Tizard Judith: Holidays Amendment Bill — First Reading 
Tizard Judith: Holidays Amendment Bill — First Reading 
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Hon JUDITH TIZARD (Minister of Consumer Affairs) 
: 
 It is always fascinating to listen to National Party members talk about workers. The thing that came to me as somebody who has run businesses over many years is that they have this strange—[ 
Interruption 
] I ran restaurants. 
Brian Connell 
: Have they gone out of business? 
Hon JUDITH TIZARD 
: Of course they have. I am in Parliament. What I find fascinating is the walls that National members have in their little heads. They have this idea that all employers are just employers. What I find in my electorate in my family and in my community is that most employers have wives and husbands who are employees. They have children who have part-time jobs or full-time jobs. They are people who live in mixed communities. I am really interested that those members say that the cost of holidays will fall on employers; well the cost of not having holidays falls on employees and employers. The cost of not having holidays falls on the families of employees and employers. Could those members opposite think for one moment about the fact that most New Zealanders have families? Spookily enough many of us spend our holidays with our families and if we do not our families suffer. Members opposite talk about how much they care about law and order but do they care whether the police and their families get holidays together? No they do not give a damn. 
So it is all right for National Party people to have 4 weeks’ holiday and it was all right for the current leader of the National Party when he was at the Reserve Bank to have 4 weeks’ holiday but it is not good enough for the police to have that. It is all right for National Party members to have 4 weeks’ holiday—in fact most of them have about 52 weeks’ holiday a year—but it is not OK for health workers to have that. Four weeks’ holiday is not OK for the nurses and doctors who sweat their guts out to make sure that the health system of this country manages but it is all right for National Party members. It is not all right for those wonderful emergency workers to have 4 weeks’ holiday. No! They and their families should pay the cost. But it is all right for National Party members and their families to have 4 weeks’ holiday because somehow or other they are better people. Apparently it is better to be a National Party member. It is a case of “Do what I say; do not do what I do.” They punish the families of workers—it does not matter whether the workers are police officers emergency workers health workers or those people who are out there caring for the community. But it is all right for National Party people to have 4 weeks’ holiday. 
 The National Party disgusts me it disgusts New Zealand and it shows in the polls. We looked at the last election and at the one before it and we looked at what New Zealanders were saying about the difference between employers and employees. They said they thought all New Zealanders should have a fair go. I think this legislation is giving New Zealanders a fair go. [ 
Interruption 
] Listen to those members baying like the stuck pigs they are! 
Lindsay Tisch 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. The term that member used is unparliamentary. It is unparliamentary to call Opposition members “stuck pigs”. It was completely out of order. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: I ask the member to withdraw that remark. I ask her to withdraw and apologise. 
Hon JUDITH TIZARD 
: I withdraw and apologise.