Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): I just rise to speak on the third reading of the Social Security (COVID-19 Income Relief Payment to be Income) Amendment Bill. It's hard not to respond to the misrepresentation of the Green Party from the previous speakers but I'll try and start by stating our position clearly before I respond to them.So the Green Party have always in my memory of us in this Parliament fought for an income support system that ensures people have enough to be able to sustain themselves and for people to be treated with dignity. That has always been our work and we have not shifted from that. We've been very clear in this context of our ongoing commitment to that. That was our starting point in these discussions about how to support New Zealanders in this time of extraordinary unprecedented need. Our first position was to further increase benefits and to remove the conditionality of access to those benefits so that the existing system that we had could be strengthened to work for all of us through this time.We didn't achieve that. Does that mean that we should turn our backs on a group of people being able to access support? That's our choice. Our answer was considering on our principles no. We should not turn our backs on some people being able to get more just because we were not able to achieve our goals for this transformation for our society. We will keep working towards that and you hear that through this debate. We are not stepping away from that whatsoever; however we do recognise that this delivers more to people in need and we are not going to subject more people to the flawed aspects of our system when we don't need to. We didn't take that decision lightly in considering this. We reached out to key stakeholders in our community and had that discussion about how they feel about this on the ground. The feedback we got was OK use this as an opportunity to talk about the fact that in our welfare system the income levels are inadequate; that the fact that people are forced into dependency on their partners against their own wills and often unsafely is a flaw in our system and that's demonstrated by this temporary provision; and that the 13-week stand-down doesn't work in terms of the way that our society and job market works. So this is a chance for us to see that to learn from that and the Greens will be taking from this the opportunity we hope to demonstrate and to use that to change and fight for a more fundamental change to our welfare system.I also want to note that in some of the media Trevor McGlinchey who was on the Welfare Expert Advisory Group from the Council of Christian Social Services said that the new more generous payment in the temporary one that it is should be extended to all unemployed. That's where we're going. That doesn't mean we deny those people this support; it means use this and go further. Why not?That is not where the National Party are at and when they've been standing up here this is where I just really struggle with politics sometimes: when I've listened to those speeches in the Opposition it was just so disingenuous. Playing with this as if it is a game to enjoy—this is about people's lives. This is about the fact that there are thousands of people in our country who are struggling to put food on the table right now who we care about and there is another large number of people facing that in their future. We have a duty to do our best to support them. That is not a game to be playing with politics about the Greens and Labour; and Greens are now agreeing with us; and yay yay. That to me to speak bluntly is just bullshit politics and not what we need in this country.I just want us to bring it back to the people and what is going to help achieve progress and care for people at this time. This has not been easy. Politics is not easy. It's a matter of debate and discussion and standing by our principles and that is what the Greens are doing.