Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise for the third reading of this bill. Like I said in the other readings this Government continues to prioritise corporations who actually have a different tax rate to many others. These big corporations have a different tax rate; again benefiting off the backs of small-business owners. Ignoring small-business owners is at this Government's peril. They make up a quarter of the country's GDP. We've got 21000 Māori business owners out there. And I heard the Minister say that he had a dinner with them—I doubt very much that he actually talked to them about this specific bill—and say that he's got another dinner with them this weekend. By then it will be too late; it would have passed in the next hour. So again the consultation with Māori businesses around this particular issue and the impact that it has on them to be able to pay their staff to be able to keep the business going—it is going to have huge impact on those small businesses and on the whānau that work in those businesses. We've all been small-business owners ourselves—grew up on a dairy farm. We've also been into horticulture agriculture and also consultancy. If I don't have the ability to be able to pay my bills on time that could mean huge impacts on the particular company that I have. I understand this intimately. So this bill once again diminishes the mana of small-business owners who play a huge part in this country's GDP.Whānau who own businesses and whānau who employ people in those businesses have now got to tell them that there is no security that the people they're providing services and goods to are going to be paying on time. There's no security for that. This is the impact. And this is not about having e-invoices because e-invoices have been around for a long time. A lot of people already have e-invoices. I was doing e-invoices before I came to Parliament. This is not about e-invoices; this is about tying up the ability for small businesses and taking the power away from them to ensure that they can pay their employees and the bills on time.I can't see how this House and this Government can support this type of bill because it makes absolutely no sense to me. And then to insult small-business owners to say that they cannot navigate their way through the current system I think is an insult to those small-business owners. You wouldn't have a small business if you couldn't run a small business if you didn't know how to navigate those particular processes to ensure that you had your bills paid on time.Let's just take the supermarkets for example and the duopoly. Those farmers—and I know; I've been a provider of those. I come from a farm. If we cannot get our bills paid on time when we provide—whether it's avocados whether it's sweet corn whether it's watermelons whether it's courgettes whether it's beans whether it's maize any of those things. If I can't ensure that the goods and services I provide to those big companies those companies that have a hold on the duopoly here in Aotearoa especially the supermarkets who made over $400 million in one year there's an issue there—there's an issue there. They get a four-month reprieve from paying that particular bill. For many small-business owners that is unaffordable. We cannot afford that and it would mean many of those small businesses will fold—they will fold.You imagine if the dairy farmers—I grew up on a dairy farm so I know this intimately—weren't paid over a four-month period by Fonterra. That would mean huge impacts. It would have huge impacts on their particular farm and especially small dairy platforms like we have on the coast. These are the issues that our people are facing. These are the issues that I put to the Minister during the committee of the whole House stage to answer: who are the Māori organisations the small-business owners you have consulted?And there's been no alignment to ensure that the Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles have been upheld here—because te Iwi Māori haven't been consulted on this particular issue—to ensure that if we're going to enter into contributing to a quarter of this country's GDP what is the security for starting that up. What we're going to do is put other small-business owners or even those who have the initiative the innovation the creativity to create those—I look at them all online our people selling kākahu our people selling art our people selling taonga and things like that. It's going to have huge issues and we will not be supporting this bill to the House. Kia ora tātou.