Genter Julie AnneHon JULIE ANNE GENTER (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. I want to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Kris Faafoi and in particular on behalf of my colleague Chlöe Swarbrick who had put forward a Supplementary Order Paper that has made one of the changes that has been picked up by the Government to backdate the commercial tenancy arrangements to the start of this lockdown period. So that was very much welcome. My colleague Chlöe Swarbrick also has another Supplementary Order Paper—74—which would go back further all the way back to 25 March 2020 the time in which we first went into lockdown to give those small businesses who have been under financial duress the ability to negotiate with the landlords through the entire periods that have been affected by lockdowns.I do have to laugh a bit at Mr Bayly's contribution and how blatantly obvious the National and ACT Parties are at standing up for the rentiers and the landed gentry. I mean really did they just come over to New Zealand to set up a new feudal system where they are the owners of property after land theft from the indigenous people? I think so. Always speaking up in favour of law that was written by the colonisers and standing up for the interests of the owners of property rather than the people who do the actual mahi and work that makes our economy go round.So the Green Party has a number of Supplementary Order Papers on Schedule 5. The one I've already referred to is Supplementary Order Paper 74. I also just want to acknowledge the work of my colleague Chlöe Swarbrick on the Finance and Expenditure Committee alongside those Labour members in representing the interests of small-business owners who have been treated quite poorly in some cases by their landlords. I know Chlöe Swarbrick in particular as the member for Auckland Central has been fighting for some of the businesses who rent in Elliott Stables. For two years they have been fighting quite unfair treatment from the owner of that property. Yeah I do find it quite amazing that Andrew Bayly refers to it as somehow socialising the losses putting the cost on to those poor owners' property who have gained nothing in this past year except a 25 percent to 50 percent increase in their capital values which won't be taxed. God forbid they should make some contribution to the collective to the group to all of us here in society at a time when the economy is shut down—not because of the Government; the Government saved those businesses and those people by putting us into lockdown.Andrew Bayly: No they made them go broke.CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! That's rather loud.Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: It's the pandemic Mr Bayly that shut down people's ability to trade not the Government. The Government actually reacted to protect people's ability to trade. That is why Aotearoa New Zealand did so well in 2020 because we went into a lockdown and the Government provided support to people and businesses that they were able to return to normal trade—a normal state that most countries in the world have not experienced since before March 2020. New Zealand was doing quite well and people were able to trade. And of course it was inevitable that it would happen again that we would have a community spread and that is very unfortunate but it was very difficult to avoid. As we've seen no other jurisdiction aside from Queensland—some of the jurisdictions which had been touted as managing it better than us—Singapore Taiwan—have had extended community outbreaks before New Zealand did. Obviously we see what is happening in New South Wales and Victoria. So I mean I do have to commend the Government for their management of the crisis last year. We do think that things could go further to rebalance in favour of the people the working people and the businesses and away from the feudalism and the moneyed property owners who somehow think they are entitled to keep extracting—Nicola Willis: Entitled to hire people pay their wages create jobs ugh!Hon JULIE ANNE GENTER: —excessive rents and never never pay tax on their capital gains. You don't pay tax on your capital gains Nicola Willis and you never will thanks to your very effective Opposition. But that is fundamentally a structurally unfair aspect of our economy. It is feudalism. It is the case that owners who benefited from inheritance no work of their own a legacy of decades over a century of land theft are able to profit simply from owning property. And at a time when the entire economy is shut down the National Party calls for the Government to both pay down debt and somehow subsidise the property owners so that they keep on making money at a time when their property values—[Time expired]