Dyson RuthHon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills): Can I just begin by acknowledging the visitors we have here in the gallery to listen to the final part of today's contribution to the debate on the Prime Minister's statement and by letting them know in case they were not aware of it that as an added bonus later this evening we are going to have Michael Wood's maiden statement. So it is like chocolate dip on ice cream—it is just the best that is going to happen today.Like many of us in this House our grandparents our great-grandparents or those further back in our family history came to New Zealand after a very courageous decision to leave their home country. They came to New Zealand to build a better life for their family. It must have been very hard. Whether it was a Pacific Island Europe England or America it does not matter—it is a huge decision to leave your home and go and set up in another country. People did that because they thought New Zealand would give them a better chance to own a home to have good education for their family and to have a future that was better and when I grew up that was still the case. I was brought up in a family where our values were based on working hard studying hard being able to get a good job with fair pay and saving for a deposit for a home. That is what I want for our children and our grandchildren. It is not like we want a multimillion-dollar house. We do not want gold taps; we just want the security of a home that we can call our own.I do not think that is too much to ask but for thousands and thousands and thousands of New Zealanders that dream is no longer on their menu. They cannot work hard at school get a job that has fair pay work hard and save hard and then own a home because there is a housing crisis in New Zealand and homes are unaffordable. Even for people who are renting they are paying over half their income every week in rent. How could they ever get ahead in the way that most people in this House were able to? How dare the National members get to where they are—comfortable secure in their own lives—and pull the ladder up behind them so that other people cannot make it? How can that be a good thing for a Government to do?Poor old Todd Barclay. Having preached to Labour about unity having scraped in by the narrowest of margins in his own electorate coup—boy are they ever proud of Bill English. They are not just proud of Bill English; they are desperate to get him back—they are totally desperate to have an MP who works for their electorate. It is a terrible terrible situation for Todd Barclay who comes in and preaches to us about problems.So people should be able to live in New Zealand save hard and buy a home. That is not too much to ask. They should be able to send their children to their local school and be confident that that school is resourced enough to give their children not just an average education but the best education possible because we know that that is what will give them the best chance in future to have a great life. We know that when people are sick they should be able to get access to the health services they need. There has been $1.7 billion of underfunding in the New Zealand health system in the last 8½ years. That is $1.7 billion—Todd Barclay: No.Hon RUTH DYSON: —that should have been in the health system but—Todd Barclay is right—it is not there. Independent analysis has been done on those figures. That is how much Tony Ryall and Jonathan Coleman have taken out of the health system. I have heard that Minister say that we have got the most money in the health system we have ever had. You only need to put $1 more in from last year's Budget and that would be true but it has not kept up with population growth and health inflation pressures. That is the only way to fund our health system so that we can continue to meet the health needs of every New Zealander.A decent job a decent home health services when we need them and the best possible education for our children. That is the Kiwi Dream that is what a change in Government on 23 September can deliver again for New Zealanders and that is what I know this side of the House will be working very hard to deliver. Thank you.