Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): It is really interesting that if you stay around here long enough you hear the people who were in Government criticising the current people in Government for things that actually happened under their watch as well. I am very mindful of that every time I hear Labour speeches about corrections and police. I have to say that a thousand extra police is not a new novelty.I have to say that when a Government is appropriating more money to prisons against a backdrop of pathetically low resolution rates it is conclusive evidence that the Government has failed in corrections failed in rehabilitation and that the Government is failing in the youth Justice Sector. I mean how can you be building more prisons at a time when you are getting less convictions—ridiculous.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): Fewer.RON MARK: Fewer convictions. What it does is it says that the youth justice system is failing and it is time for an overhaul because it is those numbers in the youth justice system that are going on to graduate and become adult criminals. Until this House gets its head around that fact and accepts New Zealand First's view that raising the age of criminal responsibility is a dumb move we are just going to continue to see more of these people going into prison and hear more politicians bleating on about how awful that is when they are the very ones creating it.I have got to take the Government to task on this extra resourcing. How bizarre that we can have a Government member stand up and say that the Government is putting more money into policing when New Zealand First revealed back in June that Police has been so underfunded it has been going cap in hand to the Justice Sector slush fund. In going to the Justice Sector slush fund which is a fund made up of all the surpluses—they put all the surpluses from the Justice Sector into this fund of money that has not been spent and then they bid for it; they bid for it for such things as wages. I have got the report here obtained under the Official Information Act dated May—dated May—that shows that on 12 occasions Police was out of money and had to go to the Justice Sector slush fund to make a bid to pay things such as wages. So how can anyone on that Government side stand up and say honestly that the police are resourced sufficiently? If they were resourced sufficiently they would not run out.Then we have things popping out of the woodwork that tell us that crimes are not being—I will hold this one for later. Crimes are not being investigated not being prosecuted because the police are unable to instruct the ESR to undertake a scene examination and provide forensic evidence to [the] prosecution." because of a lack of funds. We have to sit here and endure listening to Ministers standing up day after day week after week month after month saying that the police have got the resources yet all the paper evidence obtained under the Official Information Act says that is not the truth.So we do not support this Government's Budget. We find that its appropriations are actually all smoke and mirrors. We do not accept it and we seriously seriously say to the Government and to this House and to all those parties that supported the raising of the age of criminal responsibility: how can anyone accept—particularly Māori MPs sitting here who are very quick to go on about the number of Māori incarcerated how can they accept the building of a new prison to take more prisoners against decreasing resolution rates and apparently a youth justice system that is world class? Well I will tell you what it is world class in—it is world class at failing young people. It is world class in ensuring that they go on to become adults and then get imprisoned as quickly as they offend after their 17th birthday. The only thing that is going to happen now is that by the time they become eligible to be held responsible under the adult justice system they will be a year older a year smarter and a year deeper into crime. That is an appalling indictment on every party in this House that supported such a move.Votes agreed to."