Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): Well it is an absolute pleasure to be able to stand up on behalf of New Zealand First and respond firstly to a couple of things that were said. The first thing I have to say is in response to David Seymour's request to have the Airport Authorities (Publicising Lost Property Sales) Amendment Bill—I've Made Myself Look Silly Nuk Korako Bill". New Zealand First will not approve leave for that bill to be rushed through and so removing the embarrassment for the Government simply for two reasons. One this Government—including David Seymour who is part of the Government—if it truly wanted to save the country some money it would have made it a statutes amendment bill and put it through on an omnibus bill. It would have been done and dusted and it would not have cluttered up the ballot box. So point one we object to the cluttering of the ballot box with rubbish bills that the Government could easily pass itself. Two now that the Government has decided it needs to go through the full democratic process we applaud that and we will support democracy being exercised and full scrutiny of that bill Mr Seymour. If you want to save the Government some money if you want to save the taxpayer some money—given that Mr Seymour you lead a party of only one—resign. Walk out now. That would save us a hell of a lot of money and the House would be the better for it Mr Seymour. The second point—climate change. We too are enjoying the change in climate in New Zealand right now. I have got to say right now that Rangiora has had magnificent turn outs. Invercargill has had magnificent turn outs. Dannevirke is looking great tomorrow. I want to welcome to the New Zealand First Party the chairman of our new electorate committee down in Clutha-Southland Mr Mark Patterson—we know Todd Barclay knows him very very well—along with other members of the committee like Peter Charmaine and a whole bunch of others who have joined up. Thank you very much for joining and putting your faith in New Zealand First. Thank you for looking forward to changing the political climate in this country. This is the point: there is a mood for change now. People are saying in places like Clutha that they want change they want real change they want meaningful change and they want it now.One of the areas they want change in is this nonsense that is going on between National and Labour over law and order. I can actually think back to a number of policies that Labour implemented that National when its members sat on this side of the benches opposed. One when New Zealand First proposed that the age of criminal responsibility be lowered Labour made it clear it did not approve of that. National fluffed around and said "Well we agree with you Ron and we'll put the bill through to the select committee and a second reading." but in the end it lost its bottle and it voted with Labour to vote against the lowering of the age of criminal responsibility. But it did condemn Labour. It condemned Labour year after year for its soft law and order policies. Now look who is ramming through legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility—the new Labour-National Government. And it is like we said last week Pepsi or Coke red or blue. There is nothing new. You cannot tell the difference between the two. Some say it is like Macleans and Colgate: one has got a blue stripe one has got a red stripe but no one can actually tell the difference. They are the same. Look at what is happening with police numbers right now. Since 2008 the total number of incidents police attended increased from 420000 in 2008 to 525000 in 2015. Of those incidents the number of arrests has dropped from 72000 to 69000. What do we see in that? We see something similar to what Labour touted. National's policy—well it hooked up with the Māori Party and came in with this decision to lower Māori crime. How did it do that? By not arresting Māori offenders. That is something straight out of Labour's closing the gaps policy. We will close the gaps by improving Māori statistics by not arresting Māori offenders! Well this nonsense is about to come to an end. And it does not matter—Labour can criticise National over its corrections policy but it ran the goon squad. It brought in home detention which was a disaster and now National is making a bigger disaster of it with Serco and anklets that can be cut off with a pair of scissors. They truly are the same—Pepsi and Coke. Nobody can tell the difference. National or Labour red or blue—there is nothing new.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."