Little AndrewHon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Justice): Kia orana e Maine Vaa Tuatua. Madam Chair it's a great pleasure to get up and speak. The member who just spoke the Hon Dr Nick Smith spoke of bizarre behaviour of members of this House and I want to acknowledge his leadership in one thing at least and that is he is the leader of bizarre behaviour of members in this House.Let me respond to a couple of things that he has said because if you want a class—a lesson—in disingenuous behaviour then that member's speech just now is it. So he lamented this public-private partnership over Waikeria Prison completely ignoring the fact that millions upon millions of dollars of work had been done designing an American-style mega-prison to house 2500 prisoners under his Government's watch. They signed up a procurement agreement with the outfit who was doing the design who would go on to do the build and who it was intended would run that prison. Hon Kris Faafoi: Ah! Now the truth comes out—the real story.Hon ANDREW LITTLE: He missed that out. It's funny that that member missed that stuff out. But he not very artfully fails to distinguish between the long-term procurement agreement that his Government signed with the builder of the prison and a contract to deal with the specific facility once there was agreement on what was going to be built. He ignores completely the exit payment that would be required from the procurement agreement if we did not proceed with that construction firm with that particular prison—missed all that out. That's the lesson in disingenuity that that member is an absolute master of.Well the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill—let me say that if he wants a lesson in a lack of integrity then let's look at those National MPs who earlier this year trumpeted to the public at large that they were going to vote for the member's bill on medicinal cannabis and when it came to the vote all National MPs voted exactly the same way which was contrary to what the indications were of the particular MPs who said they would do something differently. That member's got nothing to worry about. Nothing will change in the National Party as a result of the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Bill—apart perhaps from his own seat. Perhaps he is afraid that members of his own caucus—CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] Order!Hon ANDREW LITTLE: —will not be afraid to do what the members of the National Party will do—CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): I apologise to the honourable Minister. If he could stick to the Estimates—Hon ANDREW LITTLE: Can I just take a moment to talk about some very important things in the justice portfolio—for example the fact that in this year's Budget there's extra money for youth justice facilities and for the youth justice system because what we do there is absolutely vital to make sure that the pipeline of young people who would otherwise head off to adult prison is curtailed and we do the right thing at the right time.Can I acknowledge also in this Budget a 20 percent increase in the funding for community law centres—the front door of legal access for so many New Zealanders. It's important that we maintain and strengthen that network of support.Can I also refer to the $50 million in new operating funding for the court system because it is important that we have an environment in which courts can dispense justice in which lawyers can do their job the judges can do their job victims can be safe and the offenders can be managed correctly and properly.Can I also say that we've had to provide extra funding to undo the disastrous Judith Collins Family Court reforms. We've now got a review going under way on that because we've got to fix that up because far too many New Zealanders are being harmed and damaged by the 2014 Judith Collins reforms.Finally and Parliament has already under this head talked about the criminal justice reforms—when you look at what this Government was faced with when it took office: a rapidly rising prison population more and more people on remand more people in prison than ever before more and more people serving longer sentences. But here's the thing: no plan to deal with it. No plan to deal with the underlying issues; just build another American-style mega-prison. That was the only response they had.Yet when you have a look at what's happening in our prison population—more than a third of them with depression and anxiety; nearly half of them with addiction problems; so many with traumatic brain injuries many of them undiagnosed; and many of them themselves victims of violence—it's time we had a prison system and a justice system that dealt with the underlying problems. We fix prisoners we stop them reoffending then we have fewer victims of crime. That's about community safety that's about a better way of running a justice system and we're doing it.