Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour—Hutt South): 你好。Thank you Mr Speaker. Often in this House we talk about those on the front line and give thanks to those police officers who are on the front line but I'd also like to give a few moments tonight to give thanks to our detective inspectors. This is a bill dedicated to those hard-working men and women—those hard-working men and women who work with people alongside Greg Williams who worked for hours and hours to follow the money. And that's what this bill will enable our police officers to do even better than what they have done already and that is to follow the money. This bill will flip the onus and enable our detective inspectors and forensic accountants to be able to dismantle criminal networks far better than they have ever done previously. I think it's important that we highlight the history of this bill and the genesis of where this started. It was first highlighted in the National Party's action plan on tackling gangs. I believe if you look on the internet you'll find it in a Cabinet paper written for Anne Tolley back in 2014. The National Party talked and wrote and confirmed in Cabinet that they would like to go for the money back those many years ago and they failed to deliver.So I challenge—I challenge—because if we are talking about being tough on crime if we are talking about actually delivering—Hon Mark Mitchell: You're soft on crime.GINNY ANDERSEN: —for dismantling criminal networks in New Zealand then this is the bill that will actually do that. This is the bill that alongside additional police officers on our front line being able to undertake a detailed response for our youth is the type of response that New Zealand has needed for a long time. So how this will change what's done currently—and it's important to highlight that particularly for those members opposite who don't have a long history of memory; maybe Mr Mitchell may. Under the current law police must satisfy the court that either a person's assets were derived from a significant criminal activity or the person knew. So they had to know about it—mens rea—and know that they were profiting from significant criminal activity. However we know that organised criminal networks will deliberately structure their activities so the leaders and facilitators of that involvement have no knowledge of that specific offending. That's what prevents prosecutions and the seizing of assets in this space. And that is what this bill will turn around. So I'm looking forward to the speakers that come after this and explain to me why in 2014 the National Party agreed on it in Cabinet and then for the subsequent years failed to deliver in this space. So what will also happen with this bill is that a new court order will mean that criminals based overseas who had their assets in New Zealand will face losing those assets unless they can prove within two months that they obtained that property legally. So if there is no overt way of showing that you are able to get the gold-plated Harley then the onus flips for you to prove how you got that and that is a significant change. I really hope this will enable those detective inspectors in New Zealand that do hard work in this space to do their job even better than what they do already. This bill in addition to what we're doing with firearms prohibition orders with our front-line services being more equipped in terms of police numbers specific and dedicated operations on that front line is one of the underlying frameworks that will really enable police to do that good work that underlying detective work to identify where these networks are operated and how they can dismantle them in the long term. I'm really proud to be part of a Government that is delivering on this. I'm proud to be part of a Government that is playing the smart game—the smart game—not the one-hit wonders not the window dressing not the look good to make you score a couple of political points; this is the long-term significant change that that side promised and never delivered upon and this side will put to rest. I commend this bill to the House.