Naylor Jono: Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 02 June 2016. Volume:714;Page:11656. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): Talofa lava. It has kind of quietened down a little now really has it not? I have got some oxygen to use up. It is a great pleasure to rise and talk on this the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill. I think we have got to remember the paramountcy of this bill is the protection of children from recidivist offenders. That is the primary reason this bill is here and the idea is that by having such a register we can ensure young people will be as safe in our country as they possibly can be.Over the course of the Social Services Committee process there were a wide variety of submissions. Some people of course were submitting suggesting that the register should be publicly available others were concerned there was an impost on human rights for those who would be subject to these reporting conditions for the rest of their life and others felt it was an ongoing punishment for people who had already served their time. The select committee weighed this up pretty carefully and I think it was a good process. We were able to look at the pros and cons of all those things and we were able to make a couple of changes which I will touch on in just a moment.I think the important thing to convey to those people who were adamant that it needs to be a public register I think what we can say is that by having this register which is being held by the police and will be available to certain other agencies as required we can still give the public some confidence that these people are known to the authorities that they are at least being monitored to some degree and that it does not need to be publicly available. I think we have got the balance about right in that.Just coming to some of the changes that were made in the select committee process there was a bit of concern that for some people this is to some degree a life sentence—that they would not ever be able to be rid of these reporting standards. So there are some changes that are being brought forward that are now a part of the bill and will allow for those who are on this register to be able to apply for suspension of those reporting conditions after a period of 15 years. I think that seems an appropriate balance. It gives them an ability to apply and if they have been compliant and have been showing there is very very low risk of them reoffending then it enables those people to come off the requirements for reporting and I think that is a good balanced approach to it.I think the other thing that has come through and again was running parallel to the process of Dr Jian Yang’s member’s bill which we managed to sort of incorporate in part into this bill now was that if somebody is on this register and wants to change their name they will need to apply to the Commissioner of Police before they go off to the Department of Internal Affairs to change their name for any reason. Again that provides a certain level of protection going forward. I am pleased to endorse the bill. I think it has come out of the select committee process in better condition than when it came in. I think it is going to be a bill that is going to be useful to the people of New Zealand. It is going to I think help promote a greater level of safety from recidivist offenders and I commend the bill to the House. Fa’afetai.