Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Thank you Madam Chair. I just want to make a few points and first of all to defend the comment made by the Minister Kris Faafoi in his last speech where he attacked me for just pointing out the reality of what people listening to this committee today would have seen. I merely pointed out that the Government of the day has indicated that they have nobody checking drug dealers coming into this country and that that's an opportunity for anybody that wanted to come in. That would be exactly what the people that would be listening that are of that persuasion will be doing: they'll be booking flights from Melbourne coming in at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning and bringing their gear in and it's a free ride because you can't get picked up. There's no one there. There's no one there to pick you up.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I won't be doing it. I won't be doing it so I don't need to be picked up.Hon DAVID BENNETT: But we have got a profiling system that will do that so—I just want to make it clear I'm not in any way bringing the Chair into this debate at all.The other thing that the Minister said is that it is very clear that this is a Labour-led Government bill. Now I remember the Hon Mark Mitchell and myself were actually on the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee and maritime powers and their relation to international rules have been something we actually debated in that committee some years ago. In the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee as well it's been in there as well so this has not had a genesis—Mark Patterson: What did you do about it?Hon Ron Mark: You got paid as a Minister.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Is that member over there saying something—the New Zealand First member that paid $300000 to Winston Peters and then suddenly ripped up the contract and now can't find his contract? But I know he's got it in his bottom drawer because—well yes Madam Chair I know you wouldn't have it in your bottom drawer either.But certainly the Labour members and New Zealand First members are promoting a bill here today which Simeon Brown very correctly identified has got a law and order focus to it. If we look at it it says that it enables necessary enforcement action to be taken in international waters. That is a law and order focus. That reflects the National Party which set this bill up in the first stage. We're not talking about a health issue as the new approach to drugs is—and I must admit the Green Party will be very very happy that they now are talking in this House about drugs and drug smuggling as a health issue rather than a law and order issue. The Greens are nodding. It's something they've always wanted to see happen because they don't see drugs as an illegal activity; they see it as a health issue.This is a very unusual bill for the New Zealand First and Labour members to be supporting because it takes an enforcement approach a law and order approach. So I feel the Minister might need to take this bill back to his office and reflect on the new approach that we're seeing to drug dealing in New Zealand now: that it is a health issue and that it has no consequences. First of all the person's not going to get picked up at the border because there's nobody there to pick them up and secondly they can come in and live in a free house and still basically be a drug dealer and it doesn't mean anything because it's a health issue and it's not a legal issue. So we've seen that new precedent created today which I'm sure the New Zealand public will be very interested to hear the logic behind and which I'm sure New Zealand First will take a month to reflect on and then decide that they can't support and they will seek some kind of compensation in some other form as we know happens with that party.But if we go further down the bill it talks about the jurisdiction of a drug-smuggling offence committed in international waters. It uses the word offence" and says what the offence will be if an individual on a ship is in international waters and involved in the smuggling of drugs. They are law and order perspectives and I just can't reconcile that with the new approach of this new Government to drug dealing as a health issue. I really would like the Minister to explain how he reconciles this bill with his senior members' new approach to drug dealing and his coalition partner's considered and always consistent approach to drug dealing—that was the Green Party that they saw it as a health issue. We know that the Minister of Justice is firmly behind the approach that this is a health issue and not a criminal issue. He does not see that drugs in any form are a criminal issue."