Ryall Tony: Parole (Extended Supervision) and Sentencing Amendment Bill — First Reading 
Ryall Tony: Parole (Extended Supervision) and Sentencing Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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Hon TONY RYALL (National—Bay of Plenty) 
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This bill is nothing but a political gimmick by a Minister of Justice who is under pressure for his complete and utter failure in the leadership of the justice system in New Zealand. The fact is that this bill will do absolutely nothing to protect any child from a paedophile. Not one child will be protected from a paedophile because of this bill promoted by Mr Goff. All that this bill is about is trying to appear to be tough whereas this Government’s record on this sort of stuff is appallingly bad. If it were not for the National Party in Opposition raising the appalling cases of Barry Allan Ryder and Lloyd Alexander McIntosh this failed Minister of Justice would not have done anything.  
Let me tell the House about Mr Goff. Mr Goff made his reputation on the back of Barry Allan Ryder saying he would never let Barry Allan Ryder be released from jail. Mr Goff railed against Mrs Shipley and railed against Sir Douglas Graham and said if he were Minister of Justice those people would never be released from prison. Then we discovered that Barry Allan Ryder a paedophile who repeatedly sexually abused young children had been released under Mr Goff’s watch. What did Mr Goff say? He said he did not know that. Yet Mr Goff is the man who made his reputation on the back of that paedophile. He said that Barry Allan Ryder would never be released; he said he would not allow that to happen.  
But Mr Goff did allow Barry Allan Ryder to be released and Mr Goff never ever asked what the parole conditions were. When the National Party revealed to the public that Barry Allan Ryder was being released and had been released Mr Goff said that he was not going to ask what the parole conditions were. He said he could not ask that. It was not until the National Party New Zealand First ACT and the media put pressure on the New Zealand Parole Board and this weak Minister of Justice that the parole conditions were released. Those conditions showed that this Government could not guarantee the safety of children in Christchurch with Barry Allan Ryder in the community. What happened is that Barry Allan Ryder under the watch of this Government’s bureaucracy was allowed to sexually abuse two young boys in Christchurch and this Minister said he could do nothing. But he made his reputation on the case of that paedophile.  
Then we discovered the case of Lloyd Alexander McIntosh—another offender whom Mr Goff said he would never allow out of jail. But we discovered that Lloyd Alexander McIntosh was being paroled—released into Palmerston North—and this Minister and Mr Maharey only after pressure from the Opposition parties decided they would say to the public of New Zealand that they would do everything possible to eliminate the risk his behaviour posed to children in Palmerston North. Lloyd Alexander McIntosh is a vile individual who was sent to jail for raping a 6-year-old child and who then within months of being released from prison raped a 23-month-old child. That individual should never be allowed out of jail. Mr Goff said he would stop that sort of person from being released but he did not do so. Only when we raised the case did Mr Goff even look into the circumstances. What happened in that case was that those Ministers said they had 24-hour 7-day-a-week supervision in place and that would protect the people of Palmerston North. Well what happened? Lloyd Alexander McIntosh assaulted a young woman in his home while a security guard employed by this Government was outside the door. That man Lloyd Alexander McIntosh told somebody that he had almost raped the girl while a Government-employed person was outside the door. He was allowed to do that. Why did the security guard not go and stop him? It was because the security guard was worried about McIntosh’s privacy.  
So the Government is rapidly given the embarrassment of those two cases bringing forward this bill. “Mr Get-tough Goff” says that this legislation means that paedophiles can be supervised 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week for 10 years. Do members know what the National Party was able to reveal to the people of New Zealand? The only supervision that this bill provides for after 1 year is the attachment of an electronic bracelet. Apparently attaching an electronic bracelet will prevent a paedophile from reoffending! Mr Goff who pretended to know all about the subject in the House was embarrassed when he had to front up to the fact that all that a bracelet would tell the monitoring agency is where the person is not whom he or she is with. That means that someone monitoring the electronic bracelet will be able to say where a paedophile is but not whom the paedophile is with. That is the problem.  
What we had in this Parliament was the Department of Corrections being completely confused about this bill and finally admitting that the 24-hour 7-day-a-week supervision that Mr Goff had promised New Zealanders could be delivered only in the first 12 months only if the person was under home detention conditions and only if there was a full-time supervisor living in the home detention area. That means that not only does the person have to be under home detention—and as Mr Mark knows what about the many New Zealanders on home detention who leave their bracelets on the bench and wander around the pubs anyway— 
Hon Phil Goff 
: Oh yeah! Where’s the evidence for that or are you making it up? 
Hon TONY RYALL 
: It has happened in Mount Maunganui and that Minister knows it. So what about all those people? They have their bracelets and apparently they are on home detention; but there would not be one person on home detention who has been sent to a place where there is 24-hour supervision. There would not be one.  
This legislation is a gimmick. It will not work. This Minister is only responding to the Opposition’s pressure. This bill is hopeless. I tell Mr Goff that he misled this House. I will tell members what the Department of Corrections told the Law and Order Committee: no paedophile will be monitored for 10 years. That is what the Government’s advisers told the select committee. Do members want to know what the extensive supervision of paedophiles will be? The head of the Community Probation Service told us that in the first few months extended supervision will include two visits with a parole officer a week and after 2 years it will go down to one visit with the parole officer every 3 months. Well how will an electronic bracelet and a quarterly visit with a parole officer stop the likes of Barry Allan Ryder abusing young children? I ask Mr Goff how an electronic bracelet and a quarterly visit from a parole officer will stop a paedophile from abusing a child. It will not do so.  
This bill is a sham. It will not save one child from the abuse of a paedophile. This Government is perpetrating a fraud on the people of New Zealand. There is no way that an electronic bracelet can stop a paedophile from reoffending. This Government should be passing a law that allows a judge to be convinced that some of those people should never be released from jail and that extends preventive detention for those sorts of individuals. Mr Goff promised he would do something like that and he has not. He talks tough and votes soft.