Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. We have a Minister in Grant Robertson who talks a lot about the future of work and I guess the message that's been given out after summarising this piece of legislation and the last day and a bit is that you work and the Government will take it off you.And we're talking about people who are on the average wage. We're not talking about people who are in that highest category. And we've heard a lot of debate and I you know respect the fact that the Rt Hon David Carter's stood up in the last few hours and talked about the packages that you're delivering to him—Mr SPEAKER: Order!BARBARA KURIGER: —that the Government is delivering to him. And the whole thing is about you're taking it off people who are on the average wage. You're taking it off people with less and the Government is giving it to people with more.I have seen a lot of amendments go up in the last 24 hours or so and some of those amendments had merit.Hon Chris Hipkins: Some of them. Ha ha!Hon Grant Robertson: Not all of them.BARBARA KURIGER: A lot of them did and I didn't expect the Government to pick up all of those amendments. There was merit in all of them but some of those amendments I would've expected the Government—if they were a Government who put in this piece of legislation that they were going to provide targeted social assistance.Now I saw an amendment go up from Andrew Falloon and I thought I saw some light in the eyes of the Minister of Finance when he said to our member Andrew Falloon that he was having some sympathy for the message. That amendment was around just an extra four weeks for families who had lost babies. And I didn't think it would've taken even a calculator to work out what that would've cost. You could've added that up in quite a short time and I'm really quite disappointed that the pride that Megan Woods talked about—she talked about the Government being so proud. Well actually sometimes pride gets in the way.And if I have anything to say that I'm most disappointed about it was that that amendment could've been quite easily picked up. I wouldn't have cared if you'd changed the name of it. You could've called it your own. You did that with the Trans-Pacific Partnership—you put a different label on it. Surely the Government could've done that to support some of the vulnerable parents at a time in their life when they most need it. So I'm really disappointed about that one.So summarising the week—$1060. We've had the debate about whether it's being repealed. We talked last night and I know Mr Hipkins was a little bit interested in some of the research that's been done but it's not hard to look up repeal" in the dictionary. It's about revoke. The Government can no longer deny that they're taking money off the average wage earners who need it in this country who get up they work hard they go to work every day. But I've actually not only seen the "Grant that's Stolen Christmas" I've also seen some meanness in not accepting in particular one amendment today from this Government. And I'm very disappointed and I hope that Minister Robertson you might see it in your heart to at some point in the future at least look at that amendment.There are some very good ideas in some of the other ones. I know that the Hon Louise Upston worked very hard around measuring and managing and if you don't measure and manage this you are not going to get 88000 children out of poverty. Thank you Mr Speaker."