Davis Kelvin: Annual Review Debate — In CommitteeText is subject to correctionDavis Kelvin: Annual Review Debate — In Committee[Sitting date: 29 April 2015. Volume:704;Page:2977. Text is subject to correction.]KELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau):It was refreshing to hear Minister Adams speaking earlier about the emphasis that the Government is placing on domestic violence. The Labour Party agrees entirely with the importance of this issue. Our law and order caucus committee has written to the Minister asking that we participate in an apolitical way to address this issue. We look forward to the Minister taking us up on the offer to sit down and work out solutions around this issue.It is not just domestic violence that is an issue. Sexual violence is an issue and only 5 percent of crimes are recorded. We need to do more to make sure that people have the strength and the courage to speak out. We need to make sure that we create the conditions where people feel that when they do speak out they will be heard and listened to and their issues will be dealt with. We need to make sure that people will speak out regardless of whether they are survivors of sexual violence whether they are observers of sexual violence or whether in fact they are perpetrators of sexual violence. Would it not be great if we could create the conditions where perpetrators spoke out about their problem before they actually created any victims? To take a line from the Madden Brothers’ song we all need to be “done with being a silent many”. We all need to learn to speak out and not put up with sexual violence in any way shape or form.I would just like to touch on a number of issues around the Department of Corrections and if I have time I will get on to some police issues. Issue No. 1 around the Department of Corrections was the absconding of Phillip John Smith from his prison cell basically from a Release to Work programme over to South America. He was able from the comfort of his prison cell to apply for a passport under an alias and then abscond go through Auckland Airport get on a plane and have a bit of a jaunt over to South America.The issue there was that the department and the New Zealand Customs Service did not actually share information around the fact that many people in prisons go under aliases and so he was able to use an alias that he had been known under at another time to get his passport and then to abscond. It is about Government agencies ministries and departments working together and sharing information. I hope that the Minister of Corrections Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga has fixed that issue up.Then we also have the issue around New Zealand prisoners in Australian prisons who are paroled and then deported back here. The issue raised its head earlier this year when a woman who participated in a murder in Australia some years ago was deported back to Kaikohe.At the time when I was approached by media I said: “Look it’s obviously a loophole that has been found and needs to be addressed but my concern isn’t so much for this woman who I don’t think poses a problem to the Kaikohe community. But what happens when a sexual offender is released on parole in an Australian prison and he’s sent back here and we aren’t able to track or trace him?”. What if we do not know whether that person is living next to a school or an early childhood centre or a kōhanga reo or a park where children may be playing? He could be a sports coach or a Scoutmaster. The Government needs to make sure that we treat those paroled prisoners from Australia as if they were paroled from New Zealand prisons.Speaking of prisons there have been three recent partial closures of prisons—at Rimutaka at Waikeria and at Rangipō. The member from New Zealand First Mahesh Bindra is correct in saying that 260 jobs have been lost. I know that the Government will say that those corrections officers may be able to go to the new prison at Wiri. Again it will be really difficult I think to sell your house in Tūrangi for probably $120000 or $130000 and shift up to Auckland where the average house price is $750000. I think if you are a 55-year-old corrections officer you would not really want to remortgage to that extent. So it makes it really difficult. But the reality is that the prison at Wiri is a private prison. It cost $900 million to build. The member from New Zealand First gave a different figure—I was told it was $900 million. It was built at the height of the recession. Serco the company that is running the prison has had the Government—