SpeechTERISA NGOBI (Labour—Ōtaki): Kia ora Madam Speaker and thank you for the opportunity to take a call in the Whare or the House this evening as it's always a real honour and a privilege to kōrero or speak in this House of change. Not only a privilege as the member for the Ōtaki electorate but also at this historic time where this House for the first time is sitting as a hybrid or a virtual Parliament. And so while I mihi to my colleagues who are taking a call virtually and obviously the other party members I'm grateful to you Madam Speaker for allowing me to stand in the Whare tonight to speak about this member's bill the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Bill.But first if you will allow I would like to lend my voice to the many others tonight across the Whare or the House just to say thank you to our police officers out there also to our ambulance officers out there today on the forecourt this evening. I have been hearing from some of my colleagues who have spoken to some of the ambulance and police officers that they have been going since 4 o'clock this morning. So I just wanted to lend my voice to everyone else who has spoken in the House across the House tonight to say thank you to those people. Also just to mention I did hear that some of those police officers tonight had just graduated literally this weekend. So yeah what a baptism of fire in terms of your first couple of days and again I just want to say thank you to all of them and for keeping us all safe. This is the first time I'm speaking on this bill. I understand it's the third reading. But while it's my first time I just wanted to also say a mihi and a thankyou to Mr Todd Muller for bringing this bill to the House. I think we can all agree how important it is and while we might make light of us having to make a 10-minute speech on it I actually know that even though it's a simple bill I really do know the effects it's going to have for many. So I truly am genuinely meaning to say thank you very much Mr Muller for bringing this to the House. The other thing about this bill is it's for everybody right? It's for the benefit of everybody and it will ensure that people who do go out and buy sunscreen can be sure that they are buying a product that is of high quality and high standard and is essentially going to do what it says on the label instead of currently being confused by the different 50-plus sun protection factor (SPF) or whatever numbers it is on the bottles or the tubes when you're purchasing that sunscreen product. And I guess if you're like myself and not au fait with all of that you just kind of put your trust in the product that it is going to do what it says and it has got that 50 SPF or whatever it says on the label on the bottle. So you would expect when you're purchasing that sunscreen you're going to get that full coverage. And also for your children you'll have that full coverage as that's what it says on the bottle. But we all know and I think others have said this in the House tonight and I myself have also purchased sunscreen—I've put it on myself put it on my children and then 10 15 minutes later you're feeling the pain. And yes as a brown person I do get burnt. Many people ask me if I get sunburnt. This is really weird and my husband who's African he's very dark-skinned—we call it black is beautiful" in our house. He's beautifully black skinned and many people look at us quite weirdly when we're at the beach or the river and he's putting on sunscreen. But I'm like yep black people burn too. I guess that goes to my point as well which is that you see so many products. You see products for kids like Mr Muller mentioned when he first stood up you know especially for people who are light skinned or our ginger whānau. You need to be assured that you're going to get the right products and making sure that essentially you've got that full cover. So again you know for us that's really important given that I've got three little boys and they're always wanting to be outside in the sun playing especially during this summer whether it's playing basketball going for a walk or going for a swim. Again we need to make sure that sunscreen stays on it doesn't come off straight away when they hit the water and that they've got full coverage for their beautifully mixed black-brown skin. So that's really important for us. But what I would mention here is that sunscreen although extremely important and a necessary part of your family's budget can be really costly even at the supermarkets and there's such a range again right? There are so many products to choose from again with all those different SPF 50-plus and you're just really not sure. So given that you're spending quite a bit of money—so a tube or bottle of sunscreen can range from $18 to $25-plus which is quite a lot for a whānau of five like mine. You're want to make sure that when you're purchasing it you're getting your bang for your buck; you know the money you're spending you're going to get that full coverage. And a family like ours—like I said I've got three young boys and they love to be out and playing in the sun all the time—we could easily go through three or four tubes or bottles especially—[Audio issues] Someone wants to join my kōrero; ka pai Penny; that's all good. So I guess for a family like ours of five we would want to make sure that—[Audio issues] Are you all good? We would want to make sure that when we are purchasing those three or four bottles over a summer like we've just had which has been really really hot we are getting our money's worth. So for me personally I quite often would buy the Cancer Society one and to be honest that's not me even looking at the 50-plus SPF; that's just me looking at "Cancer Society". And I guess for me not knowing a lot and thinking: well it's the Cancer Society; surely the product will do what it says it does and will make sure that we get our protection from the UV rays of the sun in Aotearoa for me and my children. That's how I would pick it. So a bill like this where it makes sure that there's standards or there's regulation around that to ensure that we truly are—when we go in are purchasing a product that can be quite costly but very important to a family—going to get what we're purchasing and it is going to give us coverage for us and our families. For me also I understand and while this is a really good start—Mr Muller's bill is a really good—start I do also understand that this Government is working on therapeutic products which my colleague Ginny Andersen also mentioned in her contribution which covers the types of products that sunscreen will fall into as part of the proposed therapeutic products bill that this Government is currently working on. However this bill the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Bill from Mr Muller provides a really good interim measure until we've been able to go through the development and legislative work through the proposed therapeutic products bill. We know that we have the highest rates of melanoma or skin cancer in the world. We know Aotearoa is hot. And we know that obviously due to those high numbers the current products as they are or as they are labelled certainly aren't labelled properly because we have got those high rates and it's not doing the job it said it would. So again I just want to say thank you to the select committee also that made those changes. But again I thank you genuinely Mr Muller for bringing this bill to the House. And with that I commend this bill to the House.Motion agreed to.Bill read a third time."