Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Thank you very much for the call. It is a pleasure being a member of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee. This is one of the first pieces of legislation I have been involved with for the duration and I just want to make a comment on our select committee and the way that we operate. I think it's a very good select committee well chaired by my colleague Simon O'Connor and it's bills such as this that really do bring us together can I say.I'd initially like to contribute from the regulatory impact statement. The executive summary basically says it all: New Zealand currently has an export control regime that regulates the movement of arms weapons and military equipment from New Zealand and an import control regime that regulates the movement of arms into New Zealand. However there are currently no controls on persons in New Zealand or New Zealand citizens operating abroad who negotiate arrange or facilitate the international movement of arms and/or military equipment—an activity known as brokering." So the piece of legislation that we are discussing closes that loophole and it also enables us as a country to actually ensure that the Arms Trade Treaty that we've signed up to in 2013 is enacted in our domestic legislation.The reason we do these things is because we are a global citizen—we're part of a global community. The issue of arms brokering is relevant in conflicts such as Afghanistan Iraq Syria the Ukraine Yemen the Democratic Republic of Congo Mexico and the Central African Republic. So that's the relevance of this piece of legislation. On one hand we acknowledge that these pieces of military equipment are actually manufactured and there are a lot of countries around the world that make a lot of money from manufacturing and selling those weapons. This piece of legislation joins an international consensus that says "While [arms] brokering can be used to facilitate legitimate arms deals … uncontrolled brokering assists the movement of arms and military equipment to illegitimate users or undesirable destinations" including—those war zones that I've just read out and includes—"countries under [UN] arms embargo and conflict zones where they are often used to commit human rights and other abuses."So people that is why we debate and discuss treaties and then enact them in domestic legislation. We do so because we do want to bring peace to the world. I mean the "Kumbaya" comment is kind of interesting because at the end of the day I do think there have to be principles and values that guide what we do as respective democracies globally. It is through that international consensus and that forever aiming for peace to reduce human suffering to promote cooperation transparency and also to help build a world that actually is more about the good things in life which is about young people getting a good education and people having dreams and aspirations so that they can go to things like the Commonwealth Games and world cups. It is actually about wanting to be part of a world and having a world that facilitates those types of opportunities that really do look at what human potential looks like.I mean I could talk for the rest of my six minutes—and maybe I'm going to get a note that says I have to!—but essentially the process that we have all been through has led us to one where we have universal consensus in the House. Even though we've tried to beat up on poor Mr Ron Mark he and his party are going to support this piece of legislation. As I said before I think that the process that we have been through and I do hope that Golriz Ghahraman—I note my colleague Duncan Webb isn't on the speaking list which is a real shame because there were some intense discussions about—Chris Bishop: Intense—intense.LOUISA WALL: —intense—jurisdiction about mens rea about a whole lot of other things that the lawyers in the room had this intellect—they were doing intellectual gymnastics and I think I've mentioned it before. Seriously I just had to sit there and watch. I think Simon O'Connor and I enjoyed being passive observers at some of those meetings. But we did diligently go through this bill and try to make it a better bill. I think if you read the select committee report in the commentary I think that everything that we've done in terms of the select committee process has enhanced this piece of legislation.So I'm not going to bore anyone for any longer. I have been given the eye and the word that I can sit down. So without further ado I commend the bill to the House. Kia ora."