Dean Jacqui: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDean Jacqui: General Debate[Sitting date: 08 June 2016. Volume:714;Page:11796. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): I am sure I am not the only member in this House who cringes with embarrassment when words like “Chinese-sounding names” are used as a measure of the same issue that that the previous speaker Su’a William Sio was talking about and has done so repeatedly over some months as if having a Chinese-sounding name is somehow something to be ashamed of. Well I am ashamed when I hear members judging New Zealanders by the sound of their name. I am also hideously embarrassed when there is discussion about Indian chefs as if that group of people were also a group of people to be ashamed of. And of course Thai metalworkers have now joined that category of people in New Zealand of whom we should be ashamed.Well I will tell you who should be ashamed. The Opposition—the Labour—Carmel Sepuloni: Stop making things up.JACQUI DEAN: Yes you see they are reacting now because they should be ashamed. They should be ashamed that they are showing a misogynistic tendency which says that you are OK if you have got a New Zealand - sounding name but you are not OK if you have got a foreign-sounding name: “Do not come to New Zealand. We do not want you. We want only New Zealanders in this country.”Carmel Sepuloni: Misogyny has nothing to do with race.JACQUI DEAN: Well come on down—misogyny and xenophobia as well. Well I mean that is true by implication.Here is an invitation to members of the Labour-Greens/Greens-Labour—well who would know and who would care? But here is an invitation to some of those members to come on down to Central Otago and have a look around at the skills shortages that we deal with on a daily basis. I would like them to come on down to places like Alexandra to Wānaka and to Queenstown. Come on down to Roxburgh and Cromwell.In fact David Parker sitting there on the other side of the House had a brief time as MP for Otago and he did a pretty good job of it actually. He changed the immigration settings around Queenstown providing for a very quick turn-round for those people coming from overseas who needed work permits. It was David Parker who did that. Imagine how embarrassed he feels now at the current attitude of the Labour-Greens/Greens-Labour-New Zealand First unholy alliance where they are effectively shutting the door on people coming into New Zealand with the skills and labour that we need so badly. So how do you imagine Stuart Nash feels? He represents an area that is strong in pipfruit and strong in wine. What does he think when his own party and his potential coalition—God willing it will never happen because New Zealanders certainly will not accept it. How would he feel along with his colleague David Parker having represented in the past those areas of New Zealand that need skilled workers?We have skill shortages in the regions. I often go to a meeting in Alexandra. It is called the Central Otago Labour Market Governance Group. Again I am sure that when David Parker was the member for Otago he also would have attended those meetings. There are representatives of the growers of course but also the Ministry of Social Development and Immigration New Zealand are represented as well as Seasonal Solutions Co-operative Ltd. Pipfruit New Zealand is also represented and I turn up as often as I can along with the mayor and councillors. It takes that kind of combined effort to put a case to Immigration New Zealand to get Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme (RSE) workers into the region.What are Labour the Greens and New Zealand First going to do about those? What is their policy around RSE workers coming into New Zealand? Do they still support those workers or if it is in line with their current words around the immigration of workers are they going to turn their backs on them? I can tell you that we need those workers. If we do not have them we will not get the grapes picked. If we do not have those skilled workers coming from overseas we will not get the apples picked. For many many years Roxburgh growers tried really hard to get apples into Australia. Their industry was shaky. We now get the apples in; now the problem is we need the workers. Shame on you Labour. Shame on you New Zealand First. Shame on you the Greens. Your xenophobic attitude is hurting the regional economies of New Zealand.