Sabin Mike: Budget Measures (Financial Support for Newborn Children) Bill — First Reading Second Reading In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSabin Mike: Budget Measures (Financial Support for Newborn Children) Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee[Sitting date: 15 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17940. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MIKE SABIN (National—Northland): I just want to commend Jan Logie in particular and the Green Party for another outstanding contribution. Does it not do fantastic things to votes for the National Party when people like Jan Logie and her friends in the Green Party stand up in this House and say that supporting working families is discriminating? That says a lot about what those people are about—that says a lot about what those people are about. If we support hard work and enterprise we are discriminating. What an absolute load of tripe.Sue Moroney: They’re just babies. They can’t do hard work—they’re only babies.MIKE SABIN: Sorry? I wonder whether Sue Moroney will be getting a call in this debate. Was she not doing some work on this? I seem to recall—let me channel that. Let me channel that. I cannot channel it over there because all the brains have been stolen apparently. There has been a bit of brain stealing. I would suggest they would have had to scramble—Hon Trevor Mallard: By the zombies.MIKE SABIN: Speaking of brain drain there is someone who had a brain drain about 30-something years ago before he came to this place.Hon Member: He tried to have a lobotomy.MIKE SABIN: That is right. Yes he could not find one—could not find one. However let us return to this very very sensible piece of legislation.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Good idea.MIKE SABIN: I am entitled to rebut interjections. The New Zealand workplace is a modern and diverse place and this Government accepts and acknowledges that. This Budget actually reflects the hard work—[Interruption] Sorry what is Sue Moroney saying? I cannot quite pick that up.Sue Moroney: You only support hard-working babies. The chimney sweep babies.MIKE SABIN: Well that is interesting. That is interesting Sue Moroney because what the Budget Measures (Miscellaneous Fiscal Matters) Bill is about is supporting those who need the support. So if we talk about what Sue Moroney was proposing any household earning under $150000—like Trevor Mallard if he were to spring forth and have a child—would get this baby bonus. I know it is a horrifying thought. They would get this baby thing going on. Is that fair? Is that fair? Is that what Kiwis really expect? Actually I think that New Zealanders have woken up to the idea that this sort of non-targeted approach from the Labour Party of throwing money at a problem and believing that makes it go away is actually dead and gone which is probably why the Labour Party polling is now suggesting it is doing even worse than what the polling across many different forums has shown. I think the polling has got the Labour Party at well below 30 percent.This bill is about rewarding the hard work of New Zealand families and about supporting young New Zealand families and the children that they are bringing up in a targeted prudent responsible and sensible manner. What we know—and this is what this Government has done for a number of years now through some very very difficult times—is that if we carefully manage the Government’s finances if we take care on behalf of taxpayers of the challenges of fiscal responsibility in tough times and if we do that well and if we invest for outcomes we get good results. That is why this Budgetshows us in surplus. And if we support families that need support to do the same thing we can expect good outcomes from them. It is a targeted bill. It is a good piece of legislation. I commend the Minister of Labour for it.