Auchinvole Chris: Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill — In Committee 
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Auchinvole Chris: Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill — In Committee 
[Sitting date: 27 March 2013. Volume:688;Page:9010. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE (National) 
: 
 Thank you very much indeed for the opportunity to speak on this particular bill the Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill in the name of David Clark. I am put in mind of that grand Kiwi tradition during festive occasions sports days and picnic days—a good old-fashioned kids’ lolly scramble because that is what this bill reminds me of. Is this really the way one has to ask to introduce oneself as a serious member of Parliament concerned with legislation for the country’s good? Is it? 
Darien Fenton 
: Habeas corpus. 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: The Habeas Corpus Amendment Bill is a very serious piece of legislation. It is a very serious piece of legislation that was accepted. I will be interested to see whether this gets the same vote. I agree with my colleague the chair of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee David Bennett that this is a member whom we had credited with having really good potential. We thought that this could be a David with a future in the Labour Party. 
Iain Lees-Galloway 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. This is the Committee stage of this bill. I think it would behove the members opposite to at least address the content of the bill at some point. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Well the debate has certainly been quite wide ranging and actually quite humorous I have to say from both sides. I am monitoring it very closely. This is a time-limited debate and if members want to waste their time in a time-limited debate that is up to them but I am keeping track. 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: There we go. Savaged by Iain Lees-Galloway—savaged and almost brought to silence. But let us just go on. 
Think of this wrapped in gift paper by your new Labour MP David Clark. I think it is a pity to embark on a political career in quite that way. The politician concerned is in my mind a serious politician—a serious politician—and I just think it does not quite carry the significance of the day as a commemorative day to declare it a holiday. Anzac Day is very very special and here we go making it a holiday. What happened to those sector groups that created picnic days? Do you remember the picnic days? The good old Auckland picnic days? They did not stay a picnic day for very long. They are just part of being a day off. 
Hon Member 
: Trade unions. 
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE 
: Trade unions—that is right. The emphasis changes when things are declared holidays rather than commemorative days. It was moving to hear Simon O’Connor reading from an Anzac diary during the second reading of this bill. It was moving. And it was disturbing to hear the criticism from the other side of the Chamber and here we go again. 
The process of this bill—members opposite would like me to talk about the process of the bill. I again share the views of Mr Bennett the charismatic chair of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee—a charismatic chairman. He made some very gracious remarks towards the way this bill was introduced and the way it was presented and I would concur with those because it was well presented. It was spoken to well by people who came in to make submissions from both sides. I see a head shaking on the other side. I am speaking in favour of the presentation that we received. You should not be critical of your own member but we understand that is a little bit of a difficulty for that particular party over there. 
But then again as my colleague said was it a good presentation or was it in fact flimflam? Is this a road to being a David with a future within the Labour Party? What is in a name? Well if the name is David one is part of a plethora a whole clan of them. But does this differentiate David definitively? 
How does the bill compare with National policies passing through the same committee? Let us think of what some of those might be. National introduced the 90-day trial period for new employees in small and medium sized businesses in 2009. What would that do compared with this bill which gives people holidays? That created 13000 jobs—13000 jobs. This committee had another piece of legislation go through which members will remember expanding the 90-day trial to all businesses in 2011. Research shows the Government’s 90-day trial period is encouraging businesses to take a chance—