Tirikatene RinoRINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): Madam Assistant Speaker I'm very pleased to take a call in this debate. I do acknowledge Alastair Scott for bringing this bill to the House; however this bill falls short in a number of areas as has already been canvassed in my colleague's contribution.Unfortunately we will not be supporting this bill because it is a suboptimal piece of legislation as it stands. The tests that are proposed are quite limiting. They are unreliable they're not as accurate and rather than take a piecemeal approach by addressing a very narrow random oral fluid testing as proposed by this bill we want to take a wider approach as a Government. We're looking at this area in a much broader sense and so we're not just focusing on a very narrow test which will arguably only detect the presence of three types of drugs. We're looking at it from a broader sense as a Government.We want to take this matter of drug harm very seriously—as we do—and that's why under our Minister Andrew Little we want to look comprehensively—as we are. We're taking a good close look at the Law Commission's report Controlling and Regulating Drugs and are doing a comprehensive review of the Misuse of Drugs Act to look at a replacement for that. The Law Commission's report will be providing a lot of guidance to the Government on that.But in addition to that we have to look at wider bodies of work and not just pure narrow testing as is proposed by this bill. We're looking at wider solutions for the drug problem as I've said. We need to crack down on the actual supply and demand of these drugs and that means breaking down the supply chain being more aggressive at the border and controlling the importation of precursors and the illicit distribution and networks which are involved in the distribution of these drugs.So there are a wide range of issues that are involved in this area. It is very complex and we're also looking at the reasons behind things—whether we're looking at our mental health review. There are a lot of complex issues involved and merely just looking at a very narrow piece of legislation which is only looking at quite an ineffective form of testing does not go far enough. And that's why we cannot support this bill. We want to look at it more comprehensively.I do note the noble intention behind the bill that Mr Scott has brought to the House but as I said this is a very complex area. There is a lot of work under way under this Government in a range of areas where we're looking at all of the interconnected factors which create and give rise to instances where folks may be driving under the influence of drugs. And as I've said we need to look at all of those wider issues and look at them in a responsible and a measured way. Merely focusing on a narrow piece of legislation for testing drug-driving under the influence is not sufficient and does not go so far as we would. At this point in time it doesn't meet the objectives that we want to achieve which is looking at this in a much broader sense.So with those remarks we won't be supporting this bill but we know that as a Government we are doing much more expansive work which will get to the real cause of our drug use and the proliferation of users who may be under the influence while driving—we will be able to come up with a more comprehensive set of solutions than this bill offers. So we oppose this bill.