Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Thank you Mr Chair. I just want to open my contribution by saying to and addressing the Minister in the chair Andrew Little—because he stood and he said that he was very clear about the fact that the points that I'd raised about distorted proportionality he had addressed—that issue has not been addressed and I just very simply—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): And we are now on the definition of integrity".Hon MARK MITCHELL: OK. So if we move on to integrity I'd actually like to use a very real example of the integrity around this bill. It was when I entered this Parliament in 2011 as a new member of Parliament and had campaigned very hard in my electorate on the delivery of the Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance which was an expensive road but critically important to both my electorate and the electorates of Northland and Whangarei and their economies especially. I had the daunting task of having to go and lobby the transport Minister at the time which was the Hon Gerry Brownlee who of course was grappling with—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Door was always open.Hon MARK MITCHELL: The door was open. The door was definitely open. The door was definitely open but I can say that I was also shown the door a couple of times as well.But I have to say the point is this: in his role as transport Minister he was having to deal with competing demands around the country and prioritising projects. I was in a very clear position where although I might've recognised that those other projects around the country were important the most important project the project that I had campaigned on the project that I'd come to this Parliament making a commitment to deliver was the Pūhoi to Wellsford road of national significance. I was given a mandate by the people of Rodney to come to this Parliament not just to represent them and advance their interests in our House of Representatives—because that is what our House of Representatives is about—but specifically to advance this project.I was put in a position where I was having to deal with a very senior member of the party who was a senior Minister the Minister of Transport who was trying to manage competing interests and prioritise those and get them sorted and it meant that there were some tough conversations where like I was saying although the door was open I was also shown the door a couple of times through those talks as well.With this bill here I'm clearly now in the position—because when I walked into that room and when I sat down at that table actually I'm sitting down with 25000 people or however many people who have actually gone to the ballot box and voted for me. They're also coming in and sitting down as well because they've given me a mandate from my electorate of Rodney. I'm sitting down with the confidence to know that actually although the party might take a very strong position against me although there may be some very tough conversations and although there may be a whipping system that is used fundamentally I have the freedom I have the confidence and I have the independence to know that I can go into that room that I can sit down and that I can advance and represent—Hon Ruth Dyson: That's a conservative contribution isn't it Mark.Hon MARK MITCHELL: —the people of my electorate the people that have voted for me to come to—sorry what was that? I can't hear.Hon Ruth Dyson: I said it's a conservative contribution.Hon MARK MITCHELL: A conservative contribution? I'd encourage Ruth Dyson to stand and take a call. It looked like Iain Lees-Galloway was going to take a call. He's told the press gallery that he's the top performing Minister in the Labour Party you know so let's see him stand and take a call—a legend in his own lunchtime.The fact of the matter is this: with this bill could I have gone in there with confidence and sat down and advanced the interests of my electorate? No. Do you know why? Because the leader has got the right now to dismiss me from this Parliament—to tell me "We don't agree with your view. We don't agree with the views of the people of Rodney who actually sent you here to advance them"—[Time expired]"