Baillie Chris; Rurawhe AdrianCHRIS BAILLIE (ACT): Thanks Mr Speaker. It was great to see Willie Jackson attempt to support his Minister of Police—admirable effort but I don't think anyone's really buying it. I looked hard in this Budget to find something that would give me hope—give me hope—that this Government is taking crime seriously but unfortunately no such luck. We're in the middle of a crime crisis: unprecedented youth crime violence sexual crime—you name it—every single statistic has increased in record numbers. We have a Budget that's so underwhelming it must make our police officers very depressed and it's no wonder that morale is at an all-time low.There's a couple of things that aren't new that the Budget has continued. There is an early intervention programme it's been going for four months; 13 re-offended so far out of 52. And I think if stats can be manipulated that's a good example. Proper funding of youth aid would do a very similar thing and I note that youth aid funding has decreased by $2 million. Youth crime has decreased significantly over the past decade until 2017 and the Government needs to ask itself why.There's $56 million in the Budget going to the firearms registry. I think people know ACT's opinion about that: it won't work it will be a waste of money and it won't take any guns away from criminals we know it. Not one gang member handed their weapon or gun in during the buy-back at all.There's a roll-out of the tactical response model—better training for high-risk situations. I remember something that was going earlier on a few years ago—in 2020 it got canned because it was deemed as being racist and offensive. And I remember Poto Williams at the time said that it was hurting her people forgetting that she was the Minister of Police and her people were actually police officers.Then we have the policy of 1800 front-line officers and allocating officers for population-based funding which we absolutely agree with because it's ACT's policy—we've had it out for a few years now—so well done taking up ACT's ideas. It all looks good to say the 1800 police officers"—fine men and women—they won't make a jot of difference which really does show the ignorance and naivety of what we've come to expect. No credit is given to the experienced police officers that are out there—their knowledge and their abilities—and they're very underappreciated and they know it.Along with the 40 percent increase in mental health incidents we have a 41 percent increase in serious crime victimisations since 2017 a 121 percent increase in serious assaults since January through to December and a 114.9 percent increase in serious assault victimisations from 2017-22. It just keeps on going. Labour's soft-on-crime ideology just is the reason for these increases. It's a result of no consequences and being soft on crime.The Budget doesn't have any targets which is really disappointing if we look at the percentage of people who have reported offences who are advised of the results of updated investigations within 21 days. Burglaries were expecting an 11 to 15 percent clearance rate. Really it's just not good enough. Crime against a person—greater than 35 percent is acceptable. Targets—they're just not there.Every day we're reading about a crime committed by young people out of control. I've got some here: a dairy in Canterbury in Darfield; we have Ōtara—this is just over the last week. An example from the Dairy and Business Owners Group—he really sums things up by saying the Government has given up on crime. "It will be news to the insurers who have hiked rates and excesses as a result of crime." So what we got today is a "Crime without Punishment Budget". Unfortunately the horse has bolted and it's going to be up to a Government of adults to rein it in. Thank you.SPEAKER: Karen Chhour five minutes."