Lotu-Iiga Sam: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLotu-Iiga Sam: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:11289. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA (National—Maungakiekie):It is a pleasure to take a call in the general debate this afternoon. It is a pleasure because in this House we debate social economic and political issues of the day. Whether we are talking about partnership schools or we are talking about the social services that are delivered across this nation or we are talking about the businesses that provide jobs and opportunities for New Zealanders the one common denominator is leadership. When I read this morning’s latestHerald -DigiPoll party vote figures they clearly show where the leadership is found in this country—48.8 percent support National on a party vote basis and Labour is down five and a half points to 30.9 percent. It is about leadership.Mr Key is the most preferred Prime Minister at 65 percent—65 percent of New Zealanders want the John Key - led Government to continue the fine work that we have been doing as a Government in the last 4½ years. It is 12 percent for Mr Shearer. Has someone told Grant Robertson about Mr Shearer being at 12 percent? We have even got Miss Clark from New York at 3 percent. Can you believe it? Can you believe it? A former leader of the Labour Party is at 3 percent. But what this poll shows is that New Zealanders fundamentally do not want what Labour is selling. They do not want the profanity-laced mutterings in select committees from old MPs like Mr Goff and Mr Mallard they do not want the fondue dinners in Wellington Central that are going to lead to a leadership spill in the coming months and they do not want the backroom deals of the faceless men in our union offices across this country determining the future of this country. So Labour take heed. Take heed of the Rudd-Gillard dispute because it is coming to New Zealand in the form of Robertson versus Cunliffe—Robertson versus Cunliffe—and you heard it right here.But the good thing is that New Zealanders want leadership and they want vision. The reason why National is polling 48.8 percent is that New Zealanders know that this party focuses on the issues that matter to them. They know that National cares about all New Zealanders. The last Budget is a demonstration of that caring and of that efficient way that National goes about bringing about the issues that matter to New Zealanders. What are those issues? Well we know that 50000 jobs have been created in the last 2 years. When I go across my electorate in Maungakiekie when I go and talk to the constituents with whom I had clinics last week and when I talk to the businesses they say that the No. 1 priority of this Government should be creating jobs and that is what we are doing.Household incomes are up 20 percent since 2008. Household incomes are up—Dr David Clark: Median incomes are down.Peseta SAM LOTU-IIGA: —and the mortgage rates Mr Clark are at their lowest in 50 years. Mortgage interest rates are at their lowest in 50 years. They reached 8 percent under the Clark Government—not David Clark but the Helen Clark Government—and they were at their highest peak for a very very long time.When I held those clinics in Mount Wellington and Onehunga last week what constituents said to me is that they want jobs but they also want safety so they are really happy that there are more front-line policemen across this nation than there ever have been in our history. They wanted health care that was caring but they also wanted health care that looked after their elderly and looked after their kids. There are 1000 extra doctors and 2500 extra nurses working today than there were under the Labour Government in 2008. [Interruption ] We know—and Mr Mallard knows this—that there are more patients getting elective operations and seeing specialists sooner in our hospitals today than there ever were under the Labour Government.I went to the Tāmaki opening last week and this was symbolic of what is going on in this country. One hundred people were inside Ruapōtaka Marae celebrating what National is bringing to my local community in Tāmaki. What were they celebrating? They were celebrating warmer drier homes. What were they celebrating? They were celebrating ultra-fast broadband coming to their schools. What were they celebrating? They were celebrating the Auckland-Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative which brings transport links into and around Auckland in order to speed up travel not just for residents but for businesses as well.This is a Government that is doing things progressing this country and delivering on the promises that we made in the 2011 election. Thank you very much.