Prime Willow-JeanWILLOW-JEAN PRIME (Labour—Northland): Thank you Mr Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity to take a brief call on this bill. I'll just gather my notes. I do want to acknowledge the member Matt Doocey for advocating for an issue which I think we as we have heard in the debate tonight are all concerned about. We just have different views on the approach in which we could take to address these issues in our communities. We want to ensure that our children our families and all of our communities are safe.And I want to start by saying that the bill what it is actually proposing to do—it is proposed that the bill will amend the Corrections Act to require that when a sex offender is placed or released into the community under the supervision of a probation officer that probation officer must notify as such every principal of every school located within 5 kilometres of the offender's residence. A key point that I want to make is if there are no schools within 5 kilometres of the offender's residence then the probation officer must instead notify the nearest school however far away that is. And if you think about an electorate like mine in Northland it is many many kilometres between our small communities and schools. And so I think practically when this is applied or what is proposed is applied I think that's unfair. I think it's also unfeasible.The key point that I want to make is that we have a section 7 report on this bill. The report identifies that the bill is deemed to have disproportionately severe treatment of sex offenders to what we are trying to achieve with them and that's their successful rehabilitation or reintegration which is one of the most important roles of our justice system without any regard for the actual risk. And so the report says that the bill breaches the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act because it infringes on the right to not be subjected to disproportionately severe treatment as affirmed in section 9 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act.I do want to note that the sufficiency of the current system was supported by the previous National Government from whom we inherited these processes and who we can only assume deemed it appropriate at the time.In addition I want to say that we do have a system in place. We have heard about its imperfections tonight. We have heard about one case where this has not happened. But do we need to go to the other extreme and make it mandatory for all sex offenders regardless of whether they offended against children or not being notified to school principals within a 5 kilometre radius or if there isn't one within 5 kilometres the next school the closest school to them. So we do have a system. We have heard that there has been a flaw in that system. But the current system does allow for community notifications to schools in relation to child sex offenders to happen on a case by case basis. And the existing systems are sufficient to address the need for school notifications as and when it arises.Furthermore the next point I want to make is that the bill would implement a system considerably worse than the current system used by Corrections. And we've heard what some of those things are. We have heard that it will now apply or it is proposed that it would apply to all sex offenders not just those who have offended against children. And the processes set out in this bill are totally inflexible and that inflexibility that severe treatment of sex offenders I want to reiterate has been highlighted in the section 7 report as breaching the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act again an Act that we all in this House I'm sure have huge respect for. And so I will not be commending this bill to the House; I will not be supporting this bill.