Bond RiaRIA BOND (NZ First): I just want to add in my third reading speech tonight what New Zealand First's position was actually in the first reading. It was that we at that stage could only guarantee our support of this bill to go the select committee. That was actually quite specifically due to the fact that we were quite concerned that these women were forced to forgo their rights and their justice in order for them to not look like they were a burden on this country. As I said in my second reading speech it was really important for me to get information back from Kristine Bartlett E tū submitters from the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and from the providers who were here that the negotiations between the Crown E tū and the industry were actually carried out in good faith. That was really quite important to me—that those negotiations were carried out in good faith.I want to express how proud I was when the realisation came to the forefront throughout that process that these negotiations were carried out in good faith. Admittedly—and I said this in my second reading speech—sometimes in life we have to lose some to win some but we get back up again and we try again. That effectively is what this settlement bill is about. It is about recognising the hard work and how 5 years ago court proceedings were brought to the forefront and one worker—one worker—by the name of Kristine Bartlett had to fight for her rights with her employer. I want to say that it has been mentioned in calls that in life it is quite extraordinary when a female stands up and is a leader to other females in this country. So I am half expecting that this will turn into a movie. I am half expecting that my daughter and her grandchildren and our sons and our daughters of the future will have a look at what happened in our country where we were one of the first countries in the world to give women the right to vote. I do hope that it is picked up. I do hope that we get to see a blockbuster because I think we deserve it. I think that Kristine deserves it I think that the union deserves it and I think that all the care and support workers within the sector deserve it because their voices have been heard.I want to talk about Jan Logie's amendment although I know that—Hon Members: Loogie"?RIA BOND: —inside of that bill it was covered under—oh sorry—the legislation. One of those things has been the fear factor where some employers have already said that they are going to have to cut back their employees' time due to the fact that this bill will be an excessive cost to them. I kind of want to also stand up and say that we will continue to watch to make sure that this does not happen.I come from an industry where I earned $3.20 per hour. My childcare costs were $3.60. I was in debt before I even got out of bed. Do you know what I was? I am still very proud of what I had as a trade. I was a hairdresser. So I know what it is like to pinch and save. I know what it is like to put the clients first. I know what it is like to actually struggle—really struggle—to even put food on the table because of the ridiculous wages that you earn. So I have been in your place. I do want to say that we smartened up in the hairdressing industry and we worked with our industry training provider to ensure that there were minimum standards for wages for our apprentices. So you know I kind of had to suck it up too for quite a long time—but I am not sucking it up now.I am really happy to see that the Minister stood up and explained to the House about the 11 amendments that were suggested through the Health Committee—to actually move them forward as a Supplementary Order Paper. I wanted to note because I found it quite extraordinary—and it is not often that a special process is taken due to the fact as other members have said of the limited time frame that we had to work with in order to process this bill to allow it to come to fruition and to make sure that the care and support and workers were paid effectively correctly from 1 July—that we were advised to use the same process previously taken when the Hurunui earthquakes legislation was read and taken through that same process.So although it has been kind of extraordinary that we have moved quite quickly through this bill overall I do feel that because of what we were able to ascertain from submitters and because of the fact that we worked quite collectively as a committee and decided that the best thing was to bring the changes through in one document through the Supplementary Order Paper into the Committee stage I want to say and others have said it that the working relationship between the advisers was amazing. They helped someone like me who was not too up-to-date with legislation and certain words understand quite quickly. They actually clarified so many worries that we had in terms of the fact that we did not want to make any bad decisions. We wanted them to be right for the workers for Kristine and for the union. So it was quite essential. I just want to say that the work that we all did as committee members—and Poto Williams put forward some really valid concerns and information so I guess we were all quite lucky actually to work together to make sure that we got this bill back in the House in a timely manner and that we got to the third reading tonight.I want to not take up much time so that I can witness this monumental moment happen today in the House. I want to say that New Zealand First is proud to support this bill in its third and final reading and we wish you all the luck in the future."