Dr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): I rise to speak, unfortunately, against this bill. As a member of the Justice Committee, I can't support this. I want to start by saying I have been a prosecutor. I have spent my life working to improve the efficacy of the criminal justice system, and particularly to make it more possible for the police to bring difficult sex offence cases through the court successfully. But I can't support this bill. I want to start by taking a moment to just think about the range of services that our first responders do give us. Recently in Whangārei, in our office Kelvin Davis and I were just starting our first meetings when the tsunami warning sirens started, and we all had to evacuate. And out along the street were our police, out in our communities were our voluntary fire brigades, were our civil defence emergency responders, our hospitals geared up. The response was instantaneous and it was, frankly, magnificent. I would particularly like to call out the wonderful services that were done by our volunteer fire brigades in Onerahi and in Waipū who not only helped to evacuate many, many schoolchildren, but then fired up the barbie and actually cooked the sausages donated by local businesses that made it possible for the teachers and the early childhood educators to keep those many, many little kids calm and happy. Our first responders do an extraordinary job. We all know it. We all honour them for it. But this is not the way we protect them.