Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. Well that last speaker has been getting very agitated in this House in the last couple of speeches that she has made and I think it's the stress of knowing she's on the way out and her party is on the way out. I think that stress is showing in the tone that we're seeing from that speaker. Hon Grant Robertson: How can you be talking about things being on the way out? Hon DAVID BENNETT: And it's great to see Grant Robertson in the House here today. He should actually be in his office trying to save the economy instead of being down here trying to look like he's reading some material. But you know—Hon Grant Robertson: On the way out. Hon DAVID BENNETT: On the way out—exactly what Grant Robertson is. You know he's the man that has caused a recession that the Labour Party called a technical recession today—they won't actually admit that it's a recession. [Interruption Then the Labour Party are constantly interjecting because they want to hear more about the recession that they have created and Grant is—they can't even say the word in question time any more. They can't say the word recession"—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! Order! The member will come back to this particular bill the Corrections Amendment Bill. Hon DAVID BENNETT: Oh thank you Madam Chair. I was just responding to the Hon Grant Robertson's interjections and just confirming what he's done to this economy. But this bill is about corrections and anybody that's been in a prison—and most politicians will actually have had the opportunity I guess in some way to go through a prison and see what it is actually like and to see how hard it is and to see the young men particularly in there that can't read and can't write. They're very angry. A lot of them are in a very dangerous position in their personal lives at that young formative stage. That's why you need to do the rehabilitation and that's why we're doing what we're doing on our side when we're supporting rehabilitation—like we're supporting this bill. It's really important that we understand some of the aspects of those young men particularly and their journey in our prison system. There can be no excuse for the activities that have been undertaken to get someone into prison and it's very difficult to actually get to prison. We had a Crown prosecutor speak at a school event and basically for anybody that can get through year 12 there's virtually a zero percent chance that they will actually end up in prison. Basically anybody that can get through year 12 virtually doesn't go to prison unless they do some kind of fraud. So effectively we need to look at some of the drivers in society as well and that's really where the National Party is coming from. We're looking at a cohesive plan around education around work and around giving people incentives to actually have a better life rather than glorifying gangs and rather than glorifying that aspect and saying that that's a legitimate perspective of how people can get through in life. That's the difference between National and Labour and that's the difference in how we approach these issues. So we will be supporting this bill because there are some parts of it that reflect our desire to see more rehabilitation and actual rehabilitation. We had the Department of Corrections come in front of the select committee last week and as is typical for the Department of Corrections they were very defensive of the Government in the senior leadership there. One of the issues was around rehabilitation because a lot of money has been spent on rehabilitation and not a lot of service delivery is actually being seen and they couldn't actually answer that question in the select committee. Now they said that they'd get the information and send it through but surely when you're spending something like I think it was $170 million you would know where that money would be going and you would know what you're trying to do with that and they couldn't answer those questions. It really spoke volumes about their approach to rehabilitation. Anyone that's been in this House and been through a prison will know that the prison officers do a sterling job for this country. They do amazing work and we thank them but we need a system that actually supports them as well and a system that doesn't give them the tools to deal with those prisoners isn't supporting them. That's where the National Party is coming from: we want a system that actually supports those prison officers so that they are safe and we actually get the results and less offending—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! The member's time is up."