Bakshi Kanwaljit Singh: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBakshi Kanwaljit Singh: General Debate[Sitting date: 23 September 2015. Volume:709;Page:6941. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Speaker for the opportunity to participate in this general debate. I am very fortunate to be part of this Government which has been in power for the last 7 years under the strong and dynamic leadership of the Rt Hon John Key. Before I go further—the previous speaker the Hon Ruth Dyson mentioned that Nikki Kaye’s speech was a valedictory speech. I think I can see many faces on the Labour side that are due for a valedictory speech and they should deliver that.Recently I was overseas and saw that the strong leadership of John Key was being mentioned by many overseas leaders. I had the opportunity to meet many delegations from India Russia Belarus the Philippines and Georgia. They all are very keen on joining New Zealand to have bilateral trade with us. I would like to congratulate the Hon Bill English on leading this country during the very difficult times that we had in the past 7 years. I would also like to congratulate the Hon Tim Groser who is working hard with his team to make sure that we have got many markets for Kiwi producers so that they can have access to those markets in the long term.During my visit to India I had the opportunity to meet the trade and commerce minister the Hon Nirmala Sitharaman. She mentioned that she was very keen on progressing the free-trade agreement with New Zealand. I also had the opportunity to meet Mr Ashok Gajapathi Raju who is the civil aviation minister and he showed keen interest in having more pilot training in New Zealand in comparison with the past.After talking about the economy I would like to touch on law and order being the chair of the Law and Order Committee. It has been a busy year if I am just talking about this last year when this Government has worked hard to make sure that people feel safe in their houses.We introduced public protection orders which ensure that people who are high-risk individuals who are coming out of prison—6 months before that the court can order GPS tracking on these people. I think that was a great initiative by this Government. Extended supervision is also another area where this Government has worked in the past year where high-risk offenders coming out of the jails can be monitored in different manners.These are the things that we have been doing in the past 7 years but I think that there is opportunity in this general debate for us to discuss not only what we have achieved but also to talk about what we are going to do in the next 2 years and beyond. The next major project that the justice sector is taking on is to deal with family violence. The Minister Amy Adams who is leading this sector opened up a discussion document for the Care of Children Act. It closed on 18 September but the issues that are being included in that are to make it so that the police can in certain circumstances be required to make mandatory arrests for the breach of protection orders. Recently we had a petition in the Law and Order Committee where this issue was raised and when it was discussed with the Minister of Justice she said that we are working on it.This Government listens to the people and acts upon it. Another example of that is the Rules Reduction Taskforce. I hosted one of the meetings in South Auckland where a large number of people came to discuss their issues and the Minister the Hon Paula Bennett has made a decision to reduce the red-tapeism in this Government. Thank you.