Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise of course in support of my colleagues on this side of the House to not commend this particular bill to the House. I've heard a number of catchcries or phrases from the other side of the House that they like to use when they're out on the street like cottage industries" making it sound like there was a rort being had. Well let me remind that side of the House when National were in power and they imposed meth testing on houses that set a standard that made sure that people had to test their houses for meth it turned out to be bollocks—turned out to be an absolute farce. What happened was a cottage industry was created worth far more than this that imposed these kinds of regulations on house owners and those who were looking to rent or those who were renting and were prejudiced through that particular process. If that side of the House wants to talk about cottage industries they need only look in the mirror at what they've done to support cottage industries around this country.My colleagues on this side of the House have articulated our point really well on this particular bill. One point I want to raise to the House is as I look through the regulatory impact statement (RIS) having been a Minister for six years having seen my fair share of RIS papers delivered for bills I find it quite interesting that there are redacted pieces in the RIS. That's from my experience not a common practice not something that I've ever seen in my decade in the House—especially on the RIS where the analysis is required in order to inform the House inform the debate. So the question must be asked: what is that side of the House hiding? What is the Government hiding on such an important bill to make sure that this side of the House those who are opposing their actions here—what are they hiding? That's the question that we will continue to prosecute as this bill continues further through the House.The other point I want to raise is as we look towards this bill—and I've already talked about the cottage industry claims from the other side—that this sends a very clear intention. I've seen a few of the members on the other side of the House go to Youth Court or Rangatahi Courts around the country—a fantastic kaupapa actually that looks towards supporting our young people so that they don't end up in the justice system. This sends a signal that the support that those young people have from their whānau from their community to make sure that the sentence they receive isn't something that'll continue to bind them into the justice and indeed into the corrections system—this sends a signal to our whānau who use the Rangatahi Court that this heavy-handed Government is there to create a further pipeline of our people. I say "our people" broadly but of course we've already heard the statistics about Māori about Pacific and about low socio-economic communities creating a pipeline from the cradle to the prison system. That's what this does.The other side might say "Well we're not taking away." Well what they're doing is making it unattainable. It's nothing new from this Government because they do it on so many other things—they pull the ladder up when they've climbed it. Once many of the Ministers have climbed up a ladder then they look back at everyone else and pull the ladder up. They've done it on benefits they continue to do in the legal system and they continue to do it in the justice system and in the corrections system.Therefore the Legal Services Amendment Bill that the Minister of Justice is pushing through will be heavily contested by this side of the House and my colleagues far more learned than me on these matters will continue to prosecute our case to say that actually there was a better way to do this. If the Government was that well-intentioned with respect to this amendment bill we could have sat down and worked with them worked with the communities to say "Actually let's come up with a way that we can do this and do this collaboratively and do this in a way that won't create further harm in our communities." Sadly they didn't take that opportunity. Sadly they didn't take the opportunity to consult widely on such an important matter.I'm sure that as members of the House leave the Chamber and we go and every now and then we fraternise and we talk and chat amongst ourselves—each and every one of us will know a whānau member who's had to go through the justice system and we've all got a case where we can say "Geez if only they knew more about that person more about that person's background." I guarantee that every member in the House has a whānau member like that. That's why on this side of the House we are opposing the actions of this Government and we will continue to oppose this as this bill proceeds through the House."