O'Connor Simon; Dean JacquiSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): Thank you very much; that's probably a great joy to the House that it's only five minutes. It's halving by each speech. The next one will be 2½ minutes.National does support this bill the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Bill but this bill is merely window dressing. We are seeing a spike in crime that we have not seen arguably for a generation—if not generations. It's the amount of ram raids the discharging of firearms the disrespect for police officers the disrespect for the public—it is in itself criminal and the consequences are just not there. Let's be very very clear from this side of the House: we don't believe there are sufficient consequences and that's both on a punitive front but I would also want to make the argument very clearly particularly for those listening at home that the National Party also believes How do we intervene to try and change the lives particularly of these youth offenders?"What we have here is a Government that's brought tonight two bills that all look rather decent and amazing. Hey this is a Government supposedly that's getting on with the job. But actually as we have teased it out through two debates tonight we see that actually these are bills with very little substance. They don't really go all that far and in many ways they're just echoing elements of law that we already have. They are tweaks; they're only tweaks.As with the last bill—actually the first point: this is an omnibus bill which raises the question why we didn't actually just put the proceeds of crime bill that we just discussed inside this omnibus and just make it one bill. Of course the Government didn't want that; they wanted to make it look like it's two great dramatic bills. What is though consistent is that just like with the last bill there's basically been very little to no consultation with the public and I want to put it on record again: no consultation with iwi Māori.Now that's fascinating because again the left of the House make a big big deal of always engaging mana whenua and iwi hapū whānau—everyone—but not on this. The Greens and others—it will be fascinating to hear from the Greens on this because they're all for consistency that Māori should be engaged and rightly they should be. But the Government's ignored that.Look a couple of things—and colleagues have been going through—one of the provisions of this bill is a new warrant power for search and seizure of weapons during a gang conflict. I'm going to be slightly facetious because it is this time of night. So that's great—it's great that we're using the Search and Surveillance Act—but as it is it's during events where there is a gang conflict. I might just suggest to the Government that you don't really need surveillance powers when gang members are firing firearms out in public; it's pretty damn obvious.Secondly there's a search power for cash found in suspicious circumstances and believed to be over $10000. Well a couple of things: I think generally anyone carrying cash these days is suspicious; most of us use EFTPOS cards. Secondly I'm not sure how one believes something to be over $10000; it sort of is or it isn't. And thirdly with rampant inflation in this country how is the Government going to make sure that the $5 I have in my pocket today—not because of inflation—is going to end up over $10000?Continuing on a slight facetious side there is now a new offence of discharging a firearm with the intent to intimidate. Rightly as Paul Goldsmith pointed out that's pretty much ipso facto but I will admit flying in a Huey over Baghdad I was wondering whether fathers celebrating their daughters' 21st birthday firing their guns into the air might have clipped me. Fortunately they did not. But this is New Zealand and not Baghdad so we don't tend to do that with firearms.And finally they're going to change the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act. I mean really if we're going to do plain English we've got to get shorter titles to bills. But importantly it's going to prohibit cash payments as Dr Henderson pointed out. She also rightly pointed out it's not just money; it's jewels valuables and so forth which of course raises the question—which I am sure is on Andrew Bayly's mind—will the Government ensure that Gib board is also included as part of this as a high-value item at the moment?So look slightly facetious. These four elements; they're fine. There's nothing wrong with them. But I think for the general public to particularly understand: this is but window dressing. It's really just an attempt for the Government to look busy. But let me make this one little guess—speculative guess to make sure I roll out the 21 seconds remaining—this will make no difference to the crime that's happening on the ground. The gangs will continue to intimidate. They will continue to drive along Tamaki Drive. They will continue the ram raids. The youth will still be smashing into the Michael Hill Jeweller's and so forth because these laws do not go far enough.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Tangi Utikere—five-minute call."