Sepuloni CarmelHon CARMEL SEPULONI (Minister for Social Development): I had a whole speech written out but I've just thrown that out the door after listening to that speech. Can I just go to what the last speaker Nikki Kaye referred to and that was a reference to five political spin lines from this side. Well if that member wants to play that game let's play it back. Five political spin lines from that side—very easy to identify just from the two speakers that have already stood in this debate today.Let's start with number one that they like to spin and they've been spinning in this House already that we're an accidental Government—an accidental Government. Clearly the Opposition has still not worked out how MMP works. People did not go to the polling booths and accidentally forget to tick National. This is not an accident. We did not accidentally get the majority of votes. The public is not silly. They knew who they were voting for. They were voting for change Nikki Kaye—that's what they were voting for. They've got that change. They're not thinking it's an accident. It's exactly what the majority of New Zealanders asked for and that Nikki Kaye is how MMP works.Number two political spin line: fake news. This side of the House is spreading fake news! Trumpeting the fake news line! Well it's not fake news. Everything we come to this House with is based on evidence. Fortunately we have more access to information now that we are in Government and so actually the picture looks bleaker than what we could have even imagined when we were in Opposition. Fortunately though we're ready because it's not an accident that we're in Government. We are prepared. We've had nine years to think about this. We've got policies ready to go. But the reality is we've got a lot of fixing up to do first because unlike what the Opposition is saying—which is their third political spin line where they're saying there is no crisis—actually everyone in New Zealand is increasingly seeing the fact that there are crises in far too many areas; in fact more than what they had originally thought.Don't tell us on this side of the House or the general public that sewage going through the walls of Middlemore Hospital is not a crisis don't tell us on this side of the House that homeless New Zealanders and a lack of housing for New Zealanders is not a crisis and please don't try and tell us on this side of the House that the fact that we have an overwhelming number of children still living in poverty is not a crisis. The Opposition needs to own up to the fact that they did nothing to address these issues and that's why we're at crisis point now. Fortunately it's not an accident that we're in Government and we are ready to fix these situations. They are our reality.The fourth political spin line that I want to throw out there is that we've overpromised. Well actually there's no such thing because we put on paper what we could do. We have fiscal responsibility guidelines that all of the political parties that are in Government now agreed to. We didn't do the irresponsible thing that that side of the House was proposing when they were in Government which was offering up $400 million of tax cuts to the top 10 percent of income earners in this country. In fact we're doing the responsible thing and we are re-diverting that money to where the need is: health housing and education—areas that were incredibly underfunded by the previous Government.We can see that by the fact that we have situations—which that previous education Minister should take some responsibility for—where we have schools falling down around us or we have schools that don't have the capacity to take the population of children that live in those areas because not enough of an investment was made where it should've been. Instead we had the previous Government trying to offer $400 million of tax cuts to the top 10 percent of income earners in this country.The fifth political spin line that they are still rolling out that they tried to roll out to win the election—before the 2017 election—is that we are the tax demons that the public should be worried about. Well actually it's not the case at all. There is nothing that has been proposed by this side of the House in the last five months nor will there be moving forward that we did not put on the table before we went into that election. It's about honesty. It's about being honest with the public. There have been nine years of neglect—and that's the truth—under the previous Government. Thank goodness we are here. Thank goodness we have a plan. Thank goodness we are in a place to fix this.