GLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora, Mr Speaker. Thank you for allowing me to take a call on the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill. I want to acknowledge the Hon Kris Faafoi, the Minister of Justice, who brought this piece of legislation to the House. When he spoke on this last week, he acknowledged that the bill would likely cause and inspire debate both in the House and in the public, and, boy, has it. It's saddened me, because I'm not sure if it's been debate or if it's been mud-slinging or if it's just been crass rhetoric that's been thrown around, but this piece of legislation is actually amending something that should never have been there in the first place. This piece of legislation is, I was going to say, an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, but it's not even that; it's worse than that. For us, on this side of the House, as the Labour Party, we're about not going to the top of the cliff but going beyond the cliff, to right before you even get to the cliff side, to deal with offenders. It's things like restorative justice, it's things like family group conferences, and it's things like social workers in schools that actually is around addressing the issues, not just "Lock 'em up and throw away the key." Because what does that do? That just creates more engrained people who are learning the ways that aren't right.