Luxon ChristopherCHRISTOPHER LUXON (National—Botany): I want to talk today about how this Government's total failure to deliver is impacting the very very good people of Botany. I don't know how you all feel but I can tell you how I feel: I feel like living in New Zealand under this Government is like walking the main street of Disneyland at the moment. As you walk down that main street you see a candy store you see an emporium you see the saloon and you get to the end of the street and you look back and you think It looks shiny and nice." and what you see is a facade and there's Mickey behind the facade having a smoke saying "Go away kids." That's kind of how it feels like with this Government.This is a Government that likes making announcements and declarations. It's a Government that likes making announcements about announcements and it actually doesn't solve problems and it doesn't get things done. It thinks that by talking about it it's actually doing stuff but I can tell you that there is a very big difference between the word "activity" and the other word "achievement". They are two very different concepts.Let me tell you about the great people of Botany because it is a wonderfully diverse area. Over 50 percent of those people were born overseas but the one thing that unites them is they are really hard-working. They have come to New Zealand. They're giving it a go. They're backing themselves. They're getting ahead. They want to get things done for themselves for their family for their community and for this country. But I'll tell you: this Government doesn't care about them. It doesn't care about the 130000 people out in East Auckland and I'm here with my fine colleague the great member for Pakuranga but out there are 130000 people—bigger than Dunedin bigger than Tauranga—and this Government frankly doesn't care about them.How do we know they don't care about them? Let's just take a couple of topics. Let's take health for example. What I can tell you about health is that we had one overnight health clinic there in Botany servicing the whole of East Auckland and lo and behold the district health board didn't fund them and that service was withdrawn. We have to go outside of the whole of East Auckland to go and get any healthcare services. It's unbelievable. Then we get told "Don't worry—don't worry. It's all good. Forget about the emergency overnight clinic service. Go to Middlemore Hospital emergency department."Simeon Brown: How's that going?CHRISTOPHER LUXON: That goes great for a while and then we get a letter saying "Actually no don't come to the emergency department because we're chronically overwhelmed." If you want to spend 2½ hours on average waiting to be seen that's not the place you want to be.The next thing is you look at our vaccination plan and it's an absolute shambles. We're the 116th country in the world. We're second from the bottom in the OECD. The Minister—I heard him congratulating himself the other day just two days ago saying we did 16000 vaccinations in a day. Well if you had some ambition and some aspiration and you actually wanted to be world class about it you'd follow the example of Israel and you'd be running at 80000 vaccinations each and every day—every day every week every month. That's not happening here.When you juggle your work commitments and you make an appointment you sort of expect to get the appointment validated. You don't expect to wait for five hours at the Highbrook facility in East Tāmaki in Botany. Then an 81-year-old woman comes in yesterday with her daughter makes the time to come in and do it and she's not seen. She's turned away because there's a whole bunch of walk-ins. It's a shambles. It's a messy set of signals being sent out to the public and it just underscores that there is no system that there is no plan and that we can't get things done.Then on top of all of that you would have thought the biggest single thing you'd want everyone focused in this country around is getting the vaccinations rolled out so that we can actually secure the country and actually open it up and actually get the country moving and seize on opportunities that we have. But lo and behold we go and announce a health restructure right on top of a vaccination plan. Now I don't know about you but that just doesn't feel like people are going to be focused on the right stuff. A lot of distraction from healthcare workers that are in our system at the moment and that is the wrong time wrong approach to be undertaking a massive health restructure.But if you just think about health—mental health another one. You know one in five Kiwis tell us that they're going to have a mental health disorder over their lifetime. We have 9 percent of Kiwis telling us that each and every week they experience some psychological distress. So this Government again waltzes in promises to spend $1.9 billion. Lo and behold our wait times have gone out 41 percent. If you're a young person or a young adult or a child wanting to see mental health services in Botany you can't access them—you can't. You've got to wait another week because of the way this Government has run those services.It's quite a unique capability to be able to spend more money and to be able to get less for it. That's what's actually happening here. You see it in health and I'm going to talk a little bit in the time I have around education as well because that's the most startling statistic I've had since I've come to Parliament. You know 58 percent of our kids are going to school 90 percent of the time. That's 300000 kids that aren't making it to school. When they get there they've got maths reading and science scores that are some of the lowest in the OECD and this is a Government that is spending more per pupil in funding but actually delivering less for it.So it's a rather unique set of circumstances and I just would say that at the end of the day we actually need our Government to back New Zealanders who want to get ahead. We want them to back people to get ahead who want to take a chance and make something happen. We don't want to live in the main street of Disneyland; we want a Government that can actually get things done. Thank you."