Leary IngridINGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): It's great to hear that the previous member Dr Hamish Campbell has so much concern for all New Zealanders about cold and flu symptoms. I really have to question though: which New Zealanders is he concerned for? He mentioned 2 April as a date when the flu vaccine would be available to New Zealanders; actually under the previous Labour Government the most vulnerable group—Māori aged 55 to 64—were able to get that flu vaccine for free. No longer available. I'm raising this because the previous speaker mentioned it. So I have to ask the question: which New Zealanders does this Government care about? Clearly they care about cold and flu symptoms and I'm pleased that previous speakers have recognised that actually what pseudoephedrine does is mask the symptoms and that is useful. On the balance of looking at the benefits and the risks we are supporting this.But I have to say to the Government members please watch this space because there are issues around the risks of stopping pseudoephedrine that we had solutions for that we workshopped in the Health Committee that we provided an Amendment Paper for that had been rejected to do with the safe storage. The Government has rejected it and I just say watch this space because I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens with that. We have codeine stored under safe storage under lock and key and there are pharmacies that will make decisions about whether they want to stock pseudoephedrine but the staff who work there don't have a choice about that. So really our belief on this side of the House while we cautiously support this is that there should have been safeguards to keep them safe.When the previous speaker and others referred to pharmacists saying it wasn't practical to keep these medications under lock and key when we drilled down as Opposition members to who was consulted there was a focus group of less than 10 members of medical health professionals and some of those were pharmacists. We had a revelation from one of the officials that that could be any number of between two and 10. So I don't think that's indicative of the whole pharmacy profession.I'm a little concerned at the cavalier approach of the Minister. The select committee time to be able to hear submissions was very short. We heard a dismissive response about people shopping around to buy pseudoephedrine in an orchestrated way to make it for communities that might be wanting to make methamphetamine; he said Oh I'm going to keep a close eye on it." But there is no mechanism by which to do that unless there is a register so that was nonsensical. And he did not want to investigate more into the communities that are impacted by this. I really want to tautoko to the fact that there are communities who are heavily impacted by methamphetamine and the consequences are very real and also to the New Zealand Drug Foundation for the excellent submission it made. That helped Opposition members I think—certainly in the Labour Party—on the balance make us support this bill.The other unease I have is just the assumptions that are being made particularly from the member the Hon Casey Costello about the ease of methamphetamine at the border. If that is the case we should not be cutting the Government expenditure for Customs officers by 7.5 percent making it easier for methamphetamine to come in as has been reported by the Public Service Association who are saying that this puts New Zealand at risk. There were assumptions about the rationality of drug users and there were assumptions about the evidence of binders that as a select committee we didn't really get the opportunity to interrogate because the officials were under so much time pressure.My final comments are that Associate Minister Seymour basically admitted in the select committee that this was a political decision to change the classification. So be it. I would say to him that the storage question and the question of safety of pharmacies and pharmacists and the people who work there is also a political decision. So I would urge him to watch this space. I don't wish for any harm to come to anyone but if there are ram raids then that is on his shoulders."