Bakshi Kanwaljit Singh; Rurawhe AdrianKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker for the opportunity to participate in this Budget debate. I would like to start with a reference to the speech given by the Hon Jenny Salesa. She spoke for 10 minutes and did not mention once the main issues of South Auckland and those are the promises which were made by the Labour Party before the election. They were the cheaper GP visits which she did not mention. She did not mention the delayed winter energy payment which has come up during this Budget debate. There are increased petrol prices. There was a promise there would be no increase in any kind of tax but what we are seeing is that there are increases in a number of taxes as my colleagues have mentioned earlier. Reading through the media they are predicting that petrol prices will increase up to $3 a litre which is going to affect a lot of households in South Auckland. We have to consider that in today's terms $3 a litre up from $2 a litre means a 50 percent increase in the price which will affect their back pockets. We heard that there will be a $75 increase in the benefits for families but how are they going to cope with this increase in the price? What we are seeing is there is a constant decrease in the dollar price because the businesses are losing confidence in which direction this economy is going. We are seeing that because of that the petrol prices are also increasing. The Auckland region is proposing a 25c-a-litre increase in the fuel price and what is the Auckland Council trying to do? They are talking about building another stadium on the waterfront. We support that but this is not the right time. When there are surplus funds available we can do that but not today. This is the wrong time to consider those things. We have been listening to many claims being made by the speakers from the Government benches that there has been a sudden increase in the education budget but what the teachers or the principals are saying that is totally different. I was reading through the media that two principals from up north they both have given this Budget a minus C for their rating which shows how much confidence the teachers have in the funding which has been provided by this Government. Another issue which I have already touched on is the lower price of a GP visit. The Labour Party promised that $10 will be the maximum that a family will be paying but what we are seeing is that the National Party's policy is being implemented where we promised that all the community card holders will have cheaper visits to the GP. So they are just borrowing our policies—they are just borrowing. On the Order Paper if you look we haven't seen that much new legislation has been introduced. They are just working upon what we did. Despite all the talk of the crises and the building up of expectations that they would fix all the issues in one go whether it was health education or any other issue for the ordinary citizen they are not doing anything. What we are listening to today from the Labour leadership is that these promises will not be delivered on now but will be delivered some time later which means that they are just talking in the air. They say that they will be delivering their promises but nothing is going to happen in this Budget. The losing of confidence of the businesses makes a lot of difference because people are worried about how their businesses will progress in the next few years. I am talking to the small and medium sized businesses all the time and they are very concerned about the way that the legislation is being changed. More red-tapeism is being introduced and they are concerned about how they will progress in their businesses. The people who are in employment are concerned. If there are changes to the legislation then they might lose their jobs. There is a sudden increase in worry among the people about what is going to happen. I think this Budget is a total disappointment for everyone and I don't support this Budget.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I understand this is a split call—five minutes.