Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (Minister of Immigration): You can say one thing about New Zealand First members: they are nothing if not predictable. Yesterday we heard speeches in the motion of support for the people of Orlando in the wake of that tragedy. I want to touch on a couple of them. The first was from Kevin Hague one of the most compelling interventions I think I have heard in my time here expressing condemnation at the act and aroha and support for the LGBTI community and for the Muslim community.Then we heard another speech without doubt the most vile spiteful hateful and ignorant intervention I have heard in my time in this Parliament from the leader of the New Zealand First Party Winston Peters. I reckon it plumbed a new low even by that member's standards by drawing a nexus between a United States citizen born in that country and this country's immigration policy. Frankly his call for some kind of Anglo-Saxon values statement to be signed by new migrants absolutely epitomises how ignorant and out of touch that party is.Today I hosted the annual World Refugee Day function here at Parliament. I challenge Mr Peters to go along to functions like that and listen to the speeches that we heard today from a 16-year-old Syrian and from an 18-year-old Rwandan or to go to the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre and go to a pōwhiri and see the energy and support for the values that we hold dear the values of freedom and peaceful coexistence of harmony and diversity and then stand and tell this House that we need some kind of values statement. Pauline Hanson has got nothing on Winston Peters. I wonder actually whether he is Ms Hanson's older brother because they certainly sound very much the same.At the World Refugee Day function was a fellow by the name of Yahya. Yahya has the distinction of being the first Syrian refugee to arrive into New Zealand under the emergency places response this Government put in place a couple of years ago. He spoke at the World Refugee Day event last year and rather cheekily put his hand up and said: I am good at what I do I have worked in a warehouse in logistics I speak pretty good English—does anybody have a job for me?". And actually there was an approach that day by a very large organisation in New Zealand that was trying to see if it could help. Sadly that did not come about and I met Yahya again today a year later and he tells me that he is still looking for paid employment. I was very sad to hear that but not that surprised because that is a typical story we hear around the country. Oh were it the case that every refugee we take could tell the same story as the speeches that we heard today. That would be great but unfortunately that is not the case.Despite being held up as one of the world's best at settling refugees we still have fewer than 40 percent of those refugees in paid employment 10 years after they arrive. Their children do not do as well at school as ours. Immunisation and other health services are not taken up at the same rate. We need to do better which is why the New Zealand Refugee Resettlement Strategy was put in place 3½ years ago. It is working. Progress is being made but it is slow and we need to do more which is why I am really pleased this week in addition to the announcement of a significant increase in the quota of one-third—Dr David Clark: Double the quota.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: That member says: "Double the quota." Well he can go and ask his colleagues who were in Parliament from 1999 to 2008 why they did nothing—not a thing. Why would they say that? Yes we have 60 million displaced people in the world. When the Labour Government was in power there were 42 million people displaced and it did nothing. There was no strategy no increase in the quota—more lion in Opposition but pussycats when in Government—no money and a decaying facility which the Prime Minister will reopen on Saturday.So I am very proud of the response and the announcement that was made this week to raise the refugee quota by a third and we will redouble our efforts to make sure that every single one of those refugees settles well thrives and is independent from the State but more important is free of the vile disgusting rhetoric that we heard from Winston Peters and the New Zealand First Party. It is a speech and rhetoric that we have heard long enough going to a smaller and smaller cohort of New Zealanders—and I think that is a good thing."