Brownlee GerryHon GERRY BROWNLEE (National—Ilam): If this Parliament or anyone watching it ever wanted an example of what mumbling with incoherence means they should just look at Winston Peters' contribution this afternoon. In many ways it typifies what the problem is for the current Government. It has nothing else to talk about other than its opponents.This Parliament has been sitting for quite a number of weeks now post the installation of the new Government yet if you pick up the Order Paper you will notice that of the 43 items that the Government currently has under consideration 25 of them are National Party bills.Hon Member: What?Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: Twenty-five of them are National Party bills. One of them has been unanimously agreed by Parliament and another five have been recently introduced as bits of work started by the previous Government's Ministers with no changes. Then there are all the fill-up bills like the cartels bill yesterday—one simple provision. We don't agree with it. We're pleased they put it in front of the Parliament and they'll do it but if they were a busy Government they would not have needed to take the time they did to push that through. It could have been done through other means that are available inside this Parliament.But no we have a Government so inactive in actually getting stuff done but very very active in putting out the spin about the very little they're doing that we are in danger of having to rewrite the parliamentary programme because there's not enough to fill it up. I might say let's stand by for a whole lot more ministerial statements let's stand by for all of the Treaty legislation to be back on the floor of the Parliament during normal parliamentary hours and let's also see a whole lot of other inconsequential matters brought before the whole Parliament in a filibuster. I don't want to be too harsh on these people but I look at what we've got here and it won't be long before we get to a list of inquiries and reports from select committees that have been well considered by parliamentarians and don't usually need the scrutiny of the House because they've had so much before but they will be making their way back on to the floor of the House.There has been much talk today by the Government about their successes in changing the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership to a new document. It is not a new document. What we are seeing released today is a new agreement that agrees to set aside or suspend for now some provisions in the 2016 text—only some provisions. What people need to understand is that all of those provisions can go back by a majority of countries any time after the 8 March signing. So there is a whole lot of hoodwinking going on because while this side of the House supports that agreement because it will mean an extra $4 billion dollars into the New Zealand economy in a relatively short time that side the House opposed it but now know that without it the New Zealand economy is in severe difficulty.Then we come to the issue about Oh we found some tricky way to get over the overseas buyers coming in to buy homes in New Zealand." This is another complete nonsense. The bill itself when it goes through the House will have three tracks in it—three tracks that allow foreign buyers to buy assets to buy land and to buy residential houses in New Zealand. And worst of all the second track actually encourages foreign investors to invest in residential building projects in New Zealand at what is known in the industry as the wholesale point so that they can profit ultimately and speculate ultimately and take their profits on the completed developments—a whole track in the bill to allow that. So what we've got is a whole lot of suggestions and good intentions coming from the other side about what they want but no delivery when you start to look at the really hard stuff.And I noticed too the Deputy Prime Minister just saying "Well there's so much that's got to be spent across the New Zealand economy in all sorts of ways." That means taxpayers have to pay for it. So that will mean also that we can look forward into successive Budgets—knowing how much they've committed of the freeboard that exists so it can be seen four years out—to extra taxation being put upon New Zealanders. No question—they will need to do that or they will need to severely trim their policy pictures.So for this Government to start saying that they are so good so clever so progressive and so out there is completely wrong. And in my last second might I ask why are they now hiding Ministers from the House?"