of Pakuranga. I am proud of the work they do. They need
to fund the children's servants up and
down this country if they really
believe in... Your time has expired. I apologise.
I call Denise Lee. Thank you
for my contribution here this afternoon I'm
going to fill the stereotype
of Aucklanders
Aucklanders and talk about Auckland. Now many of my colleagues would not
like to admit, they're
great rural MP, but the importance of
Auckland cannot be underscored. This was
Aucklanders first look
at a
watched the campaign, they have heard the promises and this is their
first opportunity to witness a
budget that had so much
expectation attached to it. In fact, so much
they had to do a mini budget
beforehand to apparently squeeze it
all in. What is the
beforehand to apparently squeeze it
impact will this budget have on
we know what sort of impact it is going to have an
Aucklanders' bank balances. It is quite a
contrast where under the last National
Government the afternoon
household would have been better off
year, but six months into this new Government all they have
got is new taxes.
Government all they have got is new
Increased nationwide petrol taxes, the new Amazon tax
Increased nationwide petrol taxes,
is asking Auckland families to cough off money to compensate for their
seriously misguided pry or
'tises. But that is not the end of it. This
Government has been in can hoots
in cahoots with Auckland Council working hand in hand
to burden Aucklanders with a regional fuel tax
on top of everything else. They
introduce legislation
introduce legislation before Aucklanders were consulted on it.
They shortened the committee
process and they changed the legislation to
suit council's proposal. They
have moved heaven and earth to
make Auckland pay, this term, an extra
25 per
Auckland pay, this term, an extra 25
record high figure in petrol prices today,
record high figure in petrol prices
Great barrier Island, you are already
Great barrier Island, you are
Everyone add 25 cents a litre onto all those prices. Given
the amount of new taxes and debt
this Government is passing on
to Aucklanders and the talk of
crisis in the education
and health sector, surely you would expect a boost in
investment there. Well, not in
health. What are
investment there. Well, not in
Auckland DHB, surely they could expect
Auckland DHB, surely they could Auckland
Auckland DHB, surely they could expect a big boost in new funds.
They did get an increase but it
was almost exactly the same as the boost
they got
they got from the last National Government. Onto
they got from the last National
Waimate DHB, their new funding was less than what they got last year.
Yes, and Counties Manukauu DHB
with the famous Middlemore Hospital
that is apparently crumbling
to the ground, like Auckland it
is business as usual, a less than
ground, like Auckland it is business
in new fund between budgets 17 and 18. They don't match the chronic
Labour under
Labour under funding crisis scrap that they have been
using for five years now. Auckland families are
also paying 200, 300, 400,
500 in donations well keep your
wallets handy when it comes to those school
donations because the broken
promise from the Labour Government to remove
those school donations, it is still
a promise that
remains just a promise. It is not just families,
the business community
in Auckland are under the pump too. It
is the business capital,
business capital, of course, Aucklanders, the engine
room of our economy, and thousands of
businesses, small and large, will be
halt strung
businesses, small and large, will be
industrial relations changes that this Government will push through
taking us back to the 1970s. Family
businesses in Auckland will
have to pay for unions to come into
business, to do their union work,
cost business time and
for union benefit. This
benefit. This Government has its hand around the neck of
Aucklanders and the rest of the country
that end they milking it for everything
that they can to fuel their
directionless tax and spend policies. If you get
down to the nitty gritty detail you
realise that they have to do
it because New Zealand First has its
hand around the neck of the Labour
Party. Aucklanders must wish
that they were Winston Peters, Joan Jean
Joan or a
they were Winston Peters, Joan Jean
looking horse because it is clear that that is the only way you
can get some money out of this Budget. I
understand this is a split
call. Greg O'Connor, you have five
minutes. Can I assist those at home
and members across the House, in
fact, everyone here, just to
explain some imagery as to what is going on
here. We are all aware that