SpeechHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to speak on this the third reading of the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Bill. A catchy title. Third reading we've said it all before we've heard it all before. This was a bill that is a common-sense bill whose time had come long ago. It has taken an inordinate amount of time to come to this House.One of the more interesting elements that have come up in the overheated comments tonight that we have heard before is what people grew up in in terms of vehicles. We've had orange Datsuns Minis Zephyrs station wagons and we had a Humber Hawk. Many of us have had these experiences where you're stuck in cars with overflowing cigarettes and an unwise perspective because people didn't realise the harm it does. We realise we know and understand—we had the Cancer Society ASH Beaglehole so many good people who knew exactly what they were talking about come and talk to us about the wisdom of this bill and how we could improve it. I too am very disappointed that the Hon Michael Woodhouse's Supplementary Order Papers and genuine attempts to improve and strengthen this bill were not taken up and that is a shame. The Hon Nicky Wagner did have a bill that was in a state of readiness that would have taken us further down the track of fulfilling the goal of smoke-free New Zealand by 2025. How are we going to do it at this glacial progress?I am part of the Health Committee. We are in fact deliberating tomorrow on the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill. This is something that to my way of thinking ought to be part and parcel of the bill that we have been spending a lot of time on in select committee and in this House.These are all very useful measures to try and get people off the cigarettes away from the gaspers and into some alternative form whether it takes the form of vaping or whether it takes the form of sensible regulation to keep people from smoking in vehicles where there are children. If they are living in the vehicles it just beggars belief to me that they cannot get out of the car for the three or four minutes or however long it takes them to smoke the cigarette and not pollute the vehicle and the poor little children inside it who are then doubly disadvantaged by living in a car.It's always interesting if not a little nauseating sometimes in terms of the medical detail to listen to Dr Shane Reti talking about this bill which he has very strong views on and a long association with trying to stop this happening and to bring regulation in that would ban it. He talked about third-hand smoking which is of course another horror story. If you get into a cab or an Uber vehicle the upholstery contains amounts of traces of smoke and the residue lasts he was telling us for many years.So there are all sorts of very good reasons why smoking in a confined space is not a good idea and we need to put in some limitations of the carrot and stick variety to make it happen. Across the House and across many pieces of legislation there are I think the tools that we need to really make a difference in making people give up smoking and helping them. They've tried and tried. And as we know with the vaping bill—that is something that you know will work for many people so why not make it as available as possible? I would suggest though not to vape in a small car which is again not really covered in this legislation.So to me standing back and looking at this piecemeal approach it would be very helpful to have all of this coming together in a focused strategy to achieve the goal that Dame Tariana Turia set and challenged this House with so long ago to make this country smoke-free to set a good example to our tamariki to our young people never to pick up a gasper never to smoke. Whatever happens with this cannabis legislation as others have pointed out then why would they not smoke a joint or some cannabis in an enclosed space with children in the vehicle? We need to make laws that will be effective and not ridiculous and this stopped short of being ridiculous but it also stopped short of being truly effective in trying to achieve the goals I think everyone in this House wants this country to be able to achieve which is smoke-free New Zealand by 2025.So I will leave my contribution there having spoken on this bill on many occasions and I'll be back hopefully depending on my valedictory to talk about the vaping amendment bill and the other very sensible suite of measures that we all need to look at carefully to achieve the goals we all want to achieve. Thank you Mr Speaker.