Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): Thank you very much. I don't blame you for having a bit of a pause when you looked at me Madam Assistant Speaker because it is very difficult to remember everybody's name and I am very less memorable than some other members in this wonderful House. But it gives me great pleasure to take a short but punchy approach to this bill. I want to congratulate Kieran McAnulty for getting his bill drawn out in the first instance. I just want to articulate that the support from New Zealand First to get this bill to select committee was one with reservations at the first reading. We said Look we want to hear from submitters. We want to know what people think of this." We had some concerns as a caucus with regards to one aspect of the bill which was about the issue around collective bargaining. I have to say what an absolute great pleasure it is to stand up and support this bill through to the third reading for good reason. The select committee process has shown us a pathway through a bill that has had some problems and now has had those problems ironed out. When I listen to the speeches across the House when they talk about some of the comments that are being made they're talking about comments that were made by certain aspects of the community that had concerns about the collective bargaining aspect of this bill. It has now gone. It is null and void. It is not there. When you listen to what people are saying including Business New Zealand who suggests that this is now a much better bill than what it first was we have to have some confidence that it's actually addressing a problem—albeit a small problem but a problem none the less—that needs to be fixed up inside these triangular employment arrangements. Where you have a primary and a secondary employer employing an employee for a range of different jobs all around the country and in fact the employment groups that—the hire-pool people hire tens of thousands of people around the country every single week. We think when we think of hire-pool companies that they're actually just hiring low-end labour to dig posts or students in the holidays—that's not true at all. In fact there are a lot of hire-pool companies that are out there on a professional high-skilled basis employing white-collar workers in corporate positions with high skills in the medical industry and in many many parts of our community. Hire-pool agencies work. It works perfectly well for those employees looking for a casual arrangement. Invariably they get better wages but they are looking for that casual approach to their work and it also benefits the employers looking for people on a short-term basis.So we understand there is a necessity for a very very small group of businesses that have the opportunity to exploit some of these workers whether they be blue-collar workers or white-collar workers and this bill addresses that problem by simply sharing the responsibility from the primary source of the employer and the secondary employer that now share that responsibility over a personal grievance. Now I've personally gone and spoken to a number of hire-pool companies labour hire-pool companies who are very comfortable with what we're doing here. In fact some of the discussions that I had with them was exploring their thoughts for future works and discussion on what their feelings were if you looked at an Australian model that has a casual loading aspect in these types of arrangements. They said "We wouldn't even be worried about that." The collective bargaining issue was the biggest concern that they had and that has now completely gone from this bill which leaves this bill very very easy for New Zealand First to support and see through to the third reading. Again I want to commend Kieran McAnulty for the work that he's done. I also want to commend all of the members across the House through that select committee process and all of the people that have taken the time out of their day to submit on this bill. We have been very studious in ensuring that we've actually listened to what the concerns are that have now been addressed and that's exactly what the select committee process is there to do. And I believe we've now got a bill that we can all be proud of. We commend this bill to the House. Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker."