SpeechSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki) (remote): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well what an honour to be taking a call with you newly in the Chair. Can I just acknowledge the last speaker Willow-Jean Prime—that no one wants discrimination and disproportionateness—but now she is suggesting ultimately that justice is no longer blind but is to take into account colour rather than the crime itself and that itself is a problem and I want to make it really clear on the record that our justice system should not be based on who a person is; it should be firmly based on what a person does.National continues to oppose this bill the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill and I want to illustrate the reasons why by drawing on some very local examples in my Tāmaki electorate which highlight the need for strong laws that not only are strong in themselves but also send very clear statements to people that crime is not appropriate. So in recent hours in my electorate there's been an attempted aggravated robbery with a gun. There's been at least two shootings in my electorate in the last month or so. There have been more ram raids than I can count on my hands and toes. And just in the recent days—the last three or four days—I could count the number of break-ins again on one hand one of them leading to the owner of that business having a medical event which obviously traumatised him and his family but also my community. We've had dirt bikes swarming Tāmaki Drive and through the likes of Kohimarama and Mission Bay and St Heliers.Others of course reference what's happening wider. We've had the terrible events on Queen Street—daylight robberies again involving weapons—and I do want to echo what Mark Mitchell has said because I also have this fear that in time and in a short time with this ongoing and more and more brazen crime we are going to see someone be very seriously hurt be it an innocent member of the public a police officer or the offender themselves particularly if they're a youth offender and some store owner understandably—but you know wrongly in a vigilantly sense—takes it into their own hands.Why this is also a major problem is that even for those who eventually get locked up into our prisons under Kelvin Davis thousands of them are let out. And again just in recent weeks we've seen six youth on the roof. We've seen a bail house which the Minister has visited multiple times but forgot to put in his diary now been found to be filled with guns and drugs not just bailed people from our prisons. We've had an officer stabbed 12 times and information in recent days which is only just touching media of a prison officer thrown off a balcony to fall 2 metres after an altercation with a violent prisoner.So I'm sharing all of this because we have a major problem with crime. We have a major problem with corrections under this Labour Government. My community is sick and tired of it. They're sick and tired of the violence the robberies the raids and the disruptions and they want to see tougher laws. And so fundamentally why a Labour Government supported by the likes of the Greens would remove three-strikes legislation—would remove tools for justice—is beyond them. And so I reject this piece of legislation and will not be supporting it.