SpeechMARJA LUBECK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call on the Counter-Terrorism Acts (Designations and Control Orders) Amendment Bill. It is very clear from the speeches that we've heard through the House—this debate started off last week already—that there has been a very collaborative approach to getting this bill back to the House. So I would like to start where the previous speaker left off by thanking my colleagues on the Justice Committee for their mahi on the control order regime and how it could be strengthened. The select committee received 210 submissions and a previous speaker Emily Henderson already spoke about some of the issues that were raised during that particular process. So responding to the threats that we are seeing the Government is strengthening the counter-terrorism laws to make it harder for people who are known threats to actually undertake terrorist acts. It was in a previous speech by the awesome chair of the Justice Committee Vanushi Walters—it outlined in great detail how those amendments very carefully balance the rights and freedoms of those individuals that they may apply to. And we've heard that it is very important that we take care in that balancing because of course we are dealing with people's rights and liberties. Prior to the dinner break my awesome colleague Emily Henderson already spoke about that particular issue. It's also important to note that we are coming up—as she actually mentioned—to a thorough review of this regime as it is set out in legislation.So this bill amends the current designation scheme to clarify matters relating to the expiry renewal and revocation of designations. That is because the current designation scheme doesn't specifically address the circumstance of a designated person being imprisoned in New Zealand. And so as a result there is ambiguity in how the designation scheme applies to such persons. And ambiguity of course in legislation is never a good thing. But particularly in this instance given the devastating consequences of a terrorist attack it is crucial that the Prime Minister's powers to prevent and suppress terrorism in the evolved global terrorism landscape are entirely clear. Now the previous speaker Tangi Utikere already spoke on the expansion of the eligibility criteria. I was going to run through those but he very eloquently spoke on those—the greater judicial discretion and the importance for courts to have this discretion—so I will leave it at that. But the bill makes several of those targeted changes to improve the current control orders regime and it does so by incorporating some of the lessons that we've learnt from the granting of New Zealand's first and only control order. So several speakers have discussed those targeted changes in detail. The changes will improve the effectiveness of the control orders Act and expand the criteria for high-risk individuals who can be covered by the restrictions. That as I said previously will limit their ability to undertake any attack. So our goal obviously must always be to ensure we can effectively manage and respond to the specific threats that we are seeing in Aotearoa New Zealand and therefore I commend this bill to the House. Thank you Madam Speaker.