Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. Be honest. Be honest this Government—the National Party New Zealand First ACT—be honest about what is actually driving this legislation to remove rights for workers. Be honest about who your most wealthy and collective donors were and what their purposes are to get you into Government. Urgency; rushing the repeal the wind-back of workers' wellbeing and lives is what you are doing in urgency. You're not even whispering about it; you're doing it out loud. Be upfront. Just say—just say you don't care about workers.Hon Simeon Brown: Point of order.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Just say that and then we can at least be clear about what your rationale and your reasonings and your purpose has always been and will always be. And no it does not matter—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Point of order—excuse me for a moment. Point of order the Hon Simeon Brown.Hon Simeon Brown: The member started her speech making assertions about the Government's reasons why this bill was being progressed—trying to assert it to do with donors and other things and I don't think that's within the Standing Orders.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yeah I think it's probably not helpful to refer to donors and I'm sorry I was a bit distracted at that point; I was just clarifying something over here. So perhaps we'll avoid talking about donors in the future.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Speaking to the point of order could I have some clarity—genuine guidance—about why it isn't OK in this House of Representatives to refer to who are the drivers and the owners of political parties in their laws.DEPUTY SPEAKER: [Takes advice] Thank you. So what I'm going to ask speakers to do is to stay away from those. We are going to follow up with some Speakers' directions but carry on with your speech for now and avoid going there please.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: I appreciate that and I will even refine my language: be clear. Be clear about what is actually driving the rationale behind this legislation just before Christmas—just before Christmas—to repeal and wind back some of the best and most improved progress in workers' rights that this country would have seen in decades to address systemic issues. Yes we have made some progress because of collective power of bargaining on workers' rights in this country yes. But there remain some deep systemic issues that have impacted in the areas of employment and industry that most disproportionately are represented by Māori by Pacific people by women by young people and by people with a disability in those areas and trades specifically that have for decades and far too long exploited those workers who are at most risk and are most vulnerable to being exploited—not just with lower pay but also with hours that are mucky and that impact on their other responsibilities in the rest of their lives with learning and development conditions and training so that they can actually build upon their work no matter what that work is—that have been impacted on by a lack of decision making and input from workers including their ability to be safe and well in their workplace. That is what this Government and all of those political parties are doing in a rush right before Christmas.So yes I do stand behind my ask to be clear. Be clear about what your motivations are. Do not try and hide behind and pretend that this is about the wellbeing of workers when the evidence—decades of evidence of systemic problems and failure with the very workers from communities who have been getting hammered for so very long; for too long—don't try and pretend that this legislation is any attempt to uphold their dignity their rights and their mana. That's all I ask: be clear. Be clear about what your motivations are because we sure as heck are.Were the members opposite out there in front of Parliament today meeting with and hearing from workers? OK if you have some weird ideology against collective strength such as unions all right that's fine—you can remain with that ideology sure. But have you sat down with workers now today out there on the steps: the supermarket workers the people who look after our mokopuna the people who drive our buses the people who clean our places of work our places of living? And no OK—it doesn't even matter that I am from a family of generations of cleaners and bus drivers and retail workers and hospitality workers that I myself have done hospitality—I'm just watching the clock—and cleaning that both of my parents were bus drivers that my grandmother worked in a cafe and also did cleaning. OK that shouldn't matter. What does matter is that we all here today wherever we've come from have a responsibility to honour and uphold the mana of those who do not have large moneyed connections to organisations to make these laws happen fast who do not have power and resource who have for far too long—Hon Simeon Brown: Point of order.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Oh come on.Hon Simeon Brown: I'll just draw your attention—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yeah the member's raised a point of order. I've actually got some information in front of me around the issue that was—is it the same point of order?Hon Simeon Brown: Well I mean she just referred to—I mean again made the same assertion of improper motives.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you. So the member has been asked not to do that. I think it's probably appropriate actually that I read out the particular Speakers' ruling now and I refer to under Unparliamentary language" 55/5: "(1) It is in order to say that the Government is influenced but it is not in order to say that in … carrying out of its administrative and governmental duties apart from the formulation of its policy before it came to the House the Government is dictated to by an outside body." And "(2) It is out of order to suggest that the Government or any member is subject to outside domination". So I'd just ask the member to be cognisant of that in future. Thank you.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Thank you very much Madam Speaker. I firstly ask could I have I think the 15 seconds back that I lost in the point of order—20 seconds?DEPUTY SPEAKER: You can have your 15 seconds.Hon Willie Jackson: Make it 30.DEPUTY SPEAKER: 15.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Thank you Madam Speaker I will wind up my speech. I appreciate that guidance genuinely. I hope that we can talk about though who the workers have to champion their causes rather than talking about who political parties have to champion their causes. And who the workers have to champion their causes: it should be all of us in this House of—apparent—Representatives but it will definitely be the Greens. Thank you.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just before I take the next speaker can I ask—does Te Pāti Māori intend to have your five-minute call?Tākuta Ferris: Āe.DEPUTY SPEAKER: So I call Tākuta Ferris."