Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā koutou katoa. Congratulations Minister Salesa. This bill has taken a lot of hard work and effort. In acknowledging your work I want to acknowledge particularly my colleague Jenny Marcroft who is a member of the Health Committee who I know participated diligently in all of the select committee processes. And I too join with the Hon Michael Woodhouse in thanking all Health Committee members. We were one of the committees that sat through COVID and I know initially people weren't very happy about that. But what I'd like the public to know was that we didn't actually compromise our processes within this institution. We had 1271 submissions. We heard from 84 New Zealanders who chose to make a submission on this bill. And so I think we did an incredible job in processing those submissions. So I want to acknowledge the advisers within the Ministry of Health incredibly professional staff who were obviously dealing with COVID but the ministry made a determination that they could whilst obviously catering to the COVID needs also support the committee. I'd like to acknowledge the Attorney-General who did provide some information that our committee was able to deliberate on and also the Regulations Review Committee who chose to provide some advice to us. So the essential premise of this bill is that vaping products are tools to help people quit smoking and that's what this bill is all about: to give people tools to stop people smoking. Why? As the Minister articulated earlier in New Zealand 5000 people die every year because they smoke. That's 13 New Zealand citizens every day. Globally that's 7 million people; 1.2 million from second-hand smoke. So the reality is vaping if it's a tool used to help people stop smoking is going to save lives. And within that context we did hear evidence to say that vaping isn't risk-free.I think what we'll see over a few years of research is: how do we quantify the actual risk? So we had health professionals come in particularly those involved in lung health to say we have to be vigilant and we have to monitor. There were also issues about young people young people vaping as a gateway to smoking. And I do want to acknowledge our Māori and Pacific whānau who submitted on the bill. Their biggest worry and concern is that our people are not going to give up smoking and that we'll actually end up with a scenario where they smoke and vape. And if vaping actually isn't as harmless as we think then we actually have to monitor the implementation of this legislation.The only other thing I really wanted to highlight is that in the US there have been issues about people who have died after vaping cannabis oil. So we have to be really careful about our communication and the education we provide to New Zealanders about how to use this tool because we don't want to inadvertently enable another issue to emerge.Just finally I want to highlight that included in the Minister's Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) was a carryover from our smoke-free cars legislation. We are now making sure that our cars will be vape-free. And why? Because fundamentally we want to denormalise both smoking and vaping. While acknowledging that vaping is better than smoking vaping isn't good either. That is the issue. So I thank the Minister for her SOP the changes that she made.And just finally I can't not acknowledge the work of the Hon Nicky Wagner. She has dedicated the last years of her life here in Parliament in being an absolute champion for this kaupapa and I thank her for her contribution. She's obviously engaged in other activities right now but I know her heart is with us. So in that final acknowledgment I just want to conclude by saying as the chair of the Health Committee I've been incredibly proud of the work that we've done. And with my colleagues I want to thank Dylan and the team who have assisted us in our work. Finally I commend the bill to the House. Kia ora.