Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Justice): I thank the member for his question about Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The truth is the Waitangi Tribunal recommended that the disqualification on any prisoner be removed. That was the Waitangi Tribunal, and it laid out a case for that, and it said that Māori who are deregistered, if you like, or dis-enrolled from the electoral roll are nearly 12 times more likely not to re-enrol, and therefore to vote, than Pākehā who were affected by the legislation. In any event, as the member knows—as, indeed, the Government of the day did in 1993—a judgment gets made about what fits a modern democratic principle. A principle that can be easily defended, because I think New Zealanders understand—which might explain why 78 percent of submitters to the original bill supported it—is that those who were in prison in one election and who, by dint of the fact they were on a sentence of less than three years, are guaranteed to be out of prison by the next election must have a right to have a say on who is leading the country that they are going to be released free into. That is the underlying principle of this bill.