Upston LouiseHon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Here we are again. Here we are: same Minister different bill still a shortened report back. And I'm fascinated because the Minister who's just resumed her seat the Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan—who is not the Minister in charge of the bill; the Deputy Prime Minister is—just said that the sector is happy with this temporary delay and the temporary delay is for four years. So if a temporary delay is for four years why is it that we are rushing yet another piece of legislation through cutting back the time that the public have to submit and instead of having a six-month process we've got 3½? Oh there's a simple thing; it's called an election in the middle and they're panicking that they won't get the legislation through in time for the deadline. Well how long has the Minister known that this extension was going to be done? An extension of four years is definitely not temporary. So I think the Minister needs to get her time line sorted out because yet again we're in this House debating a shortened report back of a Minister that is so arrogant she doesn't give the public the chance they are due to submit on legislation. Honestly I've done this speech more times than not with Minister Sepuloni when she's introducing a piece of legislation that she doesn't think the public should have the fair length of time to debate. I think that's disgraceful. I think it's absolutely disgraceful. So is it a temporary delay and is temporary four years? Hon Mark Mitchell: New democracy.Hon LOUISE UPSTON: That's kind of interesting. And it was interesting because at the start of this term in Parliament I really thought with the first time ever that there was a majority party in Government they would be careful—they would be careful and care for the public's involvement in our democratic processes. But no. Riding roughshod yet again over the consultation process over the process of legislation that I used to be proud of but under these guys I am definitely not because yet again Carmel Sepuloni who is now also the Deputy Prime Minister is jamming a piece of legislation through with a shortened report back. And why is that? Well the Minister said it needs to be done by 20-something of February because the date at the moment expires in March 2024 and they want to extend it to March 2028. So yet another good example of non-delivery. But if the legislation needs to be passed by February why didn't they start this process earlier? Because they would have known. Why did they not start it earlier? Or also why don't they just allow the consultation process and the public submission to occur at the normal time frame which would mean yes there's an election in the middle but Parliaments when they've changed Government or not have managed to deal with deadlines in a mature way without taking the time off the public? But I think it's pretty clear this is a Minister for Social Development and Employment that actually doesn't care about the public; doesn't care about those that work with social workers. Why is it that yet again we're here in a shortened report back because oh the Government just didn't get themselves organised—the Minister's disorganised and doesn't care about the public having their say? What is it? A temporary delay; temporary delay of four years. But yet who is it—Hon Member: A personal nasty speech.Hon LOUISE UPSTON: —that gets the time shaved off? It's the public. No it's not a nasty speech. A nasty thing to do is the Deputy Prime Minister removing the opportunity of the public of New Zealand to have their say on legislation. It wouldn't have taken much—wouldn't have taken much—to allow four months five months six months. No that's a normal process. But no; instead we take shortcuts. The Labour Government wants to take shortcuts take the time off the New Zealand public ram a piece of legislation through—don't allow the full accountability or scrutiny yet again. Yes it's boring. It's boring to do this but it is totally and absolutely irresponsible. I call on the Government to actually show some respect for the New Zealand public to organise themselves. Do things when you're meant to deliver for once and don't ride roughshod over the New Zealand public by shortcutting your process at their cost.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): The question is that the motion be agreed to.