O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Thank you Madam Chair once again. It gives me great pleasure to speak on Part 2 of this bill. The rewrite bill was intended to be a policy-neutral clean-up of the legislation underpinning New Zealand's welfare system. There'll be people here listening in New Zealand so if I can use an analogy of what's happened here. This is an old classic—imagine an automobile classic. This is an old Ford Model T: a great classic looked after it's still going today—1938. So what's actually happened in 1964 it went in for its last rewrite just to make sure that it was still going was still relevant and was still strong. No real need—again it's a classic; something you didn't really mess with.Last year this piece of legislation once again went in for a rewrite which would be a classic case of let's just go in and get it serviced but no. Now we come to the garage really and the garage really is the philosophy under which the Opposition have been operating: the social investment philosophy the Better Public Services philosophy. Can I just stand here and admire the members of the Opposition because the way they have gathered around—the absolute blind faith the blind loyalty—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): I hate to interrupt the member but we're actually on Part 2 which is the engine of your car—which is actually the assistance. So if you could keep to that it would be great.GREG O'CONNOR: Madam Chair if I can just say you've stolen the words right out of my mouth because that is exactly where I was going to go—to Part 2. It just shows again: the wisdom you showed as my police Minister—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Ha ha!GREG O'CONNOR: —you are continuing to show as a Speaker here so I can only sit in admiration of your ability to anticipate.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Flattery gets you everywhere.GREG O'CONNOR: So if I can go back to the engine of the car as the Hon Louise Upston pointed out in all the things that they will be filibustering tonight this is the one that is the most important.This is the engine the thing that shouldn't be changed. But once again under that blind faith I'm reminded I suppose of Stalin. He induced so much fear into the Russian people into the whole of the Russian Government that after he died the next two Premiers didn't have to do a thing because everyone was so fearful that he would come back and would take them back. And that goes back to this engine the man working on the engine. They are sitting there fearful that the author of this will come in here and pluck the engine away from them.So this is the opportunity we have to rewrite a bill to make sure this classic engine that we're working on Part 2 of which is the heart of it—no vehicle works without a heart. As we look at the pieces of legislation here those of you at home will know somebody that is disabled. We need legislation. Everything that happens here you need some good legislation underlying it. What you don't want to do is when you send it in and go back to the analogy of when the engine's been worked on you don't want someone to pimp it up you don't want a pair of fluffy dice; you don't want these things. What you want is it to come out better and that's the real fear—as this is an opportunity that's been taken under a philosophically driven Opposition. An Opposition again as I say fearful that the author of this will come in and pick them up by the ears and take them out the back and do—or worse still the metaphorical Siberia they'll end up in if they don't do. But I look forward to—perhaps it'll take two changes in the Opposition benches before we actually get someone who can come in here with some fresh ideas that aren't actually hamstrung by the mechanic by the man who runs the garage who ran the garage probably two ago.So I look forward as the eyes open as they see that you can actually—in this bill we've got a classic here the classic that in 1936 was built the classic that in 1964 was again sent in for servicing. That's what we're doing now go through here even—back on the bill. I'm sorry I'm all right on this bill but even if we look at particularly the part we're talking about the bill where all financial services—previously in the Act the various main benefits were separated all through the Act particularly in section 2 of the Act Part 2. But what this does is it brings them all together. How many people actually are not back in the workforce because of the complications that they have when they go in to the office? This will remove an excuse. This will actually help us get people back to work which is ultimately what we all want.So the Opposition—you've done good work. However the good work that you have done is done under philosophy. An engine—you've got to remember now that this thing is a good classic.