Radhakrishnan PriyancaHon PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Minister for Diversity Inclusion and Ethnic Communities): Thank you Madam Speaker. The Intelligence and Security (Review) Amendment Bill as has been mentioned before just makes quite a specific amendment to the Intelligence and Security Act 2017. Section 235 of the Act requires periodic reviews of the legislation. It provides that the first of these reviews starts after 28 September 2022. As other speakers have said this bill allows us to move the review forward to bring it forward and allow it to take place sooner. The reason we want to do that of course is because of the horrific mosque attacks that took place on March 15th and the resulting report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Masjidain on 15 March 2019. I just want to point to the four specific recommendations in that report that were to strengthen our intelligence and security legislation which of course is why we don't want to wait till September 2022 for this review to be able to take place. The four recommendations of the royal commission were firstly to review all legislation related to the counter-terrorism effort; second to require publication of and public submissions on the National Security and Intelligence Priorities and an annual threatscape report; third to strengthen the role of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee; and fourth to add a reporting requirement for direct access agreements that allow an intelligence and security agency to directly access certain databases. I just want to underscore a point that Minister Little made earlier this year when he and I led a nationwide series of hui engaging with Muslim communities across Aotearoa and our wider ethnic and faith communities. Many raised the fact that they wanted to have a say in this particular piece of work and I just want to underscore the point that the families of the 51 shuhada will have an opportunity to input into this review once the terms of reference have been determined and likely others as well. I also wanted to take just a very short while to also point to the fact of course that our intelligence and security agencies work to protect and enhance the security and wellbeing of New Zealand and New Zealanders and have to strike a very fine balance as Minister Little mentioned in his contribution. Part of that of course is the counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism focus that our agencies have and I just want to mention very quickly to the House and to anyone watching the fact that we had our first annual counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism hui He Whenua Taurikura which happened just last week in Christchurch. It was attended by over 300 individuals from civil society academia and Government. This was also a direct result of one of the recommendations of the royal commission. We brought all these people together—one of the most diverse audiences that I've seen ever coming together to talk issues around national security but also social cohesion so that we get to a place where we strengthen our communities and society to prevent these attacks from happening in future as well. I just wanted to point to that given that it responds directly to recommendation 16 of the royal commission hui and generated a huge amount of discussion. It was the first step that we've taken as a Government to respond to that particular recommendation.This is a bill that will allow us to get to that review that we need to hold much sooner than we otherwise would have been able to. So I take this opportunity to commend this bill to the House.