My
My question is to the Minister of
statement in response to statements his Budget was not
no, I don't even know why people would ever, sort of like what's
Covfefe.
Covfefe. Unfortunately for the member, he is once again wrong, he
has misinterpreted the quote. The
line of questioning on the weekend's
from the Auckland Mayor Phil Goff about transport in that city. For
the member's he
hadification the Government is currently bhg in
Auckland the
Auckland the rail link, the completion of the
western ring route, the northern and southern
corridor expansions, is
about to start work on the Wellington Phoenix
Wellington Phoenix, is working on
the Kirkbride Road entrance to
Auckland Airport as well as numerous
other projects which for all I know
the member may have opposed. You can
call it visionary or what you
like, but it is an
infrastructure project. There are a few things I would
call it. Why would the Mayor of Auckland
Order! The member has every right to ask his question. I'll
start again, since they liked it so much. The
member will not only
start again, there will be
substantially less enter jection
enter jection from my right hand side. Why would the Mayor
of Auckland say
side. Why would the Mayor of
executive of the Property Institute say that the Budget risked the
Government being seen as
not understanding the
understanding the extent of the housing problems
housing problems in Auckland, or even
housing problems in Auckland, or
the first part of the member's question, I think the Mayor
has his mayoral hat on, but his Labour Party
membership in his back pocket.
mayoral hat on, but his Labour Party membership in his back pocket. Why
would the zero country manager
Craig Hudson say that the Budget let
down small businesses in
Hudson say that the Budget let down
Well, the member has obviously run out of ideas because it
is the second time he has quoted the Zero
guy in a week. But the
good news for the member is, actually, if
he just looks a little bit further, he
will find some people who are
very supportive of the Budget. For
example, the social policy director
of the Salvation Army said,
2017 delivers a substantial support to
2017 delivers a substantial support
family tax credit and increases in the accommodation supplement will
make things easier for vulnerable
little further and go to Marlborough where the family budgeting
Service's court
where the family budgeting Service's
increases are great and they'll make a big
increases are great and they'll make
the Waikato Chamber of Commerce, get out of Wellington a bit further and
go and see the CEO who
Budget has been very focused on investing in this growing economy
and there are a number of initial he
haves supporting exist expending and
a strong stance has been
taken on
heard enough. I have, too. Why would a respected businessperson such as
Kerry McDonald describe this
Budget as having,
Kerry McDonald describe this Budget
I've got question, which is...
..why is he still on Tuesday's question and it is Thursday, a week
after the Budget. Order! The
first question I asked in this
series the Minister didn't
Minister didn't address but we moved past that. He doesn't get to
ask the
The difficulty I have, and I ask the member to please have a look
at Speaker's ruling 195.6. The scope of
question time has expanded in
recent years, members can now ask questions
and include hypothetical material,
mebs don't have to just
seek factual material. It is therefore inevitable
there will
there will be greater dissatisfaction
dissatisfaction with replies to question of much greater scope. Does
the Minister wish to complete his
order. That says that the answer can be broad. It doesn't say that
the answer can be a question. So
Mr Robertson's point
Robertson's point was correct. Order! No, at this stage, certainly
the way Mr Joyce started his
question was
question was not terribly satisfactory, but we're going to
give Mr Joyce the chance to now
complete his answer. As I started
to say, obviously, well, Kerry
McDonald is a friend of old Winston's,
which is probably why... Order!
is a friend of old Winston's, which is probably why... Order! We'll
address members the correct way. The
point I was making... Order! We
have another point of order. I believe
that the Minister should be asked to
withdraw and apologise for the
way in which he addressed the right Hon
Winston Peters. Order! I'm not
going to ask for the member
to withdraw and apologise but you may
not have heard, I immediately interjected to
the minister, that he is required
to address all
address all members of Parliament the correct way, and if we go to the
stage of addressing people
simply by first names, that will lead to
disorder. So I've dealt
with the matter and I
won't take it further. Now can we have
the answer to the question asked by Mr
Grant
was making was that the members between them have quoted
the two people who haven't been
supportive of the Budget, and that's
fine, because people are
entitled to their opinion. But actually there are
lots of others that have and,
for example, I speak of Kim Campbell, a
CEO of the Employment and
Manufactures Association who said,
the books are certainly
in good order and
order and this enables the Government to build prosperity from
different views, I just think it would be more
entertaining for the House if the member came
up with some different ones
on different days. Has he considered that all the
people who actually want to see some
kind of vision from a Budget
that lifts living standards,
reduces inequality, and
inequality, and increases productivity, might actually have
a point, or are they all just wrong
and he's the only one
point, or are they all just wrong
No, I think the member is the only one that's wrong. In terms of
he would like some examples, I have some more quotes for him. There is a
gentleman called Peter Vial, the
New Zealand head
Zealand head of the chartered accountants of Australia and New
achieves a balance between careful fiscal management and sharing the
benefits of sustained
economic growth across the
community. It certainly provides most working New
Zealanders with a tax cut.
It also signals
signals continued to commitment to social investment and that's
and infrastructure, help for exporters and greater research and
development through
development through Callahan Innovation. This is
judicial growth in
Innovation. This is judicial growth
who are supportive and I understand the member has worked hard and
found the two or three
people who have been against it. Question No. 6.
My
My question is to the Minister for Primary
My question is to the Minister for
Budget announcements has the Government made regarding investment
in
Government made regarding investment
Budget
Budget 2017 is a great Budget for the
Budget 2017 is a great Budget for