Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): It gives me great pleasure to stand on behalf of New Zealand First to speak again tonight on the Screen Industry Workers Bill. I like Nikki Kaye. I think she's a great speaker. She's thoughtful and I think she actually gave a good contribution tonight but she came to the wrong conclusion.It was certainly very unclear when the Hon Scott Simpson delivered his speech and had no clear direction as to the actual reasoning behind the National Party not supporting this bill moving forward except for: This harms all those gains that we've got and it is just promises to the trade unions—their mates that they're looking after." but it doesn't talk about what the bill actually does or how it actually makes the current laws even better. Nor does it point to the fact that when the "Hobbit law" was introduced in 2010 despite the rhetoric they're saying that we're rushing this through it was done under urgency in one day. So that I would suggest is a contradiction of terms when you are starting to use that as a defence to put this through.The fact is that we said we were going to do this as a coalition Government—to do something in the first 100 days—to set up a working group. Now the working group—let me go to the working group because it's taken this much time to thoroughly go through and look at every single aspect that is going to benefit the industry—a $3 billion industry for New Zealand that we can grow and develop providing that we look after the most vulnerable workers inside this. Now let's go through the working group: Linda Clark from the facilitator of Kensington Swan; Alex Lee film group Auckland; Alice Shearman the New Zealand Writers Guild; Augie Davis the Stunt Guild of New Zealand; Barrie Osborne the film producer; Brendan Keys from Weta Digital; Erina Tamepo from iwi; Melissa Ansell-Bridges from Equity New Zealand; Michael Brook Regional Film Offices New Zealand; Paul Mackay from Business NZ; Richard Fletcher the Screen Production and Development Association; Richard Wagstaff from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions; Sioux Macdonald from the Screen Industry Guild; and Tui Ruwhiu the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand. What a comprehensive group to comprehensively look at a solution that we are trying to fix that they put through in 2010 under urgency without any consideration and with no ability for people to come and submit on. Now we've got something that is truly going to make this industry fly and look after the most vulnerable people within this well and truly establishing itself industry in New Zealand.Now the other thing that I think the National Party need to understand is—because they haven't clearly articulated why they wouldn't do it except Nikki Kaye did mention the fact that they were concerned about the industry being under siege. What she didn't say is the reason why they rushed it through is they were concerned about strikes.They used that as their analogy back in 2010 but the simple reality is that since then the industry itself has established a blue book. It's a code of conduct. It's codifying existing industry standards that have been well and truly adopted throughout the industry on their own terms and merits. This bill simply enables the same rules that apply in the blue book to ensure that those vulnerable workers can actually sit down and collectively bargain and agree to it.What I also didn't say was that wonderful list of talented exceptionally involved industry heads of bodies including BusinessNZ agreed with this bill unanimously. It has been agreed by all members who had attended all of those working groups and sat down to go through line by line of what's wrong and what the problems are.I don't see where the National Party is actually pushing back on this. This is only good. If they actually read the fine print and understood the bill they would understand that there is absolutely no way that anybody through this collective bargaining process can strike—there is no way. There is no benefit in striking through this. We have to simply ensure that the most vulnerable workers—those ones that are a single voice in a short truncated period of employment—get the best available opportunity given to them.The collective bargaining mechanism that this bill actually enables is something that this side of the House certainly agrees on along with the industry as a whole. Producers—we are talking about overseas people that come to New Zealand to use our wonderful country to produce some of the most incredible films that the world has seen. This is actually only going to strengthen it. To strengthen it we have to make sure that those workers are being looked after. Those people that are at the bottom end of the employment scale don't have the bargaining power as an individual but they have a collective bargaining power under this law.That is why we are excited to put this through a select committee process. It's not a truncated select committee process. We want to ensure that we've heard from all submitters to hear what their concerns are—if there are any at all because I haven't to date heard any of those concerns being put forward. If there is going to be a body that would be standing up to say "Maybe we've got a problem here." it would certainly be BusinessNZ. I've been talking to them today and they said "It's two thumbs up from us. We think this is a good move. We think it's going to be wonderful for our industry." New Zealand First stands with our coalition partner side by side to see this bill go through the House. And yes I believe we can get it done before the end of this term and before the next election. Thank you Madam Speaker."