Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. There are so many avenues of—well no surprise that this is the approach that this Government is taking to some serious issues that need grown up enduring solutions and responses not the dog-whistling approach; the dog-whistling to ill-informed emotion. What needs to be understood here is that for so long now we have had the evidence—we have had the evidence—screeds and screeds of it in fact over decades. The Government also has at its fingertips it's called Integrated Data Infrastructure but what that actually means is the very data that we have been gathering around the background of people including young people who offend—the very diverse complex often generational deeply challenging hardships and structural discrimination; many if not most offenders can find themselves on a path that is not healthy for them or the community.So the Government seeks—it's not even low-hanging fruit; it's actually dropped and rotting on the ground—the solution that they are grabbing in wanting to remove the funding for the cultural reports is what they are called; the reports that give judges far more information to be able to make good judgments in the court. I thought that's what this place could at least uphold: good information to inform decisions is what this Minister and this Government are choosing to remove—do I only get five minutes on this?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Maureen Pugh): Yeah.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Oh OK—what this Government is choosing to remove. Now what that also creates is an inequity because those who—and as if our justice system didn't already have bias; now that's not even up for debate. That has been well traversed by many reports and research. As if the justice system didn't already have that bias this legislation actually still allows those with the means and the networks and the resources to still be able to pull on more information for judges in the courts thereby entrenching already unjust inequities that you can have a better chance at justice if you have got the means.The particular sore point—but again not surprising for the Green Party to sharply oppose this legislation—is the tangata whenua and Tiriti considerations. So noting again that there has already been clear evidence that the system discriminates. Who? I saw a lot of the National Party MPs at the Salvation Army breakfast last week didn't we Celia? We saw a lot of you there. We saw a lot of the National Party MPs there supposedly listening. One of the key things that they said was tough on crime". The system has already been tough on Māori—far more tough on Māori than anyone else. That was what was spoken to at that breakfast last week. Were those members listening? Were they listening at all to that incredible research? That's just the latest in a long line of research that has said the very same thing. Māori are more likely to be apprehended convicted sentenced more harshly for doing the same thing—the same thing. That is incomprehensible discrimination in our justice system racism and the removing of the funding for these cultural reports which were one small but significant way of trying to mitigate the systemic bias that far too much of our research has already affirmed.I am quite appalled—quite appalled—that this Government would just blatantly basically put up its hand and go "Yep we know there is already bias in the system. We're going to make it worse." Not surprised but we will be exposing the hypocrisy of this Government at every opportunity. Thank you Madam Speaker."