see after nine long years of National. But the good thing
is, after nine long years, change is
coming.
coming. Fletcher Tabuteau. It's
a pleasure to speak on this on behalf of
this the Appropriation
Supplementary Estimates) Bill and the Imprest Supply (First for
I want to start by acknowledging Mr Nash and his contribution. He
openly called New Zealand
First policy development to the
problems that the country is following, is experiencing
as fresh, and I wish that he
and the Labour Party would acknowledge this source
of their policy development.
of their policy development. In more acknowledgement, I'd like to
give the greatest insult
I possibly can give to Mr Bishop. He
deserves it today. Mr Speaker, he deserves
it today. The greatest insult
I can give to Mr Bishop was
he sounded exactly like the former FNE
chairman. He sounded exactly
like Minister Bennett. That is a sad
indictment on Mr Bishop who
new, three years ago,
Mr Bishop had a lot of smart things to say, but he summarised not
only himself, but the National
Party and just how tired they really are. It
was an indictment on Mr Bishop. What
I would say... Onto the
Budget. I'm replying. Sorry, sir, I
don't mean to contest your ruling but I
am just replying to
speakers who have spoken before
spoken before me. Onto the Budget. Just because they
were breaking the rules doesn't give you a
licence. Have a crack at
the Budget before you have a crack at
them. Come on. OK, Mr Speaker. I
will attempt to
attempt to acknowledge the contribution
contribution from Minister Joyce, then. And I will try to relate it to
the Budget. He struggled,
but I will try to do that, myself.
the Budget. He struggled, but I will try to do that, myself. He
actually changed the position of the
National Party's spin. He said it was
a Budget, he said it
was an appropriations bill that
was delivering for New Zealanders. Now,
I don't know if
you noticed, sir, but that is just a very subtle but
important change for the National
but that is just a very subtle but Party because just a few days ago at
a conference the PM said it was
delivering for all New
Zealanders. Now, the message has changed.
Clearly with this Budget,
with the impress supply, with the
appropriations supplement we're
seeing in this bill, Mr Joyce
doesn't think that he can, at
least, deliver for
deliver for all New Zealanders. They've got a problem. And he
doesn't want to say it in case we
actually ask some fair
and reasonable questions about how
he's doing that for the homeless of
New Zealand, those waiting on waiting
lists to get into our hospitals just
as a short example.
lists to get into our hospitals just as a short example. Sir, of recent
days the PM, whilst urndz
mining his integrity built up over 20 years
showed us two things. The political
campaign they will
inflict on the New Zealand public,
best typified from the tweet
New Zealand public, best typified
a government that is delivering for all New
a government that is delivering for
said. There are a few people who thankfully asked the question
does he mean by delivering for all New
does he mean by delivering for all
not quite right about that. It was a
not quite right about that.
that means nothing. It is sip by not only the Budget that
that means nothing. It is sip by not
not only the Budget that was released this year, but in the
appropriations estimates bill.
released this year, but in the appropriations estimates bill. The
other thing he suggested and this
is more to what Mr Joyce was saying
earlier in his contribution, that is
to say that Mr Joyce spoke about
what the Government
is delivering for New Zealand. He used wonderful
words, terminology and he quoted
GDP as the members opposite
oft want to do. But it's just, let's
dig a little bit deeper, sir. He
spoke about a surplus. Now, I put it to
the House that any clown can set
up an expenditure and revenue
column and tell the country what
they're going to spend and
then anybody cannot spend what they said they are
going to spend and call
it a surplus. That's what this Government
has done with these numbers, sir.
And I just, I just go through
talked about building and housing. And there's, from the bill, on
the Christchurch rebuild, there
was money in this bill allocated for the
Government to give to the
council over, I think it was over
and if you look at the supplementary estimates bill, sir,
and the schedule, you see that money was
not,
There's an example of how a government can attain a surplus.
Safety
Safety and weather tightness was the other one.
Safety and weather tightness was the
weather tightness in the Budget but in this bill, not spent. They want
permission not to spend it. That's
what this Government is voting,
is going to pass today
in this House. It
going to pass today in this House.
unacceptable. Years of woeful neglect have left this
country massively
neglect have left this country
immigration that this country has seen coming into
immigration that this country has
borders every day. The population the size of Rotorua coming into New
the size of Rotorua coming into New
apologies. What has the Government apologies. What has the Government
done about it for the past three or
except encourage this unsustainable number to come into the
country. What has that
number to come into the country.
spoke about it being the infrastructure Government but what
infrastructure Government but what
he failed to mention is he
has not spent
he failed to mention is he has not spoke
he failed to mention is he has not spent a penny on core,
just to cope with the huge increase just
just to cope with the huge increase in population here in New
Zealand. We are talking about a population
the size of Rotorua every year, how
many schools does that
There is 12 schools right there. Have that many schools
been built in Auckland or around the country just
to cope with
Auckland or around the country just
health, education, the hospitals, clinics, GPs, police on our streets,
it is just not happening and now all
of a sudden they are
it is just not happening and now all
mode telling the country that they've got more construction out
there than ever before. It's
pitiful, it is woefully
inadequate but they are trying
to sell it to the country like they had a
plan. They didn't, sir. They
were in
examples to typify that was the Budget spending not allocated
to
next five years demand for construction workers will be 65,000.
They will need to be
trade qualified. The Government has
cut tertiary funding. The Government has
no real plan and from
the legislation
took this as one example of the irony of the situation. We need more
skilled workers. We need people to
build more homes. Actually, we need
build more homes. Actually, we need
the Government to
take accountability and we need
the Government to take ownership of that
and have New
Zealanders build homes.
Here is one ironic example. We need Here
Here is one ironic example. We need all of this by 2020 and
we see from this bill, debating today, that is
this bill, debating today, that is
Government held back
this bill, debating today, that is
transportation for public schools. How does that
transportation for public schools.
surplus. That's how they achieve a surplus. That's how they achieve a
not giving to our kids who need to get to school. I bet you
anything you like, Mr Speaker, that
that adversely and
adversely and disproportionately affects our rural and regional kids,
who want desperately
to get to school but, by goodness, this
Government makes it incredibly
hard for them. It is
so frustrating to speak about in it the House. DHBs
was another example I took from
this legislation.
was another example I took from this
from health and disability support from health and disability
support services from the Bay of Plenty
DHB, the DHB in the area that I live.
this Budget to health and disability support
this Budget to health and disability
million not spend on Counties million not spend on Counties
Manukau and 8 million from the
Waikato DHB. All of that, I put to
it the members
opposite, helped to create the surplus that they
are so proud of. That is the reality
for this country and we do not have
the infrastructure, the money being
spent on infrastructure that we
need. The spend so far is not going
to catch us up to the start when
this Government started, and we
need so much more for New Zealand. I
call Stuart Smith. It is a pleasure to
speak on the
Supplementary Estimates) Bill and the Imprest Supply (First for
Supplementary Estimates) Bill has quite a lot of impact
on the
Kaikoura. I also want to point out that the Edgecumbe flooding oent and
the Port Hills
that the Edgecumbe flooding oent and