Brooking RachelHon RACHEL BROOKING (Labour—Dunedin): Apologies Mr Speaker for calling you Mr Chair". We've spent so much time in committee stage in urgency that I'm out of practice.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): At this late stage on a Thursday afternoon we're very forgiving.Hon RACHEL BROOKING: Thank you. Mr Speaker. Look first of all I want to congratulate Todd Stephenson on bringing this here today and I acknowledge of course that he was a lawyer in the great city of Dunedin and went to the fabulous University of Otago Law School about the same time as the current speaker. So good times were had.On the topic of Dunedin and rehabilitation I have grown up in a family where my parents and my father in particular have been very committed to the idea of the importance of rehabilitation and working with people so that they can have another—and better—go at life and that often there's a whole lot of reasons and complexities for why somebody ends up incarcerated. My father when I was growing up was a regular visitor to the prisons and was also involved over 30 years ago in establishing Moana House which is mainly known for being a residential programme to rehabilitate men mainly Māori and Pasifika men who mainly have drug issues and have been in the justice system. It works well. Of course it doesn't always work perfectly but it's a very impressive programme. They have other programmes as well.In no way am I across the detail of all of the work that they do except to say that I've seen and talked to many of the people who have been part of that programme and it's incredibly powerful and impressive and the results that they get are good for the whole community not only those men and their families but everybody who then comes in to interact with somebody who's been through it and who can then go and contribute to society contribute to their own family and have a much better sense of themselves. During the election campaign I was standing for the seat of Dunedin. I went to visit some of the people in this programme as did members from across this House—both sides of the House—and had some of the most interesting conversations I had during the campaign. So I just cannot say enough how much I support the importance of rehabilitation and education for people who have been incarcerated. In saying that I'll now go to the bill and note that it's a very short bill. A member—Tim Costley—complained before about the bills being short but sometimes short bills are very elegant. And Todd Stephenson has talked already about the mechanism that will be used with the management plans and how that works with the rehabilitative programmes. "Rehabilitative programmes" is defined in the Corrections Act 2004 so we don't see it on the bill in front of us but that means a programme designed to reduce reoffending by facilitating the rehabilitation of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment and their reintegration into society. That seems important. It includes any "medical psychological social therapeutic cultural educational employment-related rehabilitative or reintegrative"—that's not a word I've come across before I don't think—"programme." That is a wide definition so there are many different programmes that will be able to be used when the management plan is being considered.Of course I agree with my colleagues as well. I think there was a very important caveat from Dr Duncan Webb about the importance that these programmes are well funded and my colleague Ginny Andersen also expressed concern around that 6.5 percent cut that is happening to Corrections. And we would not want the lack of funding for rehabilitation to get in the way of somebody being paroled. I also want to commend my colleague Ginny Andersen's speech just before when she went into some description of the work that has been done in this area recently and the research that shows the importance of these programmes as well.So I think that the select committee will have a good discussion around the bill."