Brewer CameronCAMERON BREWER (National—Upper Harbour): Oh thank you Madam Speaker. Just wanted to pay tribute to the sponsor the previous speaker Greg O'Connor for helping shepherd and lead this bill through the Justice Committee. Given all his years on the front line of police and representing the Police Association he brought a depth of understanding to this piece of legislation as to why it was required and how it could best perform.I also want to pay tribute to his predecessor with this with the original bill being introduced by Erica Stanford. As Mr O'Connor said this bill—now on its third reading—traverses two Parliaments: the 53rd and the current Parliament the 54th. I also want to pay tribute to our chair James Meager who also led us through this process over the last six months.So it's a very good day that this bill after a couple of years going through two Parliaments two Justice Committees two readings a committee of the whole House stage public submissions some revisions and a few improvements that we arrive at this place where it is going to be put on the statute books—hopefully after this third reading this afternoon.As has been highlighted by the sponsor Mr O'Connor the bill—full title Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) (Overseas Travel Reporting) Amendment Bill; we'll just call it the bill" I think going forward—enhances New Zealand's capacity to protect children globally by ensuring that our police and our customs service and other authorities have detailed information on the international movements of our registered child sex offenders.It brings the overseas travel reporting requirements in line with those for domestic travel. That actually surprises a number of us in the House that arrived only in October—and it will surprise some in the public as well—that domestic travel had reporting requirements that international travel didn't for registered child sex offenders. So this is good news. The bill highlights as has been said New Zealand's commitment to safeguarding our children from sexual exploitation both domestically and internationally and addressing the risks associated with child sex offending more comprehensively.As Mr O'Connor said often the offenders here do not look like or are not the people that we think they are but they are registered and we need to monitor their travel because they are going into homes potentially—whether it's visiting family friends in Australia; whether it's going for a short stay longer than 48 hours but that needs to be known. So this again adds an extra layer of protection.Looking at the actual requirements and the legislative remits of this bill it would amend the Act to require registered child sex offenders to provide additional information to the police before travelling overseas for more than 48 hours. We did look at that 48-hour time frame—that threshold—and that is where we landed. A registered offender who intends to return to New Zealand would also need to report each address where they intend to stay while overseas the dates on which they intend to travel to and out of the country. "This information"—looking at the explanatory note in the bill itself—"would be required for each country that the offender intends to travel to and remain in for more than 48 hours."So the National Party is united in our determination to give this extra tool to the New Zealand Police to Customs and to any authority that may be involved. We hope—I think we said not so long ago; maybe it was the second reading—that Kumbaya had broken out and that it looked like we were almost unanimous in this House with providing that extra tool for police. And why wouldn't we give all the tools that we could to the authorities to protect children as best as we can? As we often say in this House even if it saves one child it's all been worth it.So I hope—I hope—that the Green Party has caucused this since. And I hope that the Green Party—whose co-leader was the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence—come around and support this on the third reading. Because why wouldn't you? If they aren't I think we all in the House and the New Zealand public deserve to hear their articulation as to why not.So we come to the third reading having exercised a lot of consideration and caution with this bill. We know that it's not the answer to everything but it is a suite of tools that we now have that line up with our domestic reporting requirements for our registered child sex offenders that now go internationally. So that is the prudent thing to do and frankly it's well overdue.So to the two Justice Committees; to the members of the public that submitted; to the various members on those two Justice Committees—the first one chaired by Vanushi Walters; want to acknowledge her today: someone I shared the campaign trail with and her integrity on the Justice Committee was well known. Also James Meager who is often dubbed our in-house solicitor—from Otago University no less; no less. So I want to acknowledge those.I want to also make the point for the Greens again that we really hope that they can come on board and that the National Party are happy to support this child protection bill. But that is only a suite of pro-child pro-family appropriations policies and plans that we have. Some of them you'll see tomorrow—one more sleep I think the finance Minister says. One more sleep where we as a party and a coalition Government are singularly focused on the family unit on protecting children and improving their opportunities. We have walked into a situation where child poverty stats—according to Stats NZ released in January this year for the year June to 30 June 2023 had deteriorated—had deteriorated: material hardship was up; key indicators were up. Again the protection of children—we inherited a Government where 6½ thousand people were living in emergency housing nearly half of them were children.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Can we come back to the bill?CAMERON BREWER: So this is part of a suite—this member's bill—of a National Party programme where we are putting the family the children at the centre of it. So we are very happy to support this and we urge—we urge—the Green Party to consider joining the rest of the House and coming in behind so we can say hand on heart in 2024 that we unanimously supported this and we unanimously did the best we can for our children in the future. Thank you very much."