DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise on behalf of ACT in support of this Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill. The ACT Party is supporting this bill for a very simple reason: that some of the hardest working, most essential people in this country are the care and support workers who benefit from the pay rates set out in this legislation and the admittedly small but none the less pay increases that they will have delivered.