Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a real pleasure to get to rise on behalf of the Green Party to take a call today on International Nurses Day. As a daughter of a nurse and as somebody who has had family members that have hugely benefited—and possibly lives have been saved in recent years—through the intervention of nurses in our public hospitals I want to do a massive shout-out to them.It's a shout-out that I suspect is reflected and shared by most New Zealanders because we know that over the last year nurses have even gone above and beyond what they were already doing. And that was a really tough job to begin with in the face of shortages in the sector and you know rising levels of violence and complexity in terms of people's healthcare needs and the underlying struggles in the organisation of our health system that have led to the need for us to have a comprehensive reform. They do tough work and then they got a pandemic on top of it. And you know they were going to work every day putting themselves on the line and looking at those stories overseas you know I really want to acknowledge the Government—as I suspect most of the country do—in terms of what we have managed to avoid in terms of the pandemic over the last year. We are lucky and there is no denying that. But those nurses were still going to work looking at what might be coming and the fear for themselves and their families that they were putting at risk. So I wanted to acknowledge that today. I also did want to put this in the context of the discussions we've been having over the last week in terms of pay for our Public Service and the mixed message that I think has been sent around: yes we support and love and appreciate our public servants and the fact that the public sector pay guidance said that there should only be pay rises for those over $60000 and under $100000 in exceptional circumstances—I really want to bring in the fact that that is most nurses in that situation and that at the moment just while that conversation is happening the nurses are balloting on whether to strike over an offer that they've been given in terms of their latest round of pay negotiations. So this has been quite sensitive timing. And I really hope that the message they've taken from the last week is that they have massive public support.I was incredibly pleased to see that as the result of I think partly through our petition—that had over 20000 people sign it in just a few days—saying that they wanted the Government to come in behind the public sector workers all of them and absolutely prioritise those earning under $60000 because we do need to address inequality. But that couldn't be at the expense of the ability of our nurses and teachers and border workers and social workers and Department of Conservation staff and all of the other public servants who have been keeping us going through this time that they shouldn't be the ones who had to pay for the rise for those under $60000—their own colleagues.We could increase our pie to make sure that everyone was fairly paid. And I want to acknowledge the intervention too obviously and possibly more significantly even than our intervention of the unions and the voices that they brought through of all the public servants who were really distressed by that communication in the meeting yesterday that had the Government agree to the review of this in one year's time—as opposed to putting it stuck in place for three years—and also to say that cost of living increases were not off the table. The Greens would like to have seen more generous thinking than that but I want to acknowledge that collective action and the support of New Zealanders really significantly was about acknowledging our nurses and our teachers and all of our Public Service and the difference they've made for us and how much we are going to need all of them over the next coming years. I look forward to some better pay results as a result of these discussions.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.