Pham LanLAN PHAM (Green): Thank you Madam Chair. The aspects that I would like to touch on tonight with the Minister pertains to clause 29 which is about repealing the smoke-free generation. I've got two aspects which relate to this clause—which I hope Madam Chair you will give me the ability to ask both of them.So it feels frankly rather out of it to stand in the Chamber tonight in 2024 when we as humans have seemingly come so far in terms of our knowledge and understanding of what harms our people to be then debating a bill that goes so far in the opposite direction that health professionals are describing it as being anti-health. But here we are this Government's 100-day plan and this is what it's delivering for Kiwis: greater access to tobacco companies to harm our people greater access to delivering nicotine addiction to what was intended to be our smokefree generation and higher nicotine levels to ensure that that addiction sticks. Because this is my first contribution to this bill I would like it on the record alongside my colleagues on this side of the Chamber that I find this bill abhorrent.I want to pick up with the Minister on clause 29 and it's specifically about the repeal of the prohibition on sale delivery and supply of smoked tobacco products to the smoke-free generation. I can't help but be amused by the opposition continually reiterating that the speakers on this side of the House are speaking so passionately. I'm amused by that in relation to this this particular clause because it tells me that the very real actual implications for the health of our people—particularly our young people—of this bill has not quite sunk in.When more people smoke more people die. That's the reality it's the evidence and it would be helpful if all of us in this House cared passionately about that and tried to prevent the harm rather than enable it. So I would love to hear the Minister share with us the advice she's received on current modelling of how many more deaths per year to the end of the year 2030 will be caused by smoking if the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Act is repealed.I also want to touch on the fact that the cost is not simply an emotional and physical one of preventable loss of loved ones. It comes at the immense economic cost to the public health system. So equally I'd love to hear from the Minister: how much does smoking-related harm cost the health system each year and what factors if any were considered other than revenue when she assessed that the smoke-free repeals were an urgent matter to be part of the Government's 100-day plan?Madam Chair the other aspect that I want to touch on—and I hope you'll allow me to finish this part—is that in any part of ill-thought legislation which comes through this House so often it's the externalities which are overlooked. Now for those members who may not be aware of externalities it's those costs to society that are overlooked in any economic activity. I would like to hear from the Minister her take on how the health of people and the environment overlap in what she's seeking to do or what her Government is seeking to do I should say in repealing the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 legislation as part of these clauses.Now I want to pick up on this because there's a number of very serious environmental issues that come from the proliferation of cigarettes in the environment and just one of those is that actually cigarettes make up one of the most common forms of litter worldwide and obviously in New Zealand it's no different here. When they're improperly disposed of they can accumulate in urban areas in parks on our beaches—CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Would the member like to call to finish?LAN PHAM: I would love to call again Madam Chair. Thank you. CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): Thank you and just a reminder—because I've heard the other speakers talk about it today in committee stage—that there's an opportunity for questions rather than filling the time. If you indicate that there's further questions members we can take further questions rather than actually fill the time with speeches.LAN PHAM: Great. Should I continue Madam Chair or should I pause? CHAIRPERSON (Barbara Kuriger): You can continue but what I would like you to do is to actually ask some questions of the Minister rather than fill the time actually speaking.LAN PHAM: Thank you Madam Chair. So what I'm really concerned about with these cigarette filters which are in the environment is that it's those harmful chemical and toxins it's the heavy metals and it's the carcinogens. Now why I want to give that context is because the question for the Minister is that there are other requirements in the bill that have reporting requirements to the Director-General of Health. So I want to know what advice the Minister has sought about the environmental impacts of cigarette filters being in the environment and also if she is considering advice from the Department of Conservation because wildlife has many impacts from these cigarette filters which end up in the environment—and also from the Ministry for the Environment. Thank you.