Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): I am feeling slightly uncomfortable in the middle of something there. It is a pleasure to rise in support of my colleague Mark Mitchell on his bill the Social Security (Stopping Benefit Payments for Offenders who Repeatedly Fail to Comply with Community Sentences) Amendment Bill in its first reading. I would like to acknowledge the very hard-working member of Parliament for Rodney. I had the experience of going up there for a day and joining Mr Mitchell. We visited many health and social care services. It was very apparent from the response that we received from the people on the streets and the health and social care workers—the acknowledgment of the work he does in his electorate. He is someone who is known as caring for the people in Rodney and he cares for all people in Rodney. I would also like to acknowledge Alfred Ngaro as the chair of the Social Services Committee. Although it has been pointed out by the Opposition that it is a very busy select committee it would be fair to say he is dispensing the work with ease and very much we have got time and space for this very important bill. So I am looking forward to it coming into the select committee where we will get submissions and kick it round the legislative process. But let us be very clear. This bill is about crime and this Government is tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime. Let us be very clear that criminal behaviour is a blight on our communities. There are many small towns in my electorate of Waimakariri and they talk to me about how all it takes is a few people in those small towns to participate in this criminal behaviour and it is a blight on the whole community. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars in public sector expense expense to private individuals and very much there are the social and emotional costs to those people in those small towns. So what we are doing today with this very succinct bill is enabling people to do the work that they are employed to do—giving them the tools that enable them to make a difference in those people's lives. Because I have no doubt that the people whom we are talking about today do not want to carry on with this criminal behaviour. They want to get rescued from this pattern of behaviour. For some people it is about compulsion. Unfortunately for some people they hit rock bottom and then it is the only way up. For some people it is about compulsion. This process will allow this.Kris Faafoi: What process?MATT DOOCEY: When we look at the process that they ask about across the House—will they bother to read the bill—it is a very clear process. People will be given a warning only if all other avenues have been exhausted only if there have been breaches of or failures in their community-based sentence and only if they fail to comply with instructions. I would call that a very clear process. Not only that but they get another warning. So they get two warnings and then it takes 14 days. If that is not a careful process I do not know what is. So people understand very clearly what is expected of them. Because in the end what we are talking about here is rehabilitation and public safety. So that Opposition in voting down this bill does not believe in rehabilitation and does not believe in public safety. That is why I support this bill and commend it to the House.