Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou ngā mema o Te Whare nei. I'm pleased stand in support of this Oranga Tamariki Legislation Bill in the third reading. It's primarily a bit of a tidy-up and to get some consistencies happening between legislation that needed to be changed and fixing some errors related to interim orders in the Oranga Tamariki legislation from 2017 particularly because we're about to start the effect of some of those legislation changes from July 2019—very soon.My other colleagues have already gone through the sort of technical details of fixing up some of those errors and catching up on some of the changes that we needed to make given the drafting errors in the 2017 Act and the Children's Commissioner Act in 2003 so there's a bit of cross-referencing that needs to be done. In my short contribution what I wanted to focus on is the important start I'll say of the consequential amendments of this bill that were missed when previous changes were made to raise the upper age of the youth justice jurisdiction to 17 years old. So we're tidying that up—we're catching up and tidying that part of the legislation up. Why I'm pleased to help progress this bill through the House is to make sure we've got this start nice and tight for July. I say start". I was pleased to see Minister Little refer to it being you know a bigger conversation about preventing further offending—and in fact that we had long been chastised for not including 17-year-olds by the United Nations for a long time. So it's good to see that we've finally started and that perhaps this is a start. We could look at for example Croatia and the Netherlands who actually go right up to the age of 23 understanding cognitive and emotional development the types of behaviours that exist around the sort of late teen adolescent behaviour age group—the brain working that stuff out and people finding their way through that age range actually continues through to the mid-20s. And everyone is different—a little bit early a little bit after that. But what that means is there but for the grace of—any of us could probably think back some of us further some of us nearer to where we were at that time. We've probably got some stories each of us but more importantly some safety support systems that kept us OK while we fumbled around through that part of life. The court jurisdiction recognises that. The court jurisdiction recognises the extra support that is need. That doesn't suddenly change when you turn 17 or 18. Even Germany I think goes right up to 21. So this is a good start but I'm really open to an ongoing conversation that is focused on preventing further reoffending that is focused on: how do we really approach young people coming before our justice system what is our approach to their offence how do we involve community and whānau and how do we ensure supports are put in place and what are the punitive measures that we are doling out? You know because we've all been at that place of peer pressure and risk taking and impulsive behaviour. As my colleague Greg O'Connor also referred to then once we're in adult prison at a young age what are the links and what hook-ups happen in there for us to be put on a risky path of further reoffending or not?This is important. This is crucial to a better a safer way of dealing with young people appearing before our justice system. This is crucial to the wider discussion of preventing further reoffending which all of us I think have touched on tonight. So it is for that reason that the Greens—and we have a restorative justice approach—support the catch-up and tidy-up changes that are made being made in this bill. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker."