Moroney Sue: Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 02 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1029. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour):It is a pleasure to rise to speak to the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill in its Committee stage. I rise to speak because I just want to seek some clarification on some of the clauses in this bill. Because of the nature of what we have heard about the reasons why we are having to put this sort of legislation in place—and I think no one in this Parliament feels happy about having to debate such issues because these are the sorts of things that exist in our society that we would prefer simply not to exist. But they do and so we need to make sure that the legislation that we have got in front of us is fit for purpose and actually does what we think it does.I have been reflecting on what the Justice and Electoral Committee found with this bill because that select committee in fact made a number of amendments to this bill and I am very pleased that it did. In particular and the Minister in the chair Nathan Guy may be able to clarify this for me when the select committee amended clause 30(1) in relation to the words providing that the person placed under a public protection order was going to have access to newspapers—that clause was actually amended at the select committee so that they would have access to news media. The select committee has made the statement that the amendment refers to a resident receiving a news media item and does not include by reference media representatives.I have had a look at that clause and when I initially read it it sounded to me—and this may be a drafting issue—like they are actually going to be given access to news media. That is actually what it says in the clause. It says that a resident must be given access to news media. That sounds to me like they have got access to being interviewed by the news media rather than just to reading information in the news media. I am quite confused because those two things are quite different from each other. Have they actually got the right to have someone come and visit them and interview them maybe one of the TV programmes? Maybe they could become part of a reality TV show—who knows?I am not sure that the drafting of that particular clause 30(1) does do what the select committee in fact asked to happen. The select committee wanted it to be made quite clear that they were going to be in the committee’s words—“For the sake of clarity the amendment refers to a resident receiving a news media item and does not include by reference media representatives.” But what the law actually says in clause 30(1) is: “A resident must be given access to news media (for example newspapers television or radio) and if Internet facilities are available in the residence to Internet sites approved by the manager.” It then goes on in subclause (2) to say that that “… does not entitle a resident to unsupervised access to the Internet or to the use of email.” However it does not seem to me that that actually excludes what the select committee wanted it to exclude. I would be interested in hearing from the Minister about how they will ensure that that clause is going to be enacted in the way that the select committee wanted it to be.I also wanted to quickly visit the management plan that is in clause 39.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): Can the member just confirm that she is speaking to the Parole (Extended Supervision Orders) Amendment Bill?SUE MORONEY: No I am not.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): It took me a while to get that point but I think the member might be speaking to a bill that we have passed through the Committee of the whole House.SUE MORONEY: OK. I hope that these matters were traversed in the previous bill. The Minister obviously cannot answer my questions and I will leave it at that.The question was put that the amendments set out on Supplementary Order Paper 30 in the name of the Hon Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga to Part 1 be agreed to.Amendments agreed to.Part 1 as amended agreed to.Part 2 agreed to.Clause 1 agreed to.Clause 2 agreed to.Clause 3 agreed to.Bill to be reported with amendment presently.