Ball DarrochDARROCH BALL (NZ First): Well how utterly disappointing. I am not disappointed for myself or for the party; I am disappointed for those 90000 young people who have just seen that the Government cannot even be bothered to take the bill through to the select committee to discuss it. It cannot even be bothered to understand that over the last year the number of those young people not in education employment or training neets" has increased by 20000. It does not even want to discuss it.What is even more frustrating is this: the question I want to ask every single member of that National Government who stood up is whether they have actually read the bill. Have you read the bill? The second question is: have you seen this? Have the members who have spoken from the National Government backbenches seen this? This is a 10- or 11-page information booklet that was sent out to every single party in this House explaining in detail every single question that they asked.What we have heard from the Government members is evidence that not only did they not read the bill properly but the front bench obviously failed them in passing on the information booklets that they needed to read as responsible members of Parliament and members of Government to make decisions for the most vulnerable people in our country. They have not done it. Not only did they not read the bill not only did they not read the information booklet but they did not listen to my speech. Half of the questions that they have been asking were included in my speech; the rest were covered in the information booklet.It is a silver bullet they say. There is no silver bullet. In my speech I acknowledged that this is not going to solve the entire problem of the 90000 "neets" which has been caused by this Government. The levels of unemployed disengaged youth have never been lower than the pre-2008 levels and that is a fact. They have increased by 20 percent under this Government. And what did we hear: "Is this compulsory?". Of course it is not compulsory. If you had been listening you would have heard that I said it was voluntary—if you had been listening if you had bothered to listen. What we heard was a whole list of current programmes that this Government is producing for our young people—for our unemployed disengaged young people. That is a total juxtaposition as I said in the House yesterday of the actual reality of what is happening. They do not listen. They do not want to listen to the fact that the number of "neets" has increased under this Government and that the current situation—the current courses that they are offering these young people—is not working.I acknowledge what the Labour Party members have said: that this is not the perfect bill. We have come out here and said this is not the perfect bill. In no way can it be a perfect bill if we do not go to the select committee if we do not hear from the experts. But you know the people I wanted the Government to listen to are the people I have spoken to the parents I have spoken to and the young people I have spoken to over the last year about this bill and just how much they know and how much they wished that their children who are not suited to school who are not suited to the formal education system that is currently failing them—how anything that the Government is coming up with to help those kids who drop out or get disengaged is not helping them. I wanted them to listen to those submissions to how they were saying that this is a programme that they wish they had for their young people that this is a programme that they know their nephew or niece or sister or brother would have absolutely suited. The young people themselves have come to me and said: "I wish there was a course like this."I am not making this stuff up. I was a schoolteacher I was a youth worker in the community and I was in the army and dealt with young people who came off the bus spent 6 to 8 weeks in the army on the Limited Service Volunteer training programme and changed the way that they lived their life because of genuine adult involvement. What we have got is the research and data and information that shows that we need to start this earlier at 15. That is what this bill would have done and this National Government has shown that it does not give a damn about those young people."