Bennett David: Immigration Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: Immigration Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 13 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:11155. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East):I just want to congratulate the Minister of Immigration the Hon Michael Woodhouse on his very fine efforts in getting the Immigration Amendment Bill through the House. I know that the Minister is very interested in immigration and has a particular interest in refugees and providing the best opportunities for people coming to New Zealand. I see that with the Government investment in the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre redevelopment which shows the level of intent and desire of this Government to look after people in a vulnerable position. It is disgusting for the Labour Party and I assume the Green Party to come into this House and pretend to be all high and mighty and prey on the vulnerable attitudes of people at their most difficult time. I think it is disgusting for those two parties. They come in here and they pretend that they look after the interests of the vulnerable when they have no concern for them at all. All they are interested in is getting headlines.Darien Fenton mentioned the words “political football”. Well the only parties that have made this into a political football are the Labour and Green parties which have used it against people in their time of need and it is a shame that those parties have to stoop to such levels of political expediency to get their message across.This is a good bill. It is necessary for New Zealand. It is something that we never wish to have to actually engage in but it could happen. It could happen and New Zealand needs to be ready for that situation.Catherine Delahunty: So what?DAVID BENNETT: If we are not ready—the Green Party says: “So what?”. If we are not ready guess who will be on the front line protesting about having rights for individuals? It will be the Green Party out there saying: “Why haven’t we got these rights enshrined? These people deserve everything and anything.” That is what the Green Party will be saying will you not?Catherine Delahunty: Yeah.DAVID BENNETT: Exactly—you will be. To pass a law like this now is something that the Green Party will not have anything to do with. It does not want to look forward to those situations and protect New Zealand’s and those people’s interests and that is the reality. I bet you the Green Party would be the first one out there playing it all up making political capital out of somebody else’s misfortune and trying to take advantage of somebody else’s difficult situation for its own political capital. The Green Party is not in it for the people; it is in it for itself. It always has been and it always will be; that is the Green Party.The Labour Party is not much better. When I heard Darien Fenton start her speech by mentioning World Refugee Day—and my heart bled when I heard her comments about World Refugee Day—I remembered that at the Committee stage of this bill she said thatthe Australian Labor Party got a good deal in getting rid of those 150 people—a good deal for the Labor Party in Australia was to get rid of refugees. How dare she come into this House today and talk about World Refugee Day gloat about it and say that this bill is against the interests of refugees when merely a few weeks ago she was in this House saying that it was a good deal to get rid of 150 people—it was a good deal a great deal for the Australian Labor Party.There is no presumption of guilt in this bill. This bill sets up a structure and a system that give people rights and responsibilities. There is nothing wrong with that. It protects New Zealand’s interests. It protects those people’s interests. I would like to see the other parties in this House take a constructive practical approach to this solution rather than use other people’s vulnerability for their own political pretences and look forward to situations that they can just milk for their own occasion.This is not a political football. It should not be used as a political football by the Opposition. Being a refugee is a very difficult position in which to put oneself in life. It is very hard to come in through that system. It is a very difficult system. To make that change we must be very aware of the circumstances of those people and not use them in a way that Opposition parties use them in this House. Thank you.