McLellan TraceyDr TRACEY McLELLAN (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair and thank you for the opportunity to ask the Minister some questions about this bill the Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill. As my colleague Ingrid Leary and as my colleague the Hon Ginny Andersen have both said we are supportive of this bill in so far as we agree that there should be flexibility in our system to allow for people who need to get the things they need to get and we also are very supportive and have a history of being very supportive of our local community pharmacies. And we demonstrated that certainly with our minor ailments bills and removing prescription charges so that people weren't dissuaded by those $5 prescription charges and therefore could better utilise their community pharmacies because often it's the community pharmacy that knows people and knows the community really well.hat leads me to have a certain level of concern for those community pharmacists because whilst I think there's been variance in the feedback and in the concern I think that together the fact that this process was quite quickand as other people have said characterised it as being rushedI don't think the pharmacy communities themselves have really had much of a chance to think about what this might mean to them. And we've heard other contributors throughout this very short process talk about the fact that pharmacies don't have to stock pseudoephedrine which is obviously correct and that's as it should be. But then it kind of puts that commercial impetus or that commercial imbalancend as someone commented not that long ago at what stage does someone who wants to ramraid that pharmacy know that they're not one of the pharmacies that are stocking pseudoephedrine? Is it just something you find out after the damage is done?So I think there are some questions that the Minister hasn't taken to his feet yet to answer in relation to particularly community pharmacy safety and also storage. Because when we think of other controlled drugs I can understand why it's not just about controlling drugs is it. It's not just about installing safe places or safe cupboards. It's about having a doublesign-out sort of system where people are responsible for checking and no one can just get their hands or dispense controlled drugs that quickly. I can understand that in this case that might not have seemed particularly attractive if we're expecting the volume of people that are going to come into pharmacies and wanting to do that. But that shouldn't be the reason why you don't control drugs. The controlled drug methodologies which are there to protect people's local practice and their professional registered practice—because every person who is a registered professional is responsible for their own practice—there for all of those protections and it's not a matter of simply removing those protections so that it's convenient for the public per se. So I think there's some questions around that.Now I know that someone mentioned the register so I would like the Minister maybe to give us a little bit more information because I'm sure that he's looked at these various aspects that are of concern to us. But the real-time register that we know that is used in Queensland—not a perfect system from what I understand but is something that could have been a starting point. No need for us to reinvent the wheel. We know Te Whatu Ora have mentioned getting something online but why the rush? If we don't have that scaffolding and that infrastructure to support the safe delivery of pseudoephedrine to the community then does the Minister have any kind of timelines any further information? He can tell us during this process about the latest innovations with regard to that with that real-time monitoring and registering sort of process—well both monitoring and registering because obviously they're two different things.So I think that that would be a good start. I have some further questions—just as a wee headsup—about the concept of rational actors in markets but I'll leave it there. And if the Minister would like to answer that that would be fantastic.