Upston LouiseHon LOUISE UPSTON (Minister of Corrections): I have got great news for the speaker who has just resumed her seat Jacinda Ardern because there are loads of solutions that this Government has in place in terms of an area that is very important for Kiwis and that is safer communities. New Zealand is of course the fourth-safest country in the world but no our Government is not satisfied with that; we are aiming to be No. 1 and I want to talk about some of the solutions that our Government has put in place and the results that we are getting.We believe very clearly that when offenders are in our custody we should absolutely do our utmost to put them on a different path in life. We owe it to their families we owe it to their communities we owe it to taxpayers and we owe it to their victims. Yesterday the Minister of Police and I announced a number of measures that are focused very much on one of the most significant drivers of crime. Fifty percent of all crime is committed by people under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is a very targeted solution. It is very specific around looking at those who are out on bail or offenders who have abstinence conditions and making sure that by close monitoring and by more significant testing we are able to identify early exactly what is going on. About 50 of the highest-risk offenders will be fitted with these alcohol detection anklets which will detect alcohol in their sweat.It provides a couple of things. Obviously there is the compliance issue—we want to know that offenders who have conditions and are managed in the community are complying with the conditions that have been imposed by the Parole Board. More importantly we actually want offenders to be successful in creating that new path in life and that is the point that the Opposition members have clearly not got their heads around. In terms of rehabilitation in terms of reintegration this Government has spent $176 million in the last year alone on rehabilitation and reintegration. That is 13 percent of the Corrections budget.But what is important is that we on this side of the House do not talk about how much money we are spending because we focus very clearly on the results. I am going to talk to you about the results. The Minister of Finance clearly talks about outputs—outputs are results. We measure them through the Better Public Services targets. We change the targets when we reach them. We set new targets so that the taxpayers of New Zealand can absolutely see the outputs that we are achieving.Yes in terms of inputs funding is part of that but what is more important for New Zealanders—for hard-working New Zealanders—is what this Government is doing in terms of solving the very issues that have an impact on their lives and we are tackling the hard ones. The previous Government was quite happy to leave prisoners inside with very few programmes in terms of supporting their drug and alcohol issues. One example alone: in our term in office we have delivered drug and alcohol programmes and treatment to 22000 offenders in the community and 6500 prisoners. That is up from 230—230.When we talk about solutions we are talking about solutions for real problems for real Kiwis—some of the most challenged ones absolutely whom we are making a difference for. On this side of the House we come up with solutions whether it is getting prisoners qualifications—the big one at the moment is getting offenders into jobs because we know that jobs provide them with stability and jobs provide them with an income. At the employer breakfasts that I have been hosting around the country we have employers lining up to take on more offenders because they know that they are drug- and alcohol-free that they have got access to literacy and numeracy that they got qualifications while they were inside and that they are hungry for the opportunity to prove that they are set on a new path in life.Over the last 4 years under the Better Public Services targets there have been 38000 fewer victims—38000 fewer victims. If that is not a result that Kiwis are interested in I do not know what is. Thirty-eight thousand—that is the figure I am proud of.