Smith DamienDAMIEN SMITH (ACT): Thank you very much for the opportunity to rise and speak to the bill tonight. Like anything in life it's about balance and I wouldn't like the children or parents of New Zealand to not embrace sunlight. It has a very positive effect on cell synthesisation and for older people osteoporosis heart health brain health and we don't want to end up just being vampires sitting on our phones for the rest of our lives. So getting out in the sun is a good thing. It's how we manage it is one of the arguments.Even though skin cancer is largely preventable there are 500 deaths from it each year in New Zealand and about 90000 cases are diagnosed. It's fair to say that this is long overdue bringing the standards together with the Australians. My team knocked up a graphic Mr Nash about how we should apply our sun cream this summer. But you know New Zealand does have the highest incidence of melanoma and one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world and when we're open again and running and people are at the beaches there's a duality in this product which is that it's not just a case of putting it on; it's a case of how you use it as well and I think over the years we've all suffered from lack of use but I'm very pleased to see that there's a great technical explanation from yourself on what is trying to be achieved and what has been brought together.But one of the things about getting burnt is that it starts very early on with a decision about whether you are going to put it on or not. One of the worrying trends—my daughter has a melanoma that's been cut out and was very serious—that's emerging is that young people are starting to ignore sun cream and wearing various other products just to aesthetically please themselves and we need to get some education around that.One of the really important issues around the sunscreen bill is expiry dates because the product is very much a degradation product and it needs to be used in a way that the date's respected. Even if you've got loads of bottles lying around the house it doesn't actually provide the cover because the expiry date is so small on that. We do ultimately believe that it should be regulated under the therapeutic products regime. But it's a great start to get this bill proposed and up and running. One of the exciting things about quality control and consumer confidence is that we can finally look people in the eye and say that we've done this job and that the product performs as it says it will. But you know the Australians have been ahead of us for a long long time in sunscreen and spray-on sunscreens and especially water sports sunscreens and more and more the kids are on the water doing stuff that has a different reflectivity issue around UVA and UVB. So when we sell it it's got to actually say what it does on the cover. One of the things that one of the Labour Party members touched on about the health system was the rise of the Skin Institute and the mole map. It's not something that those doctors want to see; it's just naturally occurring. Other type tumours are becoming more and more common in people under 16 which is really unfortunate and you've got to catch this really early or there is a big problem. Men working on the roads working in construction are another major growth area and they actually need to look at their health and safety practices around making sure that those people are protected from excessive sunburn. So in terms of the law itself we're very comfortable with where it's going Mr Muller and we'd like to support this. It's a worthy policy but on the basis that there's a huge education campaign once we relaunch to say there's a new standard there's a new way of using this product and harnessing the medical system to really help that. In fact every kid should walk around with this in their pocket and more and more on the sports fields and the swimming pools we should actually embrace that change. So just to conclude we actually think the bill and I think I touched on this in the last reading needed the Minister to regulate and now it's got a formal structure around it—we thought originally a letter to the Minister was the way to go but now we're actually more happy with the structure that's being proposed. Thank you for bringing it to the House. We will support it.