Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour—Hutt South): What happens when the whip needs to whip the whip? That's the question for tonight—for that tirade from the person who couldn't quite even get their own member's name correct in speaking on their own member's bill that's being heard a third time! So we heard about Todd Müller" and also the fact that that member thought his own member's bills were better than his own member's which I thought was quite apt in summarising the entire attitude of a self kind of mode—what we see opposite. But we are supporting this bill because it's a decent bill and that's why. I'd say that the reason why Matt Doocey's bills didn't get supported was they weren't decent bills. When you get a good bill you vote for it and that's what this party stands for. So congratulations to the member opposite Todd Muller. I think that you've made a good effort at actually putting towards a bill and the reason why we support this bill is that we support taking a regulatory approach to the safety standards of sunscreen.Look I think every person can remember a time as a kid when you got really badly sunburnt. I remember it clearly at a time of about 12 or 13 not having any sunscreen on or having some sort of coconut stuff someone had given you when you were at intermediate and you spent the day out at the swimming pool and you get home that night and you go to have a bath or a shower and you realise that you've actually caused some long-term damage to your own body. Many New Zealanders do that without actually wanting to because they can't be reassured that the quality of product they should be buying off the shelves is verified. So full credit to the member for bringing about a bill that has some good benefit for New Zealanders going forward—particularly given where we are placed in the world particularly given we know we get burnt here more than we do in other countries. And it took me travelling to figure that out myself—that you don't get as burnt as what you do in New Zealand.I think it's important that we note also that we have the therapeutic products bill coming through as well. This will provide an interim measure with regard to sunscreen while this bill goes through its development and legislative stages. Unlike Australia as has already been mentioned there's no mandatory standard for sunscreens in New Zealand; so it is important that we do that in a country that has very high rates of melanoma very high rates of people who need further protection and are outside active playing sport and working. We should be protected in those spaces. We support this bill because it will help address the current gap that's been identified in implementing a regulatory scheme for sunscreen products in New Zealand through the Fair Trading Act to ensure that they meet the standards laid out in the Joint Standards Australia/New Zealand Committee on the topic. As we've already expressed there are types of products that fall into this that are proposed as I've already mentioned in the therapeutic products bill—a new comprehensive regulatory regime to regulate therapeutic products in New Zealand. The therapeutic products bill will be able to address the issues canvassed by this bill as part of a more complete approach. It's important that while this is a great issue to address and resolve now we need a wider approach for the long term so we do not see repeat instances of what this bill has brought around.While it's not a complete solution this bill provides an interim measure in regards of sunscreen regulation and we welcome that on behalf of the Labour Party. While the Government's therapeutics bill goes through its development and through its legislative stages we will support this bill because it makes a good change for New Zealanders. When you go to the shelf and you buy a sunscreen product that you are putting on your children at the side of the pool you want to be reassured that what you do is doing the best for your young children and making sure that they are protected. If it says sun protection factor (SPF) 50-plus it damned well should be SPF 50-plus and it's wrong for anything else to be sold to you pretending to be so. Changes have been made by the select committee and I think they've made some good improvements in general on the bill. I think it fits into a wider plan of making sure we're looking after New Zealanders and it's great to see a National member stepping up and ensuring that they're thinking about the wider wellbeing of New Zealanders and making some good improvements for that then. I commend the bill to the House."