Martin Tracey: Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMartin Tracey: Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 25 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18934. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First):Kia ora Mr Chair. I am going to take just a very short call on this Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill. It is always exceptionally good to follow Mr Sabin because he provides so much material to work with. This is for the New Zealanders out there who are listening to this debate—those of you who were brave enough to have sat through the last bill those of you who stayed in front of your televisions and in front of your wirelesses and actually watched National members trying to push this bill so far down this evening that they hoped you would fall asleep. They hoped you would not see what they intend to do with regard to the majority vote of this Committee. They tried to delay this bill and filibuster it so that you would not hear the fact that they will not stand up for children at home. [Interruption] I beg your pardon Mr Chair but I know that you yourself sat through that last bill waiting waiting and waiting for this very important bill.This bill is important to so many New Zealanders. It is important to women children fathers and mothers. It is important to all those people who actually value children before the jobs that Mr Sabin said this should all be about. Mr Sabin in his speech epitomised the problem with National’s line of thinking. He again referred to or took us back to a place of working and completely devaluing staying at home and looking after children. Mr Sabin really interestingly—listen to his words New Zealand; go back and have a listen to his words—said that the Government should not have to support families. Mr Sabin suggested that he had never been supported by his country or by his Government.When Mr Sabin was little when Mr Sabin was a baby at home his mother was supported by this country through the universal family benefit—by the universal family benefit. It was removed by the National Government in the 1990s. Mr Sabin does not know about that because Mr Sabin never asked his mother how her country had supported him and his family. Mr Sabin does not know because Mr Sabin never studies anything that he is supposed to get up and speak on; he just pushes the line that his whips tell him.So New Zealand what you are going to find here is that this Government will attempt to force this bill past the end of this evening in the hope that you will forget about it and that you will go to sleep. No wonder a million of you—a million New Zealanders—decided not to engage in democracy when you have the arrogance of a Government like this that votes down on a financial veto what you the people have said you wish—The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson): Order!TRACEY MARTIN: I apologise again Mr Chair. This bill should go through this House. It will be only as a result of the undemocratic way that the National Government responds to this bill that it will be stalled. The New Zealand public will know about it. The New Zealand public at this upcoming election will hear it. That is why New Zealand National members are frightened that you are watching the television.