Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (Minister for Infrastructure): This legislation provides me with yet another opportunity to attend to parliamentary housekeeping. I think I'm correct in saying that historically these housekeeping bills would have been regarded as statutory revision. There would have been an omnibus bill where issues that the bureaucracy had identified that weren't well drafted to start off with don't require gallons of rhetoric and don't require great periods of debate. I suppose it's reflective of the fact we're reaching the end of the week. There's been a high point earlier this afternoon with virtually everyone passing the climate change legislation. There's one thing I do want to highlight however. The legislation has a crack at dealing with the Retirement Villages Act. And when you think about—in fact I'm thinking about myself in 2025 which is quite uncharacteristic as you well know. In 2025 there's going to be a million people in Aotearoa over the age of 65 and that shows there's an enormous market that investors are pursuing through the retirement villages estate. I recall being the Minister for Building and Construction. Unfortunately I was hounded out of that role after a lightbulb episode but prior to that I did a considerable amount of positive work not the least of which is to bring some order to the Retirement Villages Act and I look forward in a future opportunity to further tidying up this area of the law when you consider the large number of Kiwi families that are going to have their wealth stored in such estates.I think that whilst this bill addresses the fact that the code of practice if you do breach it you'll suffer a various offence at a deeper level I do think—and it's beyond the ambit of this bill—that it's probably ripe for a very deep dive. There are enormous amounts of wealth stored by people in their senior years as they enter into these estates. There are expectations from the mokopunas and their children that something will be left and I'm very very keen at a future point after we've dealt to these small improvements to be taking that up.On the question of protecting vulnerable employees the Deputy Speaker's already spoken about that. This is ongoing work. I think that probably an area where additional power and authority is going to have to be vested in the bureaucracy—perish the thought I should say that—is enabling labour inspectors to be more forthright and penetrating with their investigative powers. I've been very very concerned that over the years labour inspectors have been marginalised and sidelined and we've expected the market to police and to hold people accountable in a largely liberalised labour market. That has not worked well for many of the people that are my own and many of the young men and women who have come from overseas and found themselves in very vulnerable positions. So in that respect this is a positive contribution. The final thing that I would join with the Deputy Speaker Hon Poto Williams in talking about because I've had some recent—SPEAKER: The former Assistant Speaker now a Minister. Hon SHANE JONES: Oh really? Yes you're quite right she is a Minister. I hope I'm not replaced by a new Minister myself although I can imagine myself being quite a talented Speaker; there are certain people on the other side of the House that would spend great periods of time in political penury. SPEAKER: That requires an understanding of the rules. Hon SHANE JONES: Anyhow I'll come back to what I'm paid to do and talk about parental leave—OK for fear of earning unnecessary attention of a negative nature from the Speaker I'll pretend I never heard that. On the question of parental leave: family relationships are fluid family relationships do change and this legislation enables people who are entitled to to capture the assistance of the parental leave. In fact my son and his partner just had a baby last week and I was very cross with him. He went straight back to work; I don't think he knew there was a parental leave option. We're from the sort of time—my grandmother had 17 kids and as she popped them out—Andrew Bayly: Back to the bill. Hon SHANE JONES: —she just went back on the kauri gumfields. There's far too much noise from over there but I can understand because they voted for the Government's bill for climate change.SPEAKER: Oh come on. Look I hate to prove Mr Bayly right when he was inappropriately interjecting but I think Mr Jones knows he—Hon SHANE JONES: OK sir I'll wind up this speech I'll wind it up [Interruption]—although the term wind up" has this certain impact on the other side of the House. So obviously these parental leave improvements through what I call a kind of statutory revision bill reflect the Government's broader policy of creating a productive economy. And also we will make progress at an appropriate time on the fair pay agreements and other such things. But like the cheddar cheese ad says: these things which are good do take time. Thank you very much."