Henare Tau: Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill — In Committee 
Henare Tau: Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill — In Committee 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 Well talk about it! That is what happens when someone goes out to march for the people and before the march has even begun he is sitting behind the counter at McDonald’s. I tell that member Parekura Horomia that the thickshake comes with Part 3. [ 
Interruption 
] Yes bring back Georgie Pie; bring back all of that. I tell members that what that member just talked about for 5 minutes while he was getting his make-up done by Shane Jones had absolutely nothing to do with the minimum wage for sole contractors and he knows it. He has been having too many burgers. That is what the problem is. The argument tonight is about the real world and the fantasy land that Makatanara lives in. Makatanara is McDonald’s for those who do not know. Shane Jones said to me tonight: “Hey Tau you know this McDonald’s thing is going to blow over. By tomorrow it will be all over.” Well I have news for “me and Mr Jones”: McDonald’s is here to stay. The legacy that has been left behind by those two members Shane Jones and Parekura Horomia is not the Minimum Wage Act; the legacy left behind for ever and a day is being caught out on national TV with a Fillet-o-Fish combo a Big Mac and double fries. The thick-shake is to come. 
Hon Pete Hodgson 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I think we are probably more than halfway through the member’s contribution. I am pleased that you too are enjoying the speech but the debate is about Part 2. I wonder whether we could have some talk about that. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: I do not need any help. It has certainly been entertaining but I remind the member—as I did the previous speaker—that the debate is on Part 2. I ask the member to come to Part 2. Thank you. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Mr Chair— 
Hon Shane Jones 
: Have you read Part 2? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Absolutely I have read Part 2. It is about that old philosophy of Labour: we will tell you what to do we will create the victim and then we will tell you what the solution is. Labour comes up with a victim then it comes up with a solution. 
Hon Steve Chadwick 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. We are meant to be trying to speak to Part 2. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Carry on. We are on Part 2. Please do not bring the Chair into the debate either. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Yes absolutely Mr Chairperson. Part 2 is about creating the victim. That is what this bill is about. It is creating the victim— 
Hon Steve Chadwick 
: Rubbish! 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh it is rubbish is it? We will soon see what we do with rubbish when it comes to voting. 
Hon Parekura Horomia 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. The member is starting to insinuate that workers are victims and he is victimising them. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: These are debating points. This can be a robust debate. I ask the member to continue. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: That is what you get if you spend too much time at the counter at McDonald’s I suppose. 
Labour members will not give the opportunity for a worker to negotiate. They have created the victim; now they have come up with the surprise package and it is no package at all because it lacks dignity. This bill lacks the forethought to do anything about it. It is a plaintive cry to the workers in New Zealand whom Labour spent the last 9 years dicking over. Now that those members are in Opposition they can say what they like. That is what Part 2 is about; that is what Parts 1 2 3 and 4 are about. The bill is nothing more than a sop to their mates in the International Labour Organisation whom they love to go on and on about. It is a sop to their mates in the unions and that is all it is.