O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. I must start by endorsing the comments of Chris Bishop the member from Hutt South who talked about the very hard-working Justice Committee. We do have rather a lot of work going through but it's quite good to consider a bill like this because it does cover quite a range of issues. I was quite surprised when I saw it. The Court Matters Bill and Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Bill—before I opened them for the first time I thought this is going to be pretty dry and this is going to take a long time. But actually it was quite interesting because so much of what life goes about it was actually dealing with—so many of the things that do irritate people on a day-to-day basis.I would just like to sort of point out two parts of it that particularly those listening at home will wonder how we can get sort of so excited about such a bill get so interested and wax lyrical for so long about such a bill. One of the issues was the Human Rights Review Tribunal. Clearly in our modern age so often people do seek redress for those things that they find offensive or irritating or merely annoying and they look for review for tribunal for some sort of redress and the Human Rights Review Tribunal often is that place. As a result there's been quite some backup under the current legislation. There's a chair. Last year there was the ability to appoint a deputy chair but that didn't seem to make any headway. So Minister Aupito William Sio took a paper to Cabinet a very sensible paper which has now been included in this bill which gives the ability to appoint one or more deputy chairpersons—something that you might imagine is very commonsensical—and that is designed for one reason: to reduce the backlog. I'm not in any way casting aspersions on any of the cases that have come before that tribunal but it certainly means that those cases that perhaps do need a little more time than others do get the requisite attention—so again a very sensible part of the legislation.The second is to do with the Courts Security Act. As a younger police officer it was always almost something of a disciplinary duty to end up in court looking after court duty. It was actually a good time. We actually built a relationship with those that came through the courts. It often held one in great stead later on. But that's been replaced now and it's court security officers. In fact you may have read Madam Assistant Speaker just over the last couple of days that there was quite a major incident in New Plymouth court that had to be sorted out by court security—and of course ably assisted later on by police. So it is a very volatile environment and it's important that we give those that are looking after that environment the powers to do so.Again this Act the Courts Security Act is to be amended to make sure that those court security officers who are tasked with a very difficult task of keeping warring factions apart—it sometimes some of those makes the Middle East look like almost like a boy scout playground with some of the incidents that can happen there. So we do need to empower those people and that's what this legislation actually does: giving the ability to seize drugs and to seize weapons and interestingly enough also it includes—because a lot of these things can go outside and of course inadvertently it means that the court security officers lose their security as soon as things move outside—verges and grounds outside. So it's a very commonsensical piece of legislation that I have no hesitation in commending to the House.