Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take that mask off my goodness I was baking under there.Hon Member: Got your sunscreen on?ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Ha ha! I have got my sunscreen on. It's a real pleasure to take a call on this bill. To the member Todd Muller I want to acknowledge you for bringing what was a very small piece of legislation but very important legislation to this House. I want to acknowledge you for that. You and I both come from the sunny Bay of Plenty; you and I have both had outdoor lives. Most of the time we've spent a good part of our lives out in the sunshine getting sunburnt and/or slightly pink perhaps.So I was absolutely gobsmacked that this bill was needed because I thought what was happening was that when we read something on the label a SPF told us what we could do and how we would be protected and that it would work and then I discovered that this piece of legislation was needed Mr Muller because actually that wasn't the case at all.So I really want to acknowledge you for this sensible good piece of legislation that you've brought to this House. I want to acknowledge everyone in the House for their support of this bill because I think we all agree that it is an important issue. I also want to acknowledge you Todd Muller for the collegial work that you undertook on the select committee to problem solve. Even though I am not a member of that select committee I understand that you worked absolutely collaboratively as you are known to do in this House with the team to get the best piece of legislation.We all know that skin cancer in this country is a difficult issue. We all know that melanoma is the third most common cancer in New Zealand. And 80 percent of all cancer deaths in this country come from melanoma. We have 4000 people diagnosed annually with this type of cancer. We also have 82000 people a year with skin concerns that come up. So this is something across everyone's understanding.I think about my uncle who passed away from melanoma at the—what I believed at the time was this quite senior age. He was actually 52 and I'm 50. He was 52 and I thought at the time that that was incredibly—incredibly—aged really. He had spent his entire life working on the West Coast of the South Island. A good workman he basically worked on the roads. He was a roading engineer.Hon Member: Who is this?ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: This is my uncle Trevor Harm. He was out in the sun every day of his life doing good work. Passed away. Melanoma behind his ear. So wasn't easy to spot or pick up and as a consequence we lost him to melanoma.So one of the things that happened back then of course is that we were as Kiwis—I mean I certainly was the same. We'd put on our Tropicana 2 and we would bake baste—I think we basically did—at the beach. I surfed. I was in the water all the time. So I now suffer as does the member and a number of people here from the requirement to have bits of me cut out on a regular basis. So I go to the Skinspots Clinic in Tauranga and have numbers of things cut out of me—in fact I've forgotten how many. So yeah we have a good business. There's a huge expense in the fact that we as a nation haven't slipped slopped slapped and wrapped" very well and we are now paying for that.So now that we know this knowledge we know that we should be doing all of these things to protect us we want to know that the bottle that says SPF 50 is actually going to protect us. We want to know that the standard that we think we've purchased to protect ourselves—and heaven forbid our small children who are now facing lots more burning incidents because of the nature of our sun in the country—is going to work. So this piece of legislation actually sets up a system to ensure that actually it's going to do what it says it does on the bottle. It's as simple as that and I love that about this piece of legislation.What I understand having not been on this select committee is that there were 36 submissions seven oral. Everyone was in support as I understand and there was some really interesting pieces of work. Now I've learnt a little bit today. The member Rachel Brooking has talked to us about the detail of that standard. I've also discovered that six to seven teaspoons of sunblock is the standard. But if we put six or seven teaspoons of sunblock that doesn't work on our skin it doesn't matter. So it's been somewhat interesting tonight; I have really enjoyed myself.Now one of the parts of this bill that I think is really interesting is that the bill originally sought to change a regulation. Looking at that regulation because of the difficulty with that actually not applying this piece of legislation now seeks to change a primary piece of legislation. Well done. Well done to this House for coming up with a solution to something that wasn't going to work. I think in order for this to happen it essentially changes something quite fundamental to enable this support. The member Rachel Brooking talked about the fact that we only had six of these standards and now this is the seventh. That's interesting I think. Why don't we have more? Why don't we have more? I'm not sure.OK so the other thing that I think is particularly interesting about this legislation is around the compliance and commencement of this bill. So people have talked in the House about this. We're still expecting manufacturers to comply as soon as possible with this but the bill when it comes into law has a six-month period before it actually applies. That gives manufacturers the opportunity to change labelling. To support the industry to change their labelling etc. there will be 18 months in total before all of the old stock has been moved out and the new stock is in place. So there will be a transition period which is useful but I do agree as other members have raised that this is something that well we're probably—it has to happen but it's going to be a little bit awkward in terms of how we look at what we're purchasing.So what I recommend to people is to go to the Consumer New Zealand report and see what were the sunscreens that didn't fail in the consumer report and actually be able to pick and select those ones at this time. Essentially five out of the 10 failed to work as they said on the label. So have a look at that. I'm not going to name them or shame them but do have a look at that.I guess really what I'm saying even though I didn't sit on this bill is that I really think it was a good piece of legislation—a small bill a bill that has real meaning for most of us in this country a bill which has been made better by the select committee process. I really want to acknowledge you Todd Muller for this piece of work and the work from the officials and the members on that select committee. I commend it to the House."