Penk ChrisCHRIS PENK (National—Kaipara ki Mahurangi): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's been very hard to understand and follow—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Sorry—a five-minute split call.CHRIS PENK: Thank you. I can assure you that it won't be all of that. It's been hard to understand all the arguments being made across the House by the left-wing parliamentary colleagues of ours today. I'm not sure if that's because I'm too dumb or too smart to understand them. But in any case it seems there's a real lack of clarity between such basic concepts as profiteering or simply making a profit which funnily enough is similar to the distinction between those who are merely politicking and those who are engaging in the relatively respectable profession of politics. Those who are interested from a policy point of view want to understand what the unintended consequences are of policy that might be well-intentioned—and I don't doubt that it is—but which nevertheless will have negative effects for those whether it's in Whangārei or Whanganui or Whangateau for that matter—completing my little alliterative triplet and finishing in my own electorate which is always a good place to be and to which I look forward to returning very very soon.The concept of a command and control economy whereby people in this House—again with the best of intentions—wish to make life easier by dictating things from Wellington but nevertheless end up undermining even their own arguments in respect of the value of competition—and of course freedom to compete between private market entities is important. Government does have an important role to play in some aspects of our national life but setting the price where there is a competitive market that should in the absence of pitfalls and barriers—and I mix my metaphors I know—but with Government not interfering—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Ms Genter without commenting on the previous speaker about the coming together of ACT and Greens could I suggest that if you want to carry on this conversation you do get a little bit closer together so that it's not quite as distracting to the rest of the House. Sorry Mr Penk. Carry on.CHRIS PENK: Thank you Mr Speaker. No need to apologise whatsoever. I thought we were going to have some sort of telegraph system. I wasn't sure if it was going to be—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I could see it was putting you off Mr Penk.CHRIS PENK: It was putting me off—that explains it!Simon Court: They're pretty off-putting!CHRIS PENK: Ha ha! That's right.Anna Lorck: Green and ACT—we've heard it today!CHRIS PENK: Pardon me?Anna Lorck: Green and ACT—CHRIS PENK: Green and ACT? Well I wouldn't like to comment on any coalitions of chaos" with which we are not involved but that's for them.Anyway suffice to say that at this very moment the geniuses that brought us the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act and the unintended and adverse consequences associated with that are now telling us to trust them. It's all good they know what they're doing they're from the Government and they're here to help! And in the immortal words of Ronald Reagan those are some of the scariest words in the English language. The bill therefore is to be resisted—opposed—and therefore I cannot commend it to the House.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This debate is interrupted and is set down for resumption next sitting day. The House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. on Tuesday 6 June. Thank you for your work this week.Debate interrupted.The House adjourned at 4.56 p.m."