O'Connor SimonSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): Look one of the strange things I've found with all the claims around health from that member David Clark and others is that I haven't seen one photo yet of all these supposed mouldy walls and asbestos and stuff. I'd just love that member to table some of them because as that member well knows I've visited many of these hospitals over time and it's just funny. But we all know what the agenda is here. It is to try and create an excuse before we release the Budget—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume his seat. Can I just say to members on my right that the comments may have been provocative and they could have had a quick and short response but just a barrage is too much. SIMON O'CONNOR: All I wanted was a photo. The other thing is we're all hearing about care—that the other side of the House really cares. Do you know how the Labour Party in particular is illustrating the care at the moment? It's to effectively re-announce National Party policy as its own and the humdinger on Friday was this massive announcement of $100 million of funding for housing and homelessness—which is in fact less money than National had already committed. There was big talk about Housing First this amazing new Canadian initiative and about how Labour's behind it. They forgot to mention that this was an initiative championed by Amy Adams on this side of the House. It was just a re-announcement of existing policies and more often than not underspending. What it is effectively is a litany of completely broken promises. We're hearing it around housing and even more around social housing particularly from Phil Twyford—the whole We're not going to sell any State houses." Well how do you build new State houses if you don't sell some of the existing ones? I raised it in the House last week. Let's look again at the Tāmaki redevelopment project—an amazing an amazing project. In fact some of my colleagues from the other side of the House were there. I won't mention them by name in case they get in trouble from their colleagues. But you don't build the warm dry new State houses without actually having to sell some of the existing State houses. You don't make houses suitable for larger and smaller families by maintaining the old damp mouldy homes which are not set up for these families. So I'm waiting for that broken promise—because the Government will wake up one of these days and realise that you have to sell some State houses to create the new ones for our people. Look the other one that's coming up—and it's because the Minister of Health got up—is around this whole issue of GP visits. As you know I used to chair the Health Committee which is now I'm sure very ably led by another but Labour was hugely into promising cheaper GP visits yet here we have already a broken promise. In fact what we've seen in recent days—if I could put my foreign affairs hat on—is that actually spending a billion dollars in aid and on a new diplomatic post in Sweden is more important. In fact there seems to be some sort of feeling—and I suspect from the Minister—that actually we're going to be able to compete with China and the Pacific and elsewhere and their trade with our sort of measly contribution there. Where are the priorities of this Government? In fact we even had the Minister who's just resumed his chair talking about all the nurses that he met. Well I am looking forward to that Minister and the Prime Minister confirming to those nurses as they've done in the past that they will give them a substantial—a substantial—wage increase. Look the other element I find as an Auckland MP is the whole broken promise around taxes. Well they waxed lyrical—I think it sort of waxed boring—around no more taxes and yet here in Auckland now we're going to be hit twice in the pocket on a fuel tax: once from the council who at the moment is sort of prevaricating around the edges pretending that it's consulting—no one's under any allusion that the Auckland Council will proceed with a regional fuel tax—and then we're going to get hit by the Government. That is over 25c a litre which Aucklanders are going to be paying and as I've got feedback from my constituents in Tāmaki they are all most the man and the woman opposed to this. There are some who understandably want their cycle lanes and so forth but actually that's not the point. Most people in my electorate are using their cars. They choose to use their cars and they do not want to be paying 25c more plus the GST that's going to go on top of that towards projects which don't make any sense such as light rail going down Dominion Road. It makes no sense at all. They can't even find the money to upgrade the regionally recognised Tamaki Drive but they can somehow find billions of dollars to put in a little tram route to the airport. Again even Mike Lee—even Mike Lee from the left—tells us that actually heavy rail is the way to go. It's an absolute dog's breakfast. There are broken promises after broken promises. Look I'm fascinated to see—well it's not really promises; it's just plain suicide attempts really as they take out our oil and gas industry. They have mad ideas around trees though we're hearing a bit more about apricot fruits at the moment so maybe Shane Jones will add those apricot trees. They're getting rid of the cows and stuff—God knows what sort of country we're being dragged through. And seeing the Minister of Defence is here boy he's got a few challenges ahead now in terms of promises as our defence forces remain very keen on the P-8s and he and I know what it's like flying in those P-3s. We need those P-8s Ministers. We need those naval assets and those in the army want their share of the pie as well. So I'm very much looking forward to what should be delivered being delivered but I'm not holding my breath in this litany of broken promises."