Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Mr Assistant Speaker. Thank you for this opportunity. I rise to speak in support of these particular bills. I want to take up some of the members' comments around the steps moving forward with this type of legislation in the House whereby it is no longer seen as a simple means of making sure that not just the offenders themselves do not go on to commit more crimes but that it is actually seen—and I think this is the bigger challenge—as being part rehabilitation tool to make sure that their reintegration back into the communities is a successful one. So although we debate this and the rhetoric is generally about making sure that we can keep an eye on them so that we make sure they do not go on to reoffend I think the bigger challenge is actually changing the rhetoric around how we are able to make this part of a rehabilitation and reintegration system.My colleague Mr Davis has already talked about our support for these particular bills. This legislation has had its challenges throughout the entire process. My colleague spoke about the black spots and spoke about the herculean strength Mr Billy Weepu needed to cut through the monitoring bracelet. But from personal experience I spoke in the earlier readings of this legislation about how the legislation will enable the attendance of some prisoners to tangihanga—to get that temporary release from prison to allow them to go. In the past that particular process has not been executed very well and the hope is that through this type of legislation the ability for offenders to get temporary release for things such as tangihanga and for things such as work that will help with their reintegration into the community will be a lot more successful and will not be fraught with the kind of red tape that sees the public actually looking at that person with a bit of a frown or in a light that is not very good.So these types of bills—and I mentioned it in terms of the previous bill that was debated in the House—are a step in the right direction. They will make the legislation fall in line with technology to ensure that we use that technology better. Sadly I reiterate my point as I did in the last bill that too often the House fails to keep up with that technology—because in the passage of this particular legislation I dare say technology has already moved on and in fact is far more advanced than it was when this legislation went through in its first reading. But we support that change. We want to make sure that we are able to protect the community.I also spoke in respect of the last bill the Evidence Amendment Bill about how the public perceive parole and the parole office and how the public perceives the corrections facilities and the institutions that are put in place to make sure that those who go through the particular system—through the justice system—serve their sentences and do not exit prison and go on to reoffend. That happens only if the integrity of those processes is solid and the processes are robust. I want to echo the point of my colleague Mr Davis who has already spoken about the good intentions within this legislation yet also pointed out the lack of resourcing to make sure that we are able to monitor properly correctly and also effectively to make sure that people in the community at large are looked after and also that that particular person who is under surveillance and monitoring is able to get on with I guess their reintegration back into the community.I will not speak too much longer other than to say that we do support this legislation. We will be looking further into some of the means by which we will be able to ensure the proper reintegration of offenders back into the community one that will of course take into consideration their rights through the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act as mentioned by my colleague Mr Davis. I will conclude by saying that we support this legislation and we hope that the outcome and the intention of these particular bills will be exactly as they are intended so that you get better monitoring the revictimisation does not occur reoffending does not occur and we are able to see a safer community for one and all. Kia ora.