral Wairarapa Nelson-Marlborough West Coast and South Canterbury. 
Barbara Stewart 
: What does he say to Dr O’Keefe executive director of General Practice New Zealand who says that the ministry’s guidelines for the implementation of this policy do not address matters such as clawbacks or the difference between types of care? 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: I would say that she has missed the point completely. The fact is that this is about providing better access for children aged 5 and under to after-hours general practitioner care. It is a commitment that the Government made before the last election and it is a very good preventive measure that many people in the health service are welcoming. 
Hon Maryan Street 
: Will free after-hours medical care for under-sixes be available throughout New Zealand; if so how does he intend the service to be provided in rural areas where there is only one general practitioner available? 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: It is the Government’s intention that it should be available across New Zealand. We have to remember though that this is not a compulsory scheme. We have had to negotiate this with individual after-hours centres and general practitioner networks. For those who do not want to participate we cannot force them to. But I think excellent progress is being made.
Curran Clare: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
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10. 
CLARE CURRAN (Labour—Dunedin South) 
 to the  
Minister of Broadcasting 
: Does he stand by the statement of the previous Minister of Broadcasting Hon Jonathan Coleman on 30 May 2012 in relation to the decision to scrap TVNZ7 “there was no plan for how TVNZ7 would be funded in the future”? 
Hon CRAIG FOSS (Minister of Broadcasting) 
: 
 Yes. 
Clare Curran 
: In light of that answer who is correct: him when he said in answer to question No. 12 on Tuesday: “I do understand that various proposals were put by various entities including TVNZ for various options for TVNZ 7 … and such things as levies to fund TVNZ 7” or Jonathan Coleman who said there were not any proposals? 
Hon CRAIG FOSS 
: The primary question quotes that there was no plan and I do stand by that decision. When I was answering the question the other day I said there were various proposals put up and various entities were included. But I do note that there was no proposal put up as part of the broadcasting policy for the Labour Party in 2011. There was no mention of it. So there was no business case nor plan for TVNZ 7. 
Clare Curran 
: Can he confirm once and for all for the House that Cabinet did consider options for further funding for TVNZ 7 based on the paper prepared by his ministry on 23 February 2011 but Cabinet disregarded the recommendations in those papers and decided no further funding would be made available for TVNZ 7? 
Hon CRAIG FOSS 
: I do not know whether Cabinet disregarded those or not. Cabinet made a decision not to continue funding for TVNZ 7 which was time-limited funding announced by the Labour Government’s broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey in 2006 when Labour announced both the opening and closing dates for TVNZ 7. 
Clare Curran 
: In light of the closure of TVNZ 7 on Saturday where does the Minister suggest New Zealand audiences will be able to access regular free-to-air commercial-free local programming about politics media arts science and literature or an hour of commercial-free news or do he and his Government not consider that this is important for New Zealand audiences? 
Hon CRAIG FOSS 
: I am sure that the New Zealand public will get entertainment and political dialogue from Parliament TV as they observe and watch it when Parliament is sitting. 
Clare Curran 
: I seek leave to table a document released through the Official Information Act from the Minister of Broadcasting dated 23 February 2011 titled  
Future of TVNZ 7: Revised Cabinet Paper 
 subtitled “Options for Future of TVNZ Channel 7”. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is no objection. 









Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.
Woodhouse Michael: Sittings of the House 
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MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (Senior Whip—National) 
: 
 The House has made good progress this week and consistent with an agreement of the whips I seek leave for the House to adjourn until the next sitting day.
Logie Jan: Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill — Third Reading 
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JAN LOGIE (Green) 
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 It is my pleasure to take a very short call on this bill the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (2012 Expiry and Application Dates) Amendment Bill tonight. As our opposition was so clearly outlined by my colleague Julie Anne Genter just earlier in fact my speech will be quite brief and will act almost as an exclamation mark to hers. We oppose this bill for four fundamental reasons. First we do not support legislation to correct the mismanagement of the Order Paper. Second we believe victims should be at the heart of the justice system including victims who may have committed crimes. I would also like to note here that many of the prisoners in our prisons are people with significant disabilities including learning disabilities and other types of disabilities and to characterise them as this bill does as criminals who are a danger to society and acted entirely with ill intent is to mischaracterise the nature of crime. The third point is that we do not believe the Crown should be protected from gross or actually any abuses of human rights as this bill unintentionally will do. And fourth the State has a duty of care under international legislation and the only right a prisoner should lose is the right to liberty. These four fundamental reasons outline our opposition. Kia ora koutou.
Business Statement 
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Thursday 28 June 2012 
Mr Speaker 
 took the Chair at 2 p.m. 
Prayers 
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Business Statement 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Attorney-General) 
 on behalf of the Leader of the House: Next week the House is in a 2-week adjournment. When the House resumes on Tuesday 17 July the Government will progress the Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill and the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill. The Business Committee has determined that the House will take extended hours on Wednesday 18 July for the second readings of the Maraeroa A and B Blocks Claims Settlement Bill and the Maraeroa A and B Blocks Incorporation Bill the Ngai Tamanuhiri Claims Settlement Bill the Ngati Makino Claims Settlement Bill and the Rongowhakaata Claims Settlement Bill. 
CHRIS HIPKINS (Senior Whip—Labour) 
: 
 I wonder whether the acting Leader of the House can tell us whether bill No. 5 on the Order Paper the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill is likely to be progressed in the next sitting? 
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Attorney-General) 
 on behalf of the Leader of the House: I do not know but I will find out.
Urgent Debates Declined — Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
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Urgent Debates Declined 
Maui’s Dolphin—Preservation 
Mr SPEAKER 
: I have received a letter from Gareth Hughes seeking to debate under Standing Order 386 the Government’s measures to protect Maui’s dolphins announced today. This is a matter that involves ministerial responsibility. However for there to be a case of recent occurrence there must be a new situation of importance or a new development in an existing situation of sufficient importance itself to warrant the business of the House being set aside. The test is a high one. The authentication for the member’s application reveals that the further measures announced today are being put in place while the threat management plan is being reviewed. The business of the House should not be set aside just because a ministerial announcement has been made even though it may be important. There needs to be something exceptional particularly where a review is already under way. In these circumstances I am not persuaded that the setting aside of the House’s business for an urgent debate today can be justified. The application is therefore declined. 
GARETH HUGHES (Green) 
: 
 I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. May I also draw your attention to I think Speaker’s ruling 191/2. I understand that this afternoon the  
Gazette 
 notice is being sent from the Minister’s office. What this means is that there will not be another opportunity for this House to debate this important issue given that a Governor-General never in our country’s history— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I have given the member fair licence in this House today. The member is now disputing the Speaker’s ruling. Those matters were all taken into account by the Speaker in arriving at my decision.
Bennett David: Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East) 
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 Thank you to the member opposite Labour MP Mr David Clark for bringing the Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill before the House and for his speech which I think set out a lot of the arguments that would be for having the Mondayisation in the sense that it has been proposed by this member’s bill. There is a lot of sympathy for the arguments that have been noted by that member. Many people in this Parliament will understand the importance of holidays to our people who are working in professions and jobs. A holiday is a very important part of their life and their ability to do their work. 
However when we look at this legislation we need to be practical about its implications and look at when it will actually be effective. The next time that both holidays fall on a weekend is 2021. So it is some number of years before the situation arises that has been considered in the past. If we look at Waitangi Day alone 2016 is the next year when it will arise in that situation and Anzac Day in 2015. So when we talk in regard to this bill we are not talking about 11 paid holidays as such. We are talking about two days in 2021 and that is quite some distance away. I think and the National Party believes that we can do a lot to help our employees and workers in the meantime to assist them to have a stronger future in this country and this bill at this stage is not integral to achieving that for those days. 
The other argument around this bill is in regard to the significance of both Anzac Day and Waitangi Day. Both of those days are very important historically culturally and also for the spirit of our people and our country. The special significance of those days means that we would prefer to remember them and honour those days in their traditional format rather than see them Mondayised. There have been a number of quotes from Labour MPs over many years indicating also that they would not seek to have a Mondayisation of those days. But in essence the two real arguments that we face here are firstly the actual implications of this bill which would be 2 days in 2021 1 in 2016 and 1 in 2015 which means that there are other ways that we can achieve those better circumstances for our workers. Secondly the very significance of those very important days means that National is unable to support this bill at this stage.
Dean Jacqui: Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki) 
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 I am very proud to bring this Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill to the House. I am really proud to bring this bill to the House because it is what the Wanaka retailers and the Wanaka community want me to do. It is what retailers chambers of commerce retailers’ associations and citizens throughout New Zealand want me to do. I do follow on a grand tradition of members trying to bring some sense into this Parliament—colleagues like my friend Todd McClay who previously brought a similar bill to this House—to drag us into the 21st century because this bill is about growing the economy. This bill is about giving local economies particularly in tourist towns the opportunity to trade when they want to trade and the opportunity for people to shop when they want to shop. 
I do not subscribe to the notion put by the Opposition that there are poor workers in New Zealand. I do not subscribe to it. I do not subscribe to the notion that workers in New Zealand are so put upon that they are forced to work when they do not want to work. This is the 21st century. We have good holiday laws. We have good legislation to protect workers and although this bill is silent on them I invite members of the Opposition from throughout the House to support this bill’s referral to a select committee in order to have a decent discussion on this very point. If members opposite decline to do that then I do not think they take this issue seriously. 
This issue is about providing choice to New Zealand. This issue is about the economic viability of small towns in New Zealand like Wanaka Cromwell Geraldine and Rotorua. This proposed legislation is about overcoming anomalies that already exist in the law where up to 100000 people will come into the Wakatipu Basin for the Warbirds over Wanaka International Air Show. They cannot shop in Wanaka. Where do they shop? They shop in Queenstown. Why do they shop in Queenstown? Because the law allows it. 
There is one thing that the members opposite are right about and it is that this area of law is a dog’s breakfast. This is my imperfect attempt to overcome this dog’s breakfast. I invite members opposite to open their eyes open their minds and send this bill to a select committee for consideration. I invite them to do so. I invite them to join us in the 21st century. Unfortunately I regret that they will not. Thank you.
Tisch Lindsay: Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: I hear what the member says and I have done exactly that. I have taken how it has traditionally been done as a guide and the Green Party has had a call. The National Party had similar calls as per the normal first reading speeches and I have ruled accordingly. [ 
Interruption 
] Is that a point of order?
Tisch Lindsay: Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal (Waitaki Easter Trading) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Members—[ 
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] Order! This is the process we are going to follow. I am going to put the question. I am going to announce the result. At that stage any member can ask for a personal vote. I know there are members who want a personal vote and I am prepared to accept one but this is the process that we follow.
Tisch Lindsay: Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: A member is going to make his speech. I ask that members give him some courtesy. There is a lot of noise and a lot of movement.