Mr KEENAN (Stirling—Minister for Justice) (15:08): I thank the member for Macarthur for that question. I was very pleased to join the Prime Minister in the Macarthur electorate several weeks ago to announce that we will be spending $350,000 from our Safer Streets Program for 20 mobile CCTV cameras for Campbelltown City Council. As the member knows, as a veteran of 25 years in the New South Wales Police Force before coming to this place, CCTV does two very important things. Ms Rowland: Why did you cut them in Blacktown? The SPEAKER: The member for Greenway will leave the chamber under standing order 94(a). The member for Greenway then left the chamber. Mr KEENAN: Firstly, it acts as a deterrent for people to do the wrong thing in places where it has been placed. Secondly, if people have been doing the wrong thing where CCTV is present, it helps police to catch the perpetrators. As I have moved around the country and spoken to police officers about the utility of CCTV, they have given me numerous examples where it has helped them to catch people who have been doing the wrong thing. It saves them time and it also can save the court time because it is very hard for somebody to say they have not committed a crime if it is there in black and white on CCTV footage. The commitment we made to Macarthur is part of our $50 million Safer Streets Program, which we announced in October 2012 and which we were very pleased to deliver in this budget. Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Gorton will desist. Mr Albanese: What about Marrickville? The SPEAKER: And so will the member for Grayndler. Mr KEENAN: We have made 150 individual commitments over 60 electorates all around the country. Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Gorton will remove himself under standing order 94(a). The member for Gorton then left the chamber. Mr KEENAN: This $50 million is being provided from the criminal Confiscated Assets Account—money which, when Labor was in government, they froze. Previous governments of all political persuasions have spent proceeds of crime money on fighting crime, with the exception of the Labor government, when, in their frantic search for savings to prop up the budget they had destroyed, froze proceeds of crime money and refused to spend it on crime fighting initiatives. The member for Lilley has been suspended from the services of the House, but I hope he got a chance to write a thank-you note to Tony Mokbel, 'Thanks, Tony, for helping me prop up the budget bottom line that we had so destroyed.' Opposition members interjecting— Mr KEENAN: This is exactly what you did. You took the money from criminals to prop up you dodgy budget bottom line. Opposition members interjecting— Mr Albanese: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The member should withdraw. The SPEAKER: You can address that point of order slightly more, Member for Grayndler. Mr Albanese: Madam Speaker, we object, on this side of the House, to the suggestion that we are associated with criminals. It should be withdrawn. The SPEAKER: I accept the point of order in that the standing orders say one is not permitted to reflect on another member. Indeed, that could be construed that way. I would ask the minister to withdraw. Mr KEENAN: To assist the House, I withdraw. The point I was making was that they were taking money directly from criminal activities to prop up their dodgy budget bottom line and that is exactly what history will record. The SPEAKER: The minister will withdraw without qualification. Mr KEENAN: I withdraw, Madam Speaker. I am not sure how else you could characterise freezing proceeds of crime spending which had always been used by governments of both political persuasions to fund crime fighting initiatives all around the country, a practice which only ceased under the previous Labor government. Ms Owens interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Parramatta will leave in one minute if she is not quiet. Mr KEENAN: We will use proceeds of crime to fight crime. That is exactly what previous governments have done—something Labor could not manage in their six years in office. Mr Abbott: After 21 well-answered questions, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper