SpeechDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): I've been listening to the debate in this House and I've heard not one justification—not one justification—for the inconsistency on the law that's just been passed from Golriz Ghahraman's amendment. That inconsistency essentially requires the prison managers to break the law. This law is a botched law; it is a shambles. It is a law that reflects poor process and it is a law that reflects poor priorities on this Government.I've been part of the select committee on this process and I must say that in the urgency of lockdown when constituency MPs have faced extraordinary challenges in their own electorates with dealing with constituency issues here I was and here were other members on this side of the House dealing with complex issues but also having to deal with giving prisoners the right to vote—in lockdown. That reflects I think the poor priorities of this Government that we have such deep challenges going on in the community and all that side of the House worries about is who has the right to vote in prison.We do not support this law but don't take my word for it take Chris from my own electorate of Northcote who said The moment they decide to live outside the law of New Zealand prisoners lose the right to vote." That is the first principle on which we oppose this law. If you do the crime you do the time and that means having your rights as a free and fair system of democracy taken away—whether it's the right to vote the right to freedom of association or liberty rights to go with that.What about the role of our justice system? Well we on this side of the House care about the victim—we do. Unfortunately the bill that's going forward has a lack of centeredness on the victim and we heard about this in the select committee—victims who have had deep challenges with sexual violence rape and unfortunately that has been escaped from the process.A third reason why we oppose this bill is around the role of rehabilitation and reintegration. Of course this plays an important role in making sure prisoners reintegrate into our society but we can do that in prison in a safe way and that is through educational means. And I've talked about previously already other complex skills training that's provided for prisoners in New Zealand prisons.But what I think typifies the law that we're about to vote on today is the Supplementary Order Paper that was passed less than an hour ago which essentially requires prison managers to break the law and it's a shame that that side of the House didn't want to refer it back to select committee for deeper consultation.This election is a stark contrast between Labour and National on the issue of crime and prisoners. On that side of the House we've got a party that is soft on crime a party that has poor priorities in Government and a party that doesn't care about the democratic process—Simeon Brown: Or victims.DAN BIDOIS: —or victims that we have in New Zealand. But on this side of the House we are tough on crime. If you do the crime under a National Government you will be put away. And we have very clear priorities—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I hope I won't.DAN BIDOIS: Madam Speaker if the prisoner or the offender does the crime they will do the time. We have very clear priorities: make our communities safer.Lastly we care about the proper democratic process of our parliamentary system not a half-baked system to get it done for the next election. So we oppose this law in this House and we hope that we have some justification for the changes that have been made today. This is a terrible law and we do not commend this bill in the House."