Moroney Sue: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: General Debate[Sitting date: 07 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17584. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): National Party members have just spent the last half an hour or so trying to convince New Zealanders that they are interested in the issues that matter to them. Well tonight in the House they are going to get a chance to vote for an issue that matters to New Zealanders. They can choose to vote to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks. So the question is whether they will. Will they put their money where their mouth is and deal with that issue or will they do what they have been doing for weeks now and filibuster to try to delay the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill from having its vote in Parliament tonight? I think that is the sort of issue that New Zealanders are going to judge this Government on.National Party members would have us believe that they want to do things that are relevant to people but we are going to see whether that is true when they debate tonight. Are they going to spend a lot of time talking about the Electronic Transactions (Contract Formation) Amendment Bill a tiny little bill that really does not impact anybody at all or are they going to let the House get on and vote for extending paid parental leave to 26 weeks? The Government has a problem. It has got a problem. This bill defeats the Government. The only thing that stands between families and 26 weeks’ paid parental leave is the Government because the majority of members in this Parliament will vote for that. I thank all of those parties that really are dealing with the issues that matter to people because if families can get 26 weeks’ paid parental leave with their newborn babies then that will make a huge difference to people’s lives. If we can get the bonding and attachment right which we know now from all the research and evidence is so important for helping children develop well then we will have a much better future in this country. The only thing that stands between now and that future is the Government. So we will get to see tonight whether those members are going to do that. They have gone very quiet.Government members say that they are going to deal with the issues that matter to people. Well what I want to know is which people. Are they the people who are in the Cabinet club? Are those the people they are talking about? I believe they are. Someone sent me a tweet today that I think said it all. They said: “Sue do you know what a ‘Cabinet club’ handshake looks like? Of course you don’t because it’s done in very deep pockets and you don’t get to see it.” That Cabinet club handshake is done in very deep pockets and with people who have the money to buy influence. That has been the theme of the last week.While we have been addressing issues that matter like extending paid parental leave the Prime Minister has been spending his time trying to defend all of his colleagues andall of his Ministers from being donkey deep and dealing with people who have the money to buy influence. So—[Interruption]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! I am sorry to interrupt the honourable member but I just remind members that when we are having a debate people may interject on the speaker but they cannot interject on each other if they do not have the floor. It is very discourteous.SUE MORONEY: Thank you. I have obviously touched a nerve there. What is the theme here? Judith Collins was working withOravida with people who have the money to buy influence. Maurice Williamson went and phoned the police to defend somebody who has the money to buy influence. Then we find out that they are all doing it—all of the Ministers are involved in these Cabinet clubs.I would like to know from the members opposite—could the next person who gets up and speaks for the Government please tell us all of the electorates where these Cabinet clubs operate. Where are the electorates where these Cabinet clubs operate? Well maybe in 5 minutes you are not going to have time to list them all. Maybe it is going to be quicker to name the electorates where there are no Cabinet clubs in operation because I think this is happening up and down the country. In every electorate I am guessing there are going to be these people who belong to these exclusive clubs. They pay money to belong to these exclusive clubs for one reason and one reason alone and that is to buy influence with Ministers in the National Government. I want the members opposite to name any of the electorates held by their MPs that do not have a Cabinet club. I think that will—well Tau says he has not got one. There is one member who is going to be honest about it.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! The member’s full name.SUE MORONEY: Oh Tau Henare—the Hon Tau Henare says he has not got a Cabinet club but he is on his way out anyway. I want to know from each one of those members opposite which one of them has a Cabinet club who is in that Cabinet club and what influence people are buying when they join up to the Cabinet club. I think that those are the issues that we need to hear about before we see the Government’s Budget.