PENNY SIMMONDS (National—Invercargill): Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise, unhappily, to speak on this Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill that amends the Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Act 2017. I find it, as a new MP, absolutely astonishing to be in the House doing something like this—a piece of legislation that would be expiring in about a week's time and here we are at the eleventh hour having to make amendments. And while I might normally agree with my colleague, Dr Anae Neru Leavasa, on acknowledging these support workers and these care workers, I don't see how on earth this is acknowledging them. This is disrespecting them, that five years have gone past when nothing has been done and now they are being offered 4.6 percent increase over 18 months, which isn't anywhere near the inflation rate. So I find it just not giving appropriate respect and acknowledgment to these workers.