Barry MaggieHon MAGGIE BARRY (National—North Shore): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak in the second reading of the Corrections Amendment Bill - lite". What a missed opportunity this bill is. As others have acknowledged the Hon Louise Upston put a great deal of work and time and effort into reducing the likelihood of prisoners going back inside by providing them with rehabilitation and providing them with drug treatment within the jails. There were some very substantial discussions that were had in the last Government about doing that so this is just incomprehensible to us on this side of the House and it's is why National did not support the bill in the Justice Committee in any way shape or form. There are some minor technical arrangements that have been changed here. There are some that will provide certainty in new technology. There are elements of this that we do support. The new technology we learnt a great deal about. The department is using imaging technology but it's been very difficult to do so because of privacy safeguards. But actually it was explained to us at select committee that with the very invasive nature of some of the searches that were needing to be done the imaging technology with the right privacy provisions and so forth does provide for a better experience for the prisoners and also the corrections staff and I think for better outcomes generally. If people are going to bring in contraband that's tricky to find the imaging technology will help. So after the work was done at the select committee—we certainly listening there to what needed to be done to use it—the fact that it would be able to be used as a replacement for mandated strip-searches of prisoners was the bit that we took particular notice of and decided was useful. But we're getting more into release than rehab and I think that this bill has really wasted some proper opportunities to turn people's lives around. I don't imagine for a moment that the Minister had that in his mind with this legislation and with what was removed but I do think that this is an ongoing challenge that we really need to do more about when they are literally captive. We need to offer prisoners far more incentives and even requirements to do the kind of rehabilitation that focuses on what has got them into that sort of problem in the first place—making very bad decisions about their lives which has got them into jail. So I guess when we look at this we see what's not here as much as what could be here. I think that this bill is not going to deliver what that Government has said it wants to do which is to reduce the prison population by 30 percent. It's not going to happen because you are continuing with the missed opportunities that this bill presents and not addressing the real cause of the problems of offending. I really think that that is deplorable. So we sat there probably with increasing sadness as we considered this bill and thought about what might have been and thought about how this lite bill could have done a whole lot more. Had it had the courage had the Minister had the courage had that Government had the courage—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Order! Hon MAGGIE BARRY: —to really address the main fundamental issues this could be a bill that would change lives and change the direction of the corrections experience in New Zealand but it has missed that opportunity. So we don't support this bill. We oppose it but we do so with regret. We would have preferred to have been here united in this House—which happens rarely—to try and improve the rehabilitation of prisoners. This bill fails to deliver that which is why I do not support this bill."