Smith NickHon Dr NICK SMITH (National—Nelson): I want to talk about the gaping hole between the promise and the performance of this Government. While the Prime Minister talks about it being a year of delivery all over the place there is massive non-delivery and I particularly want to draw to the attention of the House the debacle of the Nelson-Tasman fires in my area. Whether it be the small or whether it be the big watch out for the gap between the promise and the delivery. We all know the capital gains tax was the flagship economic policy. It was going to improve productivity. It was pivotal to changing the housing incentives. It was what was going to close gaps of inequality. Well I have to agree with James Shaw that this Government does not deserve re-election for binning that key policy. Then last week we had the issue of tertiary education. We all know that the fees-free policy was one of the big policies of the last election. They said that they were going to increase enrolments from 50000 to 80000. Well what happened last week? Did they go from 50000 to 80000? They went backwards by 3200. Then you come of course to that policy of KiwiBuild promising a thousand houses in the first year and in 18 months they couldn't get to 80. If I was a building company and I'd promised a consumer a thousand houses and delivered 80 I'd be done for fraud. I would. I'd be prosecuted and that is why that was electoral fraud. But let me bring the House back to the worst fires in New Zealand in 60 years. Colleagues will remember the Prime Minister standing up in the House and saying We're there to help. We're going to promise a $500000 grant through the Ministry of Social Development." It was championed with photo opportunities from the Minister of Civil Defence the Minister of Internal Affairs and the member of Parliament for West Coast - Tasman. I got an answer from the Minister for Social Development to my question as to how much of the $500000 had been spent and how many of the 50000 hours of support had been provided to the property owners. The answer was: zero dollars—not $1 not $10 but absolutely zero. How many hours of work were done to assist property owners? Not one hour. In fact the Minister said the programme had been determined to be unsuccessful and was closed down in April.Now I say to the members opposite as they roll out these big promises of dollars here and dollars there: look for the fine print look for the performance. The mayor the council the MPs and the community always said that this policy was a flop. The idea that in an area where unemployment—as National left it—was only 2 percent right in the peak of the apple and kiwifruit season somehow there were thousands of jobless that were going to be able to clean up help build fences help rebuild driveways and help do the repair work from the fires was always a fraud.Here's the worst part: the Government hid its non-delivery—absolutely hid its non-delivery. When they were asked by the media in April the ministry said the programme was going fantastic and that this was really delivering for the community of Nelson-Tasman. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern quoted that it was one of the great things that they were doing to help the fires. Well I say Fire and Emergency New Zealand did a good job; so too did the councils do it with civil defence. But what sort of fraud is it when the Prime Minister and Ministers of the Government promise $500000 and $50000 of aid for people that are affected by those fires and deliver absolutely naught and then secretly shut the fund down?So my challenge to colleagues is this: when they go and announce a whole lot of funding—whether it be for housing or health or sexual violence or others—make sure that you follow up on the delivery. Whether it is in health whether it is in education whether it is in housing whether it is in tax policy or whether it's in tertiary education this is the year of non-delivery."