Lees-Galloway IainHon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): I am proud to stand and speak on behalf of this Government as it comes to the end of its first 100 days in office—a period of time in which this Government has done more to progress the ambitions the hopes and the dreams of New Zealanders than the National Party did in nine long years in Government.We've passed our Families Package to increase the incomes of 385000 New Zealand families. We passed the extension of paid parental leave to support parents to be able to stay at home with their children and improve that bond between themselves and their kids. We increased the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour. We announced changes to our employment law to strengthen workers' rights to return the workers' rights that were stripped away by the previous National Government. We've announced legislation to set child poverty targets in law and we are under way to get on with the tasks that it will take to reduce child poverty.We've introduced a law to ban overseas speculators—something the National Party said could not be done. We did it within weeks. It just took willingness and intelligence. We've stopped the mass sell-off of State houses so that this Government can once again focus on ensuring that people have one of the basic one of the most fundamental rights: that is a roof over their head and a warm dry home to live in.I could spend more than my five minutes talking about the things that this Government has done in office. But it's not just the Government that has had a busy time since the election. We know that the Opposition has had a busy time as well. They say they're worried about jobs. Well of course the jobs that they're worried about are Bill English's job and who gets to take his job from him.We've heard a lot about Simon Bridges—mostly from Simon Bridges or as his parents like to call him that guy that used to sit next to Jacinda on the telly". He's best known for wanting to be the leader of the National Party for his contributions to the hair products industry and for repeatedly introducing legislation that needed to come back to the House time after time after time to fix up the mistakes that he made as Minister. And of course he's well known for promising bridges that never came to fruition. Perhaps that might be a foreshadowing of his leadership bid.We also heard today from contestant No. 1 Amy Adams. Amy Adams is too boring to talk about; something that I'm sure she will come to realise in the coming weeks despite her unshakeable belief in her own abilities.Then we have of course Judith Collins aka the "Nuclear Option". The polls would have to be at Bill English 2002 levels to get Judith Collins over the line so you know possibly just around the corner. Eschewing the traditional barbecue with colleagues Judith Collins' leadership campaign will involve dinner with Chinese border officials dinner with National Party donors and visits to any car salesman prepared to give her a free car in return for marketing and promotion. And she'll do all of this on taxpayers' time.One of the outside hopes is of course Nikki Kaye. Some people think that Nikki Kaye is the only one in the National caucus who can take on Jacinda Ardern and there might be some sense in that logic. Unfortunately she will never get the chance to go up against Jacinda Ardern because as a staunch advocate for marriage equality a staunch advocate for end-of-life choice and a loud and proud advocate for drug law reform she has shown that she's in touch with the New Zealand public and completely out of touch with the National caucus—the majority of which are backward thinking and increasingly conservative.Then of course we have the real outside hope the future of the National Party Todd Muller. Very very popular within the National Party he's a middle-aged Pākehā man with no obvious philosophy or original ideas. No one knows what he stands for and no one knows what he's done in his time in Parliament—in other words the perfect National Party leader. Don't hold your breath though because he doesn't want to be cannon fodder at the next election.The Opposition's busy but the Government is busier. At the end of our 100 days we look forward to getting on with the next round of our programme of advancing the hopes and aspirations of New Zealanders.Debate interrupted."