Ngaro Alfred: Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Ngaro Alfred: Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
[Sitting date: 12 June 2012. Volume:680;Page:2881. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
ALFRED NGARO (National) 
: 
 I proudly wear this ribbon here. It is the purple ribbon which stands for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. In respect of that I will not abuse our elderly gentleman over here Dr Rajen Prasad but instead I will give him some reality. Here I stand in front of the House hand on heart and I shall say to the member that I in the Social Services Committee heard the submissions—hand on heart. Not only did I hear the submissions all 21 of them—and 20 of them were written by the Labour Party—but I heard all that they had to say. So there you go. To the honourable gentleman I say that I heard them hand on heart. But the words that were shouted out and ranted from over there were about theory. I want to acknowledge the honourable member Rajen Prasad as a lecturer and teacher of theory. But I stand here today not as a member of theory but as a member of reality because this party is the party of reality.  
The member wants to hear about where the evidence is. Well let us just say this. The Welfare Working Group took a longitudinal study around the Ministry of Social Development and began to see the impacts of long-term dependency on those who were on a benefit. And what it clearly showed—here is the reality—were the negative effects that it had on those who are on benefits. How can you argue with that? This is reality; this is what we are giving them. So what did we do? The honourable Minister for Social Development Mrs Bennett turned round and said that we want to deliver better public services we would have better choices and we want to bring our people out of poverty. We want a more active welfare system. That is what we want; we want a more active welfare system. So this Social Security (Youth Support and Work Focus) Amendment Bill will not only modernise what is an outdated system but will also enable this workforce. This is a thing that I suppose— 
Dr Rajen Prasad 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It is a serious point of order. The member has referred to a study but he has not told us what study it was. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: No no. Once again that is interrupting a member. I pulled up a Government member for doing the exact thing earlier. These are debating points.  
ALFRED NGARO 
: Thank you Mr Speaker. This is the thing that I said. Again here is the point of reality and this is what Labour members do not like. They do not like the reality looking straight at them. And that is it because the reality is this. In the election with all the promises that were made by that party what did it do? The reality is it lost its votes. We did not lose our votes. We gained our votes. So here is the reality. You have become a one-trick pony. You have kept our people in poverty. You keep preaching the same message— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Order! 
ALFRED NGARO 
: Sorry Mr Speaker. Labour has kept our people in poverty. That is what it does. Why? Labour members still want to say that our people need benefits. What we are saying is that we need opportunity. That is what this bill will do if that opportunity is given to us. So we stand here hand on heart and we heard the submissions. We are no longer about theory—we are no longer about theory—we are about reality and about giving our people an opportunity so that they can see a brighter future. Thank you.