Brown Peter: Smoke-free Environments Amendment Bill — Procedure Referral to Health Committee In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee Speaker Recalled  Speaker Recalled In Committee Procedure 
Brown Peter: Smoke-free Environments Amendment Bill — Procedure Referral to Health Committee In Committee Speaker Recalled In Committee Speaker Recalled  Speaker Recalled In Committee Procedure 
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PETER BROWN (Deputy Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 Mr Chairman—[ 
Interruption 
] Am I meant to speak through this? 
Rod Donald 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I would just like to acknowledge the group in the gallery that has been performing  
Kia Mau Mana Whenua 
 in Parliament tonight. It is beholden on us to display behaviour in this Chamber that holds this Parliament in high standing and not to demean ourselves. I invite members to consider that we have a group that is here with a message about changing people’s lives and I invite all members to reflect on that. 
PETER BROWN 
: I want to talk principally about Part 2A which I gather is to be inserted into the Smoke-free Environments Act by clause 12 of this bill—in other words the powers of the enforcement officers. We must bear in mind that we are talking largely about places of leisure where people go for a beer and a smoke with whomever they choose to go with. Under this bill an enforcement officer can go in there with a still or video camera or a device for taking samples of air or both. Enforcement officers can inspect those places take photographs at whim and if I am correct—and maybe the member can address this—do not have to produce identification under new section 41A inserted by clause 12. Under new section 41B people have to produce identification to enforcement officers but under new section 41A enforcement officers can go into bars places of leisure or Returned Services Association premises and take photographs samples of the air or whatever photographs or videos they like to take—all without saying who they are or what they are doing. There is no restriction in this bill as far as I can see or understand—and maybe the member will explain this—on passing on photographs that show Mary and Joe or whoever else were together whenever that was to the police or to anybody else who may be interested in those people’s whereabouts. 
I draw that member’s attention to what occurred when Government members were in Opposition and they went berserk when Maurice Williamson wanted to bring in a transponder car system whereby people could be picked up in their cars at any time of day and charged levies. The Labour members then in Opposition went berserk over the privacy implications of that and would not have one single bar of it. I am not advocating that we have such a system; I am just pointing out the hypocrisy that is behind this bill. I hope the member will take a call and explain new section 41A which allows enforcement officers to walk into bars restaurants or anywhere they suspect people are smoking—and it does not even state they have to suspect that as far as I can see—with video or still cameras and to take whatever photographs they are inclined to take. I do not think many New Zealanders know that. I do not think many New Zealanders are aware that that is in this bill and I do not think many of them would agree with that. 
The member Steve Chadwick is sitting there in the chair and looking as though she has all the answers. I look forward to her taking a call and telling me whether I am correct. Can all that occur as I have suggested without an enforcement officer giving any identification? Enforcement officers have to be given identifying information under a duty specified in section 41B but do not have to give identification under section 41A which states that not only can an enforcement officer take cameras into places but he or she can “take photographs or videos with any camera he or she brings with him or her”. I ask the member to explain that to us as she understands it. I know that she does not have the officials with her so she will have to go by what she recalls. 
I hope she does a better job of explaining that than she did when she was asked this afternoon whether she was aware of the scientific evidence that related to changing the quality of air. I will comment briefly on that issue. In shipping we can change the air in a compartment space very rapidly. We could put a fork hoist that fumed like nobody’s business in the hold of a ship measure the air quality and change it. This bill does not even take into account— 
Ron Mark 
: What about sucking all the air out of the Labour caucus room? 
PETER BROWN 
: I have to say that sometimes ours gets a little bit hot too. On a serious note—