Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): The Greens will be absolutely supporting the Minimum Wage (Contractor Remuneration) Amendment Bill. I will pick up from where my colleague Chris Hipkins just left off at the end of his debate.This is actually about bringing our society up to one that is fairer and that is more cohesive. The thing is the low-wage society which is what this Government supports and believes in has just done us in badly. We are seeing the ugly rearing head of it right now. This is why just today the low-wage economy—which is why this Government is opposing this bill. It is making up all sorts of excuses and reasons. The Government members even tried to say to us that they support the principle of the bill but that it is a messy bill—that is an absolute excuse.Again I have to say I have been sitting here feeling—I am just trying to keep my language parliamentary—vomitous about us sitting here on the salaries that we are all on and more and having the absolute cheek to even fight against a minimum wage of—what is it—$15.25. We are going to deny New Zealanders $15.25. We are going to deny contractors a bit of legislation to bring them up to $15.25—us here in this House us here sitting on these salaries. I have felt vomitous about that; I am going to use that word. It is a feeling of being really disconnected and it is quite abhorrent actually—quite abhorrent actually—that we can even have the cheek to stand in this Chamber and argue against new section 6A which is about bringing the Minimum rate of remuneration not to be less than the minimum rate" of $15.25. Wow go us! Go us in here! Go us in here! OK I will get back to the bill. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker.The Government's cries of opposing this bill have been that it is impractical and that it is not going to do what it is intended to do. It is doing that under the guise of being sympathetic with the intent. Thankfully none of us is going to fall for it. None of us and New Zealanders is going to fall for it. Do you know what happened today? Research released today from Otago University showed that more than half—half—of all homeless New Zealanders are working or studying. I am going to ask that we research how many of those workers are on any sort of contract. According to schedule 2 that means that I am going to ask that we research how many of our building and construction services cleaning services courier services or food catering services contractors—all of those are listed in schedule 2—are struggling or are in any sort of insecure housing situation which the report is showing that half are. I will move on from there. We are also supporting this bill as I said because it is one step towards fixing what this Government has neglected in terms of inequality increasing. So we will be supporting this bill. We will be trying to support workers and reduce the inequality that has been worsening under this Government. Do you know what it actually is? This is the thing: this bill is to help us steal less from workers—from contractors. This bill is to stop us from stealing the money that we steal off contractors by paying them a little bit more towards what they are worth—towards what they are worth. That is what this type of legislation is actually about. It is not about giving people who contract more; it is about stealing less. They deserve that. They need that and then some to live a good life. So that is also what this bill is about. My colleague Catherine Delahunty is going to go into more detail around carers."