Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. It is my pleasure to speak on the second reading of the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Amendment Bill. I did speak on the primary piece of legislation and I note that the primary piece of legislation was passed on 8 September 2016. So it has not been that long a period of time before we have had to come and seek a remedy of the House—amendment legislation that is incredibly important. It is important whom this law applies to and that is the essence of why we are here today.The essence of whom this bill applies to ensures that all those who have committed sex offences—and actually the justification for this bill on 15 September 2015 when the Minister introduced the bill to the House was that in 2014 alone we had 455 offenders who were convicted of child sex offences and of those 307 were sentenced to imprisonment and 294 offenders were released from prison back into the community. So this amendment bill actually now clarifies whom that primary piece of legislation applies to. The reason I read those numbers out is that they are not insignificant and if we do not get it right in terms of whom the law applies to then actually we do not have a register.It seems that 107 people who should be on a register are not. The reason I have highlighted that is that the principal legislation was very clear about the requirements of people who were sex offenders—what they had to do. I am going to read out some of that because they had to within 72 hours of being released from prison go to the police and tell the police where they lived where they worked what memberships they had and what their car registration was and they had to provide all their contact information to the police. So what this legislation is admitting is that the people whose names should be on the register are not because we stuffed up the primary piece of legislation. So I think it is incredibly important to note some of the rationale for the legislation which is about protecting children and mitigating risk. The whole reason we are having a register is to make sure that people who have offended do not offend again.In fact the requirements around those offenders are quite—for some of them they are on the register for life. If you have committed a class 1 offence you are on that register for life. If you have committed a class 2 offence you are on the register for 15 years. If you are on a class 3 you are on for 8 years. In the Committee stage debate I am going to ask the Minister how many of those 171 people who are not on the register fall into each of those categories—because that is why we have the piece of legislation. That is why we have invested as a Parliament $146 million over 10 years to make sure that we address the issue of sex offences against our children.This piece of legislation is ensuring—and I want to do a little bit of reading because I think people need to know that what the original bill failed to do to was include many people who were sentenced before the Act came into place on 8 September—or I think it was—Hon Member: 14 October.LOUISA WALL: —14 October 2016: any child offender who was no longer serving their sentence and was still subject to release conditions and any person released from prison where the sentencing judge had put conditions on their sentence. Those conditions were about where they could live not being able to go near certain places and not associating with certain people or working in certain areas. We have completely undermined the whole integrity of the legislation by excluding at this point in time 107 people. So we are here to rectify this mistake by the Government.I know a lot of people have talked about the fact that the bill went to the wrong select committee. I want to actually highlight the fact that we are here under urgency and this Government is wanting us to pass this piece of legislation by the end of the day. Where is the due process in that? There is none and the reality is that we are going to support the legislation because we have to otherwise those 107 people do not have to comply with the law. They do not have to register and they do not have to be monitored.The other intention of the legislation in establishing the child sex offender register was about enhancing the communication between agencies. I can actually to some degree see why it did go to the Social Services Committee because two of those agencies are the Ministry of Social Development and Housing New Zealand. The other two are Police and Corrections. This is supposed to be a collaboration across the public sector under the guise of mitigating risk and protecting our children.I stand here not as a member of the Social Services Committee which heard the primary piece of legislation—and I again want to reiterate that it is not going to a select committee. No select committee is going to scrutinise this particular bill that we are debating this amendment bill which is why I think some of us who were involved in the process—because I certainly partook in the Committee stage debate—are highlighting and remembering the 2-year process that we went through to get to where we are today and why some of us are actually incredibly irate that we have had to fix this stuff-up this bungle by one Minister and now this bill is being introduced to the House under another Minister which for all intents and purposes would have gone to either the Justice and Electoral Committee of which I am a member or the Law and Order Committee.So I really do not want to highlight anything else other than that whom this law applies to is incredibly important and that if we do not get it right then it actually undermines the whole integrity of this piece of legislation. As a Parliament it is great that we can come together and actually resolve the issue but I do have to say the Government should really look at itself because our resources and the time of this Parliament could be spent debating so many other things. Thank you.