Mallard Trevor: Taxation (Annual Rates Foreign Superannuation and Remedial Matters) Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Taxation (Annual Rates Foreign Superannuation and Remedial Matters) Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 18 February 2014. Volume:696;Page:16021. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South): The next point that I would like to make and I am going to refrain from reading them because I think people would go cross-eyed is that there are 10 full lines of numbers starting at section 6 and finishing at section 117 and 117B(b) that come into force on 1 April 2014. What we do have is quite a large section where it is prospective but again I want to—[Interruption] Poor old Paul Goldsmith. He is not allowed to talk in the debate but he is sitting there shaking his head like a little boy in the primers. He is shaking his head like a little boy saying: “No no no.” If I am wrong and if those sections do not come into force then he should take a call and tell me when I am wrong.I am one of the relatively simple members of Parliament who reads the bill and takes Ministers at their word. I know it is an old-fashioned approach but when a bill says that it is a Government bill when it is in the name of a Minister—in this case the Hon Todd McClay—and it says that a few sections come into effect on 1 April 2014 I believe him. If Paul Goldsmith doubts Todd McClay’s word—well we have all heard Paul Goldsmith say that he should have had the job and not Todd McClay so there is no secret about Paul Goldsmith’s opinion of their relative abilities. I am on Todd McClay’s side. Minister I am on your side. I am on your side not Paul Goldsmith’s side. In fact if we got it right Paul Goldsmith would be in the ACT Party and John Banks would be in the National Party because that better fits the economic views of the relative individuals and would probably make things better around corruption and other issues which of course I will not refer to with regard to the Hon John Banks at the moment.The bit that my colleague David Clark has focused on the most as to the timing is in clauses 37BA 52D and 55B. I understand that those are the matters that have to do with child support. Those are the proposed sections that come into play on 1 April 2016. The question I would like to ask the Minister is whether any consideration is being given to families who have looked at the changes watched what the Government promised watched what went into the Finance and Expenditure Committee made submissions took the select committee at its word and made financial arrangements on the basis of the undertakings given by Peter Dunne John Key and Bill English.I am sure all of us will have constituents or people who have approached us in our offices and I do not know anyone who will be totally satisfied with this legislation because no one is ever totally happy with the very matter of child support. It is either too much or not enough depending on whether you are paying or getting it. There is perceived unfairness around whose income counts and which family’s income counts. There are always questions about the timing of the income. But what happens when Government promises change is that people rely on its word. People enter into financial arrangements they buy businesses they buy houses they take out mortgages they make arrangements for their kids they sometimes do schooling arrangements they enter into debt and they do it on the basis of an undertaking from the Government. My question to the Minister and I am looking forward to the Minister taking a call in this debate is whether he is prepared—