Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Before I get into the technical parts of the bill I would just like to retell the story about why I have decided to be a man who stands up and speaks out about sexual violence. When I was the principal of Kaitāia Intermediate School I heard of 13 instances in 3 weeks where children in the Kaitāia area had been sexually abused. I called a meeting of teachers principals and support agencies in the community. There were about 35 to 40 people in the staff room when we had this meeting and I said: This is the reason I have called the meeting: 13 instances of sexual abuse in the last 3 weeks." I have to say that they were not all sexual abuse instances that occurred at Kaitāia Intermediate School although some of the children were. There was a deathly silence and a bit of fidgeting and then someone finally said to me: "Well what do you want to do about this Kelvin? Why have you called this meeting?". I said: "I don't know. I just want to blow this issue out of the water. It is unacceptable."There was a bit of silence and a bit more fidgeting and someone finally said: "Well have you given any thought as to what might fall out of the woodwork and whether we are resourced to deal with this issue?". I said: "No sorry. I haven't really given it that amount of thought but we'll adjourn this meeting and we'll come back in a couple of weeks when I have given it some thought." But of course there are many excuses and many reasons why meetings do not get reconvened and basically the issue faded off. I think people were quite happy to not actually have that meeting reconvene. What actually fell out of the woodwork was that the deputy principal at a school 6 minutes down the road was sexually abusing young boys. He is now 50 kilometres away from here—30 to 40 kilometres away from here—in Rimutaka Prison where he deserves to be.Also in November of 2013 when I was enjoying a 2-year weekend from Parliament not having been re-elected in 2011 I was sitting watching TV when the Roast Busters issue came on. I was sitting there and our former colleague Carol Beaumont was on one of the news shows saying that this was really unacceptable behaviour by these young men. I thought there and then: "She's not getting any cut-through. Where are the men in Parliament? Where are all the men in Parliament—the Prime Minister all the leaders of the parties? Why are we not as men or why are they not as men jumping up and down about the issue of sexual violence?". It was there and then while sitting in my La-Z-Boy at home that I made the vow that if I ever got back into Parliament I would be a man to stand up and speak out about sexual violence.So having got back into Parliament we organised the hīkoi from the harbour bridge up to Cape Reinga walking 440 kilometres in 16 days. Last year we walked seven marathons in 7 days around Kaitāia. Another group walked a marathon around Kaikohe and another group walked around Ngāti Whātua land just to raise awareness around sexual violence. Sexual violence is one of the greatest inhibitors if not the greatest inhibitor of human potential in the country. Therefore it is essential that we stand up and we do what we can to stamp this rampant disease—for want of a better word—out of the country. Sorry there are probably better ways to describe it.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: To the bill.KELVIN DAVIS: To the bill—we are here debating this bill because there was a mistake made by the Government last year not some 6 months ago. We should not be here and we should not be making mistakes that may allow a sexual offender to not be held to account by the law and in this case to not be added to the sexual offenders register. I take what the Deputy Prime Minister is saying—that this is not about adding new provisions to an Act. But the reality is that this should all have been addressed the first time around and here we are going through this again.One in three girls in New Zealand is sexually abused before they turn 16 and one in seven boys; I have to make it known that boys also are sexually offended against by both men and women. One in five New Zealand women—young people between 16 and 24—is four times more likely to be sexually assaulted. Sexual offending is responsible for just about every form of mental unwellness going. It is essential that we do not keep coming back into Parliament to fix up mistakes around these sorts of bills—that we get it right the first time.My heart goes out to anybody and everyone who has been sexually violated in some way and I just take my hat off to the survivors who are doing the best they can in the circumstances that they find themselves in. That is why we as politicians as parliamentarians have to get this right and we have to do it right and get our laws right at the very start. It is unfortunate that we are here. It is unfortunate that as my colleague Stuart Nash said in the previous process somebody some official some members of Parliament never picked up the gap in the legislation that would allow some people who have been convicted but are yet to be sentenced for an offence to miss out on being on the register.I do not intend to speak for much longer other than to just reinforce what I am saying. We as parliamentarians need to get this right. I urge my male colleagues from across the House to stand up and be counted when it comes to speaking out about sexual violence. Just incidentally this week is Light It Orange week 4 to 10 March which is about domestic violence and there are elements of sexual violence amongst much domestic violence. I do commend this bill to the House. We do support it. But let us get it right the first time. Kia ora."