Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Thank you Mr Chair—proud to be one of the members of the Rachel B caucus". Mr Chair thank you for the opportunity to take a call. I have two amendments on the Table tonight and my colleague the former Minister of Health my good friend Dr Ayesha Verrall has already spoken to one of those amendments in detail so I won't take up time doing that. I'll speak to the particular amendment I have about the commencement date. Now we've had a bit of debate on our side of the Chamber about what could be the best amendment to the title. I'm going to bring in a little bit of debate about what could be the best date in terms of the commencement date because we have got a few ideas here and so I'll just put forward my argument. I'm proposing that we replace the words "the day after Royal assent." in clause 2 with the words "1 June 2025". Now I've picked this date for a very specific reason and the reason is that on 31 May 2025 Winston Peters will stop being the Deputy Prime Minister. One of the reasons I thought that this could be a good date is that perhaps that might be the day that the tail stops wagging the dog. As a dog lover and a dog owner and the spokesperson for animal welfare that's probably a bit unfair on dogs.But the reason I thought that would be a good idea was that perhaps at that point the influence I guess of New Zealand First in putting forward a policy here that wasn't campaigned on by the National Party I don't believe—in fact the National Party thought two of the parts of this bill that are being repealed were good things things they supported—the undue influence where we've got a very small representation in the House having a very large influence over a piece of legislation that is going to have an enormous impact on the population of New Zealand. Perhaps we might actually get a rethink from the National Party at that point. Perhaps that might be the day when we finally hear from the Government that they will no longer just respond to everything that the Rt Hon Winston Peters asks them to do that he says "Jump." and they say "How high?" because it seems like they've said "Jump." and you know Mr Luxon has said "How high?"So my hope is that things might change in this House on that date. Things might change. Although I mean I believe the ACT Party possibly may also try to make sure this one survives the change of Deputy Prime Minister. But I was just thinking to myself you know let's live in hope—you know let's keep hope alive that on that date things might change just a wee bit. So I specifically picked out 1 June 2025 for a very specific reason. I thought maybe that might be the point in this coalition this very interesting three-headed coalition where one head kind of gets removed and another one rises. Maybe I don't know—I know that you know we've been talking a bit about Mr Seymour's very interesting Canadian accent lately—he might have a change of heart about that. Maybe he might have a change of heart about this when he becomes Deputy Prime Minister. So it's this particular date that I've set this date for.But just coming back to my other amendment I just wanted to briefly mention around the increased expenditure. The reason why I've put that specific amendment on the Table tonight is that there are so many cost pressures on our health system and we know from the evidence and we've seen from the evidence that repealing this bill will put more pressure on our health system. We already have struggling wait-lists. We already have struggling GP practices. We have nurses that need to be paid more. We have health practitioners that need to be paid more. We have a hospital to build in Nelson—a hospital to build in Nelson.Ingrid Leary: And Dunedin.RACHEL BOYACK: Well Dunedin's on the way and you know doing very well but Nelson you know I want to make sure. And Whangārei needs to be built. So I'd quite like that money to stay in the health system not being used unnecessarily. I'd quite like that money to be used to build my hospital.Hon Grant Robertson: Your hospital?RACHEL BOYACK: Oh it will be my hospital Mr Robertson. That I think is a much better use of Government expenditure in health which is why I've put that particular amendment up tonight. This bill will increase the pressure on the health system in terms of expenditure so I think we need to be very accurate with the title in terms of the impact it will have on the New Zealand health system. Thank you Mr Chair."