Jones Shane: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: General Debate[Sitting date: 18 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13471. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SHANE JONES (Labour):Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. On the point of survival we have just heard from what must pass as the ethnic equivalent ofMāui’s dolphin—an endangered species that is nice to have but will struggle to survive. Set-net bans will not save that particular group of people.Māoridom no longer wants a gerontocracy.Māoridom does not want for example that person who currently chairs—if I can call the Māori Party Maui’s dolphins I can call the current chair of Māori Television former National Party MP Georgina te Heuheu the moa of Māori broadcasting. She must go.But on the point of going and resignations no one deserves more attention than Mr Steven Joyce the laundryman on the seventh floor of the Beehive with alaundromat that has laundered taxpayers’ largesse No. 1 to the media company of which he was a former shareholder. As if that in itself was not a sackable offence the man goes on to wear that stunt as a crowning glory. Then just to show that he does enjoy his actual appellation—i.e. that he is a slugger; focus on “slug”—he turns round today and defends a $1 billion interest-free loan to further cronies of his Chorus. But to top it off he goes to the blackjack table and hands over $400 million to the casino.Where there is a pool of liquidity that the State has ownership over you will find that parliamentarian slaking at it. That is why he deserves the moniker “The Lizard” or the “Reptile of Parliament”. He has the feature of being utterly cold-blooded. He wonders about only one thing: money. He is disdainful of the community sneers at our regions and is scornful of levels of propriety and integrity that should belong to a person in this House of such seniority in the Cabinet. That man is a confluence where personal affluence has become political effluence. Up and down this country we remind New Zealanders that in his hands if you screech loud enough or if you yell loud enough you will be paid out. That will not turn round the 154000 New Zealanders who have been left on the scrap heap or the 45000 New Zealanders each year who find that the only succour available to them is a trans-Tasman flight.I actually do think that Bill English is an old-time patrician. I can see a little bit of Holyoake a bit of Birch and a bit of Bolger in him. But in that man Steven Joyce I see the servant of Caesars Palace. He will not uphold the standards of this legislature. He is fast and loose with the most sacred of responsibilities: being a good steward of this House’s reputation and maintaining high levels of probity. He enjoys being known as the slugger of his party. Well I was probably going to give that to Gerry but given that I am quite partial to him from time to time I do not want him to think of me as regarding him as an insect when there is a far better candidate to be known as very reptilian cold-blooded and driven only by personal gain and commercial accumulation. That person I say to you has sold out the regions has sold a pup to the Māori Party—which will soon disappear—but most important shows an utter disregard for the day-to-day woes that afflict our families and our households. And somehow he wears that knowledge with a mask of pride a perpetual sneer. I look forward to the opportunity once we have settled our roles on this side of wiping that sneer off his face and wipingthe smirk off the pup ofTauranga’s face. That is the level of commitment we bring to our job. Kia oratātou.