Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I just need to take a call in this urgent debate on what happened at Waikato and like all the members around the House I'm deeply concerned about what happened in terms of the ransomware attack.I actually had to find out what ransomware" meant; it sounded like "randomware". When you think about hackers you think that they just kind of like try to find somebody quite random who is vulnerable so that they can attack it. But ransomware as I understand it is that they wanted people to pay them money in terms of the hack that they carried out. I think that's all the more concerning here because the place that was hacked was the Waikato District Health Board and it's related to a hospital—we are talking about people that are patients; personal information in terms of people needing to access surgery possibly urgent surgery as well: all of their different details. So the fact that this also had been used to put on to the dark web as well is I think equally disturbing in this case as well because these hackers are clearly punching down to the less privileged and the vulnerable in our society. So it is very important that we all take this very seriously in terms of this hack.It is really concerning that people's personal information has been leaked online as a result of this attack. And as I've said it is very important that the House traverses what this means for all of us.Ransomware and cyber-attacks are something that we need to ensure people in Aotearoa are protected against in a world that is increasingly digitally focused and there's a responsibility on Government to keep up to date and review its cyber-security strategies and institutions particularly in something like healthcare. I hope this is a wake-up call for the Government but also in particular for all of us in terms of the way that we prioritise things.I do take a different view as well that when we continually run down the public sector and run it down so that even its computer systems are not up to scratch that also makes us incredibly vulnerable as well. So making sure that those funding regimes are in place to ensure that that is there so that these hacks don't happen I think is also really important as well.I think we also have to think about prioritisation as well. Our intelligence and security agencies need to have a focus on not just the very real threats in our real life but also these cyber-attacks as well and ensuring that they are adequately covered especially given recent issues with focus in the wrong areas. I was just sort of mindful of the royal commission report that came out in terms of what happened down there in Christchurch: that if we are and if our security services and Government agencies that are responsible for cyber-security are so fixated on the wrong people—as they were in the case of Christchurch; instead of focusing on white supremacy they were focusing on Muslim communities and previously in the past on environmental activists and Māori activists as well—then that is the sort of resource that actually could be better used and spent on protecting our vulnerable against a cyber-attack such as this.I think it is also important for us to not overreach as well. It is important that we have the best systems in place for our healthcare services—indeed for all of our Government agencies because they are dealing with the privacy of all of our citizens as well—but it is just important that those things are not in place and put in a place where Government agencies overstep and overreach. But that will require adequate investment in terms of making sure that those databases are solid and secure in each of our Government agencies as well and that there is also a very clear line between the privacy of the individual versus the right of the State to actually go about as doing its job.So this is very concerning and the Greens join with everybody else around the House about trying to sort this stuff out sooner rather than later. Thank you Mr Speaker."