Mitchell Clayton: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMitchell Clayton: General Debate[Sitting date: 03 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1081. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First):I rise on behalf of New Zealand First and the growing number of Kiwis who are disenfranchised by the direction this country is going under the leadership and the magic show of John Key and National. When I talk about the magic show of John Key I am not talking about the great shows we have seen like David Copperfield’s or Dynamo’s show but the sleight of hand the illusion that National has created under this Government. I feel so much more enlightened after Barbara Kuriger’s display today and the great picture she has painted of this Government! But today the best speech that I have heard in this House—the one I am going to take the most from—has come from the other side of the House from the ACT Party. Wait a minute—they did not show up to speak today.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member is a new member but you cannot refer to the absence of any member. That is definitely a breach of the Standing Orders.CLAYTON MITCHELL: I will take 10 on the bench. Thank you Mr Speaker.Anyway as we move on in this fantastic debate we are having today my talk today is about the hypocrisy and the absolute contradictions that we see time and time again from this Government—something that we have not seen for many many years. Government members jeer and yell from the sides but in actual fact they know in their hearts that what is going on in this country is all downhill from here. We talked about the Employment Relations Amendment Bill where this Government took away the right for scheduled meal breaks which have now disappeared from the rights of all New Zealanders. It was something that we fought hard to gain for all New Zealanders and in the same breath the Government is now putting in through the select committee the deal to do with the Health and Safety Reform Bill. It is trying to ironically reduce health and safety provisions for the workers of New Zealand by 25 percent. Yet over the hundreds of submissions we have had one of the major concerns that is coming forward is the concern for the people’s rights to that meal break. We are not talking about people like ourselves who stand up and waffle on from time to time. I am not talking about the people who push pens around their desks and justify long lunches. I am talking about the hard-working New Zealanders the people involved in our forestry industry the people involved in our truck-driving industry the meat workers and the people whose lives if lost will change not only their own life—clearly because they will not have one—but the lives of their communities and their families. The hypocrisy—that this Government can stand there—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Again I apologise for interrupting the member but that is a word that will lead to disorder. It has been used twice now in the member’s contribution and I would be grateful if it is not used again.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Thank you again Mr Speaker for this clarity. I am learning fast.Iain Lees-Galloway: You learn by doing in this place.CLAYTON MITCHELL: I feel like I am on a very high learning curve with elephant droppings there Mr Iain Lees-Galloway.We were talking about those issues in the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee but it brings me to some more issues and I will use the word “contradictions” because that is far more appropriate. You see this is the sort of speed at which New Zealand First members learn in the House. But I have to say we have some issues to raise now. We talk about the buzzword of the 21st century which is of course harm minimisation. This word gets thrown out like bread and butter at a fish and chip shop but in actual fact this word harm minimisation if it is put to its true effect in the Gambling Amendment Bill (No 2) really does ask this question: why is the Government trying to harm-minimise the Gambling Act on one hand while with sleight of hand trickery the David Copperfield - style illusion it comes in and gives 500 gaming machines to the likes of Skycity Casino? Skycity Casino of course is probably one of its mates that it has some sort of agreement with—oh I thought there might have been another “Order!”. I was going for a hat trick Mr Speaker.The sort of contradiction that goes on absolutely surprises me and this country has had enough. We are absolutely fed up to the back teeth with the sort of nonsense that is going on. Skycity Casino is now embroiled in the zero-hour contracts that are going on out there in the community. It is no surprise that with one hand the Government has given Skycity 500 extra machines whilst saying it is trying to minimise harm to do with gambling. And at the same time Skycity is introducing zero-hour work contracts for its employees which 66 percent of Skycity employees are employed under. Thank you for your time.