Moroney Sue: Privacy (Giving Privacy Commissioner Necessary Tools) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is subject to correctionMoroney Sue: Privacy (Giving Privacy Commissioner Necessary Tools) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 13 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:59. Text is subject to correction.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): Can I first of all start by acknowledging and thanking all of those parties who have seen fit to support this bill the Privacy (Giving Privacy Commissioner Necessary Tools) Amendment Bill in the House because I think the parties that have supported this bill show that they take New Zealanders’ concerns about privacy breaches very seriously and are prepared to act. That is certainly the reason why I put this bill forward into the ballot and was fortunate enough to have it pulled out. But I am sorry to say that it is all too often that we are in this House and we hear the Government dragging its heels. The sound is very audible in the debating chamber as the Government drags its heels yet again on an issue that is important to New Zealanders.This Government has been guilty of breaching New Zealanders’ privacy. From ACC to EQC or the Earthquake Commission and every acronym in between it has been breaching New Zealanders’ privacy. It actually started right at the top because it was the Minister for Social Development Paula Bennett who was the first to start this trend. She deliberately breached the privacy of two sole parents when they dared to question her cutting of the training incentive allowance. That is where it all started from. So the crocodile tears from the members opposite simply do not work because New Zealanders saw one of their own Ministers deliberately breaching privacy for her own ends.That gave the cue to all of those public entities that New Zealanders’ privacy was not paramount. Of course what followed was all of these privacy breaches. The Ministry of Social Development—well of course they were going to breach people’s privacy. Their own Minister had shown them that that was the proper thing to do. So these constant privacy breaches are endemic they have been systemic and they have been led from the Government benches. That is why this bill is important.The previous speaker Alfred Ngaro said that it was a rocket without the science. Well I would like him to actually say that to the Law Commission because this was the recommendation of the Law Commission. Alfred Ngaro is promising that at some time between now 13 November and the end of the year—not that far away—the Minister is going to be taking a paper to Cabinet. Well here is news for that member: his Minister got on her feet in front of a couple of hundred people in May last year and promised that she would be introducing that bill in the first half of 2013—the first half of 2013. Yet here he is admitting to us that she has not even taken the paper to Cabinet. It is 13 November and the paper has not even gone to Cabinet.The sound of the Government dragging its heels on addressing these very serous privacy concerns is deafening and is audible in this debating chamber and it came from the members opposite. So I am now going to let the voting do the talking because we will then learn which parties in this Parliament take the privacy of New Zealanders seriously and which parties do not. Thank you.