Mitchell Clayton: KiwiSaver Budget Measures Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Clayton: KiwiSaver Budget Measures Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 21 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3838. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First):I rise to take a call on clause 2 of this bill the KiwiSaver Budget Measures Bill. I think there are some Supplementary Order Papers on the Table that are fair and reasonable. Let us be honest. What we are asking with these Supplementary Order Papers in particular is for National to keep it real. Keep it real for New Zealanders about what you are actually doing here. You are quick off the hip when it comes to making legislative changes and very very slow to give back those changes. What we are asking—and I spoke to this earlier on in my comments—is to think about those people and give them enough time to go in and register for KiwiSaver. It is not unfair or unreasonable to ask that. I would certainly like to get the words from the Minister. You will be pleased to see Mr Chair that I am wearing my pink tie. I am impervious to insult and injury today because of course this is my bully-proof suit so I look forward to hearing from Simon Bridges the Minister in the chair.However I would like to say that being fair and reasonable is absolutely what this Government should be. Does it stand scrutiny? What the Government is doing is taking it away so quickly that it is ripping the carpet out from underneath the feet of those New Zealanders who need to be looked out for. The Government is dressing it up and putting a bow around it but in actual fact it is just putting lipstick on a pig. This does not fit in with what National says is standing up and being a voice for New Zealanders.David Bennett: This is another transgender comment is it?CLAYTON MITCHELL: Apart from the absolute brain constipation that I get from the verbal diarrhoea from the other side of the Chamber from time to time—and I am specifically talking to you Mr Bennett—we need to make sure that we are giving the people of New Zealand enough time to react to this quick-off-the-hip legislative change.We have got Supplementary Order Paper 85 from my colleague Mr Fletcher Tabuteau which makes sense—it absolutely makes sense. It is common sense to give people at least 2 years—2 years—to make some changes in order to get themselves into that scheme. In fact we got it from Labour and we got it from the Greens as well to narrow it down—even to 1 year would be acceptable and we would support that. Goodness me we would support 90 days if this Government saw the sense in what that would do. You need to give the people of New Zealand some time to get in and get adjusted to this legislation which is being force-fed down our throats.We are in urgency at the moment on a Saturday morning and I am sure there are many many people at home who are absolutely riveted to this. Watching this debate is like watching an All Blacks test match.Hon Member: It’s afternoon.CLAYTON MITCHELL: It is afternoon already. Goodness me! It feels like I have just arrived. You know when I look at the indebtedness of this country as of Tuesday it was $19511 per New Zealander and it has now gone up to about $20000 per New Zealander. That is more indebtedness than Kaipara District Council had at $10500 per head of population which sent it to the wall. Now all of a sudden under this legislation you are taking more money away from New Zealanders making it harder for that debt to be repaid for our future.New Zealand’s future is at serious risk. We spoke about the curve of having an aged population a very skinny working population and a very large and growing young population which we are going to have to manage and maintain through schemes such as KiwiSaver. With the kick-start programme 66 percent of people signed up to KiwiSaver because of that $1000 kick-start—many many people. I was fortunate enough to sign up to an AMP life insurance whole-of-life policy when I was 19 years old because it made sense and because there was nothing else that the Government was going to offer us back then.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): I am going to invite the member to come back to the clause.CLAYTON MITCHELL: I am going to come back to the time—Tim Macindoe: The member also needs to explain how this will stop us repaying debt. It seems to be his argument but it makes no sense at all.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Righty-o. The reason why we suggested the name change for the bill of “#nofuture” is that this is the time. If we do not start thinking about the future of our constituents of the people of New Zealand time will be running out so I absolutely think that this Government should be supporting giving those people a longer period of time to sign themselves up to KiwiSaver. To say retrospectively that last Thursday was the cut-off point is absolutely wrong. I would love to hear from Minister Simon Bridges to see how he can justify that. He is nodding his head in agreement. It sounds like he might take a call. We would certainly like to hear from him. Just remember I have my bully-proof suit and pink tie on today so hit me with all of your best insults. Thank you.