Belich CamillaCAMILLA BELICH (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair—Mr Chair. I'm sorry; I hadn't noticed that the Chair had changed.CHAIRPERSON (Teanau Tuiono): I have transformed.CAMILLA BELICH: It is certainly a transformation. Mr Chair I have a few comments to make on clause 2 the commencement provision and one is really for the Minister. In relation to this particular bill which he is seeking to turn into an Act it is exactly the same as a bill in terms of its nature of content and so I wonder in relation to the commencement of this bill whether she had considered just recycling the 2011 bill in relation to this provision and indeed the whole Act and whether she got any advice on that. I'd be interested to know if she did do that; or if she didn't do that why she decided not to do that. So that would be my first question.The second thing I wanted to ask was just really about two amendments which I understand my colleagues wish to speak to in their names. The first is in the name of colleague Ginny Andersen around clause 2 the commencement provision seeking to replace the words on the day after" with "90 days after". It just seems fair doesn't it that the New Zealand public gets to sit with this bill for 90 days as we expect them to sit with insecure and unconfirmed employment. So I think that that's valid and fair and has a nice kind of poetry to it if I could be so bold. So I commend my colleague for putting forward that amendment in relation to the commencement clause.I have another colleague who has put forward a different amendment in relation to the commencement. This one is significantly longer. My colleague Arena Williams has suggested that instead of what is currently included in clause 2 we change it to "This Act comes into force on 9 months after the date of Royal assent." It's probably slightly less poetic and I hope no offence is taken to that by my colleague Arena Williams but it is a significant amount of time in which I think we could perhaps if the Minister was of a mind to do a select committee process once this bill has been passed. I'm sure we could do that within the nine-month period and that obviously would affect its commencement. But it would mean that it was a meaningful process—that we could effectively delay commencement which is what we're discussing at the moment until after a period of consideration.Obviously there'll be the summer period when not as many people will be around to make submissions and I've heard other colleagues discuss that in the past as well. But then we would have a significant amount of time where prior to commencement it would be possible for the Education and Workforce Committee—of which I'm a member; and I see our chair is also in the House—to engage with the content of this bill and hear submissions. As I was discussing in the previous reading a number of people have indicated to me that they would be in a position to make a submission and want to make submission on this bill. And so I think delaying the commencement in order to have a select committee process would somewhat go towards making the process of urgency which we are now debating this bill under slightly fairer and more justifiable—because of that delayed commencement.So as I said although the Arena Williams' amendment is not as poetic as I think Ginny Andersen's amendment is Arena Williams' amendment does allow greater scope for delaying the commencement in order to go through proper process that would allay a lot of the concerns that we're hearing from the public.So I do wonder if the Minister has—it doesn't have to be specifically around this particular amendment to clause 2—had advice around a subsequent select committee process that we may be able to enter into. That would be really interesting to hear. So I look forward to hearing the Minister's comments on that and also on the substantive provisions that my colleagues have sought to introduce under clause 2 as well."