Martin TraceyParts 1 and 2 schedules 1 and 2 and clauses 1 and 2TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): I take a short call on behalf of New Zealand First and my colleague Darroch Ball on the Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill. New Zealand First will be opposing this bill. Up until this point New Zealand First has supported this bill with reservations but we can no longer support it. I take on board the comments of Carmel Sepuloni the speaker who just resumed her seat. New Zealand First is concerned about many of the same issues that the speaker from the Labour Party has just articulated. We see the risk analysis which is very interestingly wrapped up in what is called the investment approach is predominantly just a narrowing of the circumstances by which a young person can actually gain assistance and we do not see that as constructive. We would also point out that the Ministry of Social Development in its own departmental disclosure statement said: The risk model for the youth services extension is still in development and will be finalised prior to the implementation of the Youth Service in August 2016." So if it is still in development we do not understand how success can be claimed. If it has not truly been used yet we do not understand how the Government can go forward and say that this is an answer for this age group. We have also already expressed our concerns—and it was in other legislation—about the use of the national student number to track "neets" numbers. This Government is putting in place more and more tracking devices for citizens of New Zealand particularly young citizens of New Zealand and using data from multi sources to create what it believes is the picture for this risk analysis. It is not a transparent risk analysis. It is not something that for example under a privacy Act under a file you can actually request your file and say: "Excuse me but that's not right. My mother is not a drug addict." Just because somebody wrote it down somewhere does not make it so. Unfortunately this is not a transparent risk analysis that we are aware of. This is something that inter-agencies will cross-credit their data with and come up with a picture of a human being by tick-box. We find that distasteful. We can appreciate that there needs to be an extension of support probably through to age 24 or 25 for young New Zealanders trying to make their way in what is today's employment and educational environment. We can appreciate that there certainly needs to be a change to some of the funding and modelling that is going on but we cannot support the bill in its current form because we do not believe that it actually provides the answers for these young people. We have just seen some positive reinforcement models—and the Minister was just there actually—at the Vodafone World of Difference foundation. That is the sort of positive trust of young people to come up with these solutions that with the right support and the right environment—just coming back from Careerforce where they connect industry with young people and put through apprentices inside the health industry having visited ETCO and looked at other models around there of creating apprentices and so on. These are all positive ways to interact with young people rather than assessing their family history and deciding that they are a risk of being a burden to us as a country.Our young people can never be considered a burden to us as a country; they must be considered as what is possible for our future. So on that basis New Zealand First cannot support this bill."