Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare kia ora tātou katoa. This is not the first time I have taken a call in this House to amend either a technical mishap or a minor oversight something that was missed when the original bill was going through. So I rise to take a call on the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Amendment Bill in its third reading. I agree with many of the members of this House—with all of the members of this House—in our concern for the public safety of our tamariki and our families throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. It is in this vein that we in the Labour Party will be supporting this bill.My colleagues have mentioned our disappointment in having to come back and revisit something so important something that I know my colleagues—in particular Aupito William Sio in Māngere South Auckland—have been dealing with in their communities around the place the monitoring of sex offenders and more importantly the kind of resources that are available to ensure that it is done effectively. In that vein any information sharing between ministries of the Crown—between any agency or local organisation—that will ensure the safety of our communities is a good move. It is a step in the right direction. In this particular instance the New Zealand Police and the Department of Corrections will have that ability to share information to make sure that those people in our communities will be kept safe and of course that those offenders who require such strict supervision are able to have that service afforded to them to keep them safe and of course to keep the community they live in safe.One of the key parts I noticed in a report from the police was about proactively being able to monitor—proactively being able to do that. I wonder in much of the debate that has taken place over the past few months about resource and capacity—and I have said this before in the House around bills of this nature whereby we are asking the question of whether or not the kinds of resources that we expect for such an important job are made available to the ministries to the departments and to the services we expect such high levels of monitoring and high levels of service from. Funding cuts cuts in police numbers—these are issues that have happened within the time frame from when the Act was first passed to this point in time this evening. So these are all concerns that we do have and that have been raised and I think for the most part adequately answered given the truncated time frame for this particular bill. We want to also reiterate our concern around the democratic process which is about making sure that all of those stakeholders who do have a part to play in this particular bill are heard from.Without going on too much longer we want to see this type of bill enacted as soon as possible to keep our communities safe. We want to make sure that that happens obviously as soon as possible because managing the risk posed by serious child sex offenders by providing Government agencies with the information and the tools is very important. It is important to the Labour Party I am sure it is important to all parties across the House and more importantly to the communities where our people reside. I think about the community of Tāmaki Makaurau. I think about the high-density population. I think about the proximity of community members within their community. There is going to come a point in time when we are seriously going to have to consider the best way of dealing with serial sex offenders and serious sex offenders. This particular bill is a step in the right direction. We support this in its third reading and I want to commend this bill to the House. Kia ora.