Member

I want, however, to try to understand subsection (6)(b). I know that Parliament is very special in term of who can come and go, the Bill of Rights and all those different things, but I am trying to probe this because I am conscious that, at the other end, there are 650 small employers. I know that the parliamentary trade unions spend a lot of time advising their members on some of the difficulties they have with their employers. and that, despite the best efforts of the HR service at the other end, there can often be a lot of difficulties—anecdotally, there are quite a lot of large cheques being written to employees. I am not trying to impugn anybody but, in the broader sense, it is somewhat ironic that often MPs do not want all these laws that apply to small businesses to apply to themselves.