Stephenson ToddTODD STEPHENSON (ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker and thank you to everyone in the House. I'm feeling a sense of a collaboration here on this final day of the week and I want to thank everyone for the spirit and thank them for their contributions. To the Government members who spoke in relation to the bill: Cameron Jamie Paulo and Tom—I want to thank you for your comments and your support. Yes you have nailed the intent of what we are trying to do here. It's something to actually help out people in our criminal justice system.I particularly liked Jamie's comments actually around how if victims can see their offenders actually making a difference what that would actually do to victims and how that might help some of the healing process.I was actually lucky enough earlier in the week to talk to another great man who hails from Dunedin—he's no longer there—Sir Ron Young who's actually the chair of the New Zealand Parole Board. He reached out to me and generously gave me some of his time to give me some of his thoughts. He talked about the fact that the Parole Board is doing some of this victim-offender rehabilitation work. I think again there could be some things we can learn there.I also want to thank the Opposition members. Firstly I just actually want to thank them for showing up today and providing the entire Opposition. I know you've been stretched across select committees and here in the House all day and I know you've obviously been helping out the other parties that couldn't be here today so I do want to acknowledge that.Then I want to thank some of the members who did speak: Dr Tracey McLellan—again she acknowledged Toni Severin's role as did Helen White. Again I do want to thank Toni. I think that they were both very generous about their comments in relation to Toni and Helen even saying—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): Can I just remind you before you go through the whole of the House using first names the tradition is to use full names here.TODD STEPHENSON: Sorry Mr Speaker; you're right. Hon Member: Give the list again.TODD STEPHENSON: No I won't do that. But the member Helen White was very generous in her thanks to Toni and even referred to an ACT MP having heart which is very nice.I do note that the Hon Dr Duncan Webb the Hon Ginny Andersen the Hon Rachel Brooking and the other colleagues I've already spoken about did point out some of the issues we may face and I want to be upfront and acknowledge that. We actually heard today when we were in the Justice Committee about court delays that could play a part in this because if prisoners aren't getting their court dates they're spending time on remand etc. There are a lot of issues.I also totally accept what was said about Corrections. Again it is like many Government departments one that is having trouble recruiting and retaining staff. So I do want to acknowledge those issues and I think they correctly identified some of the things that we can discuss at the select committee. I think actually—and I know the chair of the select committee very well James Meager—there might be an opportunity here for the select committee to go out and see some of these rehabilitation programmes and yeah find out how it's going and how it will work on the ground because I do think the devil is going to be in the detail here and how it will be implemented.Hon Simon Watts: What about the Hon Andrew Bayly?TODD STEPHENSON: Sorry. In a word well I would like to acknowledge the Hon Andrew Bayly. [Interruption]Let me finish this off because I've only got a minute and I'm sure we want to get out of here. So look I think we can address some of these concerns in the select committee. I think that we can have a robust and productive discussion and let's actually do something to hopefully enhance our criminal justice system with all those caveats and concerns in place. Thank you.