Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): It is a pleasure to talk on the Drug and Alcohol Testing of Community-based Offenders Bailees and Other Persons Legislation Bill. The bill is in four parts and because New Zealand First wants to debate each part separately there is going to be a lot of repetition. I will cover a few things off. Part 1 makes amendments to the Bail Act 2000 Part 2 makes amendments to the Parole Act 2002 Part 3 makes amendments to the Sentencing Act 2002 and Part 4 amends the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act 2014. Everything that I say basically on Part 1 is able to be repeated for Parts 2 3 and 4. I will just take a couple of points out of the bill. In clause 4 when we talk about bodily samples we are meaning a sample of the person's blood breath hair or urine;". When we talk about testing offenders to see whether they have got alcohol in their systems one of the things we have to be aware of if we attach a device to their bodies is that it is possible for devices to pick up alcohol-based products. I remember when I was a teacher and we had a policeman come round to the school and show the kids about breath-testing devices. The policeman got some kids to gargle Listerine. The device was able to pick up the alcohol in the Listerine and it gave a positive reading. Also there were certain types of deodorant and cologne that were alcohol-based as well and there was potential there to give off false positives. So that is just something that we have to be aware of. I do not know how great the devices are. I suspect that that will not happen but it is just a possibility given that breath-testing devices could pick up alcohol in cologne and Listerine. Before I got into that I should have said that this bill is designed to stop people who have an issue with alcohol and drugs and may have offended because of alcohol and drugs. If they have a condition that says they should not be partaking of alcohol and drugs—well no one should be partaking of drugs in the first place—this monitors that. People who have allegedly committed a crime and have been bailed may be bailed on the condition that they do not partake of alcohol and drugs. If they have been to court and been sentenced to a community sentence it may be on the condition that while they are doing that community sentence they should not partake of alcohol or drugs. If they have been in prison and they have been paroled part of their parole conditions could be that they should not partake of alcohol and drugs. It makes sense because we have got to keep these people away from some of the factors that actually lead them to offend and we have got to keep our communities safe. So the Labour Party does support this bill. One of the changes made when the bill was at the Law and Order Committee was the addition of psychoactive substances—not just drugs and alcohol being consumed by the person. We are well aware of synthetic marijuana and the problems that causes. I think that this is a very sensible inclusion in the bill. We are aware of the whole debate around psychoactive substances that occurred—I think it might have been last year—and in many cases psychoactive substances cause as much damage and harm in people's lives as the regular partaking of marijuana other drugs and substances like that. Another part of the bill that I think is a good inclusion is that offenders are able to use any information gathered to support themselves if they for example are going for custody of a child and one of the concerns from another parent is that they have alcohol or drug problems. They can actually use the information gathered by the monitoring devices to prove that they have actually abstained from alcohol and drugs and that they should be given a chance with their child in that instance. If we debate this bill part by part the debate is going to repeat the same issues over and over again. Personally I think the time of the House could be better spent on other legislation but it is the choice of people to debate it part by part. So I will just leave it there at this stage. Kia ora."