Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Mr Assistant Speaker I believe I have got 5 minutes and I have to say that it is going to take me all of 5 minutes just to read out the title of this bill: the Social Security (Stopping Benefit Payments for Offenders who Repeatedly Fail to Comply with Community Sentences) Amendment Bill. I stand with a heavy heart because one of my heroes in the golden oldies Parliamentary Rugby Team and one of our esteemed co-captains Mark Mitchell—I thought that when he was not in the House he would be out there on the streets pounding the pavements working on his aerobic fitness and getting a bit of bulk in the thighs definition in the abs and a bit of mass in the shoulders. But no instead he has been wasting his time instructing some poor official in the Ministry of Social Development to write his speech for him. I must admit—I will give him credit—he delivered it well. Well done there Mr Mitchell. Let me say that this bill is a total waste of time. All Mr Mitchell is doing is just heaping more and more woes and responsibilities on the poor Department of Corrections. They are the people who are going to have to administer this. They are the people who are going to have to round up all of those people who have been jaywalking riding bicycles without helmets and riding their cycles on the footpath. Those poor people who go down to the local park on a Saturday while the probation service at the Department of Corrections watches over them as they rake the sandpit rake leaves and trim trees and all those sorts of things—those are the people who are going to be affected by this bill. But what is so inhumane about the bill is the cutting of these poor people's benefits by half if they have a child and cutting the benefit entirely if they do not have children. I just wonder why Mr Mitchell has not written into the bill: Corrections' latest punishment for people who don't conform to whatever they are meant to conform to". Maybe the Department of Corrections has been trialling this on the side and it might be an amendment to the bill later on but the department today is being had up because it has been tying prisoners to the beds—tying prisoners to beds. Now would that not be a lot kinder to poor beneficiaries—that instead of cutting their benefits they just tied them to the beds? This has been happening in New Zealand's prisons. I have to congratulate the Chief Ombudsman Judge Peter Boshier on the great work he is doing. He is rapidly becoming a superhero of mine because he is holding this Government to account. He is making it actually accountable for some of its silly decisions such as tying prisoners to their beds. This poor prisoner actually had mental health issues and so he has been punished for being unwell and that is just another example of this terrible Government—an absolutely shocking Government—having its priorities wrong and punishing people instead of helping them in particular this poor guy who was tied down simply because he was unwell. The prison inspectorate is now being made to account for this. The prison inspectorate was meant to actually write weekly reports to the Ombudsman on this incident and yet it did not. I think the prison inspectorate has got a lot to hide. I asked the Department of Corrections if I could go and talk to the prison inspectorate last week on a totally unrelated matter and I was blocked at every turn. This Government has got its priorities wrong. When it could be dealing with the housing crisis and making sure people are not living in those mobile apartments—also known as motor vehicles—when it could be putting money into Te Puea Marae and other real issues that are facing New Zealand we have my hero the co-captain of the golden oldies Parliamentary Rugby Team presenting silly bills like this to the House."