Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Mr Speaker thank you and it's a real pleasure to be speaking on this amendment bill the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Bill. Can I acknowledge Minister Twyford for introducing it. It is straightforward it is short and simple and let's keep it that way. I mirror your frustrations Mr Speaker with an attempt to try and turn this into something that it wasn't. What I want to say to the previous speaker Nicky Wagner is we didn't have a Zephyr but we had the old gold Valiant the V8 and I do remember—in fact we're not allowed to drive those in Wellington any more because we're about electric vehicles walking cycling etc. but I do have that memory of the old V8 going from Auckland to Hāhei there in the Coromandel and dad just not being able to help himself. But we don't talk about that any more because he stopped we don't smoke and we know a whole lot more than we did back then.I do want to just put it in the context of that 2025 smoke-free goal. Again the previous speaker talked about what that was in terms of a percentage. In Wellington City here I'm really proud to have been on the city council where we put in lots of initiatives to help really get to the 5 percent mark and under for males: 9 percent in Wellington City that's pretty good but we know that females—SPEAKER: Right the member's had his introduction period. He will now speak to the bill.PAUL EAGLE: Thank you Mr Speaker. So look I'm really really proud but I think in this context it's fairly simple. This is about changing a social norm: smoking in vehicles as simple as that and we're saying No that's no longer acceptable." We're getting a public campaign under way and the health promotion agency's been charged with doing something with a little more impact. I'm not saying that what's happened previously hasn't; what we're saying here is that we've got a specific initiative. I know with anything in the social marketing area that a silver bullet doesn't work. You need a range of initiatives; a range of things tied up into a comprehensive and cohesive campaign and targeted to send that message.I sometimes think about—and I don't want to digress—the cellphone bans for driving and the work that's been done there. The Minister talked about those surveys in terms of where the public were at. The public is on our side with this. I'm saying both sides of the House should be fully supporting this. We know back when the previous speaker Nicky Wagner was the Associate Minister in 2017 she had the chance then to say "Hey look let's do this." and we didn't because you said that people would—sorry the previous speaker said that people would flout the law. I don't think people will do that. I think the time is right and it was probably right then to make just a small adjustment to ban smoking in vehicles.I won't talk about vaping Mr Speaker. You were quite allergic to conversations around that so I'm not even going to go there but I am glad that there is an 18—SPEAKER: The member just did.PAUL EAGLE: Oh sorry. Ha ha! No laughing. But on a positive note I do want to talk about that transitional period. I think it sends a good signal particularly to those who are impacted when we are saying you've got some time to make that change. Some would want a much heavier hand but there is that 18-month time period. We know that in other countries—Australia South Africa most of the USA or parts of it and most of Canada already had this so it's already got some traction. We can learn from that and I'm sure when they put together that social marketing campaign they will take those learnings from there.I said it was a short and straightforward bill. I do not want to take too much longer other than to finish off by saying this is part of this Government's focus on children and young people. I'm proud of that. I want to send the right signals to my 3½-year-old. I certainly don't want to encourage him and have people who he frequents with caregivers mums and dads that he goes and socialises with from here on in—to know now that people will definitely not be smoking in vehicles is something that I'm a real champion for and that's why I proudly commend this to the House. Kia ora."