Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): I rise to take a short call this afternoon on the Enhancing Identity Verification and Border Processes Legislation Bill in its third reading. If I may before I dive into my small amount of contribution on this topic I do just want to acknowledge you Mr Assistant Speaker Tisch. This is my last speech I suspect in this Parliament and your second to last day here. Our paths crossed back in the late 1980s when we were involved in the National Party and I have worked with you in your roles at both a regional level and a national level. You have always been a mentor to me and I just want to acknowledge the over 25 years of close connection between me and you. I wish you all the best for your future. The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Thank you.TODD MULLER: Like Stuart Nash the previous speaker I too have not been involved in the Law and Order Committee deliberation on this very complex bill and the quite significant layers of improvement that are being put in place and enabled through this piece of legislation. But unlike the previous speaker I am not going to immediately dive into trying to lay blame on individuals or agencies or look for political points because I think what we see here in this legislation is the Government actually working. Every single one of us will have been appalled by what happened with this individual—and like the previous speaker I am not going him the kudos of being named—but clearly a significant number of operational deficiencies were identified and this is often the way actually. These things are not big silver bullet major failures. What happens in organisations—and I have been involved in a commercial context over the years—is that you have as they call it the Swiss cheese model. You have a whole lot of relatively minor actions or inactions that result in something that is clearly not acceptable. But what we have seen here is very much a whole-of-Government approach around acknowledging this was an issue and doing an inquiry to identify the breadth of changes both culturally and in terms of process that needed to be brought into place. A number of them were immediately enacted but of course to support that cultural change and focus on excellence there needed to be a piece of legislation put in place to ensure that the legislative framework to encourage that sharing of information was in place and that it set the right legislative direction and underpinning for that change of culture. I thought Ian McKelvie actually spoke very well on this topic just before when he talked about the inherent tension between freedom of information and personal information the freedoms that are expected around that personal information and the extent to which that gets traded away when you have committed a crime against the community that as a consequence sees you jailed. Again I am not close to this but what I have listened to in this debate and read shows that the initial bill I think had very close to the right balance and the collective efforts of the select committee—almost in unanimity—has got this piece of legislation to a very good position. So I am very pleased to see that as we conclude the 51st Parliament we have got another example of the Government working and the Government delivering and getting a good outcome. I commend the bill to the House.