Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Kia orana e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Firstly I'd like to congratulate Simeon Brown. He's been working on this kaupapa since 2013 when he was a member of the Manurewa Local Board and with our Manurewa Youth Council and our Warriors of Change when the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 was passed and I just want to remind us all what that bill allowed. It was to regulate otherwise unregulated psychoactive substances such as party pills and other legal highs in New Zealand. So as a country we legalised psychoactive substances and at that point in time when that legislation went through there were 20 untestable brands of synthetic cannabis that were legally on sale in New Zealand. Some of them were called Anarchy Voodoo and White Rhino. In 2015 there was amendment legislation and we ended the interim product approval—so everyone had to go through an approval process. At that time Simeon like myself fought against the High Zone store in the middle of Manurewa. He wanted to create a 1-kilometre buffer zone so that schools were protected places of worship were protected and community halls and facilities were protected. I want to quote from Simeon at that time. He said I do not believe any of these products even if they are proven to be safe should be marketed to our young people because they are still drugs that is [in] essence these are still drugs."We as a Parliament and as a country have to think back to a time when legal highs were something that we thought "We should actually approve and they should be available just like alcohol."—so lest we forget where we've come from.What I want to highlight in this bill—and it is about the selling or supplying of psychoactive substances and I want to bring us back to a community that's incredibly affected by psychoactive substances and it is our homeless community. Of the 20 deaths that we have talked about—and I do want to acknowledge any whānau in the Whare today who have lost any of their loved ones through the consumption of psychoactive substances—we lost two homeless people in Manurewa last year who took psychoactive substances. Those vulnerable people actually are being exploited. Those vulnerable people will be captured by this legislation because it does say "selling or supplying psychoactive substances".I think the community that's going to be the most targeted by this piece of legislation are in fact those that the petition that was lodged in the Parliament today was about. There will be an inquiry into addictions into psychoactive substances that the member—it was like an appendix to his particular legislation. It actually is incredibly valid. I want to quote from a woman called Julie Nelson who's the Housing First Auckland project leader. She said this about homelessness: "It is very important that we all work together to develop a Government-led housing strategy for New Zealand that incorporates policy funding and practice so we … understand how to collectively end homelessness and so organisations can work to their strengths as part of that strategy."What does that actually mean? We need to house homeless people first and then we need to help them with their addictions. I know that the previous Government actually invested $3.7 million in that initiative and Auckland Council contributed $1 million so there are active programmes under way to support our homeless people. But lest we forget the Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act—again another piece of legislation that the Hon Peter Dunne was responsible for this House approving and that's to ensure that individuals who are considered to have a severe substance addiction and who do not have the capacity to participate in treatment actually get the treatment that they deserve. Our Health Committee is waiting to hear from the Ministry of Health about the enactment of that Act.In fact that is the solution: providing people who have addictions who are vulnerable who are being used by the people who manufacture these drugs—they need the help firstly to get into a home but secondly from the base of a secure home to have the treatment support that they require.I think that there are too many loopholes in this piece of legislation and I am clear as are my colleagues that this isn't the solution for the question that's being asked. Kia ora tātou."