Henderson EmilyDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei) (remote): Kia ora and good evening Madam Speaker. I sit with Ms McKee on the Justice Committee and I would like to have supported her member's bill because it is a milestone. Unfortunately sitting in select committee also demonstrates the dangers of allowing in an unnecessary or a badly designed bill however many clicks it generates its owner. The Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act (CPR Act) which this bill seeks to amend is designed to enable the forfeiture of property that has been derived directly or indirectly from significant criminal activity. It's an Act about making sure crime doesn't pay about depriving people who offend or profit off that profit.But instead of improving the Act's ability to strip criminals of their profits this bill dispenses with any real link between asset and offending scooping up into the net a whole lot of not-very-organised-at-all criminal conduct and a whole lot of assets with little if any relation to criminal activity.Let's imagine Uncle Bob" usually a law-abiding person who forgets to renew his gun licence. Now Uncle Bob's holding an unlawful gun under the Arms Act. But before he can rectify this situation his misguided "Nephew Billy" from the local gang pops around for a cuppa and a chat about turning his life around only to find himself in the presence of an unlawful gun and in the middle of a crime scene. Now uncle's worldly goods are forfeit under the CPR Act as amended by Ms McKee despite the fact those worldly goods are the proceeds of precisely no crimes because none of his wrongdoing has produced an illicit dime.The amendment is inconsistent. It's overkill and it's unfair and—as Minister Williams pointed out—would cause considerably more work for our police. It's also unnecessary. If the focus is on gangs and gun crime the police can already use the CPR Act to seize their assets because illegal firearm trafficking is already punishable by 10 years' jail under the Arms Act. Even unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm has a five-year term sufficient to trigger the existing Act. Short of these the Arms Act allows police to seize unlawful firearms even for offences under the CPR Act threshold.But finally this bill is an irrelevance because the Government is already cracking down on guns and organised crime or gangs. We're already working on real improvements to the Criminal Proceeds Act to enable better targeting of organised crime so that where a person's legitimate income is unlikely to have been enough to acquire an asset they will have to demonstrate a legitimate source or lose it. Our firearms prohibition orders will make it illegal for high-risk people such as members of organised crime fraternities to own firearms in a bill which has already passed its first reading in February. By this December we'll have a dedicated police firearms unit for regulatory activities and by June 2023 a firearms registry to fill our 30-year-old gap about what legal firearms are in our communities.We are committing resources onto the ground to protect our communities on a scale never seen before. We're ahead of schedule in delivering the biggest police force New Zealand has ever seen and in Budget 2022 we're increasing it and putting another $94 million specifically into tackling gangs and organised crimes—and it is working. In four years we have seized over $500 million in cash and assets from gangs and criminals we have seized 1500 firearms arrested 1200 people and seized 53.74 kilograms of meth.It's great to have a member's bill but it's only worth the effort—not just by the member but by this House—if it's actually going to make a difference. This one won't. It's a day late a dollar short and I cannot commend it."