Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Oh thank you Madam Chair; what an excellent choice. Well it was very nice all those lovely things said about me but not about my colleagues by the Hon Ron Mark. Yeah I would support this if it was sane and sensible legislation but it's not and given the fact that the Hon Ron Mark has stated very clearly that should New Zealand First help to form the next Government this will be one of the very pieces of legislation that's changed why are we voting for it now? The answer is because it is actually not up to it. So he's giving us the argument right there.Now I have been very supportive of the first tranche of changes into the arms legislation because I felt something needed to be done on these. I'm also very supportive of the firearms prohibition orders that don't seem to have made it through to this bill. We have argued for a very long time in the National Party that the criminals are the people who we should be going after when it comes to firearms not the law abiding farmers who happen to have firearms to control pests. They are not the people who are going around committing these atrocities—they are not the people—and yet why is it that this Government with all of its ability to get legislation through because they have the numbers in Parliament—and they have the tremendous goodwill that we gave them for the first tranche of firearm reforms—why is it that the two are let's say unable to actually bring forward the firearm prohibition orders which would actually target the gangs target the criminals target the stockpiles of guns ammunitions and even in some cases grenades and other explosives in gang headquarters? Why is that? The answer is because the law-abiding people of New Zealand are a far easier target.I agree that the police should not be the people in charge of the administration of the Arms Act and I agree with that for this very reason: police are not administrators; they are A-type personalities who like to deal with crime and sort that out and prevent crime. That is their mandate from the people of New Zealand. Where they have failed—and it's very clear that the Minister must have known about this failure well over a year ago—is in the administration of the Arms Act. That is not to say that every arms officer in the country wasn't doing their job but it's pretty jolly clear from what we've now seen in the media and elsewhere that one particular one certainly wasn't doing his job.And that's because the arms legislation and the arms rules and the way it's administered are not seen as a career path in the New Zealand Police. One doesn't go and become an arms officer because it's a move through to become the commissioner. This is a job that is at the end of a career and it's basically put on the side.We can't have the New Zealand Police in charge of an area of administration where they are not up to the task and that is because it has not been a priority and it should have been a priority. That is a failure and it's a failure in the administration to have not addressed this earlier. Having said that Parliament has always given this role to the police—for many many years; at least the decades that I've certainly looked at. It's time for that to change. This does not change in here. This bill does not address this. It's not to say—I don't wish to dismiss the excellent work of the New Zealand Police but actually in the administration of this Act it has failed because it is not actually an administrator—it is not a role that it is comfortable with.This bill does not address the issues my colleagues have raised. It does not address the issues that the New Zealand public the law-abiding New Zealanders who have firearms for their work and also for their sport have raised with us. This bill is a cheap shoddy piece of work that the Minister the Hon Ron Mark has already said would be up to be reviewed straight after an election. Well I can tell you Madam Chair that it will be up for a review because it will be our Government that's doing it. And he knows that I will want firearm prohibition orders and he knows that our Government will not sit by and let criminals have access to guns while law-abiding people are having to prove why they should have to have this access.This is an important bill for us to not support. It's an important bill for us not to support because it is shoddy it is rushed it does not have the full support of Parliament and it does not have the support of the people.