Brewer CameronCAMERON BREWER (National—Upper Harbour): I rise in support of the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) (Overseas Travel Reporting) Amendment Bill. We'll just call it the bill I think after this. Look as part of the Justice Committee ably chaired by my colleague here James Meager we worked through this judiciously. It was presented of course in the amendment bill form to the 53rd Parliament on 3 August 2022—and others have spoken about how its architecture goes back much further than that as well—with submissions closing on 14 September 2022.I was interested to learn that the Green Party—there's a surprise in every day in Parliament and for us today it was that the Green Party won't be supporting this particularly—as my colleague Dan Bidois has spelt out because I wanted the full title of it—as their co-leader the Hon Marama Davidson was of course the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence.Now as other speakers have said this will not solve everything; this will not stop everybody. But man it's an improvement. And as others have also said they're surprised that these policies and procedures and requirements are not in place.We've heard the words sex tourism" and "exploitation" kind of thrown around tonight but the reality is—as the sponsor Greg O'Connor has told us repeatedly in select committee and reminded us—that the perpetrators are normally known to the victims: friends and family. It's not some overly sophisticated sex tourism thing it's—to use Mr Greg O'Connor's language—normally those that might be going to Perth or Mooloolaba and so visiting friends and family in the likes of Australia. And so it offers up greater protections for those children in those jurisdictions that we are supporting tonight. At its core the bill seeks to address significant gaps identified in the existing legal framework by imposing stricter reporting obligations on registered child sex offenders before they travel abroad by mandating—and again amazing that this hasn't happened in this form before—comprehensive reporting of travel plans including destination details duration of stay and passport information. The main provisions include this: offenders intending to return to New Zealand must report each overseas address where they will stay and the dates of travel to and from each country; offenders not intending to return must report the country where they intend to reside; all offenders must report the passport number place of issue and expiry date of every valid passport they hold. So tonight what this does is it enhances New Zealand's capacity to protect children globally by ensuring that the likes of New Zealand Police and our Customs Service have detailed information on the movements of these registered child sex offenders. And as others have canvassed it brings in line overseas travel reporting requirements with those already in place for domestic travel. So I would argue it's long overdue.Again I wanted to pay tribute to the bill's sponsor Greg O'Connor. He sat very patiently in Justice Committee waiting for his item to come up and he spoke very passionately for it. He's also spoken earlier tonight about his work as a detective many many many years ago and the fact that he saw this in many confronting guises and saw firsthand the impacts. He used the word—in most cases these people the offenders were sadly just pathetic—just pathetic.So the National Party stands with Mr O'Connor stands with other parties—minus the Green Party—who look set to support this. Again disappointing that the previous Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence isn't in support of this but we believe this is a critical step in enhancing international cooperation strengthening monitoring capabilities and safeguarding vulnerable children. And so why wouldn't we go there? And the chair—Dan Bidois: They voted for it.CAMERON BREWER: They voted for it in select committee the Green Party but they've since changed their mind. The select committee—as I've said ably chaired by Otago alumni James Meager our in-house solicitor—made a number of recommendations all of them for proposed amendments all of them unanimous. He's already taken us through clause 2—we postponed the bill's commencement to allow police time to prepare and inform offenders about the new requirements. We eliminated redundant passport information reporting provisions giving existing obligations. As he's also said our proposed amendments from select committee proposed the Act clarify and enhance information sharing between specified agencies for public safety and risk management; and explicitly applying the bill retrospectively as well was a proposal from this select committee to ensure comprehensive coverage of all registered offenders.So this is something that now comes to its second reading and hopefully on to its third reading and it's something that should have arguably been in place and something that even if it saves— "even if it saves" as we often say in this House—one child would be well worth our time. We know it's going to do better than that and with the increased technological improvements and now with the increased reporting capability and requirements this is going to mean that we know where our registered sex offenders are overseas and our police and our Customs do too. Why wouldn't we want to know that information? Why wouldn't the Green Party want to know that information? That is the staggering—that is the biggest surprise for us in the National Party here tonight. Why wouldn't the previous Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence say to her party and caucus "We have got to support this. Yes we've got concerns. Members please table them in the Green Party. But overall we have got to support this." But sadly the Green Party aren't and so it's left to the other parties: as we know the National Party unanimous in their support of 49 votes; the Labour Party have been strong in their support for Greg O'Connor's intentions; Todd Stephenson on the Justice Committee represented by Laura Trask they've been strongly supportive as have New Zealand First. And so we come together as kind of like the super coalition really—Laura Trask: And the Māori Party.CAMERON BREWER: And Te Pāti Māori—and Te Pāti Māori. Oh look jeez thank you for pointing that out this is a mega-super coalition of support—"Kumbaya" has broken out. But I would argue that it's broken out for the very very reasons that most of us are here whether we're aunts or uncles neighbours grandparents parents parents-to-be nephews nieces we've all got connections we've all got such precious people in our lives that we want to protect. There is no more vulnerable people in this society I would argue no more vulnerable people in this society than our young young children. And protecting them from registered sex offenders is core business to this Parliament and so I commend this bill."