Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you. It's good to hear such animated debate on this topic. We know that crime around this country has increased significantly and we know gun crime has increased significantly. It's a real blight on society that that is where we're at and it's good to see that through this bill there is an attempt to address that.However we would like to see this go further and I think that that point has been reasonably well traversed today and something that I will also continue to talk on. But we have seen crime and gun crime in particular increase a lot over the past several years. It was not so long ago where it was quite uncommon to hear of a shooting in New Zealand. I was flicking through the New Zealand Herald the other day and I saw that for the previous month there were over three shootings a day. That is the sort of stuff that was completely incomprehensible when I was younger or even just several years ago. As a society we need to be working together to ensure that that sort of stuff is not happening. There was one sensible comment made by the Green Party today and that was in relation to the mental health implications that can give rise to this and addiction that can give rise to crime. It would be good to see more focused in on this area. But that doesn't take away from what this bill intends to do and that is to improve the safety of our communities by making sure that people who are high risk do not get access to firearms. So what we have been calling for is to give the police as the Police Association has asked for more powers to prevent people who we don't want having guns from having guns. That is why we need to go further on the firearms protection order (FPO) and we need to allow police to search people who are subject to it because without that it is quite a toothless system and the Police Association have called that out. They have said that without the ability to conduct searches without this warrant the order is effectively useless. That's not the intent of what we're trying to do here. We are trying to put forward a bill that will improve the safety of New Zealand communities. I know on both sides of the House we don't want to see these shootings keep taking place. We are up against a rise in gang membership a rise in assaults a rise in hopelessness as well and hopefulness. We need to address the key parts of that and giving the police the powers they need is incredibly important. Now the Government was aware of this when they came into power. It was well known in 2017 and recommended in fact. It's good to see that we're finally at this point where this bill is coming forward. But as our police spokesperson said today to the Minister in charge of police let's work together a little bit more to make sure that when this bill goes through it is fit for purpose and it does actually address the key issue here and that is people having guns who shouldn't have guns. Now in my community I see a lot of gang numbers around the place as we do throughout the country. You know they're up over 40 percent over the past five years. We have seen violent crime and assaults up over 20 percent. We have seen a significant increase in gun crime. I think the ACT Party pointed out that it was a 47 percent increase. I do again want to commend the Government on putting forward this bill but I will continue to stress that we need to ensure that it is where it needs to be. There were some concerns raised about the warrantless nature of it but there is a test in that there does have to be an FPO in place. There does have to be someone subject to an FPO to allow the search to take place on that person without a warrant. As our police spokesperson said we could come to a compromise where it isn't their place of residence but when they're in public it is their person and it is their vehicle. So I would just like to again commend that we do proceed on this. The National Party does support this bill but we do want to see it enhanced to ensure that people who are subject to an FPO can be searched by the police without a warrant. Thank you Mr Speaker.