Hon MEKA WHAITIRI (Labour—Ikaroa-Rāwhiti): E Te Māngai o Te Whare, tēnā koe. Otirā, e ngā mema katoa, tēnā tātou katoa. I'm pleased to take a call on the members' bill, the Protection for First Responders and Prison Officers Bill, in the name of the member Darroch Ball. The bill proposes three things. It creates a new offence of injuring a first respondent or prison officer—and I want to acknowledge the Supplementary Order Paper that the member has mentioned in his first contribution tonight—under the Crimes Act 1961. It amends the Sentencing Act 2002 to require a minimum sentence of imprisonment of six months for those convicted of the new offence, unless the court considers that would be manifestly unjust. And thirdly, it expands the existing offence of assaulting a police, prison, or traffic officer in the Summary Offences Act 1981 to apply to first respondents. Can I just, from the outset, recognise the incredible job our first respondents do in this country: our ambulance drivers, our police officers, our prison officers. A day doesn't go by that we don't acknowledge the hard work that they themselves do and the risk to their safety they put themselves and their colleagues at. 