Kapa-Kingi MariamenoMARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI (Te Pāti Māori —Te Tai Tokerau): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Tēnā tatou e te Whare. Just a little bit of backdrop from me in terms of why I'm standing here and why I'm going to speak to this particular take [subject]. So coming from Puao-te-Ata-tu 1989 through to the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act having set up one of the first sexual assault counselling services in Taupō in the 1990s a care and protection social worker in Department of Social Welfare. Most of you won't remember that; it was a bit old. More recently in the fusion suicide prevention space and family harm and children's team. So that's a number of places and people and experiences and integrity I guess that I have to utilise in this discussion.Te Pāti Māori have previously voted against bills that further entrench punitive approaches to crime punishment and rehabilitation. This was the driver behind our initial opposition to the amendments of this bill during the first reading. While we Te Pāti Māori maintain that there is an absolute need for the complete overhaul of the criminal justice system replaced by a Māori Justice Authority which would oversee a justice system based on tikanga Māori we know that protecting tamariki mokopuna is critical no matter where they are in the world.The amendments to this bill will not change circumstances for victims and their whānau but it will aid—so you can just hold this in; just take a breath—in the prevention of further potential harm to others through increased monitoring of registered child sex offenders. Because I get it. I worked in this space. There's probably very few in this House that could debate this with me and win. Prevention—this is a word I will sit on for a while here as it is something that most Governments have failed to achieve in areas not exclusive to justice. So it feels almost unnatural to use this term prevention when discussing amendments to this bill. I'll be careful to use the term lightly in this context as when we shine a light on to our young people here: 18 percent have already experienced sexual abuse by the time they reach the ages between 15 and 18. And it is a higher proportion of Māori who are victim to crime.These experiences are historically repetitive. I only need to choose any year at random to discover truly frightening statistics that expose the experiences of our tamariki. For example take 2017 and our Māori children who are already overrepresented in Child Youth and Family care services were also overrepresented as victims to sexual abuse making up 37 percent of total harmed.While the amendments to this bill will potentially prevent further harm internationally they will not prevent what happens here to our tamariki. This bill should guide us to consider prevention beyond what we discuss today. That is the way we might realistically be able to protect our tamariki and prevent their future suffering as experienced by victims of child sexual abuse who are up to two times more likely to have adverse problems later in life.It is important for us to be reminded of the reality of tamariki during discussions which will directly impact them and so regarding the term prevention I will both recommend further preventative action and that will protect our tamariki while also commending this bill to the House. Tēnā tātou.