BROOKE VAN VELDEN (Deputy Leader—ACT): Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of the ACT Party in support of the first reading of the Maritime Powers Bill. The purpose of this bill is to put in place clear powers for the enforcement of New Zealand's law in international waters or foreign waters. I think it needs to be quite clear what this bill is actually hoping to achieve. It's not about expanding our laws and creating new criminal offences. It's about ensuring that we can have the power to enforce the current laws that we have in those international waters through detection, searching, and detaining. 