Sio WilliamSu'a WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): I want to make reference firstly to clause 3 the purpose clause. I would just say like others that this issue is of concern and like others have said this issue is so important in light of the media coverage of a couple of high-profile matters that have occurred in my electorate and in the Hutt Valley. When I am looking at the purpose clause it is quite specific but I have to ask myself when looking at the purpose—I am hearing the Government members saying that this is about reducing the offending of child sex offenders and yet when I read the purpose of the bill it says: To establish a Child Sex Offender Register". In my mind I am asking how a child sex offender register prevents offences by those who are—and I have seen research to say this—oriented towards attacking young children. I am not a member of that committee but I would like to know how a register prevents children being molested being abused being raped. How does it do that? I am looking at clause 3(a) and it says: "providing government agencies with the information needed to monitor child sex offenders". Yes I agree like many others that having that information available to Government departments is important for monitoring some of the most serious child sex offenders. We had one in Māngere who the ministry acknowledged is of high risk of reoffending. But like with everything else this Government has a tendency of cutting funding and what that clause suggests to me is that it is reliant on somebody else providing that information to it. Like many people in our country now people are so busy—how do they provide that information to a Government department? With Government departments now I do not know whether the right hand and the left hand talk to one another. So I am not sure whether this is broad enough in order for us to do what many MPs have spoken about in this House and that is to prevent our children from being abused—that is to keep our children safe from those who are predators. One of the issues that we are still debating is—when a sex offender or a violent offender has served their time and they are to be released into the community the big question is: where do we house them? I would have thought that if this was truly about preventing child sex offending by those who are of imminent risk of reoffending then that needs to be part of the purpose. I do not know why this Government has not included that as part of the purpose clause. In clause 3(b) it says: "providing up-to-date information that assists the Police". I will give you an example of why that clause concerns me. We in Māngere have a child sex offender who is of high risk of reoffending—and this is a term that the Department of Corrections has made—who is under 24/7 surveillance. I asked the police the other day: "How long will it take for you to get the information that is necessary for you to act on this person if this person slips their surveillance?". It would take roughly as best as I could assess about 10 to 15 minutes. That to me does not give me confidence at all that the purpose that Government members have said this bill is for the prevention clause. The question that I want the Minister to answer is how having that child sex offender register will prevent high-risk offenders from reoffending—abusing raping or whatever it is that they do to children in our community. That is of paramount concern to members of the community—how to ensure that our children are kept safe."