Adams AmyHon AMY ADAMS (National—Selwyn): When this new Government was—I won't say elected—formed on 19 I think it was October and it was announced by the decision of one man there was a couple of things we knew. We knew that it would be a big-spending Government. We knew that. We knew that they would be addicted to debt and they'd be all about handouts and unions and back to the dark old days of the 70s. We knew that.But I tell you what we didn't expect. We didn't expect to be sitting here a month after the new Ministers had received their warrant and to be looking at what has to be one of the most secretive and shambolic Governments this country has ever seen. It's secretive because we are talking here about the questions around the addendum to the coalition agreement. We're not talking about some private notes or thought pieces or discussions. We're talking about what were 38 pages according to the Deputy Prime Minister of an addendum with all the detail to the most important document that goes to the heart of Government in this country.Let's be really clear about this. This is the document on which this Government is formed. It's why it exists. There would be no Labour - New Zealand First coalition without this document. It is absolutely fundamental to our whole system of Parliament and democracy and yet the Prime Minister says the public don't have any interest in seeing it—shouldn't have any right to see it—and dances on the head of a pin like I've never seen about why it shouldn't be released.This is a document that in the words of the Deputy Prime Minister gives directions to Ministers on how to carry out their activities.Darroch Ball: You're just guessing.Hon AMY ADAMS: Now how anyone can tell me—I'm not guessing; I'm relying on the words of the Deputy Prime Minister. And directions on appointments—how you can keep that secret and pretend to be open is frankly a joke.It's been an omnishambles. It genuinely has been an omnishambles from the very first day in this House where there was a failure to know the rules a failure to count a failure to get it right and right throughout. We're now a month into this new Government's 100 days. We're actually more than that—we're actually more than that. We're about 35 days in. So we're a third of the way through. And day after day we've come to this House as Opposition and we've asked questions. What are the details? No answer—We're working through it." What is the plan? "We've set up a working group." What are the costings? "We don't know. We're working it out." Where is the legislation? "Haven't got that but we've already announced what we're doing."This is a Government that clearly isn't ready to govern. The flip-flops we've seen already in just a month—funny how they were giants in Opposition and yet timid little mice now that they're in Government. Those incontrovertible non-caveated completely black and white statements about what they would do in Government have back-pedalled faster than Lance Armstrong going backwards.This is a Government that hasn't seemed to give effect to one of the incontrovertible statements they made in Opposition. Look at Pike River—look at Pike River. On 13 September the now Prime Minister said "Absolutely unequivocally we have clear evidence that it's safe to go in and we will go in." Within a few days of being in Government: "Well we'd like to go in if it's possible but we'd need to be sure it's safe." Now I'm not knocking her for that view. That was always the view that National had. Of course we would want to go in if we could but it must be safe. But how quickly an absolutely laid-down straight-line promise to the country that was repeated time and time again by the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister has now gone by the wayside.And you look at housing. Mr Twyford came into the House every day and told us if only they were Government they would've fixed it by now. He's now there. It's now his opportunity. And what have we learnt? KiwiBuild is "KiwiBuy". Actually what they're going to do is just buy up a whole lot of houses because frankly in "Labour Land" only the Government can do anything well. But what's worse—even then he doesn't quite know what to do so he sets up a housing working group to tell him how to fix the problem. Now I don't recall anywhere in the last three years Mr Twyford saying "Well we know there's a problem but we don't know what the answer is and we'll figure it out if we ever become the Government." but that's what he's now telling us.It is an omnishambles and I would expect a Government that's had nine years to figure out what it wants what it's about to get that right.And I'm going to leave you with one thought on this addendum to the coalition agreement. Here's my suspicion. My suspicion is the real reason Labour don't want to release it is because everything that's in there would go against what they've promised the Greens. What I want to know is: do the Greens have that document? Does the Green Party who've given supply and confidence to this New Zealand First - Labour coalition know what's in it and does it undermine everything they've been promised?"