Bakshi Kanwaljit Singh; Mallard TrevorKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Speaker for the opportunity to participate in this general debate. It's my pleasure to follow the Hon Jenny Salesa whom I respect as the Minister for Ethnic Communities and I do appreciate her presence at a number of occasions.It was a very good speech but I don't agree with a lot of facts that she has proposed in her speech. First of all she mentioned that they promised 6400 houses. I think the promise was 10000 houses. What have we got in the first year? We've got just 18 houses and those 18 houses were consented and started construction during National's reign. So I totally disagree with what the Minister is trying to claim.The last point which the Minister picked up on was about ethnic communities and language. Here I would like to make a request to her. The point is that we have got a private member's bill by the Hon Nikki Kaye which gives opportunities for primary and intermediate schools to opt for a second language. We know because we are in Opposition that we don't have a majority. I request her to support that bill of the Hon Nikki Kaye to make sure—because she is consulting but we are proposing a bill which will ensure that a second language can be an option for primary and intermediate schools. I hope she will listen to it.Further she mentioned about championing South Auckland. I would like to share some figures with her which are very important. If we compare the waiting list for housing in December 2017 the waiting list was 58 in Howick; today it is 100. In 2017 in Māngere-Ōtāhuhu the waiting list was 271; now it is 431. In Manurewa it was 278; today it is 377. If we total up all the areas in South Auckland the total waiting list in December 2017 was 1008 and today it is 1546. The point which the Minister brought up—that people are sleeping in cars and parks and garages—I agree with but nothing has improved under this Government who claim that they are the champions for the people and they are looking after the people.Another point which I would like to touch upon is the increasing living cost which is the biggest issue in South Auckland. When I go out and about people are talking about how much costs are increasing: rents are increasing petrol prices are increasing and a number of others. If they go do the groceries where earlier they used to spend a certain amount today they are spending more than that. For the benefit of some of the Government benches the petrol price—I would like to share that if you filled up a petrol tank of 50 litres last year it was approximately $90. Today it is $120 approximately—not exactly but approximately. That shows that there has been a substantial increase in petrol prices. When this side of the House asks questions about it none of the Ministers have that answer. I hope that this will clarify to them what the price is right now.Another point which I would like to touch upon is that the Hon Grant Robertson mentioned the poll yesterday but he did not mention a very important point: that business confidence is going down. Forty-one percent of people surveyed said they don't have any confidence in this Government; the businesses will be doing worse than what they are doing today. Grant Robertson did not touch on that point because it did not benefit him. He could not answer why we are losing business confidence.Another thing which we need to understand is that because of the loss of this business confidence the dollar is dropping. That is why the petrol price is increasing. That increases the GST also and this Government is not committing at all to reduce either GST or excise which is really hurting the back pocket of the ordinary Kiwi and which is hurting the families.We know that in this country we have—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.