Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. I have listened carefully to some of the contributions from our Government backbench members and I think one of the things I'd just reflect on—that speech from Soraya Peke-Mason—is that one of the travesties of the Labour Government over the last six years has been not to pass Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill which we were keen to do when we were in Government six years ago. If we talk about economic outcomes for Māori I think that is the greatest disservice that this Government has done over the last six years.It sounds great—Willie Jackson stands up in the House and talks about the $900 million that's been allocated to Māori and that's fine; that's the prerogative of the Government—but the biggest thing they could have done and what the Government should have done for Māori is actually unlock those vast landholdings that the member talked about because that is the way to create economic wealth for Māori and to be able to build houses and to be able to create successful businesses which no doubt they are very good at and have a history of being successful business people. But we've got a Government that doesn't see that opportunity doesn't see that prospect for Māori and all they want to do is give them band-aid solutions around creating new houses building new houses and giving them lots of money rather than dealing with the root cause. So I find that contribution from that particular member actually a disservice to Māori because I think it's shameful what has happened.The other thing we've heard a lot about is prescription fees and how that's going to solve everyone's woes. Of course prescription fees don't apply if you spend more than $100 on medicines over the course of a year. But then there was a reference to the Hon Jo Luxton's reforms around the early education centres. What a disaster—what a disaster—how to get a policy absolutely shamefully wrong. First of all you say to the early education centre managers We're going to shove up the costs of your labour."—and by the way who's going to bear the cost of that? Oh they're going to bear the cost of that of course. And then they're going to say to the parents—because obviously it's a big stretch out into the people they want to try and target for the voting public—"Oh by the way we're going to give you some extra time for your kids at an early education centre." And who picks up the cost of that? Who picks up the cost? Is it the Government? No. Who normally picks up the cost when the Government's got a smart idea? Well every business owner including every early education centre owner in the country. And of course they are screaming at it.I can tell you that the week after next I've already got two meetings—one in Hamilton and one in my electorate in Pukekohe—where the early education people are lining up in their droves because they know that it's going to take their business to the brink of failure. And of course when you overlay that with councils who allow new education centres to be built wherever whenever they want—of course they are marginal businesses right now. But here we are; we've got an insensitive or maybe unsuspecting Government that doesn't actually understand the sector proposing these types of reforms. What did we come up with? Well we came up with a $3900 saving paid to the parent effectively on top of our tax cuts which would mean the hard-working mums and dads with children get nearly $5900 of savings a year. The reason we were targeted on that is that benefits have gone up—we put up benefits; Grant Robertson has put them up twice. Beneficiaries have had a large increase—and I'm not saying for a moment it's easy being a beneficiary. Superannuitants have seen their superannuation go up. And of course with rampant inflation driven by high Government spending that means they are slightly better off. But the group who have had no benefit—the vast majority of New Zealanders—have actually seen their incomes go down are behind in terms of inflation and seeing what they can take home and pay for their kids to buy food and groceries all those types of costs and have seen that dissipate because of inflation. That is the issue for New Zealand. That's why the Budget should have been targeted at them. They are the hard workers of New Zealand."