Moroney SueSUE MORONEY (Labour): Well they say that rust never sleeps and this bill coming back before the House shows just how true that actually is because it is the National Party attacking family time again. Family time is under attack by this National Government. Today it is actually trying to get rid of the ability for families to get together on Easter Sunday; tomorrow it is going to use the extreme tool of a financial veto to stop families from getting 26 weeks of paid parental leave. So there is a theme that is developing here. I do not know what National has against families but it is becoming more and more transparent with this Government. I am delighted to vote against this bill. This is one of those fortuitous moments in a parliamentarian's life—my Catholic upbringing my belief in how we must prioritise families and my background in workers' rights happily collide all in one bill. So I am very pleased and proud to stand here because I am standing up for the convictions that I hold by casting my vote against this bill. I want to encourage members opposite in the governing party to hold to the courage of their convictions also. I note that there are a number of MPs who have voted against a measure similar to this on past occasions before this Parliament and I want them to stand up for the courage of their convictions. I particularly call on Tim Macindoe to stand up for the courage of his convictions because not only has he voted against measures that intervene in family time on Easter Sunday but he is known locally as a churchgoing man and good on him. But Mr Macindoe you cannot do one thing back in your electorate and then come here to Parliament and not only vote for trading away Easter Sunday but be the enforcer the whip who is requiring other MPs to trade away Easter Sunday as well. So I am calling on Tim Macindoe as an MP who shares the local area that I am in to do the right thing and stand up for the courage of his convictions also. But I will also be interested in how MPs like Louise Upston vote on this issue. I note that Louise Upston has always seemed to have voted since she has been in Parliament to trade away Easter Sunday. But in her neck of the woods her constituency for which she is the MP in Cambridge they not only do not open on Easter Sunday but do not open the shops on any Sunday—any Sunday any week of the year. Yet here they have their MP voting to try to get local bodies to consume their time and their money to ask themselves whether Easter Sunday should be traded away. For whom is it being traded away? It is being traded away for workers and their families. That is what Easter Sunday is being traded away for. I do not care what religious affiliation people do or do not have in New Zealand; that is of no interest to me. What is of interest to me is that workers and their families can choose to do whatever they want on Easter Sunday. That might mean going to church but it might mean the sorts of things that my family does like attending every Easter a basketball tournament. Those are the sorts of things that happen over the Easter weekend because it is the time when families can actually afford to have the time to get away and do those things. So that is what I am standing up for. Fundamentally this bill is a shambles. It is a shambles because that Government's members are trying to appease their own conscience by standing up and saying that it is not fair that one area gets to trade on Easter Sunday and another does not. Well the truth is that this bill is going to make that worse. It is going to exasperate that situation and it is going to ensure—Hon Amy Adams: Exacerbate.SUE MORONEY: Well it is going to exasperate that situation.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): It might be both actually.SUE MORONEY: But they do not understand that by saying that local body by local body by local body are going to make this decision it is going to get more and more fragmented. They do not seem to understand that. They need to start listening. This out-of-touch arrogant Government needs to start listening and hearing what people are saying. Local body after local body after local body turned up to the Commerce Committee to say: If you want to do this National Party do it yourselves. Don't duck-shove it on to us." That is what they said. That Government has stopped listening and it also has stopped even giving its MPs the ability to use their conscience on this very important issue for families."