Smith NickHon Dr NICK SMITH (National—Nelson): In talking to the review of the justice sector what we again see is this massive gap between the promise and the delivery and I want—Kieran McAnulty: Oh rubbish. Hon Dr NICK SMITH: The member says that's rubbish. Well let's go and take the core thing: this was a Government that promised radical reform in the justice sector. We had this massive justice forum. The part that I enjoyed about that was the work that my colleague Mark Mitchell did on the money that was wasted on it. Here's my question: is there a single bill or legislative reform that has flowed from all that big talk? Answer: absolutely zip—zero. Here we are 18 months later at the halfway mark of the Government's term and absolutely zero on the non-delivery front. Here's the irony: we keep passing laws to increase sentences. We did it on stock rustling. We did it in respect of psychoactive substances. We're doing it in respect of first responders. So here is a Government that gave us all this rhetoric around Prisons are a failure. We're going to have radical justice reform." and here's the truth: when prosecutor Simon Bridges challenged Jacinda Ardern she wasn't prepared to defend the turf. Up went the white flag and just like with the capital gains tax there is a complete lack of delivery. I particularly want to challenge Kelvin Davis the Minister in the chair. I heard him rave for nine years alongside the Green Party on the issue of double-bunking and here's the part that's got me just dumbfounded: the Minister now has a bill before the House to make it easier—Brett Hudson: Oh really? Hon Dr NICK SMITH: —to have double-bunking—that's right. So the member who made his career in the corrections area on the basis of undoing double-bunking is now going to make it easier for the Department of Corrections to double-bunk. Then the other part that's amused me is that every time there was a fight or an incident in prisons during National's nine years the Minister in the chair raged about it and said they would never happen on his watch. Well guess what's happened in the last week in the prisons in Christchurch? Have I heard the Minister in the chair raging about the issue of assaults that occurred in Christchurch Prison this week? He has been a complete lion in Opposition and a total lamb now that he has got into Government. Now my colleague Chris Bishop has joined us in the Chamber and the most interesting part of the Estimates was Chris Bishop exposing the massive gap in delivery around police numbers because we had these absolutely binding commitments about the 1800 cops. I've got to give Chris Bishop 11 out of 10 for actually at the select committee making a complete wally of Stuart Nash over the delivery of the number of police. It wasn't like there was a little gap between the rhetoric and what was actually in the delivery. There was a massive gap. Can I draw members' attention: here's my maths. You promised 1800 extra cops over three years and 1800 divided by three is 600 per year. Well how many did they get? We're 18 months in eh? Halfway through the Government—well that says we should have 900. Do you know what the number is? It's 267. Now look I accept it's not quite as bad as Phil Twyford promising 1000 houses and getting 80. No it's not in the absolutely D minus class but you'd have to give it a D. It's miles off what was promised. The truth is members opposite promised a big game and whether it's been legislative reform whether it's been the number of cops or whether it's been 17 months of sitting on a report from police to deal with drug-drivers what sort of an action programme is it? The Minister of Police said he was going to deal with it urgently. A discussion document sits on his desk for 17 months and he thinks that's urgent? Why does it matter? Because a hundred lives have been lost to drug-drivers in the 17 months that that report has sat on the Minister's desk. What these Estimates show is a massive gap between promise and delivery."