Ball DarrochDARROCH BALL (NZ First): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Firstly New Zealand First will not be supporting this bill and I'm going to spend these five minutes explaining to the National Party why if they have any common sense they shouldn't actually be supporting this bill either.Over the last nine years the National Party has been in Government—the previous nine years. Especially in the previous term every second week I stood up in this House and I gave evidence after evidence after evidence that the youth justice system was failing. The contrast and the inconsistency with which the National Party has expressed their view over the youth justice system in the last term from the two speeches that we've just heard now is absolutely palpable. The contrast couldn't be any larger. All I heard and all this House and the public heard in the last term was how great the youth justice system was going how youth crime was down and how it was the best in the world. The two speeches that we've heard tonight so far are all about how it's failing and about how if this Government took it seriously enough then we should put the bill that's been on the Table right now through to select committee.What the National Party has just indirectly admitted is that over the last nine years—or for however long that bill has been in the ballot—they have not taken it seriously enough as the Government when they were to put it through to select committee and put it through as a Government. That's the question that that member needs to answer: if it was such a great answer if it was needed so badly—if it was needed so badly—then why didn't the National Government put it through over the last three years? Perhaps just perhaps when they answer that question themselves they know why this side of the House is not going to be supporting it—why this side of the House is not going to be supporting it.Alfred Ngaro mentioned something about New Zealand First: that we understand about parental responsibility and how it is needed to ensure the proper upbringing of these young people to make sure they're on the right track and off the pathway of crime. And he's correct. But at least New Zealand First come up with common-sense policies and pathways and not the slam the fist on the table and say Let's put the parents in jail." I mean how nonsensical is that?For the last nine years we've been hearing and been lectured on the social investment approach and about how the vulnerable children that they want to focus on are either in poverty or their parents are in jail. What does the National Party want to do? They want to fine them and they want to put them in jail. How ridiculous is that notion—how ridiculous is that notion?I want to read something out very quickly. It's dated 3 March 2017 and it will prove that the Government in what they're saying tonight in the first two speeches—and I can guarantee in the next speeches they do for the rest of the night—don't believe a word they're saying—3 March 2017. It's titled "Parents of Young Offenders [Need to Take Greater Responsibility]" and says "There needs to be greater responsibility [taken] by parents for young offenders says New Zealand First. Parenting orders [which] were meant to play a vital role in helping parents of youth offenders address their children's issues provide the support needed and … reduce re-offending but are just not being utilised. Child Youth and Family have stated that [the conclusion must be that] parenting orders are rarely sought and never enforced and that a lack of parenting support is one of the underlying causes of offending." Yet … over [the] 5000 Family Group Conference[s]"—which Alfred Ngaro mentioned—"… against youth offenders in 2015 the number of parents on parenting programmes numbered just 131—and of [those] only 7 were under a parenting order by [a] court. In 2016 this number was just 3."New Zealand First came up with the solution—a solution that already exists. It is there already in legislation; it is not being utilised. It is a step that is even further in front of the Youth Court—before the young person gets to Youth Court. When the young person gets there it's far too late. The solution already exists: parenting orders. There is no need for new legislation. New Zealand First will not be supporting this bill."