Martin Tracey: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMartin Tracey: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 31 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11506. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]TRACEY MARTIN (NZ First): Kia ora Mr Assistant Speaker. Just with regard to the contribution by the gentleman who has just resumed his seat Todd Muller the people of the Bay of Plenty—along of course with the rest of New Zealand—should actually drill down into some of the statements made by the National Government members this evening. If they have a look at educational investment what they will see are things like nine new schools being promised seven of them being charter schools. If I could just remind the public of New Zealand that means that taxpayers’ dollars are being handed over to private individuals to create private schools funded with those dollars with which they can actually keep all the assets. It would be interesting to know where in this Budget if anywhere the Whangaruru school return is or how much of the money is being spent right now in the courts with lawyers and so on trying to gain back for the New Zealand public the asset that was handed over by this Government to a private sponsor trust up in the far north.But actually what I want to draw attention to is something that is not in this Budget. In February this year I spoke when the Prime Minister was in the House and I mentioned to the Prime Minister that I would be looking at the 4-year projections that are in this Budget. I said that I would be looking specifically for the promise that this Government made in June 2015 to 10000 orphans and unsupported children in this country when it voted in this House for the Social Security (Clothing Allowances for Orphans and Unsupported Children) Amendment Bill which was unanimously passed. It is not in this Budget. When I raised it in February of this year the Prime Minister sitting in his seat on the other side of the House shouted out: “It’ll be there. We’ll keep our word.” It is not in this Budget.There is a $7 million increase in this Budget for orphans and unsupported children which goes nowhere near the $16 million that was promised by that legislation and has to be delivered in the 2018-19 year. Please let us not have the members of the Government get up and tell me that they do not put those sorts of numbers in. Of course they do. If they are going to announce surpluses and tax cuts in the 2017 year it is madness not to have already written in a $16 million budgetary item that this Government agreed to and promised would be there for 10000 orphans.There are 10000 orphans and unsupported children. The Government recognises they are going to increase in number because on page 132 of the Budget document on social development and the housing sector the Government has put aside a net additional $7 million for orphans and unsupported children because there is an expected increase in the number of recipients. The only recipients can be more orphans and more unsupported children who are being taken from their families and placed with kin carers. That means more orphans and more unsupported children who will not gain the clothing allowance whose grandparents—who we know predominantly live on below $30000 a year because they are on the pension—will not receive this support merely because they have a blood relationship to a child who has lost both parents or because they have a blood relationship to a child who has nobody else to support it and Child Youth and Family has come and knocked on the door and asked these kin carers to take these children.I ask the Government: where is your promise? Where is it in this Budget? Where is your honour with regard to the promise not kept in this Budget? What will happen to these children? What will happen to these grandparents? These are the questions I ask. I hope that some member—and I take my full call on this because it is not a sideshow. It is incredibly important to a large number of New Zealanders out there. I ask any member of that Government to stand and say whether I am wrong—to tell me I am wrong. Point to anywhere in this Budget where that clothing allowance has been met and that promise had been made and that promise has been kept. I will guarantee you that not a single one of them will stand and be able to say that.