Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora Mr Speaker. Thank you. I stand to take a call on the Arms (Firearms Prohibition Orders) Amendment Bill (No 2). As someone who has lived for many years in a community where there are gangs and for someone who has spent many years in a community walking alongside whānau alongside young people trying to ensure that they don't get drawn into the gangs it's really interesting to read this piece of legislation and to talk on this this afternoon. Very much as I have been listening around the House to some of the contributions it's really got me thinking because very much I want to be part of a Government—I want to be part of a Parliament—that is around empowering and protecting people. It is not just around waving a big stick not just around putting more laws and regulations in place to punish people but it's how do we empower people to choose a different way and a different lifestyle.Now I was really disappointed to hear the leader of the ACT Party speak. I felt like he took out of context when he talked about Operation Tauwhiro. He played on te reo Māori when he was speaking on this because my understanding—yeah it's very much the word means and correct me if I'm wrong to tend to care for absolutely which is really really important. But it's also a word that can be used as social worker". As a noun it's a social worker tauwhiro I believe. So to say that this is some kind of namby-pamby care and love and just mucking around with the gangs isn't true. This is around social work. This is around actually leaning in engaging and finding real life solutions when it comes to gangs when it comes to guns.I know in my community what I've seen with young people who have chosen the path sadly of engaging and—I find it hard to say but—maybe finding their tribe what seems to be their tribe and where they're accepted. It's looking at ways that we can actually support care nurture be social workers where they don't become engaged with gangs with guns with violence and those type of things. I was really pleased as I looked into Operation Tauwhiro and saw that it was focused on harm protection. It was also enforcement but it was around that harm protection. Since the operation was launched just this year in February I see that they've seized along with $5.5 million worth of cash 1991 firearms. Nine hundred and forty people have been arrested in relation to firearms offences. An initiative like this with our police force is something that's far more engaging and hopefully will ensure that gangs lose their steam lose their power and that guns—I guess everyone in this House would dream that one day we don't have to have this conversation about guns because that is not something that we have within our communities. Sadly we do and sadly we have to look at ways to improve this. So I'm glad to see that as I was reading through the bill and curious around the conversation that must have been had in the select committee the conversations that must have been had as this legislation was worked through the majority did not support the passing of this bill. But we here on this side of the Government are obviously looking at firearms prohibition orders that we're working on that provide an extra tool for police to keep firearms out of the hands of our criminals.So for me I won't be supporting this piece of legislation this afternoon. I appreciate the fact that the member Simeon Brown has put work in and I just say let's work together around how we can actually—things like Operation Tauwhiro how we can actually yeah work with our gangs not collude but work with them to find solutions as social workers within our communities as people who want the best for our tamariki want the best for our rangatahi and want to ensure that firearms are kept out of the hands of our gangs."