Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora Madam Speaker. Thank you for allowing me to take a call—the final call on this the third reading of the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Bill. I want to begin by saying a big thankyou to Todd Muller for your work for bringing this to the House and for being pragmatic for engaging for leaning in for coming across the floor and working with our team to get this piece of legislation across the line.Now I was quite surprised actually when I spoke on the first reading of this. In my mind I had just assumed when I went to the supermarket or if I went to the chemist or The Warehouse—what would generally happen in the middle of summer is I would rush because of course we never had bottles of sunscreen left underneath the cabinet in the bathroom. You'd rush in you'd just look for the sunscreen that was on special. You'd purchase that sunscreen. You'd rush to the beach. You'd slather slap it on do whatever you do. But again tonight this afternoon I've been learning a lot—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! Would the members on my left please observe social distancing in the Chamber. Apologies to the member Glen Bennett.GLEN BENNETT: Madam Speaker thank you. They're obviously talking about their summer holidays and what they might be doing what sort of sunscreen they might be using.But again we just had I felt some unhelpful words from across the floor but Rachel Brooking she says it as she sees it and she talks about things I could never talk about or understand. I'm happy for her to be our person who knows the numbers the science and how it all works and the fact that I don't actually need to be that person. But again thank you Mr Muller for your work in bringing this through. Yep we've got work to do. Yep we are working around this space. And yep let's just work together right now because we want to ensure that people are kept safe that people are well.Now I have a friend who lives in the United Kingdom. He visited me about four years ago. A classic Englishman—white white white. You know he was as white as could be. He turned up in our beautiful part of the world—never been here before—and I said Dave you probably should you know throw some sunscreen on a hat a T-shirt some glasses—all that sort of thing."Hon Member: Come on Dave.GLEN BENNETT: "Come on Dave."—exactly—I said. He said "Nah. We're only going to be out in the sun for half an hour. We're just popping down to the park to do this." And I was like "Come on Dave. Trust me. Trust me." Again we got back that night he was pink as a beetroot—even though they're not pink. The next day there was scabbing dare I say there were blisters. Again it was that challenge of coming from the Northern Hemisphere from a place where the sun is quite different to where it is here. He was in shock literally. We had to go to the chemist and get all the right products to fix him up and all that type of thing. He learnt his lesson very quickly. He never went outside again without any kind of covering on that summer.But it is interesting that our ozone layer obviously has been very different here for a very long time. It was the I think early to mid-1980s when scientists first discovered that hole in our ozone layer over Antarctica and the challenges that brought for us here in the Southern Hemisphere the challenges it's brought for Australia and for us here in New Zealand; the challenge that our sun is harsh—our sun is harsh. And Dave found the harshness of the sun. He found the beauty of the people but the harshness of our sun. It was great. Well it wasn't great for him.But I also want to acknowledge we've had two previous speakers speak around our wonderful Hon Stuart Nash who is with us this evening. I'm just really proud of the fact that he's introduced this amazingly sexy piece of support this week around the Events Transition Support Scheme—could have been kind of cooler but hey it's going to be a really cool summer when it comes to those music festivals. I'm sure that the Minister will attend all of them. I'm pretty sure he will keep his shirt on for some of them and if he doesn't he'll ensure he wears the right sunscreen. But the challenge the Minister has is that at the moment it's not regulated. So you might go and you might buy your Banana Boat or your—you're not going to know. What is it—SPF 50? I mean back in the early 1990s if you had anything more than an SPF 4 you were seen as a real geek you know? "Why have you got an 8 or a 12 or a 16?" But nowadays SPF 50 is the way to go. So Minister I suggest that you make sure you get some SPF 50 when you're at those festivals.Hon Stuart Nash: Will you rub it on my back for me?GLEN BENNETT: I'll happily rub it on—happily. So this piece of legislation is important. As we've heard from many people this evening Australia has some things in place and we need to get up with the game because when I go to the supermarket to buy my sunscreen I want to know that I'm getting a product that actually will protect me will protect this mug will protect these shoulders will protect this back from the harsh rays of our sun—our sun that gives us life but our sun that can often cause us some trouble and some challenges.Now I was really surprised but then I thought a bit more about it and realised actually that our melanoma rates the challenges we have—and we've heard tonight from several of our colleagues in this House that the challenges we face around melanoma are huge. Todd Muller when he first presented this to the House and again tonight talked about that and the challenges that you've had around dealing with different melanomas and different things on our skin. So when I read the number—about 500 people die—it really shocked me.I look back to when I was first flatting—actually just around the road here in Rongotai—with some flatmates in the late 1990s. My dear flatmate Kelly—jeepers we obviously go way back. Kylie Green; not Kelly. Sadly her dad got melanoma and sadly again it moved into his lymph nodes and sadly we were within about 18 months going to his funeral and supporting him. That was tragic. Again it was around what our sun in this part of the world can do to us.So I stand and speak in support of this legislation. I am grateful that we are here in this House making decisions that actually will impact people's lives making decisions that actually will protect people making decisions that will help keep people alive. As I was reading and looking at the submissions and what had gone on I was grateful when I looked at the Cancer Society. They talk very much around education. You kind of think that with the slip slop slap and wrap—and it's been I don't know 20 probably 30 years that we've had that message going on—people will just know and would get it but we have a long way to go. We have a lot of educating to do of our people.I'm grateful to be married to a school teacher and for the fact that now it is school policy that none of their students are allowed out in the playground at morning tea or lunch time or for their sports events unless they're covered up unless they're wearing a hat unless they have sunscreen on because we know it's our responsibility to look after our tamariki it's our responsibility to look after our rangatahi it's our responsibility to educate and teach our young people and our adults.Now I'm really glad that we've moved from when my mum was young a couple of years back and it was all about yeah those coconut oils lying down for hours and hours on end getting that brown brown skin and eventually—not my mum of course—turning into leather turning into other things that you often see. So I'm glad that we've moved from coconut oil and all those kind of weird oils and just getting pounded by the sun to now saying SPF 50 is really important and SPF 50 must have regulations so I know you know everyone knows that they are protected.Now I spoke on the first reading of this bill and I want to end not quite as I began because I made a bit of a fool of myself in my first reading. But to come back to Baz Luhrmann—Baz Luhrmann a famous Australian a famous artist a famous movie maker who wrote the sunscreen song back in 1997. I close in support and I hope the Hon Stuart Nash plays this as he travels to all his music events this year. Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97 wear sunscreen. If I could offer you any other tip for the future sunscreen will be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been provided by scientists whereas the rest of my advice is no more than based on my own meandering experience.Motion agreed to.Bill read a second time."