Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Don't you love it when those socialists talk about fairness? Ha ha! Fairness to the New Zealand public would have been to actually go to the election and say We're going to put in a capital gains tax."; not to hide away from it and to rubbish it and to hide behind a working group that was to come out so that the public could vote at the next election around capital gains taxes.Michael Wood has said today in this House "This capital gains tax …". That last speaker Deborah Russell talked about fairness and how it meant that they could bring in an ability to tax capital gains. The Labour Party wanted and always has wanted a capital gains tax and when it comes to election time they go out to all the constituencies all the public meetings and they never admit that they want a capital gains tax. Then as soon as they come into this House when they have a moment of time where they do not have to go through consultation and a moment of time when they can hide it from the public they will put through a capital gains tax. That is the Labour Party. And if they were true socialists they would be honest with people when they're out there and yet they are duplicitous in their nature. They come into this House and pass things under the darkness of night to get away from actually having the absolute integrity that the public would get through consultation and a select committee process. But we know that's how the Labour Party operates. We've seen that on many occasions in this House from the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act Amendment Bill to taxation at this time but there are in this case actually some examples where this legislation is just purely bad form.Now let's take the case of a relationship break-up within five years. Now—Dr Duncan Webb: Read the rules. You've got that wrong.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Oh so the Labour Party is saying that they're not taxed. They are taxed. If there is a relationship break-up within five years and there is a second house or a holiday home that can be taxed under the five-year rule because it is not their home of residence. In those situations that is what the Labour Party is going to do. Generally those situations are very difficult situations. There are a lot of issues going on between the partners. The Labour Party are going to make vulnerable partners spend five years waiting for this period of time to elapse before that house can be sold otherwise there's going to be taxation consequences.Hon Chris Hipkins: Vulnerable partners selling the beach house!Hon DAVID BENNETT: Oh so the beach house—an investment property. Often they will be highly mortgaged in a young family environment and they will have little or no equity there. And when you've got two partners that then want to go out and set their own houses up how are they going to do that? The best advice they will get is to wait five years and then try and get their own money out to get their own property; otherwise they're paying capital gains tax on it. That is the intended consequences of this legislation for the Labour Party and that is what they're going to do to ordinary New Zealanders that may have an issue. They will have that problem.This is just another example of how democracy has been eroded in this House. We see it every day in question time and now we are seeing it once again in legislation that hasn't gone to a select committee that hasn't be given to the public to explain issues like that which are actually real and honest issues that are a problem in this legislation. That is why we are seeing a Government that has got no respect in the community and a question time that is also not respected. We need to make sure that we have integrity in this House and that has been lost by that party."