Hon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): I'll stand to take a call on this bill. Again, I think that we find ourselves in extraordinary times. I'm actually embarrassed that I'm even standing in the House speaking to this bill, a bill about giving prisoners the right to have the vote back, or, more accurately, prisoners that are sentenced to less than three years who will be coming out in that electoral cycle. In all honestly, if the Government really believed in this, if you actually really believed in the fact that you feel like there's a breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act or if you really believed in the report that came out from the Waitangi Tribunal, then why aren't you giving prisoners the vote back, full stop? Why don't you just give them the vote? If the Minister of Justice stood up in the House and he said, "We're going to address the issue around the breach of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. We're going to address the issue that was raised by the Waitangi Tribunal."; you're not addressing those issues. If you're going to do it, why don't you just give prisoners the vote back? Sadly, I think it is political and that they realised that that was going be deeply unpopular with the public of New Zealand. I think that it goes against everyone's sense of justice.