Mallard Trevor: Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Mallard Trevor: Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 24 May 2012. Volume:680;Page:2508. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South) 
: 
 Normally people who get to lead the Address in Reply debate are seen to be people of substance people of principle and people who are used—[ 
Interruption 
] No I went last. I went last in my group in 1984. But we have just had the second speech in the House from that member Alfred Ngaro and we understand why the gap between the two was so long listening to that. This bill— 
Alfred Ngaro 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. That is incorrect. Actually this is my fifth speech— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: No that is not a point of order. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: The member reinforces the point of how much substance he is bringing to the House and how forgettable he is. 
The point that I want to make to the House is that this is the legislation of the people who do not have the fortitude to make the big decisions. John Key puts all his assets in a trust and then says he will not look at the superannuation age. He puts his assets in a trust to avoid this legislation and then attacks the poor people of Wainuiomata who save up and get a house that is worth $200000. That is the approach of the National Government. It shakes down the paper boys and paper girls. 
There is another thing that we have not got to yet. The group National has hit the most is the disabled people who deliver brochures. The disabled who push their pushchairs around who are contractors who work more than 20 hours per week and who do not get a daily rate have lost their exemptions—they have lost their exemptions. So it is the young it is the old it is the poor and it is the disabled who are being attacked by this Government. Do Government members have the bravery do they have courage do they have the gumption to send the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill to a select committee?  
Chris Hipkins 
: No. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: Do they? 
Chris Hipkins 
: No. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: No they do not. They are not prepared to have people who have saved up for their $220000 house and paid the mortgage off over 50 or 60 years come to Parliament to a select committee to have their say. 
So afraid were they that they did not include this bill on the Table of the House during the Budget speech yesterday. They did not put the press statement in the media pack yesterday. They hid it. They hid it. It was secret legislation. They did not put it on their website until this morning because they are not prepared to front up to Kiwis. It is a secret agenda. It might be a small secret agenda but it is a secret attack on older New Zealanders. I do not know maybe we do have to go back to Muldoon or Bolger or even Shipley. They would have had the guts to stand up in this Parliament as part of the Budget— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Order! I do not think that is a good term to use that phrase so the member should just bear this in mind and also you must use full names when you are referring to people. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: Mr Assistant Speaker I think we have always been allowed to refer to former politicians by their surnames. 
Muldoon Shipley and Bolger would have always had the guts to stand up in here. They would have stood up in here if they had a policy like that and they would have said “This is our policy and we are prepared to go to the people in an election and we are prepared to go to a select committee in order to debate this.” But what have we here? We are not allowed to use the words that properly describe the members opposite. They are the people whom if I were going into the trenches I would not want beside me. I would not want them beside me because I would rather have people with courage beside me and I would rather have people with integrity and they lack both.