Sharma GauravDr GAURAV SHARMA (Labour—Hamilton West): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Tēnā koe e te Whare. I want to start first of all by thanking Minister Carmel Sepuloni for introducing this bill into the House. It is one of the many good bills that she's presented to the House another feather in the cap. And while I'm mentioning the Minister I would also like to say what great work she is doing in terms of bringing our Ministry for Disabled People which is coming through on 1 July. So thank you for all the work in terms of protecting vulnerable people in this country Minister.In my previous life as a doctor two types of patients that I saw often: one was related to ACC cases where people had an accident and needed time off from work. It caused a lot of stress—mental stress obviously physical stress as well. But the other type of people were those who had lost their jobs for whatever reason. And what I would say is the stress suffered by people who have lost their jobs isn't much different from stress suffered by people who have had an accident—a physical injury or a mental injury—because it does add to the stress in your life and the last thing you need at that point is to be worrying about as my colleague here said paying your mortgage and paying your bills.So what this bill does really is give a way for these people to have a bit of time to figure out how they can get another job and to give a bit of security but also to give a bit of mental relief in not having to worry about what's happening when they've had such a big significant event at that point. I know ACC has had its fair share of criticism over the years but it is a beautiful system. Again you know there is no sort of I guess liability but people are supported through it. The aim in ACC's term is to support people through a terrible event whether it's a rugby injury they might have had or something related to sexual trauma. But people are supported and that's what this country's all about.In a similar fashion this specific insurance scheme is about supporting people who've lost their job for a reason and will potentially go through stress will go through trauma. It's about supporting those people. So it's a great bill and it helps people—100000 New Zealanders who are losing their jobs every year for whatever reason; compare that to 1.9 million claims which are made through ACC. It's a small number of people but not an insignificant number of people and as a speaker from the National Party Simon Watts said Oh you know 50000 or 100000 people who cares?" Well I would just like to remind Simon Watts there's about 50000 people who live in his electorate and if he told them that 50000 people don't really matter then good luck with the next election.So it is important that this insurance scheme comes through because there are a lot of people who are in that situation and who can end up losing their job including some people on the other side as we've seen in the last election. So it probably would help their insurance scheme as well.It's just important to remind ourselves that this specific bill is not just about that insurance scheme; this is just about providing a system for ACC to be able to provide that service and that scheme. And as we move forward I'm sure the Minister will present the actual logistics of how that scheme would look like in a separate bill. But I would like to commend this bill to the House and once again would like to thank the Minister for bringing this incredibly supportive bill for New Zealanders. Thank you."