Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Thank you Mr Chair. I think that last speech from my good colleague and friend from Hamilton West covered a number of very good points around why you need a sunset clause in a piece of legislation like this. Let's be honest in this room here tonight: we know what's happening. You know this is a deal done between New Zealand First and the Labour Party and the Greens are having to trudge along behind to form the coalition. That's what's happening isn't it? Everyone knows that. There's nothing hidden about that isn't it?Hon Grant Robertson: How does this relate to clause 3A?Hon DAVID BENNETT: Yes and so I'm talking about the sunset clause. That's exactly what's happening isn't it Mr Robertson—isn't it?Hon Grant Robertson: Talk about the clause.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Today—deny it. So Mr Robertson won't deny it. He's acquiescing and he's approving what I'm saying—that this is a deal done between those parties. Everyone knows it. So why won't the Labour Party vote for a sunset clause? Why do they need to stick to principles at this point of the debate when they've given all their principles away to actually put this bill together? Why don't they actually take time and say Well Winston Peters doesn't have control over us. We don't have to do everything he says. We can actually say that at some point we need a sunset clause and that we need to be able to say no." It'll do Grant Robertson a hell of a lot of good to do that because over the next two years he's going to have to stand up to Winston Peters at some point and this may be a starting point where the Labour and the Green parties could do that. The sunset clause—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): For the next 3½ minutes I'd like you to actually speak to the amendment not to what other parties are doing. It's a very narrow debate about this new proposed clause 3A.Kieran McAnulty: That's the third time he's had to do that.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Yes and new clause 3A puts a sunset clause in which means—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt the member. Can I say to the junior Government whip that I am the Chair and I don't need a commentary from him about my rulings or interjections about things that I haven't done.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Thank you Mr Chair. So the sunset clause is all about saying that in two elections' time this legislation does not exist any more. That's what it is saying. What I am imploring the other parties in this committee to do is—because we need them to vote for this amendment OK? That's why I'm asking and arguing to them that they should find it in their conscience in their heart and in their integrity to actually vote for this because it gives one part where they can actually walk out of this room tonight having a little semblance of decency. I know that the discussion will be about this clause but I need those other parties to vote for this clause so that we can pass it because at the moment it is being proposed by the minority of this committee. So that is why I'm trying to appeal to the heart of the Labour Party and the Green Party to actually support this sunset clause.It won't cost them anything to do that. It will not cost them one bit. Winston Peters will not be offended. He'll probably respect you more if you do this because if the parties don't do it he'll keep walking over you.To the Green Party: it will not stop at this legislation. There's two more years to go in Government. Guess what's coming next from Winston Peters and New Zealand First? This is the tip of the iceberg. The Green Party in every poll we did for 10 years was at about 12 percent. Now they can't even register 6 percent. The Green Party will no longer be in existence.CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): I don't know what the polls have to do with this new clause 3A.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Well they're very important because—CHAIRPERSON (Adrian Rurawhe): Well let's hear about it.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —it's convincing members that they need to vote for it. This is not about the New Zealand First Party; this is actually about the demise of the Green movement because if the Greens don't start standing up—and this is what I'm saying: the Greens need to vote for this amendment. They need to vote for this amendment for the sake of their party's integrity going forward. It gives them a chance to put a little bit of a dagger into Winston Peters and it gives them a chance to actually go back to their membership and say "Well hey we had to stay in Government but we actually did start putting our stake in the ground." But they won't and that is the deficiency of what we're seeing in the Government.I can understand the Labour Party. The Labour Party have never had any values and they will always throw things away for governance and that's fine. That's what we expect from the Labour Party: say one thing; do another. But the Green Party in my time in Parliament have always said they're principled and now they're in Government—how many years has it been for them in Opposition? The one time they're in Government do you think they would give away those principled values that they always said were bigger than anyone else's in this House? And they have. They have thrown those principles away. So there is an opportunity—[Time expired]"