Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you Madam Chair for the opportunity to take a second call on this clause. I'd like to speak again to Dr Shane Reti's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 178 and to clause 8 which relates to Location specified in application must be safe". I think this is again an important—it's clause 8 of the Supplementary Order Paper dealing with the licensing regime Madam Chair. This again is an important contribution by Dr Shane Reti to this debate and to this legislation because again in clause 7 of the bill essentially it just sets up that there should be regulations. What this clause here which Dr Reti is trying to get the Government to agree to suggests is that there should be locations which should be kept safe from the production of medicinal cannabis products. It says that it should be "1 kilometre away from an area specified by regulations as unsuitable to undertake the activities that are authorised by the licence".So what we have here is that we're essentially saying that this is giving the ability for regulations to be put in place but Parliament is clearly defining what those regulations should be doing. So it's not just a blank cheque; it's actually saying "This is the direction that we want the regulations to go in." We want to actually keep our residential areas five kilometres away from the production and any licensing regimes around the production of medicinal cannabis products the growing of cannabis and all of those things. We want to ensure if the activities are conducted inside a building that it must be one kilometre away from any area zoned as residential. What it is saying is "Let's set some clear direction around what these regulations should be and what they shouldn't be."At the moment what we have is a blank cheque being given to officials to go away and work on some regulations which could discuss issues like this—they may; they may not. There is actually no requirement on those officials to actually put in place any area-specific locations where these licensed premises can be placed. There is no direction as to where that could be and so I am urging the Government to look seriously at this clause in the Supplementary Order Paper because I know the conversation and the debate which will take place if this bill goes through Parliament with no direction from the Government or from Parliament as to where these licences should be or shouldn't be.I know there will be a huge community debate. There'll be a huge number of people in New Zealand who will not want these licensed regimes near their house near their children's school near their early childhood education (ECE) centre near a community service near drug and alcohol addiction areas. But what this SOP—and this particular clause in the SOP—says is "Let's instruct officials to work on what is a location which must be considered safe." What is an area which we consider as not suitable for the production manufacture or otherwise of medicinal cannabis products? That's what it is saying: let's work out what these areas are. Let's have a debate as to what those areas are and then this clause says very clearly what the consequence of having those areas listed as unsuitable will be.So there may be a whole wide range of areas which could be debated and discussed as being unsuitable. It could be drug and alcohol addiction services it could be mental health services it could be places of worship it could be schools it could be ECEs it could be Work and Income offices it could be a whole range of Government departments it could be a range of different places which we as a community decide are areas we want to consider as being unsafe or it could be very few of those. But what this clause does is say "Let's have a conversation around what those places should be or shouldn't be." Then very clearly the follow-on from that is that if the activities conducted in that licensed premises are conducted outside a building it will have to be five kilometres away from a zoned residential area and if it's conducted inside a building at least one kilometre away. So that ensures it will be—[Time expired]"