Nakhle Rima; Pugh MaureenRIMA NAKHLE (National—Takanini): I'd like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the speeches that were made and the support on this first reading for the bill. I didn't expect it that much. I expected it a little bit because in my heart of hearts I know that most of us here in Parliament are good people even though we have different views on how taxpayer money should be spent. So thank you for the support across the House at this stage.I note the various concerns and for the most part they're concerns I share as well. When I inherited this bill I did a lot of research and continue to do so. I did find—just as Dr Duncan Webb mentioned and the Hon Ginny Andersen and also members before her mentioned—that in the Corrections Act the principal Act as it is right now there are these protections in a way.But what I'd like to just for the time being highlight which I touched upon earlier is that section 33 and section 108 use the word may"—that prison managers etc. "may" withhold mail and things like that. When I was doing my research looking into it more I thought "Well 'may' clearly hasn't been enough." So we need to really highlight the abuse that's taking place notwithstanding these sections that already exist and respectfully to my colleagues across the House I think that at this stage has driven me to feel more strongly about this amendment bill. Yeah look I tautoko about the resources and also looking forward to Corrections coming in in the select committee stage and us querying them and hearing from them how it is on the ground and how we can hopefully make this work.I'd like to also say thank you to my colleague across the House Tākuta Ferris. Later I'll tell you what "farris" means in Arabic actually—means "stallion"—but I'd like to say thank you for the thoughts that you shared and thank you for acknowledging that from your point of view. It's a glimmer of hope because as I said I'm of the view that most of us in this House are inherently good people. I'd like to also say to my colleague Cameron Brewer: you can write my new CV any time.Again I'd like to recap for our listeners that have just tuned in or for our guests in the gallery that have just come in to listen to the final speech of this first reading.Hon Barbara Edmonds: Just for you Rima!RIMA NAKHLE: Just for me! I'd like to recap what we're doing here today. It's the first reading of the Corrections (Victim Protection) Amendment Bill. We're in the first reading ladies and gentlemen and essentially this bill is hoping to make three changes in the Corrections Act 2004. Those three changes in essence seek to protect victims of crime and protection order applicants from being contacted by perpetrators of crimes from prisons or being under the supervision of Corrections.I'd also like to re-highlight the recent stories that I spoke about during my first speech about people being contacted—victims of crime being contacted. But also I would like to emphasise before we go on and continue on from the point that my colleague Cameron Brewer made with respect to the current protections in this bill the Hon James Shaw spoke about the need to focus on survivors but also to reference family violence survivors. The Corrections Act the principal Act at this stage does cover protection for victims of family violence but as we said earlier we want to expand the scope.So thank you very much to my colleagues across the House. Thank you for everyone in the gallery listening to this final reading of this amendment bill. I commend this bill to the House. Thank you.Motion agreed to.Bill read a first time.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): The question is that the Corrections (Victim Protection) Amendment Bill be considered by the Justice Committee.Motion agreed to.Bill referred to the Justice Committee."