I think the last point I'll make on this is on the very implementation of this bill. In those first few months when three strikes became law in New Zealand, there was absolutely no integrated data system within in the Ministry of Justice to keep tabs on how those strikes were being recorded. My job, along with a few others back then, was to manually monitor when an offender with a strikable offence was coming up before the courts. A phone call would have to be put through to the prosecutor to alert them that someone was coming up before the courts, and this needed to be done at sentencing. We even had a red rubber stamp made with "strikable offence" that would help remind them in the court. More than a few were missed, and each week we drew straws as to who was the unlucky official that had to front up at the Minister's meeting and tell Judith Collins how many had got away that week. 