Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Thank you Mr Chair. I just wanted to follow on from the speech from Jan Logie. I think she made some very important points that this committee needs to address during the course of the next day or so. The first thing is around the importance of this committee providing for those in most need. The Hon Jan Logie mentioned some very important needs of the people in her community. I just want to recognise some of the needs of people in other communities as well that seek to have assistance and especially the Hamilton community as my good friend the honourable Scott Simpson has mentioned. That relates to an amendment that has been tabled in this committee in regards to schedule 1 of the Income Tax Act 2007.In that schedule it seeks to change—this is an amendment in the name of the Hon Steven Joyce—the tax rate in table 1 row 1 to 9.5 percent for income between zero dollars and $14000. The reason I raise this in regard to Jan Logie is because there are a lot of young people that are out there that have started in their first jobs in my community—that are working. They do not have the ability to take up any of the packages that are in this bill because they do not have children. They are hard-working Kiwis that are finding it very difficult to get ahead in their life because they are paying high taxes for other people and they do not get the benefit of not having children.As Jan Logie mentioned in her speech and as we reflect on there are a lot of people in a state of need and these people are also in a state of need. And just because they are single and don't have children but they are on a low income does not mean that they are not in a state of need Ms Logie. The thing is that those people need to have some kind of support from this House and this Government and this does not happen. This amendment would give them that because it would give them that tax cut that would enable those very people to have more money in their hand because they're not going to get any money from family assistance or any of the tax credits.Taking your point Jan Logie that we need to look after those people in most need that community has not been represented here today and it is not represented in the effect of this legislation that keeps their low incomes at high tax rates when we could be looking after them and giving them lower tax rates so that they can actually look after themselves.Jan Logie: Nine long years.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Jan Logie talks about nine long years. Well these are nine long years that those people have been waiting to get some money back in their hand so that they can get ahead. It was given to them and taken away by the Hon Jan Logie and it has been and it will be a long nine years for them because there's nothing in there for those people that are struggling out there that are single and have no children.I raise also another point in regard to a new amendment in the name of the Hon Louise Upston and that is in regard to new section 58A. That seeks to include Better Public Services targets in the legislation. That's really important because we need to look at all mechanisms so that we can evaluate the success of Government and the impact on our communities. Those Better Public Services targets are looking at the outcomes for low and middle income families with children looking at reducing the number of working-age clients in point 2 the Government ensuring that 90 percent of pregnant women register with a lead maternity carer—Michael Wood: Not in the bill.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Well it is an amendment to the bill. That member across the other side needs to look at this. This is an amendment so it is relevant to this bill and that is what we are debating here today. They are looking at literacy and numeracy rates and also reducing the number of the children living in households earning less than 50 percent of the minimum wage. So those are very good points.