Jackson Willie; Tolley AnneMARITIME POWERS EXTENSION BILLFirst ReadingDebate resumed.Hon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Kia ora kia ora Madam Deputy Speaker. Tuatahi e tika ana ki te maumahara tō tātou rangatira kātahi anō kua hinga te pāpā a Shane Jones Munro Peter Jones. Nō reira e te pāpā kei te mōhio mātou tō āhua ko koe te pukumahi i ngā wā katoa. Nō reira e te pāpā moe mai moe mai a moe mai rā. Ka nui tēnā ka nui tēnei wā hoki ki te mihi ki a Dan Bidois mō tana kōrero ātaahua i tēnei rā nō reira tēnei te mihi ki a ia me tana whānau i tēnei rā nō reira ki a koutou Te Rōpū Nāhinara tēnā koutou. Ngā mihi ki a koutou.[Kia ora kia ora Madam Deputy Speaker. Firstly it is only proper to remember our recently deceased chief the father of Shane Jones Munro Peter Jones. Therefore sir we know what you were like: hard-working all the time. Therefore sir rest in peace.Enough of that and this time is also important to congratulate Dan Bidois for his lovely speech today so I acknowledge him and his family today therefore to you the National Party greetings. Greetings to you all.]Kia ora Madam Deputy Speaker. I just wanted to acknowledge first and foremost our colleague and friend Shane Jones for the loss of his father in the last day. I was just doing a mihi to him and the whānau and wishing them all the best in the North. I'm sure everyone in the House would support that. I also just before continuing on wanted to mihi to the young man Dan Bidois who did a tremendous speech. He did a good job here today. I think he is a role model for Māori; it's just a shame he chose the wrong party to represent. But well done to him and to his whānau today. Those are always special moments.I mention Shane Jones because Shane Jones is so anti-drugs—anti-drugs. This Maritime Powers Extension Bill is all about stopping the drug dealers coming into the country. We're seeing international crime groups targeting New Zealand by smuggling large quantities of illicit drugs into the country. So this bill is needed to give authorities the powers to act outside our territorial waters. This will allow customs officials to intercept mother ships. They sit outside the 24-nautical mile zone with a supply of drugs and they send in smaller boats to try and smuggle their rotten cargo ashore.Our country's become more and more appealing for these drug-smugglers who don't care about communities—don't care about the communities that Shane Jones represents in the North. Why the Hon Shane Jones is so vigilant in this area is because we have had our communities ravaged by these drug dealers. Sadly we see intergenerational drug use along with intergenerational unemployment. We see it in the North. I've seen it myself in South Auckland. So it's time that we get a strategy together and that's what this bill's all about.So I want to congratulate our Minister Meka Whaitiri on her vigilant work. Part of the reason why she does this is because she knows the type of damage that drugs and drug dealing can cause in Māori communities particularly communities that she represents in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti. So I say well done to her. Also well done to the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee who sat on this led by Simon O'Connor over there who went on and on and on before the Dan Bidois speech. Well done to our select committee—Hon Ruth Dyson: Excellent speech!Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Thank you very much—for moving this through but the essence of this is to protect our communities and you cannot doubt that—a structure of support for our customs people a strategy in place to stop those dirty rotten drug dealers. We're talking about $1.8 billion in social harm that's happening annually and this includes police involvement courts and prison beds. So 45000 Kiwis receive support each year to reduce their alcohol and drug use. We are now on the way in terms of turning that around all thanks to this Government. So I have no hesitation in recommending this bill to the House. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'll just point out to the member resuming his seat that it is actually a first reading. It hasn't yet gone to the select committee.