Brown Simeon; Williams PotoSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. Look thank you for the opportunity to be able to take a short call on—Simon O'Connor: No take a long one.SIMEON BROWN: —I'll take a long one then shall I? I'll seek leave for another five minutes as well shall I? No I won't do that—the Courts Matters Bill and Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Bill which are going through their third readings. I think these are bills which are cognate and cover a range of different issues but the issue that I'm keen to touch on is the issue regarding the Courts Matters Bill which in particular is about ensuring that we have open justice but we also ensure the safety and security of our court systems. I think the principle here which is important to note is that we have open justice. Justice must be done but also seen to be done. But we also must ensure that our justice system is kept safe and is kept secure so that it can work on behalf of all New Zealanders and make the decisions which are required.I think some of the very important changes that it makes here are really around clarifying the powers that court officers have in being able to enforce the rules and to ensure that our court system operates in a fair and appropriate manner. It also ensures that those who do seek to disrupt the courts are able to be held to account for doing that. It is a serious offence to be holding our courts in contempt whether it's disrupting what they're doing or the important work that they're doing and there's a range of different players in that who could be trying to cause that disruption.This bill gives some clarity around the area of the court definition in terms of the space that it holds between the building and the road. Now that will be included. It ensures that the court officers have more powers around what they can do giving them the ability to use reasonable force when pursuing an escapee. Court security officers will be required to allow persons removed to re-enter if the officer is satisfied. So all of these are I think well balanced in terms of saying that we want to ensure that those who do offend are held to account but that we also allow them access back to the courts if there is an issue. I think also importantly it adds drug paraphernalia from the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 to the list of offences allowing court security officers to act.So essentially this is updating what it allows our court officers to do. It allows them to intervene where necessary and to be able to ensure that the smooth running of the court isn't disrupted and where it is that appropriate action is taken to ensure that those who are disrupting the courts are held to account but then they are allowed to have that access back into the courts as soon as possible once they're satisfied that person won't reoffend.So I commend this bill to the House. There's a whole lot more involved in these bills in the cognate bills which I won't be covering here tonight. But I just want to thank all those who have played a part in bringing this legislation to this stage and I commend the bills to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I understand this is a split call. Greg O'Connor—five minutes.