SpeechHon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Justice): Can I thank members for the questions. I might work backwards if that's OK and address the questions around the Māori electoral option from the Māori Party first. I think it's clear that we asked the Ministry of Justice to undertake some consultation with stakeholders around some of the concerns that we have around the current system with the Māori electoral option to ensure that there is fairness and equality in terms of that particular roll and the general roll. I set out the principles and the values during question time that this Government holds true to our electoral system.As you can imagine the Government would like to see some change I think to ensure that there is equality and fairness. We've got some suggestions. As I said during question time we've consulted other political parties on that and we await to hear the response about that as to whether they're actually committed to the equality and fairness that they espoused during some debates. We'll see if that pertains to other parts of the electoral system.As I may have said to the member in a meeting that we've had on the multilateral option we believe that the Government is pursuing the substantive issue that he is concerned about. So our preference is to follow our path as opposed to the path that the member is proposing via a member's bill. But I think it's fair to say given the discussion and the debate since our meeting that there would be a lot of alignment in what the member has suggested needs to happen to ensure equality and fairness for all voters in that particular department.Can I also address the questions put to me by ACT member Nicole McKee in terms of hate speech. I think it's pretty clear and I've been pretty frank in this House that the response that we got to the discussion document outlining proposed or suggested changes to the Human Rights Act came back with a force of fury. There were 19000 submissions—I think 15000 of them from the hate speech union so you can imagine what they were—all relatively form. I have said publicly that this has obviously touched a nerve amongst New Zealand but we have committed from the royal commission to make sure that we deal with this issue so we don't see the type of tragedy that we saw back in 2019. So I am and the Government is committed to making sure that we get this process right. That means making sure that we honour the victims of that particular tragedy by making sure that we go through a process that doesn't make things worse—in the process making things worse—and coming to a conclusion in terms of our hate speech laws which means it keeps everyone safe and there's unity around that around those proposals as well. We are still going through that process in terms of how we do that because I do think that when we released the discussion document that a nerve was touched and a debate was started that I think probably put the people who are vulnerable in those situations more at unease than we should have. So again we are proceeding with caution but we are absolutely committed to making sure that we meet our commitments under the royal commission of inquiry.Just in the short time that I've got available in this call addressing Mr Goldsmith's contribution in terms of violent crime and youth crime we have seen the numbers of youth crime decrease markedly over the last 10 or so years. I think off the top of my head it's somewhere around 65 percent. So that is not bemoaning the current situation which obviously there is a spike in youth offending of which there are a number of reasons why that might be happening. The issues around young people's home environment whether they have a home is obviously an issue that can contribute to the spike in youth offending which we believe is happening now. Also I guess post-COVID to be disengaged from education is an issue and the Government made some announcements on that at the weekend. Obviously I think social media has a part to play here as well. The level of offending that is going on being posted on social media let's try to egg other people on or trying to reach notoriety is a concern. All justice agencies whether it be justice itself police and other agencies are working extremely hard to make sure we can continue the good work that is bringing down youth offending.But at the moment we do have an issue over the last nine months which needs to be addressed and the Government is addressing that primarily via the police and making sure that we investigate and prosecute where we can which would go against the perception that the Opposition is trying to paint: that youth crime as a whole is increasing which as a trend over the last 10 years is not necessarily the case. We will work hard to make sure that we protect people and businesses from the spike that is happening now. We can do that because we have committed more resources to the front line than any other Government in the last 15 years.