Logie Jan; Tisch LindsayJAN LOGIE (Green): I rise to take a short call for the Green Party on this bill which we are unfortunately unable to support. I would like to recognise that we are the only party in this House voting against this bill also recognising that I am sure every member in this House has the best intentions and is wanting to protect the rights of victims of sexual violence and that includes us. The Green Party has taken a very very strong role in this House on advocating for victims of sexual violence and domestic violence and I have a very long history of working alongside victims of sexual violence. That is where I am standing in that knowledge and experience in my opposition to this bill. I do want to talk about the reasons and explain why we are opposing it on the grounds of concern for victims. The evidence was provided to the Social Services Committee from one of the services START which works with sexual violence offenders and supporting children in particular as well as adult survivors of sexual violence. It opposed the bill and it opposed it on the grounds of US research and it outlined that this model was not effective. I have heard New Zealand First members speak and say: Yes but the US jurisdiction is very different to ours and we do not have any evidence that says that this does not work in like jurisdictions." We do not have any evidence that it does work either and there is a very real concern with a 1 percent conviction rate that this will create a sense of safety for other offenders who have not been through our courts which is 99 percent of them—that it will actually give them a cloak. Another very real concern with this is that it will cost $146 million to implement. That is about three times the amount of funding that we got out of the sexual violence victim survivors inquiry and that was based on years of evidence and advocating for survivors. Here we have an unproven concept—that will look good politically—that is getting about three times the amount of funding than is going towards victim survivors. We also have $86 million of that coming from the existing police baseline. I really want to remind members in this House that in the front page of the Dominion Post today was a report that showed that detectives in this country are swamped with increasing numbers of child abuse cases with 313 cases yet to be assigned to an investigator—with 40 officers trying to investigate five or more cases. So within that budget the police are now being told to take resources from an essential part of our systems to hold perpetrators to account and to put it into a register that has absolutely no evidence that it will provide any value in terms of protecting the victims in our society. Now I call that out. That is not what is in the best interest of victims and survivors in this country. When we have a 1 percent conviction rate and a proven programme called Circles of Support and Accountability which was costing $25000 I understand and it had that funding withdrawn even though there is evidence to prove it works and when only 1 percent of Government funding is spent on prevention and the national roll-out recommended to the Government from the select committee inquiry has gone to 10 percent of our high schools when what was recommended was a consistent programme from early childhood right through—I call out the spending of $146 million on something that has no evidentiary basis. This Government says it is all about an investment approach and putting money into what is proven to work. There is no evidence that this is proven to work and the Government is taking money from things that do.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Kelvin Davis—5 minutes."