Davidson ReubenREUBEN DAVIDSON (Labour—Christchurch East): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'd like to start with a couple of statements. The first is that this Act addresses a real problem and the second is a little bit longer. When large organisations take a long time to pay their bills small businesses with limited working capital are the ones who suffer. Sometimes it is because large players unfairly use their market power. And I'm expecting a breeze to drift across the House from all the nodding heads from the other side because those words come from the Minister's own document and paper with the rationale and the reasons for what this bill now being repealed addresses.Now I think it's also good for us to get a little bit of context here because we had two debates about this earlier today and we've all gone out and had some lunch and left the House and had some question time and it would be good to bring the focus back to who this bill serves and that's small businesses. Small businesses are about real people. I'm going to share as I did earlier some notes from a local business in my electorate of Christchurch East because what we don't want to do is lose sight of the people who are affected by repeals like this. So the first passage I'm going to share is from Sachiko from Kai Connoisseurs and she says Running a business is hard. Being an employer is hard. Paying for kai staff rent and the rest is hard; and spending my time asking to be paid over and over for mahi we've already done well that's hard." Her Facebook post is a letter to organisations and corporates using small local business to provide services that support your kaupapa then forget to support them back. The message is really simple: "Please prioritise paying your bills." And it's signed by "A tired hard working solo Māmā business owner employer and hoha human who's had about enough of asking politely for what we are owed." And this a polite debate about what we all owe to small business.Now I think it's also worth making a distinction here because the dynamic in a business relationship is a different power dynamic to the one in a political relationship. In a political relationship sometimes the smaller parties in the relationship can have a lot of sway over the terms of the negotiation and over the things that are included in the transaction. Sometimes the smaller parties can have unreasonable bottom lines that the larger party bows to. That doesn't happen in business. Small business can't make claims for all sorts of strange unusual unexplainable unreasonable demands and have them included into the business arrangement or a business relationship. That is a power dynamic that I would suggest is exclusive to recent politics.So what I thought I would also do is close with some language that members on the other side will probably find very familiar. So I'll speak to you in your language. What I'm saying really clearly is—I think that's a phrase you're quite accustomed to—we need to aerate the issues; we need to zoom out. This repeal does what I'm doing to you to small business—it condescends. This is a condescending repeal. I hear the Minister's priorities—seven of them—to support small business. My challenge is: do eight. Walk and chew gum. It can be done. Small businesses do all they can. The least they deserve is for us to do the same for them. I cannot commend repealing this bill."