Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): That was a pretty depressing display from that side of the House I have got to say. We have heard a lot from the Government: that this bill is unnecessary; that this Government has got it sorted; and that Theresa Gattung a huge number of women business leaders the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner Jackie Blue the business and professional women's organisation the Graduate Women New Zealand the National Council of Women and the New Zealand Public Service Association have all just got it wrong for asking the Government to support this bill. The Government knows better than all of those business leaders and women in our communities!The Government members are telling us that they have got it sorted because they are introducing pay equity legislation that is out for consultation at the moment. I think it is important to put on record in this House that that draft bill will actually make the case for equal pay for the same job a personal grievance issue. It will risk making it completely invisible in the entire system. They are actually restricting the right to strike for pay equity. They are restricting women's access to information—women are able to get employers' information for work of equal value only after they have established a case. Then they are adding extra criteria that women are going to have to prove and they are extending the comparator overturning a court decision. And they are standing here in this House telling us that they give a toss about women's economic equality. It is damn clear to me from their actions that they do not and what they have been doing tonight is entirely consistent with that.I hope that everyone in this House realises how frustrated women actually are. This has been a fight that has been going on for 124 years. It is time to step up with some solutions. Stop putting your fiscal bottom lines and your sense of what might be an inconvenience" for an employer before the human rights of women in this country because it is time for women to get economic equality and that is going to take action.Sure there are some things that we could resolve in select committee in terms of gender diversity. I think that would be a great discussion to have in select committee. Sure there is a question about whether the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment would provide guidance to be able to add the detail around the independent assessors or whether that should be put in legislation. Sure let us do that in select committee.We have heard though that this is just an unbearable weight that businesses could not carry—that is what I have heard from this Government. Yet somehow—I do not know—Norway Sweden and Finland all have similar provisions in their legislation for income transparency and strangely those three countries are in the top four most equal countries between men and women's incomes. Huh! I don't know maybe there is a connection there!Then we are seeing as well that Government members are talking like this is impossible. I get a sense that it is ideological for them. But yet in the UK the Liberal Party has introduced a pay transparency system that will involve it from next year. It will be publicly ranking businesses.Catherine Delahunty: League tables.JAN LOGIE: League tables for businesses on gender pay equality. My bill is not going anywhere near that far. That is a Liberal Party in the UK that is going so much further than this does. It is doing it because it thought businesses would come to this point themselves and then it realised that they will not and they do not.The Green Party and the members on this side are committed to taking whatever actions we can to end this inequality and I thank others in this House tonight who put justice and equality first. Kia ora."