Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour): Kia ora Madam Speaker. Just responding to the previous National Party speaker Rima Nakhle who just finished their contribution. Very different circumstances; very different times; COVID legislation—and we had challenges in that space and we were really open to it. Because obviously a one-in-100-year pandemic comes around rarely and extreme measures had to be taken. Which is excessively different to what this piece of legislation is all about. I'd rather be speaking this afternoon I guess about gun prohibition—how do we rid this country of guns? But I understand that is not a conversation that could be had and there are purposes that are used for guns in New Zealand and so I understand that.But as we've heard the rhetoric; as we've heard the speeches over the last 45 minutes there's been lots thrown around obviously about getting tough on crime lots of stuff around gangs. That rhetoric was around Let's get tough on crime" and this is another tool in that mysterious toolbox that they talk about. But we really need to be talking about how do we get tough on the causes of crime? How do we get tough on the causes of gangs? That's a conversation I'd rather be having in this House rather than just tinkering around with some legislation which hasn't been in for long—legislation that hasn't been around a long time that we're actually tinkering around with this afternoon.As my good friend and colleague the Hon Dr Duncan Webb mentioned earlier it's the search warrants which is a real challenge and a real issue for us. It's around that without cause—without cause. That is cause for concern and it should be. The communities that I'm part of—and the world that I've been part of for many many years—is one of those communities that regularly has the police visiting; that regularly has a knock on the door from police to deal with issues going on.I know that there are challenges within the communities I live in—there are challenges—but also there are vulnerabilities. There's this gung-ho attitude and there's these—you think they're all just thugs and gangsters but at the at the base of that they're actually human beings and often vulnerable human beings and often those who actually don't understand the systems and how they work.That's why this legislation is an attack on our vulnerable and is an attack on those who aren't as articulate to know the law and how it works. In terms of police overreach we as a Parliament—as a sovereign—need to ensure that we are making sure that our police force; that those who are on the streets ensuring to keep our streets safe are also protected from themselves and protected from their overreach and what they are able to do.So we cannot support this legislation. As I've listened and heard from ACT as I've heard from National as I've heard from New Zealand First I really feel that this is around weakening the gun laws that are currently in place. I feel like it's tinkering and it's just focusing on minor issues instead of addressing the root causes of crime; instead of addressing the root causes of gang violence which they talk about often.So we cannot support this legislation. We would ask that the other side of the House does consider what getting tough on the causes of crime could look like what getting tough on the causes of gangs. How do we actually deal with those things? Not just throw around "tough on crime" soundbites but actually look and dig deep into what is broken fundamentally in our community of Aotearoa New Zealand. We cannot support this bill."