Mark Ron: General Debates 
Mark Ron: General Debates 
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RON MARK (NZ First) 
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 I want to talk today about a problem that I have consistently raised with the Government which has consistently refused to act and do anything. We hear all this talk about it being a Government of action but the area in which it does not seem to want to make any serious redress is in law and order. New Zealand First is the law and order party in the House. Over the last 12 months I have consistently raised for New Zealand First issues and problems surrounding home detention parole and that nonsense called deferred sentencing. 
When I first raised the problems of violent offenders and home detention Mr Barker stood and told the House that no one convicted of a serious crime was on home detention. Of course he was blatantly wrong and had to come back and retract his words a few days later and since then we have revealed cases of people who have been child abusers sexual molesters rapists murderers killers and drunk drivers who have killed who have all been put on home detention. 
 New Zealand First has repeatedly called for this Government to repeal those parts of the Sentencing Act that give offenders a deferred sentence. We have repeatedly called for it to wind back and get rid of what it calls back-end home detention. It has no place. It is a failure. It does not do what the public thought that home detention would do. In recent times New Zealand First has said that parole is failing. I do understand there is a huge rehabilitation industry out there many members of which are Labour voters who have to be fed. This rehabilitation industry is probably two to three times the size of the treaty gravy train that we seem to be so preoccupied about right now and which New Zealand First has campaigned against. 
I put on the record that over the last 2 days I have raised the case of Mr Jarden which has become public knowledge again. Once again a man who is a convicted paedophile who was given back-end home detention and who was paroled off his sentence early subsequently was able to reoffend and create three more victims. The question is how many more victims Helen Clark Annette King Ruth Dyson and Helen Duncan will create by allowing this nonsense to continue. Will we have to wait for these women to wake up as a result of more victims and more families bringing the type of litigation against the Crown that we are currently seeing as the result of the Bell case? She nods her head and smiles. That woman member has no feeling for those children who have been raped and sodomised by Mr Jarden. [ 
Interruption 
] If she does she should do something about it. 
I have warned the Minister of Corrections that another case is pending of a man who was convicted who took children into his home and offended against them and who has been since paroled and put out on the street and I am fully aware that he is about to reappear in the courts again. Sub judice prevents me from discussing any detail of it but the responsibility for victims and future victims of this type lies in the hands of these women: Jill Pettis Helen Duncan and Helen Clark. So long as they sit here and do nothing New Zealand First will continue to make it known to the public. 
There is another group of people who cannot escape accountability and they are the members of the Parole Board. They are the people who allowed Mr Carroll out on to the street like Justice Tony Ellis Fleur Grenfell Alison Timms—do we know that name?—David Chaplow and Bruce Buckton. All those people have a responsibility to protect the public and thus far case after case people like this are failing and the people who are paying the price are ordinary New Zealand citizens who want nothing other than to be safe in their homes knowing that their children are safe going to and from school. 
Enough most definitely is enough. Whilst everybody is preoccupied with the Maori debate men and women mothers and fathers and children out there are grieving as victims of the crimes that have been perpetrated against them. New Zealand First does not intend to sit here and allow this to continue. We want the home detention laws repealed. We want back-end home detention ended. We want deferred sentencing finished. I would like to see parole ended because as we know 85 percent of those paroled reoffend within 5 years.