Jones Dail: Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
Jones Dail: Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill — Instruction to Committee In Committee 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
: 
 The problem we are facing in this Committee tonight as the Government finally tries to take some action on this legislation is the enormous number of amendments referred to earlier on by Dr Worth of the National Party. The time one is taking to try to go through some of those amendments will obviously delay the vote on Part I because as I look at the most recent one that has come to hand dated Tuesday 29 March 2005 I think that the bill has been out of the Justice and Electoral Committee for about 6 months. Yet the Government is still producing Supplementary Order Papers— 
Dr Richard Worth 
: More to come. 
DAIL JONES 
:—with more to come probably. Yes for sure. We are even looking at an amendment to clause 13 in a Supplementary Order Paper which is an amendment to a provision in an earlier Supplementary Order Paper. So as this bill hangs around we are getting amendments in Supplementary Order Papers to provisions in earlier Supplementary Order Papers and I ask how many more of those amendments to amendments we will get during the course of this debate on the legislation. [ 
Interruption 
] Well the Minister in the chair the Hon Rick Barker would not know. As I said earlier I still look forward to Mr Goff making a contribution because this legislation is all his fault. 
Judith Collins 
: Don’t hold your breath. 
DAIL JONES 
: I will not hold my breath at least not today but no doubt he is thinking about this bill from where he is at the present time and he is very happy to be where he is rather than being in the Chamber at the moment. But this legislation is Mr Goff’s fault and it is the reason why lawyers and conveyancers have been thrown together. We also have an amendment to clause 6. Do I have to give my civil union speech all over again? 
Dr Wayne Mapp 
: Just go for it! 
DAIL JONES 
: I will just go for it because clause 6 is really a civil union amendment is it not? That is the only reason we have clause 6. Once again Helen Clark passed that earlier legislation just for the benefit of the coterie of lesbians and homosexuals who are behind it. But this is a special reference for Sue Bradford of the Greens: the last time I made my speech about Helen Clark and her coterie of lesbians and homosexuals Sue Bradford said to me in high dudgeon: “Oh but we’ve got a lot of lesbians and homosexuals. Why don’t you accuse us of having them too?”. So by special request of the Greens this amendment—and I am looking at the amendment to clause 6 in Supplementary Order Paper 338—is being passed not only for Helen Clark and her coterie of homosexuals and lesbians but also for the Greens and their coterie of homosexuals and lesbians. That is by special request. 
Hon Member 
: Don’t pass it for us. 
DAIL JONES 
: No it is just by the special request of Sue Bradford that I make that point tonight. I am sure she will be very very happy that I have put her in the same basket and those members are in the same sort of basket that applies there. So that is the particular point that I had to raise. 
Now we will have to decide how we will vote on this. At some stage Mr Chairman you may have to rule on whether there will be a personal vote on this particular issue and on whether that will delay it. 
Progress reported. 
Report adopted.