giving those families their dignity giving those families their dignity
back, they will address
the mischief and the cause.
The question is that the motion be agreed
The question is that the motion be
investment is working because now it The
investment is working because now it is Labour's idea. Yes! So now
it is Labour that came up with social
investment and they are able to look
back on it and see it because it
is obviously their idea and so
now they accept that social investment
actually is working. I found
it quite ironic for
the member to talk about a loss of dignity in a week
when they tried to
put the ranking list out and all they
have had is members who have had to resign
at the last minute. May I recognise the
work of Sue Moroney who has
held the Government to account
and stood up for the rights of women more
than anyother woman in the Labour Party
Party in the last few years. She has had members bills stood out and
done a strong job and we don't have
a single Waikato member on the Labour
list and on the top 25. That is
what they think about the Waikato region.
I can see Tim MacIndoe in
my view, takes me hat off to people like him
and Davit Bennett and
takes me hat off to people like him and Davit Bennett and the
Lindsay Tisch's of this world. We
have people like Sue Moroney,
who I think has been treated appallingly
by the Labour Party. That's alright. I do
have a little message for
the Labour Party. If you can't even run
a
a country. So if you can't even get a country. So if you can't even get
your list out when you
say you are going to and not have members
publicly out there having their 10
publicly out there having their 10
cents worth and having to
then have their bit, then quite frankly, I
their bit, then quite frankly, I
don't think you were ready and I
don't think the country will think
don't think the country will think
you are ready either. Let's
contrast that, quite happy to, with what
this Government is achieving and
what we are clearly focused on, Mr Peters.
Really, really happy to put our
Really, really happy to put our
record quite frankly up against a
record quite frankly up against a
failed member's any day of the
week. Let's talk about some of those
results. They don't like those, do
Let's talk about some of those they MrsTolley, when we talk about
they MrsTolley, when we talk about
the fact that we have the lowest
number on welfare since 1997.
No way. Where are they
number on welfare since 1997. No
be that employment rates are up way.
be that employment rates are up today. That might be that more are
employed and
employed and absolutely doing better in this country because we have set
in this country because we have set
targets and we have worked out, but
better than that, because New
better than that, because New
Zealanders have employed them
better than that, because New those people have got
off benefits on their own
merits and their own hard work. I congratulate them and
recognise that. They don't like
another one in your
portfolio MrsTolley, they don't like
that there is
MrsTolley, they don't like that
benefits at the moment and we are seeing them actually get
ahead. We have an over
actual number of births to teenagers and then we are seeing more of those
young women who are actually
having babies early remaining educated
and getting ahead like they
never ever have before. Yes, we are proud of it
and we will stand by those kind
of records any day of the week. So
today the PM has announced new
targets and new better public
targets and new better public
Service targets. Six of them
are brand new. Two of
them are being extended and two of them,
we have more work to do for us
to achieve that, and we will stand by that
as extended
that, and we will stand by that as well. They are around things
like reducing
well. They are around things like
dents, having healthy mums and dents, having healthy mums and
babies. I must say
that when minister Coleman first suggested
that he wanted to sea more
pregnant mums, pregnant women in their first
trimester actually being with a lead
maternity carer I said to
on earth would we need to increase that. I would
have thought in this great country of ours that
we
astounded toer that that was only at
will make a big difference to get the medical care earlier and publish
the relationship with the LMC
and be able to get ahead there. Safer kids
and fewer hospitalisations for
children for preventable
conditions. We have purposely done it like
that because we want to see that cross
over between housing, health,
social welfare, justice, the whole
9 yards and into accidents as well. We were
purposely quite clever in how we
did that and how we pulled them
together. This is a Government that
the clearly focused this. Is
a Government that has not got third
Government that has not got third
term itis but is ready to
work for yz and New Zealanders
term itis but is ready to work for
Zealand and New Zealanders by having Zealand and New Zealanders by
having the public service focused
on the stuff that matters to New Zealand.
stuff that matters to New Zealand. Metiria Turei. Five months out
from the election and National
are already reaching for the
Donald Trump book of the
election, the play book for the election, the ABCs
of alternative facts is in the hot
little hands of Steven Joyce. Like
Trump, they have decided against