Ngaro AlfredALFRED NGARO (National): I rise to take a call in this third reading of the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Bill. I want to agree with the comments that were made by the previous speaker Jacinda Ardern that this is too serious a bill for us not to contend with it with the most serious concern. It is to ensure that we do the appropriate and right things in regard to the safety of and concern for our young people our families our whānau our children and our tamariki inside our communities. We know that just of late there have been heightened concerns from communities—like my good friend and colleague Chris Bishop down here in Lower Hutt and other members of Parliament who are here who have had concerns from their communities—when there is a reintegration of a sexual offender into their community and the concerns that that raises. The intent of this bill is to ensure that with what we can do in our roles and our responsibility to ensure that legislation plays its role—to ensure that safety concerns are at the heart of this bill. The heart of this bill is to both enable and establish what I would say is another tool. I know that the comments from the previous speaker were around the register on its own. A register on its own will not solve the issue; we do acknowledge that. Instead what this tool does is it adds to a suite of other tools to ensure that there is adequate information. In 2013 the Centre for Impact on Sexual Offending was established. What was clearly realised in that period of time leading to the initiation of this legislation was the lack of current and up-to-date information so that is the reason this register plays an important role in that regard.We had over 140 submissions—22 oral submissions—and a number of those submissions addressed a number of key issues and I want to just highlight some of those. Some of the concerns that were raised—and I am sure that my colleague Darroch Ball will raise them—were in regard to making the register public. When we think about judiciaries across the world there is not an example of one single judiciary that is able to give information about how the registry will play its important role as far as whether it is confined to Government agencies or open to the public. But there is enough information to say that the registry in itself plays an important role to reduce offending and it does that by providing information with which the Centre for Impact on Sexual Offending will be able to create a profile of risk and then initiate a management profile and opportunities to ensure that it addresses these key issues. That is the key role of this register—that is the role it will play.I do hope though that in the seriousness of this New Zealand First will consider not voting against the bill because of this one point of the register being public because there is so much more to this that actually makes sense. There is so much to this bill that actually makes a difference and I want to highlight some of those points if I can. One of the things that came out of the recommendations from the Social Services Committee was around the importance of the information for a judge's notes. We know that when this information is put forward often the profile agencies of the police and corrections are not privy to that information so those notes are important because they not only give extra guidance to the judges but allow in the making of a profile for some of the inherent details that are quite critical in the importance of that profiling. The other important aspect of this register is that it also ensures that up-to-date information around the children who may be around the offender both in the house and in the surrounding areas and also when the offender is travelling—if there are children at the residence of the offender where they may be that has to be notified. So we are gaining more information and that information is going to be critically important as well. We have covered issues around for instance access to social media and internet accounts. Those are going to be critically important too to ensuring that the information is updated in the risk management profile—this profile is important as well. We have also ensured that all the conditions that are part of the offenders' non-custodial duties are in the bill as well to clarify when offenders must report to clarify reporting obligations and also to allow offenders who are on the register to also apply to the district court—due to the fact that the suspension of their appearance on that register is available for them as well. I do want to commend this bill to the House. I think it is an important bill. As I have said before it is part of a suite of tools that are critically important. It is not the silver bullet. It will not answer all the questions. The last thing I want to address is the comment that Jacinda Ardern had made that maybe there was a missed opportunity. I do understand the point she is trying to get across and one of the tools is around predictive profiling which means that we can gather that information. For those who have a tendency and could be prone to this sort of behaviour we can potentially short-circuit that by putting some wraparound support and looking at ways in which we can divert that type of behaviour. There is still the provision to be able to do that within those different current agencies. This register again is a register—it allows for updating of information. It is going to be critically important. It is part of the suite of tools that are critically important to the child sex offenders unit and we think that is important. Just one last comment: people were talking about the $146 million. We in the select committee know—members may have forgotten but we were informed—that two-thirds of that cost actually is already consumed in current operational costs at the moment. So we are not talking at the larger end of this. In fact it is only one-third of the $146 million which we think is well spent on this register. I do commend this bill to the House.