Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Ngā mihi ki a koe. Ā tēnā koe e te Whare. Kia ora koutou katoa. I stand in support of this bill. One of the key principles of the Green Party health policy states and I quote All services should be provided to the highest possible level of quality (accessibility acceptability effectiveness efficiency and safety) as determined by service users peer review audits and the community at large." Since sunscreen is a product purchased by people to prevent damage to their health establishing a product safety and standard certainly is in line with this. The Greens have long supported consumer protections that ensure people can trust what they are buying. This bill would increase consumer trust in the claims of sunscreen brands. We also note that Consumer New Zealand which publishes regular critiques on sunscreen markets issued a release welcoming any movement to improve regulation. We know that Aotearoa has the highest rate of melanomas in the world. Although Māori and Pasifika are much less likely to get them when we do we have a higher risk of thick and more advanced melanoma with a poorer prognosis. Whereas for non-Māori it is predominately men who get melanomas for some reason for Māori it is predominately women. Research is not available on the impact on takatāpui trans intersex and non-binary people. Of course prevention is better and we acknowledge agencies such as Te Herenga Hauora our health promotion agency for their SunSmart campaign. We're told to "slip slop slap" and now "wrap". So slip on a shirt or slip into shade slop on some sunscreen slap on a hat and wrap on some sunglasses. But sometimes even that may not always work. Along with my National colleague who proposed this bill Todd McClay I also have personal experience in this. Proud as I am of my Māori whakapapa that gave me these brown eyes and this hair it is my mother's strong Irish blood that gave me this fair skin. So for decades now I have used quality skin care and sunscreen to make sure that I go a lovely brown colour and not bright pink. So it was quite a surprise to me in 2005 to find the tiny lump beside my eye suddenly started growing at an alarming rate. My partner made me go to a doctor and I was diagnosed with skin cancer. I was told that the waiting list was at least six months long but I was likely to keep getting bumped because I would always be low priority. They also told me though if I waited too long I would likely go blind. I have sight in both of my eyes because one of my friends loaned me the $2000 it cost back in 2005 to do a 15-minute procedure in a private hospital. All because the labelling on the products I was using in good faith were not accurate.Now that was 16 years ago. How many more people since then have lost their sight lost function in some part of their body or just died because of it? People should be able to trust that what they are putting on their skin to protect them will actually help them. Labels on health-related not cosmetic products should be accurate. The safety standard for sunscreen should be mandatory. The Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs should absolutely recommend the setting of mandatory regulations under the Fair Trading Act to prescribe that standard and end users should not have to pay extra for their sunscreen because of it.Nō reira I commend this bill to the House. Kia ora."