Boyack RachelRACHEL BOYACK (Labour—Nelson): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. Kōrero mai kōrero atu mauri tū mauri ora—stand up and speak out against bullying. Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call on the Income Insurance Scheme (Enabling Development) Bill. Before I begin I just want to congratulate finance Minister Grant Robertson on an outstanding Budget and I'm proud to have worked alongside our health Minister Andrew Little to secure funding for Nelson's new hospital. I just want to be very clear about what this bill does. This bill is enabling legislation. We are still to go through the process of determining if we introduce an income insurance scheme and what it would look like. The group who worked on this bill recommended that ACC should be the agency to have oversight of that and what this bill does is it enables ACC to do that work. Like many members of the Labour Government I'm proud to have worked as a union organiser prior to coming into Parliament—[Several members interject] I knew the other side would scoff at that—fascinating. But I guess one of the things that union organisers do—and this is really serious—is that when workers lose their jobs we're the ones sitting in the room next to them and not just those who lose their jobs having been made redundant but people who lose their jobs due to things like cancer. The other side of the House is scoffing at this but actually I've sat there alongside some of my colleagues here next to those people who have lost their jobs. It's serious. It's devastating and many of them are in jobs where they cannot afford—like all of us who are privileged—to have a product like an income insurance scheme. So if we end up with a scheme of this nature which is very common across the world by the way—this is not something we've just cooked up for New Zealand; it's very common across OECD countries—it will actually allow working class people to have access to a scheme that will support them if they lose their jobs. One of the other points—I just want to acknowledge some of the comments made by the ACT Party member Toni Severin. Absolutely following COVID-19 people have lost their jobs. One of the things this bill would do by providing enabling legislation is allow the Government to take a serious look at an enduring scheme. The previous National Government did some really good work following the Kaikōura earthquake in particular to support businesses and people to stay in their work. We did some work obviously through the wage subsidy following COVID-19. These economic shocks can come along at any point. We can never predict when they will occur especially in a country like ours with so many earthquake zones—again why we need a new hospital in Nelson. What this bill would do is give us the enabling legislation so we can have an enduring scheme so that when we face those shocks people have that certainty of some income for a small period of time—as my colleague Jo Luxton pointed out so they can actually have that space to take a rain check and look at what might be needed. It's disappointing to hear that the other side of the House won't be supporting this bill. It is enabling legislation. I'm incredibly proud that the Labour Government is continuing to do work alongside workers alongside employers to take a really serious look at how this type of legislation could help our people. So on that note I commend the bill to the House.