Collins Fa'anānā EfesoFA'ANĀNĀ EFESO COLLINS (Green): Malo le soifua manuia i lau afioga le Taʻitaʻi fono. Greetings Mr Speaker. I'm really excited this morning not about this bill but definitely about this being my first contribution to the House. I can see that my friends over the hall there are very excited too so I'm going to enjoy the next five minutes. Sir congratulations to you again for being reappointed to your role in the Speaker's Chair.Today I think we begin the journey to nowhere. This being my first contribution to the House I was thinking I'm so excited about speaking to the House." I came here thinking "Wow I'm standing for Te Pāti Kākāriki because we can make a difference. We're going to stand up for workers we're going to stand up for businesses too." but what have we got? What have we got? We've got the reintroduction of these 90-day bills that do nothing for our young people that take away the aspirations of our young people.These are the people who went out and said "We're about aspirations; we're about a future." A few years ago they were talking about a brighter future and look at where they've got us. Absolutely nowhere. Today we're back in the same spot where we're telling our young people there is no future because you're always going to be on trial. This sounds like your corrections policy.You see what we've got to do is stand up for our young people. I used to work at the University of Auckland. We used to say it was New Zealand's premier university great university and where we graduated with my friends here sitting to my left—to my left; hear the beauty of that; to my left. One of the things we used to do—my role was to go out into predominantly low-decile schools and encourage young people to think about the world of work that beyond school they'd be able to go to work and earn money and support their families eh? But now they're always going to be according to the Minister who spoke last night and said "Well they might not tick all the boxes." Oh my goodness imagine—imagine—ticking nine of the 10 boxes and then after 90 days they say "Na na na get out. We want someone with the 10th." Goodness gracious me! What kind of theory is that? That's not going to help anybody. This is giving our young people our future absolutely no assurance whatsoever that there is a future for them in work. You're not giving us the brighter future; this is dark and dim and harsh and horrible.I encourage you to look in the mirror. [Interruption] I know you're getting excited. I know you're getting excited. So am I because your contributions are not adding to the future of our young people. In fact you're stealing our future. The Grinch of Christmas has arrived eh? The Grinch of Christmas has arrived and they're all looking at me now thinking "If only I chose to stand for the Green Party" rather than where you are today taking away our hope. Let's see what Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) had to say because you're so driven by evidence! I can see it; I can see it right now: you're driven by evidence! Let's see what MBIE says. "We consider that the main impacts"—and we've heard this before so I've got to reiterate it because I don't think people are hearing; I don't think people are really opening their minds to this discussion.So I'm going to invite you just to pause for a moment. Open your minds. Open your hearts to the young people you're telling today that there's no future and work for them. "We consider" says MBIE "that the main impacts of the 90-day trial policy are perceived insecurity for employees who are on a trial period and reduced costs for employers that choose to dismiss"—they choose to dismiss—"an employee on a trial period." Is this the future you want? Shame! "We consider" says MBIE—this is the department you're about to gut—"We consider"—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Greg O'Connor): Mr Collins. Very liberal use of the word "you". You are speaking through the Chair and through the Chair to whoever you are addressing.FA'ANĀNĀ EFESO COLLINS: My friends opposing me consider this: "We consider" say MBIE—and I apologise for that Mr Speaker—"that smaller employers are more likely to benefit from trial periods because they are less able to absorb the costs of a poor match or dismissal. In comparison larger employers can be … equipped to manage any dismissal processes and absorb [those] costs. We consider that the option to extend trial periods to employers with fewer than 100 employees may lead to greater uncertainty than … other options." This is deplorable. It's deplorable because we're taking away people's ability to be able to negotiate and say "This is what I want." Instead what we're going to do is create fear and that's not the future that we want so I do not commend this because it is nothing but hopeless and poor and terribly thought through. Thank you Mr Speaker."