Lee Melissa; Mallard TrevorMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a great pleasure to rise in this general debate and actually maybe put some facts into the debate. One of the things that that member Dr Deborah Russell mentioned was that she is very proud of this Government's record on the world stage. Let me actually put that notion to bed. The Prime Minister when she was speaking at the UN talked about how the Me Too movement should be a We Too" movement. Last week I think the Prime Minister actually admitted that that was the first time that she had heard about the sexual assault issue that involved a staff member who was actually at her office. I think you know either she is incompetent or she is just not interested in what is actually going on.Deborah Russell talked about leadership. I think it is not just about the words that a leader speaks but the actions that she actually takes. Often when she is asked about what is going on in this country she blames the nine years of the previous National Government or the world issues that are impacting it. Let me say that actually during the nine years of the National Government we had major disasters. We had earthquakes in Christchurch earthquakes in Kaikōura. We had the global financial crisis but what we left this country with was 4 percent growth in the economy. What this Government has actually done in the last two years is chop that in half. The economy is not growing that fast. It's actually tanking. It's going downwards and this Government seems to be very proud of the performance.Let me talk about some of the leadership issues. The Prime Minister talked about the fairness the diversity that she is really really proud of. Apparently that doesn't actually translate into the actions that she provides. In the Government's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet we were asking questions about how much diversity actually exists in her Prime Minister's department. Apparently 82 percent of the staff that work in the DPMC is Pākehā 1.17 percent is Pacific Islander and 1.5 percent is Asian. I say that 1.5 percent of New Zealand's population isn't actually Asian and 1.17 percent is actually not Pacific Islander in terms of population. If she was talking about real diversity in her own department she would be changing that issue. Apparently 100 percent of senior staffers management staff in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is in fact Pākehā and not of other ethnicities.Earlier my learned colleague Matt Doocey talked about measles. It was actually asked as a parliamentary question as well today and I got up to ask a supplementary question. There is a huge issue. There is an epidemic in this country and the Minister can only talk about how we have enough supply. Well apparently her priority is actually children. One of the questions that I asked in the supplementary was about the fact that the priority is definitely not children when you happen to be of Asian descent it seems because in Auckland when Asian parents—some of them have actually contacted me—go to the doctor wanting to vaccinate their children they are turned away even when they want to pay for the vaccinations because they don't actually have the supply.Those are prioritised for Māori and Pacific children. So I asked a question of this Government: are they really going down the path of the racist policies that they've—actually an example that I can give you is the whole issue of Asian-sounding names in terms of the ability to buy a house. Apparently Asian people—Asian-sounding names—were the reason why house prices were going up. They blamed the Asian people. Denise Lee sounds like an Asian name—certainly not Asian or Chinese sorry. Melissa Lee sounds like Chinese. I'm certainly not Chinese and to the Malaysian-Chinese parents of those children who went to the GP's office to get their children vaccinated who were turned away because they weren't Māori or Pasifika apparently they're not a priority.After the question the Minister came and sat next to me and admitted that that should not happen. Perhaps she should let her officials know that that should not be happening in this country—a system that presumes that prioritises certain children—and say that New Zealanders of all races all ages should be equal. Well it seems they're not if they happen to be Asian. I say shame on this Government. Shame on this Labour-led Government who say "Asian people are not welcome in this country" it seems. Well I say shame. Apart from the measles epidemic I mean I think Deborah Russell talked about—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."