Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. I stand in support of the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Bill and I want to touch on the point made by the member Mr Jonathan Young. I think he made a very good point. The particular crime the devious nature and of course the premeditation exhibited by the particular person who caused the review into this process is despicable. It was a crime that the whole country I am sure could not believe took place. To see that somebody could flout the system in the way they did and end up for all we know on a beach somewhere overseas drinking margaritas—we do not know that. But the point is this: that person got away with a crime and fled this country and we should all be concerned about that because if we consider our entire process as a chain it is only as strong as its weakest link.When I look at this bill and I have read through some of the submissions I think that a lot of these things are not overstepping the mark. I actually think that they are needed. The only thing I am sorry about is that it took an incident or a devious crime like the one perpetrated for this to actually happen.Biometric data is not the future; biometric data is the now. Biometric data is the now. Most places around the world—or certainly in the Western countries around the world you go to—collect biometric data so it is only a reasonable step to think that in New Zealand we would be doing the same. We would be doing the same.I know that there were concerns expressed during the submissions to the Law and Order Committee about the privacy of information with regard to the information sharing across multiple agencies. With the warnings given in the submissions I think the consideration is fair because I do believe that in order for us to have a strong system—I talked about the weakest link. We must have strong links right across—we must have strong links right across. So any opportunity where organisations or departments or agencies can come together to share the information on a pre-arranged agreement—one that protects the rights of the individuals and that has due respect for all of the legislation involved—I think is a good thing. It is one that allows them to share information.It is not a new thing. In fact I know that many of the social welfare agencies do it. I know that a lot of the education agencies do it. In fact I recall that when this particular bill came to the select committee the then Minister of Corrections was engaged in conversations with corrections departments over in Australia around information sharing. I think that is a good thing to make sure that the system is robust—the system is robust. Granted there were submissions against it warning against the overstepping of the mark. But having accepted that information sharing will only make the system better I think it is a good thing moving forward.Revictimisation is always the concern. When criminals are able to get themselves into a position to revictimise those victims of crime that is of real concern to all people in Aotearoa New Zealand. So in order for that to stop I think a piece of legislation like this is called for—one that will see a more robust system moving forward. My colleagues across the House have already mentioned that most of the recommendations were picked up by this Minister and I think we have got legislation that certainly I know the Labour Party will be supporting.Sure I also take the point of my colleague Mr Adrian Rurawhe that only time will tell as we are able to assess and monitor the proposed system when it is in place and we are able to get a trend or at least get some data that will support whether or not this particular legislation is good. I think it is. I think it is moving us in the right direction. It is sad that it took a crime and then a report in order for us to strengthen this particular part of the legislation. We support this particular bill in the House and we look forward to it moving forward.