Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you for the opportunity. I was coming to the Chamber and Parliament TV was talking about the House of Representatives—the House of Representatives. Now once the bill passes I don't think we can say that. I don't think we can say this is a House of Representatives because the representation of the electorate the representation of the people that put us here is gone. We can call ourselves the House of Lambs Sheep Followers Kowtowing Members to their Leader" but I don't think we can call ourselves members of the House of Representatives because this bill takes away that privilege. This bill takes away the ability for us to represent to advocate and to bring to this House what the people who put us here are thinking and feeling and wanting to say.The next point coming to the commencement date is that the people in my electorate put me here as their representative not as their number whatever—what number am I? I am about 58 or 59 on the list. I am not a list MP. I represent the people of the Wairarapa. I am here and the people who put me here believe that I'm here to represent them and this is taken away. This is a breach of employment contract. This is a breach of employment contract because the people who put me here believe that I'm here to represent them but now upon the third reading upon the Governor-General's assent I will be merely a number. I will not be able to—and I know Mr Little has said I can stand up like Damien O'Connor did and I can stand up like Nikki Kaye did but in reality those two members I refer to had the agreement of their leader to do what they did.Now let's say the leader isn't so—well I don't know what should we say?—flexible or conciliatory. Let's say the leader is a bit of a hard-nosed individual and refuses to let Damien O'Connor have his say or refuses to let Nikki Kaye have her say and then what happens to those people? What happens to those two members? They will have their head on the block because they have defied their party leader openly and publicly. So although Mr Little says it can continue in that same way and that is technically right the reality is something different.My third point is the perception of this. Even if Mr Little is right in everything he says the perception is reality and the perception is out there that this does take away the right of the representative to do their job in this House. It does take away the relationship between those elected and those that elected us—the perception I'm talking about Mr Little not necessarily the reality that you advocate.Finally I would say that saying it over and over again as Mr Little is doing doesn't make it real. It doesn't change the issue. This is a bad piece of legislation. It takes away the voice of the people in this Parliament—even if it's only a slither. Even if it's only a very very very small amount lacking in representation that is a reason not to vote for this bill.Finally I challenge the Greens to vote just this amendment in—just this one—because all of those Green MPs are here under the same conditions that I was brought in under and that contract has been broken. So at least—coming to the commencement and coming to Mr Nick Smith's amendment—please I implore the Greens to just vote for this one amendment and regain some mana in the representation that the Greens advocate so strongly for. Thank you Madam Chair."