Smith NickHon Dr NICK SMITH (National—Nelson): It is just so telling that not a single Government member including the Minister that's just resumed his seat the Hon Aupito William Sio has been able to answer the question that's on the minds of every New Zealander and member of this House and that is: why has the Government prioritised diplomats over doctors? Why have they been prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars—nearly a billion dollars—on indulging the ego of Mr Winston Peters rather than meeting the commitment that that member and every other member of the Labour Party made to New Zealanders over the cost of going to a doctor on 1 July.Let's be really specific about what Jacinda Ardern promised. She said that on 1 July every New Zealander would pay $10 less to go to the GP and we've now had the Minister of Health admit that that promise—that was repeated tens of thousands of times in advertisements it was in the leaders' debate and it was repeated by Labour candidates up and down New Zealand—is being ratted on. Well I'll give some advice to members opposite: ratting on promises is political suicide. We saw it with the Labour Government. We saw it with the Labour Government back in the days when it sold assets when it said it would not. I openly confess over the issue of surtax. It was highly erosive and that is why—that is why—the Clark Government and the Key Government were so careful to say what they mean to mean what they say and to deliver on those commitments.So I say to the new Labour member down the back there: what's your excuse for breaking your word; for telling people to vote Labour on the basis of cheaper doctors' visits when the Government's not 12 months old and it's ratting on that promise? And to rub salt in the wound members opposite are saying opening a new embassy in Stockholm to pay for gin and to pay for cucumber sandwiches is more important than Kiwi families being able to get to the GP.Let's just remember the background: our party introduced free doctors' visits for under-fives. We said we would extend that in the 2014 election to under-13s by 1 July 2015 and we did it on time.Hon Tracey Martin: You're not correct; 2005's supply and confidence agreement—New Zealand First and Labour.Hon Dr NICK SMITH: What is the excuse Tracey Martin? What is the excuse for your Government breaking its word? How often have I listened to comments from New Zealand First that said that honouring your word is all-important? Well of course New Zealand First will be more interested in indulging the ego of Winston Peters than in the Labour-led Government doing what it said.We remember. You see we've been round this paddock before. The Labour - New Zealand First Government in 2006 poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and you know what's interesting? Look at the books—they couldn't spend the largesse that was given to them. They underspent in 2006 in 2007 and in 2008—they were so awash with cash. So what we have is a Government that is more interested in feeding the ego of Mr Peters than helping families get to the doctor and helping families in the way in which they said.This is shaping up as the Budget of broken promise". We've seen it in housing we've seen it on the fuel tax but it's no more graphically illustrated than their promises over doctors visits."