Logie Jan; Tisch LindsayJAN LOGIE (Green): It is my pleasure to take a short call on behalf of the Green Party on the Health (Protection) Amendment Bill which is relatively simple and is made up of two parts in effect. One part of the bill is to strengthen the range of infectious diseases that are considered notifiable and to give the medical officer of health more options in terms of contact tracing for when people have an infectious disease that is on that list.I would like to speak briefly and specifically to the fact that chlamydia which is New Zealand's number one sexually transmitted infection has finally been added to this notifiable disease list. I think that is well overdue as mentioned by one of the earlier speakers particularly because that is an infection that quite often has no symptoms so that people may not realise that they have the infection to prompt them to go to the doctor. Once somebody has a diagnosis it will be very helpful for us as a society to put the motions in train so that other people whom they have had sex with are able to be told they are at risk and to go and get checked. So that is very good news in this bill.I would just like to commend the contribution that my colleague Kevin Hague made earlier in this debate and throughout this process and to mention again to the House his experience in this area as the previous head of the AIDS Foundation and his experience of working with people in the community who were HIV positive engaging in risky behaviour and were not wanting to change that behaviour and the very few options that he found available to him. Really the advice he was given was that it could lead to the medical officer of health intervening and detaining those people indefinitely with very few checks on their human rights or balances on that power. That certainly in this day and age is far too extreme an option and is not conducive to providing the environment of good public health that will enable people to come forward and get tested in the first place. We need to have that range of options to support people to come forward and enable more people to know that they should be tested. The Green Party absolutely supports this part of the bill although we would have liked to see the Public Health Bill also back on the table for more holistic changes and more changes across the spectrum to update our practice in that area. The Green Party does not support the Government's decision in relation to sunbeds though which is the other significant part of this bill. We have joined with other Opposition parties in expressing that—that the Government has said that it will ban the use of sunbeds for those under 18 whereas the World Health Organization's evidence was very clear that it classified sunbeds as carcinogenic in 2009 and the evidence is very clear that use of a sunbed before the age of 35 will increase your risk of getting melanoma by 75 percent. There is no place for these beds of death in our society. Our rates of melanoma are too high as it is. Too many people are affected by this and the evidence that came before the committee was that the industry is not following the existing regulations as it is and there are still people in this industry who deny a link between the use of sunbeds and cancer. In fact apparently there was a provider who came in front of the committee and presented a couple of reports they had found on the internet that said there was no link. If people are that out of step with the science and are wilfully ignoring the harm to people I think that is a clear indication that the Government needs to step in and protect people. The Government has failed sadly to do that in this case. The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Carmel Sepuloni—5 minutes.