Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Oh I've got a promotion. CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jenny Salesa): Sorry—the Hon Michael Woodhouse.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: That's quite all right Madam Chair. They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery and that being the case Dr Reti should be extremely flattered because as Nicola Grigg said a Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) fell on the Table a considerable period after Dr Reti's which does essentially the same thing. I was fascinated by the Minister's explanation in answer to Mr Doocey's question of how on earth this came about and apparently it was obvious. It was an obvious inconsistency and it was the rural backbench Labour MPs that implored him to make the change only I'm reliably informed that that was anything but the case at select committee where Labour backbench MPs did their level best to block important meaningful changes that would improve the health of rural New Zealand. So I'm really pleased that it's here but let's not gild the lily Minister. The people who I think as Mr Doocey said really should take the credit for this amendment are Messrs Kantar and Morgan and Ipsos and Reid because they've had more influence on this Government than the Labour backbench MPs. Now I want to go back as Nicola Grigg did to SOP 160 in Dr Reti's name. The response from the Minister was extraordinary—the fact that he could only fixate on the term outcomes" and took it as a disparaging thing. He said to Dr Reti "You can't write a law for outcomes." but you can write a law for the expectation of equity. The key word in this amendment to clause 7 is "equitable" and it is about equity where the good people of Lumsden don't have a maternity centre any more and the people in any aged-care facility are having their nurses pinched away by the DHBs because they're not being funded to compete on salary. That's a question of equity Minister. We know from a plethora of research that coronary care diabetes management and renal management are all much poorer in regional and rural communities because they don't have as close an access geographically to secondary and tertiary care. That's equity Minister and if the Minister believes his own rhetoric that this is about avoiding and eliminating the postcode lottery this SOP must be supported. He talks a good game but when it comes to black-letter law which sets an expectation for outputs and outcomes he isn't—nor was his predecessor Dr David Clark—prepared to say that "We will set an expectation yes for output but yes for equity." and if they believe that they must support Dr Reti's SOP.Now I'll conclude this call with a point I want to make in relation to Schedule 1 an amendment to Schedule 1 as set out in the Minister's SOP 169 about visas. It's in new clause 11A in Schedule 1 which is a transitional—Barbara Edmonds: Point of order Madam Chairperson. Thank you Madam Chair. We sought leave at the beginning of the debate to be able to debate all the provisions as one. The reference that the member has just made is to Schedule 1. Yes it's in SOP 169 but it's not part of the debate on Part 1.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jenny Salesa): Unfortunately it is actually part of Part 1. So in Part 1 we have clause 3 clause 6 clause 7 and Schedule 1.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Thank you Madam Chair. The issue I have with this amendment—I understand what the Government is trying to do. For the sake of those listening what this amendment will do is if a visa is granted under the Immigration Act 2009 for what would be an employer-assisted work visa a temporary work visa and if it has a reference to a DHB as a condition imposed on it—as most essential skills work visas do. Often it's the employer or the geographic area in which the individual is able to work. Now there are 20 district health boards and they'll be gone in about six weeks so what this will do is say that if it says "a DHB" it should refer then instead as a reference to Health New Zealand. Now the problem with that is that that potentially gives carte blanche to individuals who were recruited under a visa that said that you need to work—[Time expired]"