Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you Mr Speaker. I too would just like to acknowledge the tragic death of the young boy up in Whangārei. I acknowledge all of the people involved in the rescue and recovery of him and acknowledge that the whole community up there will be hurting and encourage us and remind us all that we should be respecting his parents and family. There will be lots of speculation and people wanting to comment but we should be led by them.I want to address the sanctimonious speech that the leader of the Green Party made in the House lecturing the rest of us when they've got their own issues which I think they should be focused on and dealing with. Today in question time when a member of the Opposition raised a very important question to the Government around public safety the co-leader of the Green Party decided to mock that to a point Mr Speaker that you felt she had to leave the House.SPEAKER: Order! The member should not bring the Speaker or any of my rulings into this debate.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Thank you Mr Speaker. What the co-leaders of the Green Party should be doing is quite simply this: they should be standing up and addressing this Parliament and explaining what they're doing around domestic violence—one of the portfolios they hold. What are they doing around homelessness—one of the portfolios they hold? There is nothing being done. From the policing perspective domestic violence is going through the roof. It's one of those issues that continues to increase.Jan Logie: You supported Te Aorerekura. You supported the work.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Sorry Jan Logie—support what? Of course Jan Logie is saying we support the work. When she was the Minister of course we supported the work—of course we did. We want to see a reduction. We want to see a reduction in domestic violence. The point being this Jan Logie your co-leader that now has the portfolio has done nothing and we see domestic violence rising. Do you know what the numbers are? Go and have a look at the numbers Jan Logie; you'll be embarrassed and you'll be ashamed and you should be talking to your co-leader and telling her to front up to this House. Instead of us getting sanctimonious lectures they should be fronting up and explaining to the House why they're failing.In terms of the policing portfolio this is this Government's priority: when they came to have to appoint their fourth police Minister—the fourth police Minister since I've had the portfolio—Prime Minister Chippy" Hipkins sat around the Cabinet table and he asked for volunteers. This is what happened: all his senior Ministers at the top of the table suddenly were looking at their papers! They had other things to keep themselves busy. Give credit to Ginny Andersen one of the newest Cabinet Ministers there down the end of the table who put her hand up and said "I'll have a go." Chris Hipkins said "Great. We're going to appoint Ginny Andersen my newest Cabinet Minister with very little experience to the police portfolio."—in a time when we're experiencing the worst lawlessness we've seen as a country. Then he rushes down to speak to the press gallery but he didn't actually think that through very well because he got down there and he said "I've just appointed Ginny Andersen as our police Minister. She's got lots of good police experience."But of course the gallery started probing that. They said to him "What is that experience?" And he had to stop—and we've seen this happen before—"Well I wasn't expecting that question. I don't have a pre-formulated answer." He came down to the House to speak to our press gallery to tell them he'd just appointed a new police Minister that had police experience and he had no idea what that was. That shows just how much thought or how much attention was given to the appointment—an appointment that I think is very important when we're facing a 33 percent increase in violence crime a 41 percent increase in victimisations and an over 500 percent increase in ram raids. They're dealing with a 60 percent increase in mental health. They are stretched—that thin blue line is stretched. And I'll tell you one thing: they get tired and fatigued with hearing politicians getting up in the House and talking about 1800 new police. They do not feel that they've got reinforcements on that thin blue line at all.So I take umbrage to a Green Party leader coming in here and lecturing us about what we're focused on and what we want to do when we are laser focused behind Christopher Luxon and holding this Government to account. They are fast becoming a shambles. They are a chaotic coalition whether it be Labour whether it be almost being bowled over by Meka Whaitiri running so fast the other way or whether it be the Green Party with their own members calling each other cry-babies and a member leaving. By the way Mr Kieran McAnulty who decides to stand up and have a go at Chris Bishop—who delivered an outstanding speech and actually got a clap from his own colleagues in acknowledgment—when he finished his speech there wasn't one clap. Everyone was looking down. Andrew Bayly: No teamwork over there.Hon MARK MITCHELL: Absolutely. We are focused on holding this Government to account. We'll continue to roll out our policies and we'll fight hard—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."