Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise to take a call on this the third reading of the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill and I seek to reiterate and talk to some of the points that we are supportive of and some that we are struggling with. First of all the reclassification of synthetic drugs in this bill has support across the House as it should and I think the points were well made by the member Louisa Wall who's just resumed her seat. We would add and we would contend that we believe the member's bill from Simeon Brown did a better job than what this bill does. We've debated that. We've discussed that it's not to be in this bill but I want it to be on record that that's a very good piece of work and I believe this bill could have been made better by further inclusion of that work. We've expressed our concerns with clause 6 and the decision tree that gives police discretion. For us it really is that it seems like that discretion is that if there's likely to be a health benefit then discretion will be exercised and we were told and we believe and we understand that there will always be a health benefit therefore discretion is likely to be always applied. That's sort of fundamentally the issue that we're struggling with in how we quite reasonably join the dots with this being default decriminalisation.I think it's also interesting as one of the members just spoke about how the connection between someone who is not prosecuted under this discretion and the services they may need—because I'm interested in those logistics—will be via an app or could be via an app. That's kind of interesting because if we look at things like a did not attend at an outpatient clinic and those who have tried to use apps to improve compliance and facilitate compliance that hasn't gone so well. Secondly I just question the logic. Is it really expected that an offender will load an app and/or give a cell phone number when they would have concerns around tracking by giving that information? I think there are some logistics here that need a bit of thinking that I'm only sort of getting to here now. I think the third point I want to talk to is the very good regional programme that is working in Northland that amalgamation with police and Northland DHB—Te Ara Oranga is indeed an excellent programme started under our Government and further supported by this Government. I think part of the magic of Te Ara Oranga is that co-design—police with health workers. I think at its atomic level it's actually the pouwhenua who are the lived-experience people out in the community that are safe who people can actually reach and say Hey look I have a problem. Can I be a part of this programme?" So the pouwhenua components to Te Ara Oranga I think are part of the magic of the programme. It is a matrix-like programme for those who are familiar with the matrix programme. With more funding they might well be able to do even better. That's something we can all collectively think about. I think the one other concern and the word of warning that I would have with this bill is the exercise of discretion for Māori. We know that discretion through the criminal justice system has not served and does not favour Māori well. That's a reality that we're all trying to work with at the moment; it is a matter of fact. This exercise of discretion in a very important area needs to be closely monitored and closely reported on. We need to know that the use of discretion evenly favours Māori under this bill. So we'll be watching very closely in the short period of time after this bill is enacted to make sure that Māori are fairly dealt with with the very broad and very generous discretions that I believe and we believe are being given in this bill. So I'd like to thank the select committee. It's been a pleasure to work with them on this bill. We clearly have some difference as to where this will sit and the points that we'll be watching. There are some good parts to it; we support it. The other parts we'll be watchful. Thank you Madam Speaker."