Brownlee Gerry; Salesa JennyHon GERRY BROWNLEE (National): The Minister describes this bill as being simple and technical; that is quite correct but it would be wrong to suggest that the potential that this bill enables is at all simple.When the Intelligence and Security Bill was passed back in 2017 it was always envisaged that there would need to be a review at some point and it was thought then that five to seven years would be a sufficient amount of time for the Act to bed in and for a review to take place. It's quite clear though that there are people in the world who have ill will towards this country ill will towards a number of countries who are likeminded to us. As a consequence of that we saw the dreadful events that took place around the mosques in Christchurch back in March of 2019.Those events did lead to a consideration of what we should have known—what could have been known and what steps could have been taken that might have prevented that event taking place? The Government set up the royal commission. The royal commission did its work over a reasonable period of time and came up with suggestions for what might change in the future. To change those conditions to pick up on what they had to say essentially and to give life to their suggestions there is a need to review the Act at a time much sooner than the time line that's currently legislated for. So without wanting to disturb the Act itself and the provisions that it makes for the agencies to be vigilant on the behalf of New Zealand this bill simply sets out an amendment that brings forward that date for review from any time after 1 July of this year.National supports that. We think it's important that we do put some life around some of the recommendations of the royal commission. One of those recommendations though does have the suggestion that the intelligence services should be overseen by a board. That's an interesting idea one that I think I'd like to see teased out in any legislation that might come out of the review. And that means that the reviewers need to be people that there is a high level of confidence in. The proposal is that there would be two people carrying out that review people who have the highest security clearance—so therefore people who do know what they're dealing with—and I'm sure that we will have people of very high calibre appointed into that role who we can have a great deal of confidence in.So I don't think it's appropriate to prolong this particular contribution. Can I simply say that this respects the fact that some New Zealanders suffered dreadfully because there was a lack of intelligence about what might happen. That's not a criticism of either of the services or the New Zealand Police. It is just a harsh reality that there are people in our society today who have ill will towards the rest of us who will go about exercising their particular prejudices in a nasty way. So while there has been terrible tragedy for the families most affected in Christchurch a dreadful tragedy that will never leave them there has also been a smite on our wider community. The upside of that is a greater understanding of people and a greater willingness to embrace difference and I think that is an upside that we need to cling to.So when this review is done I would hope that we do have recommendations for further changes to the Act that will strengthen the ability of our intelligence services to protect the way of life that we enjoy in this country the freedoms that we enjoy in this country and the right for any individual to express themselves in a reasonable fashion religiously culturally or other belief wise. Thank you Madam Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Fa'afetai tele lava. I call on the Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan.