Hayes JoJO HAYES (National): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I stand to take a call in the second reading of the Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill. It's been interesting sitting back here listening to the contributions in the House and some of the I suppose explanations from the Government about why they've done what they've done especially around Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 25 this 500-page document which I must say is going to take a bit of reading to get through. But I also see it as a Government that talks about transparency and openness to the public and yet this here arrived as everybody knows on our desks just before question time today and heading towards the second reading and the public won't get to actually have any say or contribute to any parts on Supplementary Order Paper 25. So I find that rather extraordinary about this Government who state that they are a transparent Government. I just want to look at a couple of the entitlements that were spoken about today. My colleague the Hon Louise Upston spoke about step-parents that would be looking after a child or children of parents that have passed away and how this bill will not actually include them—they will not be able to actually access any sole parent benefits for these children. I just want to add that that could also mean the role of the grandparents as well when parents pass away and their children end up living with their grandparents. The grandparents in some cases may be on a pension and may need to have some extra support to actually help them to look after those children and I think that it does actually put them way behind in that support. I just feel for the grandparents that may be faced with a situation like this. In the bill it actually states that there's nothing there for parents of a shared care situation where one parent may have one child the other might have two children and both are caring for those children but what it actually does is it adds hardship to one of the parents. So while one parent will be able to access the sole parent benefit the other one will miss out. So what's to say that that other parent might say Well OK you look after all the kids and we'll leave it at that."? It does put hardship on that other parent and at the end of the day it also takes away the freedom of the parents to be able to parent their children and still be able to access that sole parent benefit as well. I just want to also add around the naming of the father of the child that I think that that particular piece of policy that we the National Party had—whereby those accessing the DPB would have to name the father otherwise it would penalise between $22 and $28 a week in their benefits—hasn't actually come through in this bill and I think that's rather amazing after all the furore that the Labour-led Government went on about it when it came to light. I think that it seems a little bit hypocritical but I'm pleased it's not in there. I want to also add around when Minister Peeni Henare got up and said that this side of the House—the National Party—aren't hard workers that I have never ever been in a group that works this hard if not harder as a political party. We will continue to keep working hard. We always work hard. We work hard and give voice to the people that support us; even those that don't support us we also give them voice. So this is going to take us some time to get through but we will get through it and we will give it the best review that we can possibly give it and we will continue to look at the various funny little idiosyncrasies that this Government seems to throw our way at the last minute. So I thought that was rather an insult to this side of the House because we are hard workers. Once again I just want to say that this particular bill is actually supposed to help those that need it and to be honest I don't think it does help all of those that need it. I think it helps a certain section of the community and that's it. But what about all the others that are left to actually carry the rest of the childcare and other areas within this SOP within this bill—what happens to them? I think it's going to be those people that are going to be sorely disappointed with the areas within SOP 25 and all the other changes that are being made to this bill. It does disturb me that this is what the bottom line of this bill is going to do. It's going to marginalise a number of good people who can deliver very good caring services to the children and it's going to just wipe them out. So even though we are supporting the bill in the second reading we are not supporting SOP 25. Thank you."