Andersen GinnyGINNY ANDERSEN (Labour): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. Nineteen thousand was the number of New Zealanders who turned up to the election booth on election day last election who wanted to vote but were not able to because they weren't enrolled. Those members opposite who we have listened to tonight espousing the values of democracy voted against a bill that would allow 19000 New Zealanders to vote on election day this year. So I do not have a strong stomach for your views on strengthening democracy or your deep-founded—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Don't bring me into it thank you. Thank you.GINNY ANDERSEN: —values of New Zealand's views. I believe that this is a bill that has been already thoroughly debated in this House for the fact that it did not succeed in this House for a number of hours being debated previously for the very reasons that have been traversed time and time again.So as already pointed out I have a very short ability to contemplate arguments based on the values of democracy in New Zealand's political system when those opposite voted against a bill that would enable the franchise to be furthered to more New Zealanders coming up. So enabling New Zealanders to be able to participate in our democracy is exactly where we should be focusing on and for that reason it's important that we seek a mandate from the people. Whether you be a list MP or—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Don't bring the Speaker into it please.GINNY ANDERSEN: Whether I be a list MP or whether a member of this Parliament be an electorate MP it is important that they are held accountable to those people who voted them into this House in the first place. It is of vital importance that the public have confidence in our democracy and they should know that when a vote is placed on a party that is the principles and the ideology and the values that their vote is going towards and that is exactly what the primary legislation that this bill attempts to unpick did achieve. That means that if someone has got into Parliament on the basis of free education of housing that's warm dry and affordable of the fact that people get paid a living wage on those basic principles—if that is the ticket and the understanding and the principles that you entered Parliament on then that member of Parliament should be held to account to those same principles on which they were voted in upon. Now that I believe is not a travesty of democracy; that is in fact really sticking to the point in which the underpinning principles of which MMP delivers upon.So I think the fact that this bill has already been debated for a large amount of hours within this House and members opposite have had yet another crack at trying to revisit this shows that this is exactly the point that we have got a clear outcome that is important: that New Zealanders get what they vote for. If an individual member of Parliament is able to enter into this House and then embark on a different journey and jump the waka and go upon a different path of different principles then that in fact is not democratic. That in fact is not giving the average New Zealand voter the reassurance and the ability to know that when they party voted for that particular party and the proportionate representation of this Parliament that delivered upon those ideas that they voted upon did not come true I believe that that is not true democracy.So I come back to the principle of my speech: that if those members opposite continue to espouse those true values of democracy then I would like to have seen them vote for a bill in the past of this Parliament that enabled working New Zealanders everyday New Zealanders to turn up to the election booths on election day and enrol and vote. In fact they did not do that. They voted against it and that is a shame.