Chen NaisiNAISI CHEN (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm extremely excited to rise in this House to speak on the sunscreen bill because I actually have a huge passion which I don't think my colleagues probably know this about me but I feel very strongly about SPF. The reason for that is while we've heard stories from the 1980s and probably earlier from our colleagues across the floor today—OK probably later—but Mr Speaker probably not known to you but right now SPF is a really really hot topic in the beauty influencer industry at the moment. SPF has become a really really widely talked about topic no matter whether that's on your YouTube influencing platforms or on your podcasts—there's literally people who make podcasts just about how to wear their SPF—sunscreen has actually come a long way since you know the days of maybe what my colleague Todd here was talking about in terms of there's so many different ways of protecting yourself against the sun.So there are now different types of sunscreens; as we know there's the mineral sunscreens there's the chemical sunscreens there's sunscreens that are specifically formulated to sit under your make-up so that it's a matt finish so that it doesn't have a gleam to it a white sheen to it. There are specific sunscreens that are formulated for different skin colour as well so that that white skin doesn't—you know it's not just for people with fairer skin so that white creamy kind of colour doesn't come through your make-up as well. And of course now—which I've noticed in this bill doesn't get mentioned—there's also powdered sunscreen as well. So for people who wear make-up on a day-to-day basis the powdered sunscreen actually makes it easier for you to touch up your sunscreen—because you're supposed to reapply sunscreen every two hours—so that you don't actually ruin your make-up. The matt finish because of the powder actually soaks up the excess oil that your skin produces after you've put on your initial dose of sunscreen in the morning. So what I'm trying to say here today is that sunscreen is absolutely important and on-trend to talk about right now in this House and I think it's extremely important that we have the right legislation to look at what we should be regulating in Aotearoa New Zealand here. I completely recognise my colleague Todd Muller for talking about the outdated ways of how we regulate the sunscreen market and actually today in anticipation of this debate I actually looked up on the internet what SPF" actually means. Now we all know that means "sun protection factor" but how is SPF actually tested and how do we actually come to the conclusion of what product has which number?Now it's actually really really interesting—so in order to get the sun protection factor of any product what you're supposed to do is on an area of skin you're supposed to apply 2 milligrams of sunscreen and next to it a control which means there's no sunscreen on another piece of skin. And this is all done by human like so that's all done by volunteers in all of these experiments. And then so you expose the same person—usually I imagine their back—to a UV lamp and so when the sun or the UV lamp comes into contact with that volunteer's skin the speed to which that skin burns divided by—so the one with sunscreen divided by the one without sunscreen becomes your sun protection factor. So may I say science has advanced has come a really long way since we've done things this way but right now this is still the best way that we have to measure the sun protection factor which I found actually really really interesting. So it's still done by a human way we have to still just time it by sight to see when someone's skin burns—yeah I found that extremely fascinating.So I'd be really interested in the select committee stage which our party supports to actually hear what people think not only just about obviously the regulations but also about any new advances in technology of how we test the SPF factors; also the different types of sun protection the market now offers because I see here in the drafting of the bill that in the list here for example it only talks about creams oils gels or sprays and like I already mentioned at the beginning of my contribution I would like to see powders to be included in that—and also clothing and fabric as well because now there is a specific type of jacket that actually protects your skin as well which is really really interesting.And so with that I would be really excited to hear all the submissions in the select committee process. Thank you Mr Speaker."