The main goal of three-strikes legislation is to remove the most dangerous offenders from circulation for longer. That is what keeps our community safe. We're not talking about large numbers of nice people. When we look at the figures, they tell the story. There's only been, after the 10 years or so that it has been introduced, just under 13,000 people on the first-strike offence—13,000 people. You know, maybe if it was totally ineffectual, as the Minister claimed, as a deterrent and as a piece of legislation we might have seen another 13,000 people on the second strike, but we don't. What we see is 640 people on the second strike across the country, and then, if it was totally ineffectual at that point, maybe we would see 640 people on a third strike. But, no, we see 21 of New Zealand's worst offenders on a third strike. 