Ghahraman Golriz; Rurawhe AdrianGOLRIZ GHAHRAMAN (Green) (remote): Thank you Mr Speaker. I think it's clear tonight as it always should be that all of us across this House no matter the political party affiliation care deeply about the wellbeing and welfare of our children. We all agree unanimously that children in New Zealand and across the globe deserve to live free from abuse and free from violence. We know as well that in Aotearoa New Zealand there is an absolute epidemic level of violence against children and young people family violence and sexual exploitation and sexual violence. We know this well in the Green caucus with the first ever Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence the Hon Marama Davidson—and a quick hat tip to her for the work that she's done in presenting and getting through the first ever national action plan on addressing this exact kind of violence.So with that and with the sad truth that this is a problem that all of us are responsible for solving and that our nation's heart is broken for the children that suffer across the globe but in particular here where we do have this very serious problem I would say—and this comes from about a decade of working in the criminal justice system as well as on children's rights here and across the world. Sometimes there's a saying that Bad cases make bad law" which means that when our sympathies and our prejudices are most engaged when things are most egregious and heartbreaking sometimes we don't necessarily come up with solutions that are best placed to resolve these issues in a way that upholds the rule of law and upholds human rights or are the most effective or evidence-based.Unfortunately and with full respect to the member who has brought this bill to the House and to those who support it I would have to say that this isn't the most effective way forward for us. For one thing we know that child sex registers that introduce penalties after the penalty that's come through sentencing processes in courts of law for the actual offending often at best do nothing to prevent further abuse in that society or community and at worst undermine rehabilitation and an effective reintegration of offenders into the community. So that's the evidence that we're moving forward from and as much as we might think logically and from the outside that introducing more and more and more penalties through registers like this after someone has served their sentence is going to keep children safe the sad truth is that that isn't the case. We have the data on that and we know it. So as lawmakers we have a responsibility to react to that and for that reason the Green Party will not be supporting this bill. We don't believe in re-penalising people and creating registers that we know won't work for I guess in effect the process of making politicians feel better about our work. We've seen that "tough on crime" rhetoric come up within the Opposition more zealously than before as we approach election year across this House and we know that that undermines effective evidence-based compassion-based rehabilitation-focused justice policy. That isn't going to keep our communities safe but it is going to make politicians look tough on crime and feel better. It is unfortunate but we know that at least the Government does have an action plan and that we are introducing solutions that will work. We are introducing solutions that partner with community-based response organisations and with evidence-based institutions that have been doing the work of keeping children and young people safe on the ground and keeping our responses to family and sexual violence at a point where we do focus on prevention and in particular on rehabilitation because it's recidivism that this bill is aimed at addressing and that child sex registers don't address.I do want to note that there's actually a bill that's been drawn in the name of Erica Stanford which is far more likely to align with our kaupapa as Greens because it's not aimed at re-penalising—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."