O'Connor DamienHon DAMIEN O'CONNOR (Labour—West Coast - Tasman): The level of hypocrisy connected to this bill is—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order! That is a word that we do not use in this House and I ask the member to withdraw. [Interruption] I ask the member to withdraw.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. I do not use the word flippantly but—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): No I have ruled. Just carry on with the debate—just carry on with the debate.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: Can I have a point of clarification Mr Chairman?The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): No I have ruled. Just carry on with your debate. [Interruption] No I have ruled on the matter. [Interruption] No I have ruled on the matter. I am asking the member to continue.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: The level of duplicity around this bill is unbelievable—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): No. I ask the member to sit please. I did ask the member to withdraw the comment and then he can carry on. So if the member withdraws that word that he used then we will continue. I ask the member to withdraw that comment he made earlier. The Hon Damien O'Connor withdraw the comment. [Interruption] No. You know what the word was—you know what the word was. I immediately was on my feet and asked you to withdraw the comment and I am asking you to do so now please.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: I withdraw. [Interruption]The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): No no. We are carrying on. [Interruption] No. I have ruled on that word being out of order. It is unparliamentary and I am asking you to continue.Hon David Cunliffe: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Is this a new point of order?Hon David Cunliffe: Yes it is Mr Chairperson. It is my recollection of previous rulings on the h" word that a—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): I have ruled on this matter and I am not entertaining it any further. The member will sit. I am inviting the Hon Damien O'Connor to continue.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: We have members from the other side of the House advocating for choice—choice for councils choice for businesses choice for employees they say and choice for customers. But there is no choice for National Party members. Leadership comes from the top and if indeed that party over there is the party of choice the first thing it would do is allow its members the choice of what they will vote for. I see a smile on the face over there of the other Mr O'Connor. Mr Doocey is over there. Mr English might be in his office. Mr Finlayson might be in his office as well. I cannot believe—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): No. [Interruption] Order! I ruled earlier on that this is a pretty narrow debate and I will just ask the member—[Interruption]; there will be silence when I am on my feet—to concentrate on Part 1. I pulled up the colleague sitting to your right on this matter. Others have done so and it is your opportunity to speak to Part 1 and I am inviting you to do so.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: Clause 10 in Part 1 "Section 3 amended (Shops to be closed on Anzac Day morning Good Friday Easter Sunday and Christmas Day)"—those are the days that National and all its members are going to allow to be open for retail trading in the naive belief that employees will have choice as to whether they support the business person in whether they want to trade or not.I stand in this Chamber as someone who has been brought up through the Catholic religion. I am not a good Catholic; I would never claim to be one but I have been brought up with some values and some views. I do believe firmly that our culture our country is one that has been built on Christian values—I am not saying that we abide by all the Christian religions but we are built on Christian values—and is one that respects culture in referring to clause 10 here and is one that respects the culture of identifying with and respecting certain days of the year.There are 4 of them—not many. There are 4 days when we as a country come together to respect people and to allow them a break from the normal toil when instead of working to live—or living to work as the National Party would have—we indeed have the opportunity to take a break and be with our families. The choice that the National Party caucus—not its members because they have been whipped; they have had no choice—is talking about is that retail on Anzac Day morning and retail on Good Friday and on Easter Sunday and on Christmas Day is essential. It is essential if the councils should choose through a laborious process of consultation or—Brett Hudson: Oh! Consultation is a bad thing. The member says consultation like it's a bad thing.Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR: Oh the member over there is quite happy to be whipped into this and not to have a choice as to whether he votes or not. I do not believe that the speeches made by members over there are genuine because they are not in fact allowed to have the choice on an issue that has traditionally been deemed a conscience vote.Part 1 says that these 4 days will be open to retail trading and the assumption is that that will make New Zealand a better place. Well I absolutely disagree with that and I will adhere to the policy that allows us to respect and recognise 4 days in the year as being part of the culture of this country.And if we hear that visitors who come here want to be able to shop 24/7—I do not believe it. I do not believe it. People come to this country because it is different because it is New Zealand and we have a culture that we should be proud of and it is one that does show due respect to those 4 days and lots of other things: Māori culture a diverse culture a range of people who have the freedom who have choice generally to do most things but within a certain guideline that is I guess cultural values—that is what it would be called in other countries. This National Government is so focused on commerce that it will set aside all Christian values all cultural values that have formed—"