Sio Hon Aupito WilliamHon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO (Minister for Pacific Peoples): Now that I see the baby is awake I'm reluctant to be loud and I'm reluctant to be long in my speech. [Mr Speaker holding baby]Mr SPEAKER: Good.Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: But I look across the other side and I see Mr Joyce his head hung over. He looks tired. He looks ragged. He looks rundown. I see the chief whip. He's just trying to put on a brave face but they're rundown. The new member Lawrence Yule—he's trying to put on a brave face. I was expecting this supposedly strong and big Opposition to fight tooth and nail to defend their record for the past nine years. It's not even midnight. We were expecting them to debate this until midnight tomorrow.What a sour bunch of I don't know. Why should anyone believe a single word that—[Interruption] Shh!—the baby. Why should anyone believe a single word of what they have argued for? Why should anybody believe their feigned caring for families with babies? Nobody believes that not when you consider the nine years that they've been in Government—nine long years.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Order! I am going to ask the member now to address the bill.Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: That's why this bill is critical. It is crucial. For nine years they've allowed the gap of inequality to grow—for nine years. That's why this bill is so important for families with children. That's why this bill is so important for working families working families that have been standing in long lines—long lines—for food parcels to subsidise their low wages that this Government allowed for nine years.We've seen people homeless—that's why we're raising the accommodation supplement. This lot despite homelessness spilling out on the streets in cars in garages and in public toilets still denied there was a crisis.Hon Member: Now you're filibustering.Hon Member: You're filibustering.Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: Shh you guys! Watch the baby OK and listen. Listen up—this is important. For nine long years—nine years—they did nothing as elderly people died in the cold damp houses during the winter time. That's why the energy payment is important.Nobody believes a darn word they've said to try and pretend they care about that baby that Mr Speaker is holding. They don't. They don't care one iota. They don't care about the elderly. They don't care about mums with young children. They don't care about families with teenagers. They don't care about people who have struggled year in year out under their Government—struggled while their mates made it good. Because the tax cuts that they introduced—that concentrated wealth in a small minority of this country.I'm proud to support this package. I want to acknowledge the leadership of Jacinda Ardern our Prime Minister. I acknowledge Grant Robertson the Minister of Finance who's had the gusto to make this happen. I also want to acknowledge these things happen because of New Zealand First and the Green Party here.The message from this package is that everybody has a responsibility in raising children. Everybody has a responsibility in caring about the support that parents ought to receive in raising children. That's a collective responsibility. These buggers this lot here haven't cared one iota for it.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Order! No no. No no. The member will withdraw and apologise.Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: I withdraw and apologise. I want to wish that baby and you Mr Speaker a merry Christmas.