SpeechDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): Kia ora e te Māngai o te Whare. Man hands on misery to man it rises like a coastal shelf."—those are the words of Philip Larkin the English poet who knew something about dysfunctional families and the impact that they have on dysfunctional lives. I quote that as I rise to take a short call on this bill because I do want to acknowledge the point made by the Green Party: that the roots of criminality are deep they are intergenerational and yes this bill is not going to bring an end to those intergenerational patterns of trauma. The fact that we need to deal with gang violence on multiple levels from the intergenerational; from the need to build houses as we are doing; from the need to raise incomes for our most vulnerable as we are doing; from the need to improve services to children as we are doing. These things do not mean that we do not still have the responsibility to do what we can to deal with the problem that is immediately before us.The problem that is immediately before us is that our gangs are becoming difficult and dangerous—they've been difficult and dangerous as Mr Speaker knows for many many years—and we need to give our police more tools. These tools need to be carefully designed because it is a very tricky and sensitive matter to begin to introduce new search and seizure powers. There is no two ways about it; we risk freedoms if we do not take care. Therefore I am glad that all of the members of the Justice Committee who have risen—including myself now—have spoken to the care and concern that we put into our deliberations on this matter. It is not an easy matter to contemplate the extension of search and seizure powers but we do believe that this is proportionate in circumstances.So I want to run quickly over what it is that this bill does. First is that it is the pair to the one we passed earlier: the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Amendment Bill—the devil's in the detail and the obvious is in the name. The proceeds bill targeted cash and money and accounts and the passing on of the proceeds of crime into other hands for associates to hold on to it.This one is a little more targeted. This one is about either seizing large amounts of cash found because—I don't know about you Mr Speaker but in my experience no one wanders around with $10000 in cash in their back pockets unless there is something odd going on. It also targets the capture of what the Minister earlier called "bling" and the possession of gold and jewels and watches where there is no explanation other than money-laundering.It then goes on to put a new targeted warrant and search power for gangs where there is a gang conflict where there may be guns. And finally it gives a new offence which fits in between the very mild initial ones that we have for discharging a firearm with the "intent to annoy" in the Arms Act right through to the 14 years' worth of "discharge with intent to do grievous bodily harm". This one fits in the middle the "discharge of firearm with intent to intimidate" is now something that police can deal with and on top of that it enables them to deal with dangerous and disturbing behaviour with driving in convoys.It isn't the answer to gangs but it is the answer to helping the police deal with gang violence in the immediate future and I commend it to the House. Thank you."