Korako Nuk: Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 27 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:4071. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. I take this split call on the Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill. If I could relate a little bit about a past life working away from New Zealand because I am reminded of a very famous New Zealander who coined the phrase “You don’t know how lucky we are.” I went away for 2 years but stayed for 25 years and in my career within the tourism industry I visited or worked in every country in Eastern and Western Europe with the exception of Albania. That is where I really did see a lot of corruption. Particularly the further south you got in Europe the worse it became—and the further east as well. I was there at the finishing of the Iron Curtain the breakdown of the Berlin Wall and then the influx of Eastern Europeans coming to the West. Indeed a lot of what they brought with them was a style of life that they had to endure within the Iron Curtain which was very much focused around living by your wits and living with corruption.It was interesting even when traveling south. There are interesting stories that I could relate here to the House about organised crime and corruption. There are things like if you worked down in southern Europe you actually had to take a guide whom you were given because it was under the control of an interesting group that starts with “m”. If you did not take that particular guide well then you ran into immense difficulties further on down. Other things happened as well with the coach drivers. If they did not actually park in the coach park that was run by these sorts of corrupt organisations—one interesting story is how one night a colleague of mine a driver parked his coach in the coach park that he should not have parked in. He came back the next morning and he went to start his motor coach and it would not start. He went to the back of the coach and opened the back bonnet into the engine and there was no motor there. They had taken the motor that night. That was the penalty for not parking right. So all of these sorts of corrupt practices that have actually gone on outside of New Zealand—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Order! Look we are on a second reading debate and just as I mentioned to the previous speaker I will refer the member to Speaker’s ruling 110: “On the second reading of a bill discussion must be confined to the bill before the House”. The bill has been reported back from a select committee and that is what we are focusing on. Anything outside that while it may be interesting can be referred to but the focus of the bill as substantive matter must be what is in the bill as reported back.NUK KORAKO: Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. Again it is a privilege to live in New Zealand and the main reasons are that one of the great things about our country is that on every international measure we are considered to be one of the least corrupt countries in the world. There is no reason to sit back though and this is what this bill is about. We cannot sit on our laurels and be complacent. That is not how this Government does things. Since this Government was elected the National-led Government has kept up the fight against crime in our communities and particularly against organised crime which was my point before. We are also focused on making sure that we remain a respected member of the international community and that there is one of the most important factors—doing our bit to prevent what is increasingly becoming a borderless issue. New Zealand is a member of the Financial Action Task Force which sets international standards to help crack down on money-laundering. This bill continues the good work of the Government which it has already done in passing the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009 the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 etc. Thank you.