Naylor Jono: Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNaylor Jono: Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 01 June 2016. Volume:714;Page:11581. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JONO NAYLOR (National): Talofa lava Mr Speaker. This is a very good piece of legislation and I rise in absolute support of it.In 2012 the Government moved to improve the outlook for young people particularly vulnerable young people who were beneficiaries. There has been a bit of a look at this over the years to see how effective it can be and I think what we are starting to see are some good results for those young people who initially went on it: those who were single parents young parents and those who were at high risk of long-term welfare dependency.I just think it is really important for us to clarify that when we talk about young people being “at risk of long-term welfare dependency” this is not a judgment call—this is not a way of us looking down on them in any way shape or form. What I can tell you is that if the Government is having to spend a lot of money supporting you over a long period of time it is probably because you are not having good outcomes in life. Generally for people who need that level of input things are not going well for them.We are absolutely aspirational for these young people in that we want the very best for them. We want them to be able to get beyond simply being a welfare beneficiary long term. We want them to be able to have education. We want them to be able to be in work. That is why over this period that they are involved with the Youth Service and receiving these payments for the 16 to 17-year-olds—absolutely—education is the focus. NCEA level 2 is the absolute minimum that we want these young people to achieve educationally.But it does not have to end there and if they want to go further they will be supported to go further. And yes for 18 and 19-year-olds the focus is work. We do not want these young people to be trapped out of study or out of work or without qualifications. We want them to have the tools that will be useful for them to be able to achieve the kinds of goals that they want to achieve.I have been privileged over the last year or so to speak with some young people who have been involved with the Youth Service and I have been—I have to say—pretty excited by the kinds of things they have said to me. They do have aspirations they are setting goals for themselves; they do not want to just settle for second-best. They want to get better educated. They want more for their children as they go forward. I think that is great and I think it is important that we continue as we seek to expand the service through this legislation to another group of young people—to some slightly older ones—to ensure that they too will receive the mentoring. And to ensure that they too will receive the budgeting advice and the money management advice and increase their skills to be able to give them an even better footing for life and an even better start for their children as they go forward.We received 10 written submissions and three people presented oral submissions. For me when I look at that over my experience of being involved in putting things out when you get a low number of submissions it is generally because people think it is a good idea. People do not tend to submit when they support things they tend to submit only when they think it is a bad idea. So I see the low turnout of submissions that we had as highly positive. I think that we are going to see some really good results for young people going forward.I do not want to see young people languishing any longer than they have to. I want to provide the best that we can for them through the mentoring programmes and the wraparound services from Youth Service—for the number of extra people who are going to benefit from this going forward. I think we are going to see some really incredible results. We are going to see empowered young people ready to take on the world and move forward. With that I will conclude. Fa’afetai manuia le afiafi.