Roche DeniseDENISE ROCHE (Green): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. I rise to take a short call for the Greens on this debate. The Greens believe in a fair New Zealand a place where we care for people where we care for the planet and where we are responsible and prudent stewards of the resources that we have and I was disturbed to hear in the Prime Minister's speech today a real lack of vision and solutions for some of the pressing problems of our time. I was looking to hear how the Prime Minister and his Government think we should be working to ensure that in this country all our children and all our families are thriving. I did not hear a solution from the Government for the 40000 people in New Zealand who are living in their cars in sheds and in garages. I did not hear that. That lack of vision for me is increasingly worrying. I did not hear from the Government the solution for increasing wages so that people could actually live on what they are earning. There are several hundred thousand people in this country who are just getting by on the incomes that they can squeeze out of their employers. What I did understand is that there will be an increase in the minimum wage up to $15.75. That means that 120000 people who are currently on the minimum wage will have an hourly increase of 25c but you simply cannot support a family on this. Increasingly it is working families who are ending up in those homeless situations and are reliant on food banks as well.This Government has fostered a low-wage economy and that I think is something that we should all be concerned about. We have created a narrative. Helen Kelly used to call it the narrative that the employer was the benefactor and the employee was the recipient of that charity. What that has done is it has increased the vulnerability of workers to the point where they cannot ask for or demand or negotiate decent working conditions and wages. Some of the most vulnerable workers in this country are those who are on temporary visa contracts. They are at additional risk of exploitation by unscrupulous employers and that is happening more and more. There is research from several sources that suggests that about one in five people on temporary working visas are actually being exploited and that is just not good enough. The solution to this is the redistribution of wealth. I know it sounds terribly radical but actually what that means is fair wages that are negotiated by workers with their unions.We support a fair and transparent immigration system. What we have seen from this Government is a two-tier immigration system. We have the situation where this Government will pass on citizenship to a multibillionaire and in just about the same breath will move to deport nine students who have paid thousands and thousands of dollars to come to this country to study. In the Prime Minister's statement it does say the Government wants to increase the economic contribution from international students. That is fine but actually we need to be treating them fairly and so the Government should be looking at the deportation orders and exercising the same discretion that it used to welcome Peter Thiel to lift the deportation orders from those nine students who are currently seeking sanctuary in a Ponsonby church. Thank you.