Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. Well once again we're almost at the end of this 52nd Parliament in this strange year that we call 2020. I just want to pick up on a couple of things this afternoon. One of the previous speakers on the Government side of the House talked about bickering. Now if questioning is bickering then we have a problem because sometimes more questions should be asked because that's how we help ourselves to not make mistakes. So if questions are considered bickering then we have a real problem with the Government of the day. I have got a longstanding statement that was told to me many many years ago which says Feedback is the breakfast of champions" and if questions are going to be considered bickering and feedback is not going to be accepted then the current Government is never going to be a team of champions. What I will say reflective of these last three years of Government is that there have been so many broken promises. We just have to name KiwiBuild and light rail for a start. The list goes on and on and on and we keep hearing about "It's a one-in-100-year event." Look COVID is very serious and none of us want to downplay COVID but this was a failing Government before COVID. It's been a Government with no delivery no plan and no policy. So of course when we leave here we're going into a COVID election because if this Government calls it a COVID election it means "Focus on COVID." There's still no plan we hear there's no policy so then there's no story to tell. So then how on earth do you measure how on earth do you question and how on earth do you ask about delivery when there's no plan because of a Government and parties within the Government that will not put up a plan to be measured against? All that has happened in the last three years of this Government is that they've made it harder for employers they've made it harder for landlords they have made it harder for tourism operators they have made it harder for travel agents—as mentioned before—and they have made it harder for small business. For a very long time we had the farmers in this country actually living in a state where—you know everyone talks about the whole mental health around New Zealand but sometimes people often forget that farmers are people too. Recently this Government has made it harder for Auckland. We get a lot of feedback about us wanting to make the borders safer so that we can potentially open the borders up to international students. Well actually we're an island. We have a lot of water around us but we're a trading nation. Ultimately at some point in the future we have to be able to bring ourselves back to living within this world again other than just for goods and services that pass across the borders and to do that we have to make sure that the borders are completely safe. In the last week this Government and all of the parties that make it up have made it harder for schools to understand their decisions because for some people staying in power is more important—SPEAKER: Order! BARBARA KURIGER: —than making the right decisions. We also on the subject of mental health—mental health is brought up: $1.9 billion in Budget 2019 for mental health. We've seen very little of that delivered. It took two years to get to that point and now I think we've got something like $30 million or $40 million delivered. So it's very easy to make a promise but it seems in this Government it is much harder to make delivery of those promises. So we get everything in big numbers: a hundred thousand houses a billion trees—all of these big promises—and $1.9 billion into mental health. Where is it? Where is the delivery? All of these promises—where are they landing on the ground? Because the people that I represent don't see them. This has been a failed Government and at the end of the 52nd Parliament I look forward to coming back in in Government after the election. Thank you."