Macindoe TimHon TIM MACINDOE (National—Hamilton West): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. Can I commence as others have done by congratulating the member Kieran McAnulty for having had his bill drawn after just four or five months in this House. As Mr Woodhouse noted he and I are both feeling a little bit frustrated that after nearly 10 years neither of us have had that privilege and Mrs Wagner after nearly 12 years. So some people get the luck. But anyway that's the way it is.I have no doubt that the member is well intentioned but he's taken over what is essentially a union-drafted bill that was originally sponsored by the union organiser and our former colleague Darien Fenton. It is at best a naive piece of legislation but more obviously it's a fairly cynical measure that is designed to reward the unions who are clearly looking for a little bit of payback for all the work they did in helping that Government to get into office last year.I'm assuming that the Greens will probably support the bill but we will find out in a moment. So that's why I was really hoping to hear a moment ago that New Zealand First would not. In fact when I look at what I understand New Zealand First to believe in I can't for the life of me figure out how they could be supportive of this piece of legislation. So it was very very disappointing to hear that Mr Patterson is indicating that they are and I really didn't feel that his heart was in that speech at all. It was a fairly confused and rambling speech and I doubt whether many people listening will have a clear idea of that party's position.The bill seeks to amend the principal Act which is the Employment Relations Act of 2000. It will do so in several retrograde and very dubious ways. It may well be welcomed by the unions but it certainly won't be good for labour relations business confidence or the investment that is needed for economic growth and job creation that all MPs ought to want to foster when we come to this House. It certainly won't be a piece of legislation that any of us can be proud of.The three main provisions of the bill are outlined in clauses 4 5 and 6 and they are deeply misguided. The member who sponsors the bill told us earlier that the intention of the bill is not to undermine the sound business model that companies rely upon—or words to that effect—in order to be successful profitable and therefore secure which of course all employers need them to be. All employees therefore are hugely dependent upon those conditions. Yet undermine that model and those vital conditions in relationships and it most certainly will and that's why we on this side of the House are so strongly opposed to this bill.I echo and strongly endorse the concerns that were outlined by Mr Woodhouse in his very incisive contribution earlier in this debate and also the comments of the member for Wairarapa a few moments ago. Triangular relationships describe situations whereby a worker is hired by one employer but works for another. Such arrangements are common in my city of Hamilton. The electorate of Hamilton West that I'm proud to represent in this House has many such examples. Under current labour legislation Hamilton is a growing thriving city. We've enjoyed steady growth having survived the domestic recession that we inherited when National came into office back in 2008 and the global financial crisis that followed. We've enjoyed several years of economic growth right around the country. I think in the last three years it's averaged 3.3 percent. That is a very good sign. Strong business confidence has of course gone hand in hand with that and it's led to many—Todd Muller: Almost as good as Tauranga.Hon TIM MACINDOE: Almost as good as Tauranga the member for Bay of Plenty tells me. It's led to many new businesses getting started in the Waikato and that's of course brought many new jobs which people in my electorate need. As a result this country now enjoys the highest rate of employment that we have had in our history. We should celebrate that. Many of those businesses are supported and enhanced by the availability of temporary labour which is sourced through labour hire agencies. I'm thinking in my electorate of a wide range of industries that are all prevalent and doing well such as construction nurses in the health sector retail outlets the hospitality sector and so on. They're all doing well.But this bill will undermine that confidence in those employment relationships. It may as I said at the outset be good for the unions by making their lives in recruiting easier but it won't encourage employers to take a chance on migrants or first-time job seekers or the most vulnerable in our communities. We should not support this bill.