Jackson Willie; Stanford EricaHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): What a load of rubbish from a former Minister who wouldn't know what today is. Today is May Day—Hon Members: May Day. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: May Day. But that former Minister—he's running out now—tortured workers for nine years in his role. Shocking—it was shocking the type of things that he brought in: taking away rest breaks taking away meal breaks for workers. Who would ever envisage that a Government could do that type of thing? They took away the reinstatement area for workers—David Seymour: Ask Mike Williams. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Shocking stuff. Ninety-day trials—Mr Seymour would have supported that. David Seymour: That was a great policy. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: No it's not a great policy. It's something that this Government has addressed seriously over the last year. Now I'm proud to be part of a Government that has brought balance back to the workplace—David Seymour: But he's not part of the Government. Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Yes—who's not part of the Government? Get a life Mr Seymour. You're not even part of the Opposition. But in terms of bringing balance to the workplace that's what this Government has done. We've had to do it because of the shocking work of that previous member who had no aroha at all for our workers. We've brought the minimum wage up to $17.70; $20 by 2021—isn't that just great? We're going to bring parity we're going to give the equity to workers and we're going to restore balance to our Employment Relations Act by reclaiming basic modern workplace conditions for our workers. We're increasing Working for Families by $75 a week—$75 a week—and rolling that out to up to about 26000 families. David Seymour: He's running out of steam already.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: We're increasing paid parental leave Mr Seymour from 18 to 22 weeks. So I'm proud of the work we're doing. As well as that we're going to invest in skills. We're going to invest—we've got a skill strategy in terms of people in this country. Mana in Mahi He Poutama Rangatahi—you name it. We're doing great work in the provinces now. Shane Jones is doing a fantastic job right around the area. David Seymour: He's run out of material.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: You wouldn't know out there because you don't understand the impact that the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is having with the regions. It's just fantastic. They say to me National did nothing. They didn't care. They didn't care about us."Hon Member: Who says that Willie? Hon WILLIE JACKSON: They say that all the time. Hon Member: Who says that?Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Jim Smith from your area. They say it all the time—how the PGF is having an effect. The regions know about this. That's why so many members are attending some of the hui that we have out in the regions. So I'm proud of the work we're doing and it's great to celebrate it on May Day—a day where we again examine the divisions within the National Party. We saw it on display today. Simon Bridges fighting for his life—Simon Bridges. But I want everyone to tell Simon today: the Māori support him in Labour. He's got our full support. Peeni Henare has offered to do a waiata for him. Willow-Jean Prime will help him with his reo because it's so tragic. We will support Simon even though the National Party won't. Look I understand most of the Māori in the National Party are useless. We understand that—apart from our good man Nuk Korako who's going today. What a good man. It's so sad he's being booted out of the National Party because he supports tino rangatiratanga and the Māori in Labour. So the only good ones in there: Nuk; Shane Reti because he delivered Peeni Henare's babies; and Harete Hipango. That's about it. The rest are useless. Paula Bennett—well she doesn't know if she's a Māori. Some days she does and some days she doesn't. Dan Bidois—he needs to go back to Italy. And Jo Hayes—Jo wouldn't have a clue. A great example of that with Jo was when she did her Whānau Ora attack on us and failed miserably. She was even told to shut up by Nuk—I think Bill English got to her too—but she carried on carried on carried on. The Auditor-General gave us a full clearance much to the embarrassment of the useless Jo Hayes and Nuk Korako apologised to me for it. So I want to say to the National Party today who are split and divided: yes you have useless Māoris—but the good one is going today. One of the best Nuk Korako is going today. However we're backing Simon. Please get that message to him because he's desperate. We saw him today. He's desperate there grovelling for more support—shocking the way he was insulting us. But he's from Ngāti Maniapoto I'm from Ngāti Maniapoto and I'm obliged to help him. Kia ora tātou. TEMPORARY SPEAKER (Erica Stanford): I call—David Seymour: Madam Temporary Speaker you can call whoever you like. TEMPORARY SPEAKER (Erica Stanford): I call Matt Doocey."