Bennett David: Immigration Amendment Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: Immigration Amendment Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 30 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10616. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): I would just like to acknowledge the members of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee who are here today and our officials who did a sterling job on the Immigration Amendment Bill and did a very good job in presenting this. I decided to take this call because I was disgusted by that last speech. Darien Fenton is a member of the committee whom I have a lot ofrespect for. She is a very nice lady she is very active on the committee and she has been a great member of that committee for many years.Hon Trevor Mallard: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. You pulled me up for being patronising earlier. I think this member should stop it and get back to the bill.The CHAIRPERSON (Eric Roy): Well there is a pertinent difference between a member using a point of order to make a comment and a member in debate. Actually I could not see any offence in the way in which the member was speaking.DAVID BENNETT: And I genuinely mean it—Darien is a really nice lady.Hon Members: “Dar-rien”.DAVID BENNETT: Darien is a really nice lady but for her to say in this debate that Australia got a great deal to talk about how letting people go is a great deal and to say it is a bad deal for New Zealand to have another 125 citizens of New Zealand coming our way is an absolute disgrace to the Labour Party. That is what it really thinks of people who are refugees—they are a bad deal. People are a bad deal under the Labour Party. The Australian Labor Party got a great deal because it gave away refugees—that is what the Labour Party has said in this Chamber tonight. That is disgraceful. It is absolutely disgraceful. That is not the kind of person that Darien is. That is not the kind of way that she should be approaching this bill. That approach has got no regard for the people their sacrifices and the pain that they go through to get to New Zealand and to other countries. That is a disgrace I think for the Labour Party.This bill is about sending a signal. It is sending the signal that we will enshrine our immigration rules and we will work towards getting the best solutions. The Opposition talks a lot of fear loathing and hatred and a lot of things that are just not true. It creates a lot of fear in our migrants it is creating a lot of fear in people who are looking at New Zealand as a home and it is saying that the Government will act in a way that the Government will not. The Government has not acted in that way and does not intend to act in that way but we need to give ourselves the ability to deal with these situations should they arise. These are people. They are not a bad deal. These are real human beings whom we are talking about here. How dare the Labour Party call them a bad deal and things like that in this Chamber. That is a shocking stance.The reason why Labour Party members are saying this is that they have bought into the rhetoric around this bill. They are saying how bad it is when they do not actually believe that. They know it is not like that. They know that a reasonable Government needs to work to have these kinds of initiatives in place. They are taking this measure out of context and looking at it in a way that is not real. I do not think that Darien actually meant those comments that these people are a bad deal. I think that she did not actually mean that. Opposition members are doing this because they have been told to argue in this way in this Chamber today on this bill and they think that that is the way that they should present themselves.The Greens will come along next doing exactly the same thing—building a lot of fear and preying on those people who are vulnerable. That is what the left does: it preys on the vulnerable and it takes advantage of people in their time of need. That is not what Governments do. That is not what this Parliament should stand for. Everybody is a good person and not a bad deal. You cannot say in this Chamber that the Australian Labor Party got a great deal by giving 125 people away and that we got a bad deal in taking 125 people. That is disgusting and I hope that Darien takes another call to make amends for that comment.