Logie Jan; Tisch LindsayJAN LOGIE (Green): As the previous speaker Simon O'Connor said love is not an economic commodity. I want to start by saying that we agree with that and that actually we believe that parents should be able to be there when their children first laugh; that parents should be able to be there when their baby first crawls. That is ultimately what this piece of legislation is about. It is about ensuring that working parents are able to be there when their babies first laugh or when their babies first crawl and that for those momentous times that will never ever be repeated the parent is able to be there for those moments.Love is definitely not an economic commodity but we need to protect working people's rights to be there with their families and that requires legislation as we have heard in the submissions to the multiple bills that have been in front of this Parliament. I do at this moment want to pay tribute to Sue Moroney for her tenacity. I think you are an amazing battler for our babies and women and workplaces and you have just kept going in the belief that this is the right legislation for our families and our people. That is a view that was shared by 99.4 percent of the 6755 submitters who submitted on this piece of legislation as well as the many thousands who submitted in support of it in the last round of the legislation.It is a huge disappointment to me today that the people whom I am representing the people who submitted on this legislation and the people whom the majority of members in this House are representing will be unable to represent their intent in our votes in this House because the National Government has chosen to put a financial veto on this bill to prevent us from representing them. That to me is just a perversion of justice. It is a perversion of the democratic process and it is a real shame.When the Government says that this is unaffordable I just want to take it back to a family context of imagining my budget and thinking about what would be important to me. I have got to say that buying a new warship would not come before having time with my baby. I have got to say that I think most New Zealanders would choose spending time with their baby before they would some flash new warship.Grant Robertson: A warship is a luxury.JAN LOGIE: I do think that a warship is a luxury—a new flash warship that we are not exactly sure how much is going to cost. I think that is a luxury and I do not believe that seeing your child crawl for the first time should be a luxury. That is what this Government is telling the people of New Zealand: that it is unaffordable and is a luxury. Well I do not believe it. It is not a difficult thing. When we are being told by this Government that $69.5 million a year over 4 years is unaffordable when it is putting more money into private schools when it is talking about warships and when it is talking about $3 billion of tax cuts over people being protected to be able to see their baby crawl for the first time then we know that the priorities are off. I would normally say: Well people get a choice: you get to vote to be able to change that.". Well actually the tragedy in this situation is that people did vote for that and even then this Government is overruling the will of people and it is a bloody sad day.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call David Seymour—5 minutes."