Lees-Galloway IainHon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety): The National Party is not fond of workers going on strike. I heard Scott Simpson their representative on industrial relations say that in the 21st century there's better ways of responding to an industrial dispute than going on strike. But what do we see today? Once again something goes on in the House that they don't quite like and off they all walk—off the job with the National Party again. They're all on strike again. What's good for them what they say is not what they want other people to do—same old National all the time. The Deputy Prime Minister was absolutely right when he said the National Party are the party of the 4 Ds: desperate divided distracted and divisive.Desperate—Simon Bridges poor old Simon Bridges. He's had a go on everything from slushies to gangs selling gummy bears. These are the issues that he has prioritised and we all know how well it's doing for Simon Mr 5 Percent". Even his own team can't express confidence and trust in him. Simon is getting desperate.SPEAKER: Order!Hon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: But of course the—Simon Bridges the Hon Simon Bridges is getting desperate but the caucus is divided as well. They've been told off by Simon for leaking to Newshub. How do we know? SPEAKER: Order! Last warning.Hon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: Simon Bridges the Hon Simon Bridges told his caucus off for leaking to Newshub. How do we know this? Someone leaked it to Newshub. They are distracted and if we want any more evidence on the fact that the National Party is completely distracted it was the contribution from the Hon Paula Bennett in this debate. She gave an impassioned argument why she thinks New Zealanders that should vote "no" in the referendum on cannabis legalisation but didn't tell us whether or not the National Party will implement the will of the people. If people vote "yes" will the National Party follow that? If the people vote "no" will the National Party follow that? They can't tell us either way because they are completely distracted from the issues. It sounds like from what Paula Bennett just told us she is going to focus her attention on debating the referendum and has checked out from the campaign for the general election. That's fine by us. If National want to focus on the referendum and which side they're going to take on the referendum that's fine because over here we will focus on the issues that matter to New Zealanders and focus on campaigning for this Government to be returned after the next general election.And of course we know they are divisive because they have Judith Collins—the Hon Judith Collins. Here's the division: Judith Collins thinks she's great; everyone else in her caucus does not.Over this side of the House we are focused on the matters that are important to New Zealanders. We have been addressing the plethora of failures that were left to us by the previous Government. We are dealing with the shortfall of over 70000 houses. The New Zealand economy Government and private sector in the year to March built 34000 new homes. That is more house building going on today than there has been since the 1970s.In health we have increased the funding for our hospitals—now over $14 billion for capital projects needed over the next 10 years because of the gap that was left in health by the previous Government. We're dealing with education; we're dealing with wages. We have lifted the minimum wage to $17.70 an hour because working people in New Zealand deserve to get a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. The average wage is up by over $65 a week during our time in office and we've created 70000 new jobs and unemployment is down to 4.2 percent. GDP growth is up 2.8 percent per annum. When around the world we are seeing economies slow down and a growth slow-down the fundamentals of the New Zealand economy are still strong and this Government is focused on transforming our economy into one that is more productive more sustainable and more inclusive so that everybody in New Zealand can benefit from a growing economy.We are backing our regions. We've invested in 195 projects over 14 regions. We're changing our immigration settings to support growth in the regions and to indicate to that migrant workforce that there are opportunities beyond Auckland; that they do need to go and look at Ashburton and Otago and Taranaki and Hawke's Bay because the opportunities are there and we want those regions to thrive as well.On this side of the House we are united and we are focused on delivering for New Zealanders. And we are proud of the work we have done through the last 18 months of this term."