O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Thank you Mr Speaker—and just to compliment my colleague Ginny Andersen for the way she has summed up the bill down to its last detail. It will save me doing the job in this five minutes I have now. I'm extremely pleased with the level of support that I've received from across the House with only one party opposing the bill. It's not a huge bill but the passion and support of each of the speakers even those opposing shows an appreciation of the need to be clever and strategic in our lawmaking in order to protect society not just punitive. I'm very pleased that my colleague Nicole McKee speaking on behalf of the ACT Party said that they had no intention to push that the register be made public which would actually be self-defeating. So I'm very pleased at that stance taken by that party; I know that hasn't always been a consistent stance. That just takes it out of the punitive into the protective. It means the protective screening that is intended.I'm convinced this amendment as well as protecting potential victims of child abuse in overseas destinations where a person on the child sex offender register may contemplate visiting will also help those offenders by ensuring they are less likely to be put in a position to offend. Most of these offenders are highly flawed individuals who often cannot trust themselves let alone be trusted by society when they are in the presence of potential victims. Corrections research shows that a characteristic of such offenders is compulsive behaviour over a lifetime. I've interviewed many of these offenders as a police detective and even knowing the consequences of being in prison as a so-called child abuser doesn't deter them from their offending such is their determination and compulsion. They have relatively low recidivism rates largely because they're removed from situations where they are likely to offend by the fact that they are registered.Most serious and dangerous offenders actually are on extended supervision orders and public protection orders monitored by Corrections. That is why having to provide police with the full details of their whereabouts and especially where children may be present is good law. It's good law to protect New Zealand victims; it is also good law to protect those overseas as well. This type of offending destroys the lives not only of the victims but also the families of the victims and even the offenders' families. It even takes an added toll on the lives of those in Police and other authorities who have to deal with the victims. So everyone—and I mean everyone—has an absolute interest in eliminating all risk of offending and reoffending.As the bill now heads off to the Justice Committee where I'm confident the combined efforts of all members of that committee will see it emerge at second reading as the best piece of legislation that can be—and I'm buoyed by the fact that my colleague Ginny Andersen is chair of that committee because I know she has experience of this in her work in policy and Police. I recommend strongly to the committee that the Police be requested to advise on this bill and also Corrections. My colleague across the House Erica Stanford has graciously agreed to use the provisions of a similar bill she has had drawn to place before the committee as a Supplementary Order Paper in lieu of her bill in order to potentially strengthen the bill and I commend her for this.In summary I'm grateful for the opportunity to bring this bill before the House to ensure this Parliament gives New Zealand Police and other authorities the powers they need to protect potential child sex abuse victims everywhere. I commend this bill to the House.