Tirikatene Rino: Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 21 October 2015. Volume:709;Page:7419. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): I am pleased to take a call on Part 2 of this bill. I would like to pick up on my remarks that I made during the debate on Part 1 where the Minister in the chair Louise Upston acknowledged that this bill is entirely consistent with our international obligations. I would like to ask the Minister in relation to Part 2 whether the provisions in Part 2 are entirely consistent and compliant with our international obligations because the actual proposals upon which this Part 2 are based were based on the Ministry of Justice and 17 other Government departments and the proposals that were put forward were subject to the biggest legal disclaimer that I have ever read in my life.Actually I am amazed that the Government’s ministries—it was an all-of-Government approach to this legislation and there was a monstrous disclaimer from the ministries on their own proposals yet those proposals form the basis of this legislation and the basis of the enactments that are contained in Part 2.I would like the Minister to rise to her feet and reassure the public of New Zealand that all of the international obligations—the treaties conventions and protocols whether they be OECD or through the UN—that those international commitments that we have made are as she has mentioned in relation to Part 1 entirely compliant. If her own officials have to hide behind legal disclaimers and not take responsibility for the advice that they give when recommending proposals for this legislation then how can we this Parliament and the people of New Zealand be clear?I know that genuine efforts have been made through the Justice and Electoral Committee to implement these provisions whether it be through money-laundering Acts or through all of the other subsequent amendments that are being made to a host of other pieces of legislation—I believe it is 12 pieces of legislation in total. The bulk of those amendments fall under Part 2—but I return to the point.This piece of legislation and the provisions in Part 2 that give effect to many different provisions around money-laundering and other legislative provisions are all based on New Zealand being compliant and ratifying the international commitments that we have made. I would like to ask this Minister the Hon Louise Upston to rise to her feet and reassure the public of New Zealand and this Parliament that indeed in enacting this legislation New Zealand is going to be fully compliant. If not then how compliant are we?This is no time for half-baked measures. If we are putting through this legislation and amending a host of various pieces of legislation that are addressing a very very important topic around strengthening our laws around organised crime and corruption we need to have that assurance that indeed this legislation does ensure that New Zealand fulfils its international commitments. We have signed up to these international commitments and indeed it has been exposed by Transparency International New Zealand in 2013 I believe that New Zealand is falling short—we are falling short. So we are putting this legislation through to ensure that we are able to lift the bar but I would like to know from the Minister: have we really raised the bar and are we fully compliant with our international commitments which are the topic and which underpin the provisions here in Part 2? Thank you.