Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. As I rose to my feet I had to check the bill that we are debating because it sounds like the Government is actually talking about the housing crisis because this problem does not exist either. There are not any problems with this particular bill.I hear calls from the other side saying: Give us some examples." So I want to start my contribution with an example. New schedule 2 inserted by clause 14 talks about services as an actor musician singer or support crew for the production of advertising or content for television.Some people might know that I used to work at Māori Television. I was fortunate enough to be there when Māori Television led the way with Anzac Day coverage—full-day coverage—and Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Festival coverage with a worldwide audience of over a million people. What else was there? It was a part of Christmas in the Park the Rugby World Cup—Meka Whaitiri: Te Ata's tangi.PEENI HENARE: —Te Arikinui Dr Dame Te Atairangikaahu's hui mate her tangi. While we all sit there and we watch and we "Wow" and we are amazed by the images on our television screen what people who are viewing at home do not know is that the key grips the riggers for the equipment the lighting people and the cameramen are all contractors. Just recently Ngā Aho Whakaari the union representing the workers in this particular industry threatened to strike. Why? Because those workers were not being paid what they were owed. They were being paid in some instances below the minimum wage—below the minimum wage.Meka Whaitiri: There's an example.PEENI HENARE: There is a classic example. So while we all sit there and we watch television and we think: "By crikey Māori Television's doing a fantastic job." I think about a man by the name of Don Selwyn. Don Selwyn through the 1960s and 1970s knew that technology was going to change the world. So what he did was he focused on the young people. He trained a generation of television producers of film directors of movie makers of camera operators of key grips and of riggers for television sets and productions. It is sad to see that despite his hard work through the 1960s 1970s and 1980s the birth of Māori Television saw some of those contractors get paid below the minimum wage. There is a classic example of what is exactly wrong with the current legislation.I want to congratulate Mr Parker because he has done a great job at cajoling those on the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee those across this House to make sure that we can get this bill across the line. We have bent to the right bent to the left bent over backwards changed a few words and shaken hands. We all smiled when we agreed on these amendments. Now all of a sudden we have already heard about the press release that has just been prematurely let out.Hon Ruth Dyson: Oops.PEENI HENARE: Oops—amateur move. Now we are still fighting for the rights of workers in New Zealand.I think it is absolutely despicable that the narrow-mindedness of this Government is actually going to force many of the constituents in Tāmaki-makau-rau and many of the hard-working whānau right across Aotearoa into more poverty. Our colleague Marama Davidson has already talked about the working poor and what this does is this actually guarantees that they will remain the working poor. Let us be honest here the minimum wage is still very low. Let us be honest here. Let us be honest. Let us work hard get the minimum wage and still struggle! So we are not asking for the Government to open up Treasury and let everyone reap the benefits of the money that pours out from the doors. No. We are actually asking them to come up to only the bare minimum level—the bare minimum.It blows me away as I said—the narrow-mindedness of this Government to turn its back on the hard-working people of Aotearoa New Zealand in favour of what—market forces? Let the market sort it out? Will market influence make sure that those who work hard regardless of how many contracts they might have actually get a livable wage and be able to go home and provide for their families?So Mr Parker I applaud you. You have done a fantastic job Mr Parker to bring this bill here and it does upset me that a key stakeholder in our community—"