Willis ScottSCOTT WILLIS (Green): Thank you Madam Chair. I have a number of questions. I may not be able to get through all of them straight away but thank you for the opportunity. To the Minister I know that we have canvassed the wider scope of this legislation. We've already talked about firearms prohibition orders and police search powers that exist currently that we could evaluate and that we could understand rather than having gone through the select committee process to do something new when we already have something existing that functions that we understand works well.So I think my colleague Duncan Webb has talked about the potential for harassment with this legislation—in particular in relation to clause 7 where it mentions the Misuse of Drugs Act. As it stands and I know we've talked about it previously but this covers offences that are neither violent offences nor drug manufacturing offences and yes we do require people to receive an imprisonment of more than one year. However what this does is open up an opportunity for interpretation that could lead to not very supportive outcomes for our communities for communities that let's say are struggling with a whole range of issues. If we are reliant on the judge to decide what is appropriate for a firearms prohibition order or what is reasonable or what is necessary that leaves a wide interpretation that could depending on the judge and depending on the legal system lead to more Māori and Pasifika people being imprisoned and it could lead to more harassment of those populations. As we've talked about the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act may allow the checking without warrants but this certainly doesn't give me comfort that we are going to do well by our communities and that this is going to make us any safer. So what I've proposed here is an amendment to the bill which will give some comfort I think to make sure that this isn't simply a racist attack on our communities. The amendment that I've tabled moves In clause 14 after new section 18AA(3) page 6 after line 25 insert 'Any person who is subject to warrantless search under subsection (1) shall be entitled to reasonable compensation if it is subsequently found that they are not subject to a firearms prohibition order.' "CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Can I just make note we're still on Part 1. That paper should be in Part 2. Perhaps if you've got any questions on Part 1 because I'm starting to hear quite a bit of repetition in Part 1 and I know the Minister's answered a number of questions that are still coming up. So questions on Part 1 are relevant. Thank you.SCOTT WILLIS: Thank you Madam Chair. To come back—and I'll obviously have an opportunity to come back to my amendment later—the key part of the question that I have here is: how on earth are we going to avoid the prejudice that we know exists in our Police? How on earth are we going to avoid harassment of communities who are already at risk under this new firearms prohibition order? This is the biggest question I had because we already have firearms prohibition orders that we have not yet evaluated to see how well they're functioning and this is going a step beyond and it risks splitting or giving further prejudice to communities that really we should be supporting instead. So I'd like the Minister to address that question in particular please."