Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): I always stand in this House and declare what an honour and a privilege it is to speak on legislation. In this case it is a duty. The crimes amendment—Hon Members: Ha ha!MARAMA DAVIDSON: Oh catch up everyone. The crimes amendment bill which is the Crimes (Increased Penalty for Providing Explosive to Commit Crime) Amendment Bill—on this international day for women I think about the accountabilities that I would have and the criticism that I would receive if I were to introduce a bill that I think is not a wise and fair use of the resources of the House of our debating time and of our analysis and resources. So I will make that very clear from the start.We are opposing this bill for its substance and I also want to make it clear that I think that there are far more important areas of justice that we need to be utilising our time for—particularly at a time where communities and constituencies are really struggling to find and connect and find relevance to what we here are doing in this House. This bill will increase the maximum penalty for the provision of explosives to commit an offence from 2 years to 5 years. As my colleague David Clendon said there is no obvious concern at present about the growing use of explosives and in 10 years there have been three convictions and the majority of those were farther away ago in time.Recently in the past 8 years there has been one conviction. So there is no obvious concern—then why? Why has this bill come to this place particularly in the event that there is little evidence that criminals even respond to harsher sentences in the way that we would like them to? If there is some evidence that they do respond to harsher sentencing then it is concentrated in the first few years even and that is the first 2 to 3 years that is already the current situation's maximum penalty for this particular crime. This increasing maximum penalty comes at a time when in New Zealand our incarceration rates are disgraceful. We have reached 10000 prisoners now. We are the seventh highest country in the OECD when it comes to churning out billions of dollars of resource to put people in prison which does not have the effect of creating safer communities and certainly does not reduce reoffending.Instead if we did want to spend time on legislation and debate and working together across the House it should be a move to things such as restorative justice. The National member Mr Jonathan Young spoke before about maintaining sobriety when we discuss the harsh and violent nature of explosive crime. The thing with restorative justice is that it puts victims at the centre of the process and seeks to really heal the harm. [Interruption] Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. It also has a focus on community involvement and it gets the offender to take true responsibility for what they have done.Bringing this legislation to the House in my opinion was not just an unwise use of our resources but also does not attack the core of how to properly heal from the harms of the crimes that take place from explosives. Instead of the mismatch between supposed sentences in legislation we should be looking at other mismatches in justice—for example between sentencing Māori and non-Māori young people where doing the same thing can bring a non-Māori and a Māori a completely different sentence. I will just end by saying again that we should be looking at what actually will bring reoffending rates down and create truly safer communities. Thank you.