Pillay Lynne: General Debate 
Pillay Lynne: General Debate 
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LYNNE PILLAY (Labour—Waitakere) 
: 
 We have just heard the previous speaker bang on about final reports. I will talk about what a final report would look like if God forbid we did not have a Labour-led Government but a National Government leading this country. For a start how many weeks’ holiday would we have in place under National? We would have 2 weeks’ annual leave because that is the National Party policy. We would have no apprenticeships because National scrapped the Apprenticeship Act. We would have privatised accident compensation because when we came into Government we had to de-privatise accident compensation and get back a fairer system. We would have cuts to superannuation because the previous National Government was in the process of making those. We would have means testing for care of our elderly people because that is what the National Government brought in. We would have everything privatised because that is the National Party’s policy and agenda. 
We would have no paid parental leave whatsoever because John Key voted against it. We would have no 20 free hours per week of early childhood education for every child in New Zealand—which is enjoyed by about 90 percent of families in this country—because John Key voted against it. We would have no interest-free student loans in this country because John Key voted against it. We would have no capped tax credits for Working for Families because John Key voted against it. We would have no income-related rents and we would have no help with homeownership because John Key voted against it. We would have fewer health and safety laws and less protection for our workers because John Key voted against it. We would not have cheaper prescription charges and cheaper doctors’ visits because John Key voted against it. We would not have the minimum wage increase and we would not have got rid of youth rates because John Key voted against it. We would not have public holiday payments on public holidays and we would not have fairer labour laws because John Key voted against it. 
We would not have Maori seats because—wait—John Key wanted to get rid of them. There is a change there! But would we have KiwiSaver? No we would not because John Key voted against it. We would have troops in Iraq because John Key would have supported that. We would not be nuclear-free because John Key thinks that is a sham. Climate change would be off the agenda because John Key does not believe it exists. We see now a series of absolutely wishy-washy slippery flip-flops. The John Key model is: “Do not in any circumstances tell anybody what we’re going to do—never never!”. We have seen that happen—five times he managed to dodge the question of what he would do about Auckland airport. But this Government is strong enough to say that we do not want foreign control so we are going to ensure that it does not happen in respect of New Zealand’s strategic assets. 
What is John Key’s view on this issue? We do not know because we go back to his golden rule: “Never never tell anyone what we’re going to do.” But we did see someone break the rule; poor old Tony Ryall let something slip. I do not know what happened that day in caucus but he cannot have been there. He got the army medicine: “Never never say what we’re going to do.” but poor old Tony Ryall went and said: “We will not cap doctors’ fees.” My goodness! John Key immediately zoomed to the rescue and said: “No no.” And when asked what they would do he said: “Well of course we wouldn’t; on the one hand … and on the other hand”— 
Jill Pettis 
: The market will provide! 
LYNNE PILLAY 
: —“the market will provide! Of course doctors will not push their fees up; they will not do that.” We have seen time after time that John Key never ever puts his mouth where his money is!