Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): I would just like to pick up where Fletcher Tabuteau left off with the Electricity Authority. The Far North in fact is going to be hit particularly hard. There is one business I know in Kaitāia that employs some 300 staff. Its power bill looks set to go from $400000 a year to $900000 a year. That business will totally compromise the town of Kaitāia if it disappears.The district health board does not know what is going to hit it in terms of the price rises. I rang the CEO of the Northland District Health Board a week or so ago to ask him how the Electricity Authority proposal is going to affect them. He actually did not know anything about it and he was really concerned because as we know district health boards are struggling for funds and their budgets are completely compromised. This will quite possibly tip the Northland District Health Board over the edge.As I listen to the speeches of the members opposite I sit here and marvel at their ability to talk about—well basically to bounce from cloud to cloud to cloud and not recognise the real problems that are going on in New Zealand. We just need to look at the housing crisis that has been going for a long time. It is ongoing. People cannot afford those affordable houses. The supply just is not there. There are still people living in cars. There are still people who are struggling to rent. There are people being put up in motels. That is a real crisis that this Government just fails to address.Then we look at issues such as water quality. There are some rivers around the country where I am scared that if I walk through them in my jandals my jandals will dissolve. There is a creek up north on our land that is completely bound by native forest but I have noticed over the last few years that there is a lot of algae growing on the rocks. It is very very significant. I asked an expert why he thought that was. I thought that maybe it is pollution or nutrient run-off which I thought was a bit strange since the creek is totally bush-bound. He said: Well how many eels have you been catching lately?". I said: "Well there's not many actually." He said: "That'll be the problem. The eel life the animal life in the creek is dying off so there's nothing there to eat the algae on the rocks." That is a concern for me and our creek up in the North.One of the biggest bungles though that the Government has made over the last few years has been in Corrections. Yesterday the Waitangi Tribunal produced the report into the lack of progress about the reoffending of Māori prisoners. First of all we need to look at why Māori disproportionately go into prison in the first place. Over 50 percent of our prison population is Māori. People say: "Well it is because Māori commit too much crime." We just need to look at The Hui programme on Sunday and at what has happened to those men. Marama Fox touched on it earlier. There needs to be an inquiry into abuse in State care.That programme The Hui shows why there are a number of Māori in prison. Their families have been dysfunctional. We can go into the long history of why many Māori families live in dysfunction. But then there is the abuse that occurred. They were taken out of their families. They were meant to be put in the safe care of the State and what happened was that the abuse was in many cases a lot worse than the abuse they were taken out of.Too many men too many boys and too many young women have been abused in State care and abused in their dysfunctional families. That means that they are more likely to grow up with mental health issues and with alcohol and drug abuse issues. None of those issues are ever really meaningfully addressed in prisons. So we are throwing people in prison at a great rate of knots. There are over 10000 people in prisons now. They go there apparently there are rehabilitation programmes but the Corrections annual report itself says that many of those programmes produce results that are less than statistically significant.So rehabilitation is not working. These people are not getting the support the counselling that they need to address those core issues that caused their offending in the first place. So they do go on to have alcohol problems drug problems and that exacerbates their offending. If it is never addressed when they come out of prison it is only a matter of time before they commit another crime and go back into prison. This Government has not done nearly enough to address that.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."