Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I have a lot of respect for Shanan Halbert—Harete Hipango: Shanan me whakamā koe [you should be ashamed]. Shanan Halbert: Kei a koe. Kei a koe. Whakarongo ki te kōrero. [That's up to you. That's up to you. Listen to the statement.] SPEAKER: Order! Sorry to interrupt. This is not question time OK. Members who have spoken in this debate about the volume and the type of interjections and then participate in it should think again about it. MATT DOOCEY: Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I have a lot of respect for Shanan Halbert but I must say he is better than that and he will regret that speech on Hansard. That was absolutely appalling and a common theme of the Government speakers in this urgent debate this afternoon. I'd like to start by acknowledging Karen Chhour for bringing this urgent debate to the House. What is more important of Parliament's time than to be highlighting an issue that we learnt about today? Because the reality is these young people are our young people. As a parent we do not know what's ahead of us in our lives. Any of our young people through unfortunate life experiences can end up in State care and it's paramount that Parliament and that the Government and that State make sure that their best interests are at heart. And that's why it's important today that we have this urgent debate. Because in my view the importance of an urgent debate is to ensure New Zealanders that this issue is being taken seriously—there is accountability there is responsibility that we give this country confidence that issues like this are being addressed and we work hard to ensure that they're prevented from happening again. So here we had the Minister responsible—and let's be very clear because it will be recorded on Hansard—that during a time that he was there to assure the public to give them confidence that he understood the issues that we are debating today and he was taking action and being accountable and responsible he took the opportunity to take political hotshots—wanted to raise the political issue of maybe the Leader of the Opposition potentially buying a Tesla under the Clean Car Discount. Harete Hipango: Despicable.MATT DOOCEY: Disgusting. Indefensible that the Minister responsible took the opportunity to take the time off the eye off the ball of this debate to get into the weeds and get into the gutter of political potshots. Because what this urgent debate has shown today is that Minister has absolutely failed in his ministerial role. He gives the young people in Oranga Tamariki care—he gives actually the staff in Oranga Tamariki care absolutely no confidence in his ministerial responsibility and accountability. It was his time as a Minister to step up and let people of New Zealand know that he understood the issues. Go back to that speech and tell me: where was the compassion? Where was the understanding? Where did he demonstrate that he knew what was happening on the ground for those young people? Where did the Minister articulate the actions that he had taken? He was very quick to talk about expectations but didn't outline what expectations he has. When did he talk about what instructions he had given the chief executive of Oranga Tamariki? Nothing. Where was the plan going forward?This is the role of an urgent debate to highlight an issue—for the people responsible to step up be held to account and give New Zealanders confidence that this is being prevented from happening in the future. Because there is real concern here today. We learn of inappropriate sexual behaviour for two young people but we find out over the year: five young people. This is concerning yet we had a Minister get up show no real compassion to the issue and then read a script out from the bureaucrats. Mr Speaker those young people deserve better.