Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Everything that Phil Goff said and more—what a fantastic speech from the member and I wish everyone else could be as eloquent as that and explain things so clearly. But look I really do want to take Todd Barclay the member from somewhere down south of here to task for his comment about Billy Weepu. Obviously the member knows nothing about those people who are incarcerated in prison. He is so out of touch with this whole issue. He is making out like Billy Weepu must be the biggest person in New Zealand and the only person capable of cutting through a bracelet with a pair of scissors. Well if he actually knew a bit about the corrections system and actually went and visited prisons he would see that there is any number of people who are bigger than Billy Weepu and just as capable of cutting through a bracelet with a pair of scissors or with a pair of nail clippers like Phil Goff said. Just last week I went into Wiri Prison to talk to a guy. I tell you what he was a man mountain—he was a man mountain. Todd Barclay is saying that that guy may never ever get out and would have to have a bracelet on his leg but he would not be able to cut through it—you know it is just ridiculous. As Phil Goff has said 15500 people have breached their electronic monitoring conditions. I can bet you that a fair percentage of those people were just as big and just as powerful as Billy Weepu. I mean he may be the centre in the Parliamentary Rugby Team—and not all of our backs in the team are built as big and as strong and as powerful as Billy Weepu—but the fact of the matter is Billy Weepu is just like any other New Zealander. Anyone who has got a bracelet on has got the potential to cut through it or to have family friends and associates who equally able to cut through these electronic monitoring bracelets. As was mentioned the Minister of Corrections turned up in our Law and Order Committee and she said: These new bracelets are the greatest things ever. They will never be able to cut through them and an offender has a choice: either leg or no leg." Within hours the Minister was just made to look like a total fool and that snip snip snip of Billy Weepu's scissors was the snipping of the Minister's credibility. As Peeni Henare has said these bracelets cost $3500 per offender. At any given time there are 47 people who have breached their conditions. That is 47 times $3500—I was a maths teacher. If Peeni was a student I would expect him to have the answer of what 47 times $3500 is but that is a lot of money that is being invested and just going down the gurgler. I would also like to turn to new section 54IA(6) in clause 10 in Part 2 and it talks about the annual report of the Department of Corrections. It is going to have to include in its annual report the following information about the use of electronic monitoring in the year being reported on: "(a) the number of offenders who were at any time subject to an electronic monitoring condition: (b) the average number of offenders who were subject to an electronic monitoring condition and the average duration of the condition: (c) the percentage of offenders who while subject to an electronic condition were—(i) convicted for failing to comply with the condition; or (ii) convicted of any other offence:". I would also like to know just exactly how much this is all costing us. If we have got 15500 people who have already breached the conditions of their electronic monitoring that is a lot of money that is going down the gurgler and it is really really important that the communities and that our country can have faith in the technology and the materials that these electronic bracelets are made up of. It is also a concern to hear—as Su'a William Sio said—that today a sex offender who has a conviction for raping a 13-year-old girl and who is meant to have 24/7 surveillance and an electronic monitoring bracelet was allegedly seen at a supermarket."