Belich CamillaCAMILLA BELICH (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker—Tim van de Molen: Point of order. The inferences made by the Minister there—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I heard them and I'll judge accordingly. Thank you for any assistance you may offer. Just to remind the member you can't be offended on behalf of another member. I heard the comments and I'll—Tim van de Molen: It's not about offence to an individual member; it's about offence to the House itself.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes. Well I heard those comments and I will judge accordingly but thank you for your assistance. Just start the clock again for Camilla Belich. CAMILLA BELICH: Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call in this general debate. Now you may have heard it said in this debate or just in general that Labour is the party of infrastructure and that's what I want to start my contribution with today. I've recently been talking about infrastructure at a number of different events; I was at the Building Nations conference in Christchurch when infrastructure was discussed at length. I've also been on a number of panels in my home town of Auckland discussing what Labour's doing for infrastructure. As we know infrastructure is vitally important for New Zealand and we have as a Labour Government put $6 billion into a National Resilience Plan—and additionally $71 billion over five years which is our pipeline of infrastructure changes that we have committed to and will be implementing. So that is why I feel very confident saying that Labour is the party of infrastructure and in fact I think you heard the Minister say during question time that we're the Government of infrastructure.What do we need to implement these ambitious infrastructure targets to keep this country moving forward? We need a workforce that can deliver these for us. You've recently heard contributions from members opposite about their concerns about the workforce in New Zealand and I sympathise. I've spent my career working for working people's rights working to make sure that their basic standards are upheld and so I sympathise with that sentiment. What I cannot accept is that that party opposite puts itself up as some kind of saviour of working people. Just last year they voted against the Worker Protection (Migrant and Other Employees) Bill a bill in and of itself to protect migrants. You voted against it—you voted against it. So I do not entertain any arguments from that side of the House on protecting working people and if the member Erica Stanford wants to look at the biggest risk to working people in this country she needs to glance to her left because that party—the ACT Party unlike her party—has announced a suite of reforms in the area of workers' rights. Let me tell you about those policies. Those policies outline essentially the destruction of employment within this country. Now that might seem—or it might sound—hyperbolic but it is not—Erica Stanford: Can't deliver. No understanding.CAMILLA BELICH: I do understand actually because this is my professional area of expertise. They have said that if they are part of the Government the policy that they will be implementing is essentially to allow all employers to force workers into a contracting situation. What does that mean? That means the end of health and safety regulations for employers. That means the end of the minimum wage. I'm not making this up; this is the ACT policy. It means every right associated with employment rights would go. It would be a disaster for this country. It would take the model brought in by the John Key Government for screen workers making sure that they weren't allowed to truly be employees and it would implement it across the entire economy. I hear members opposite saying to me Well that's the ACT party policy; that's not the National Party policy". Well we heard your leader on the radio saying there is "good alignment" between the ACT Party and the National Party—good alignment! If there's good alignment the only thing that we can expect is that their policies become your policies. When your policies come into place we lose paid parental leave we lose sick leave we lose Matariki and we lose holiday pay. Every single right that people enjoy and expect in this country as employees would go. This is the direct flow-on effect of this policy and let me tell you that is a lot to be at risk for New Zealand; the destruction of our working conditions is at risk this election. Alternatively you have the Labour Party: we've increased the minimum wage; we've increased paid parental leave; we've increased holiday pay; we've increased sick leave; we have increased almost every sector which directly helps New Zealanders with the cost of living and we commit to continue to do that with the advent of fair pay agreements to make this country more productive and have better conditions for working people. We truly are the Government and the party of infrastructure and we will get New Zealand moving with a workforce that is respected."