Hon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): Thank you, Mr Chair. There's a few issues raised there by the chair of the committee that I'd like to address. But, firstly, I'd just like to say that every day in this House, or when we're here when we're sitting, we keep hearing from the Government the great news story in terms of investment and numbers and all the rest of it, but the reality is this: a 21 percent increase in violent crime since 2017.