Bayly Andrew; O'Connor GregANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to be talking on the Accident Compensation (Access Reporting and Other Matters) Amendment Bill second reading. Now I haven't been on the Education and Workforce Committee and I'm probably thankful that I wasn't because as the House knows National won't be supporting this bill.I just want to start off with that comment from the former member who just sat down Ibrahim Omer who said If something is well meaning then it can't be a waste of time." Well I'll give you one example: you can have a well-meaning Government that is a waste of time. That is the best example I can think of.Unfortunately this bill is a waste of time because if we had good management if we had good governance around the ACC they would be doing this anyway. They would be putting in place proper reporting working out how often people get access to claims when they get it how much they get paid and all of those factors right? And they would be monitoring it. They wouldn't be loose. They wouldn't be allowed to just float in the ether.Now all of us know this—well certainly if you're an electorate MP because we have many people front up to our offices. Currently probably 30 percent of my time is taken up with ACC matters. And why are these people coming in to see me? They're coming in to see me because they have put in claims for injuries—and many of them are Māori—and said "Look I've put this claim in." And what's the reaction? Well there's either been a long delay in getting a response to their claim or there's been a view after several months of going through the process of an assessment of a pre-condition issue—right?—which means they don't get any claims. Now that is the big issue for ACC: people not getting timely access and not getting resolved quickly and getting a fair outcome.Now if this bill was about that National would support it—would be absolutely over it. But this bill is about creating a framework to try and find out what is happening to one particular group—and of course Māori are significantly affected. But what this bill should be doing is requiring ACC to do a better job in terms of assessing all of the population and making sure that we've got the measures in place to report. But we know the Government has chosen to get rid of all the reporting requirements of many of our organisations because it's simply not a great step to be able to assess and monitor because it makes it transparent and makes it public.So if this was about this—about adequate reporting; about making sure people get access to the right outcomes—then yes National would be supporting it. But to go down this route of just saying "Let's do a bit more reporting and make it tailored to one particular ethnic group." albeit an important one—that is not the outcome that New Zealand should be striving for. We should be striving for an outcome where all New Zealanders—those most in need—are getting access to timely fair outcomes from the Accident Compensation Commission. And I think that is probably the biggest issue about this bill and what we look at. Obviously it has some aspects to it about the minimum return or minimum rate of weekly compensation—changing arrangements around that—but the prime issue about this is ACC should be doing this anyway; if it's not we would have a good Minister that would be overseeing it.My wider view about this is that I feel like this is part of a scorecard that members of the Government are trying to do which is to say "How many pieces of legislation have I got through?" So we've got Ginny Andersen pushing through the business payment practices—waste of time; even the select committee had problems with it. Then we've had Duncan Webb pushing through a bill around directors duties which even the Law Society said was an absolute waste of time. Here's a third example of another bill going through—a waste of time. I think it's Ministers trying to say "I've done something; I look like I'm busy even though I'm doing nothing." and that is what is an example of a well-meaning waste of time bill.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I take it you're finished Mr Bayly.Andrew Bayly: Yes."