Dean Jacqui: Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDean Jacqui: Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 15 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:9960. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): We have just had to endure a 10-minute speech from Kris Faafoi and only 2 minutes of it was devoted to the bill at hand the Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises because I believe that Todd McClay the author of this most excellent bill has touched a really raw nerve with Mr Kris Faafoi. He is beside himself because he knows that the submission from the Whitireia Community Law Centre is absolutely right. This bill is making a huge contribution to tackling the problem of gangs in New Zealand. Mr Kris Faafoi knows it and we have this submission from the law centre that absolutely backs this bill and backs Todd McClay’s position. It has utterly destroyed the reputation of Kris Faafoi in his electorate and he is very very worried—Hon Member: Not hard to do.JACQUI DEAN: That is not hard to do. He is very worried about that because Kris Faafoi knows that anything that this Parliament can do to tackle the gang problem in New Zealand is a good thing.The bill has been widely supported by the submitters who came to the Law and Order Committee and it will do its bit to tackle the scourge of gangs in his electorate. That is what is biting and eating away at Kris Faafoi so much—he knows that that is the truth. Kris Faafoi knows that there will be people out there in Porirua his electorate who are looking at this debate today and who will be absolutely dismayed at the fact that their member of Parliament who is meant to be representing their interests in this place and who should be supporting this bill is finding himself in a policy no-man’s land where he is forced to espouse a position that in his heart he does not believe. In his heart he knows that it will be eroding the popularity that he enjoys a little bit of in Porirua his electorate.The Whitireia Community Law Centre said some things to us that were very compelling and were in support of Todd McClay’s bill. It had this to say by way of a submission to us: “In the early 1970’s the Mongrel Mob moved into the Porirua Area and since then they have had a strong presence in our community.” You see these are people who really care about their community. “With high unemployment increased availability to drugs and a rise in poverty the Mongrel Mob offers an alternative to young men who are often estranged from their families products of broken homes and/or had long associations with Child Youth and Family.”So this law centre cares about and represents vulnerable people in Kris Faafoi’s constituency. They are the ones who care about the constituency. They are supporting the bill. Why is Kris Faafoi not supporting a bill that does just a bit to help tackle the gang problem in New Zealand which this Government is so focused on doing? In his 8-minute rant about the New Zealand police what Kris Faafoi did not say was that crime is dropping in New Zealand. Kris Faafoi ignored the inconvenient truth that there are more police on the streets in New Zealand and in Porirua and that crime is dropping in his own constituency. What is eating him up so much about Todd McClay’s excellent bill is that he knows it is the right thing to do but he cannot do a damn thing about it because he is being told to oppose it for ideologically bereft reasons.Labour members can find no real reason to oppose this bill except that maybe when somebody walks along an open walkway they are not covered by the bill but when they are in an enclosed walkway they are covered. Well come on! What kind of logic is that? I mean we are going to hear that kind of logic from Phil Goff and that is not going to be very convincing. So poor old Kris Faafoi has found himself having to oppose this bill against the wishes of his own community. Man it must suck to be him.Debate interrupted.