Fenton Darien: Summary Offences (Possession of Hand-held Lasers) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFenton Darien: Summary Offences (Possession of Hand-held Lasers) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 28 May 2014. Volume:699;Page:18431. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DARIEN FENTON (Labour): I want to thank the member Cam Calder for enlightening us on the Summary Offences (Possession of Hand-held Lasers) Amendment Bill and for shining a light on the priorities of this Government—shining a light on the priorities of this Government on a members’ day when we have more important issues that we should be debating like paid parental leave. I am sure that Cam Calder will be delighted that this bill has finally reached its second reading. I know he has been very anxious about his legacy—his enlightened legacy—that he will leave behind. He wants to have this bill as his legacy. The people of Manurewa he tells us are lined up waiting until this bill is concluded so they will know that they are safe at night—that they are safe because Cam Calder has brought forward a bill to ban lasers.All jokes aside I do have to say that there are some issues here about aircraft and shipping. I think it is fair enough that he has tried to address this issue although I do question whether it could have been slipped into a transport bill. I think it could havebeen. Cam Calder along with David Bennett and me has sat on the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee for the last 3 years. We have considered several bills on transport—really important ones actually like reducing the blood-alcohol limit. It was really important that the Government finally got to that. But we could have slipped this into a transport bill instead of wasting our time on a members’ day. I really do think that your party has done you a disservice Dr Calder by not doing that. It has not shown you the respect that you deserve bringing such an important bill to the House on a members’ day and not shown you the respect that you need in order to have as your legacy that we are going to ban lasers. We are shining the light on the issue of lasers.As I said all jokes aside there are some issues here. There are some issues. There are one or two minor things—one or two minor things. There have been a few lasers thrown around in the House by Dr Calder actually. There have been instances in recent years. It is not a new idea. In fact I think we were talking about this in 2010 were we not? However the bill does aim to have a preventive impact—we will see. We will see. I am not sure that you can control larrikins who decide to get a hold of new bits of equipment and shine them in the wrong places.But I would say that we are a very generous Opposition. We support members’ bills when there is a worthy cause unlike the Government which has been extremely miserly and mean when it comes to members’ bills. I can think of four member’s bills in my name that will not be part of my legacy when I leave this Parliament in a few months’ time because the Government is too miserable to see a good idea when it comes up because we presented it. If it was not the Government’s idea it does not think it is a good idea. However in conclusion I do extend my congratulations to the member Dr Cam Calder. I do wish him well in his post-parliamentary life and I am sure that there are going to be many enlightened times ahead of him. Thank you.