Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Malo lava le soifua Mr Assistant Speaker. Manuia soifua manuia Samoa fa'afetai lava e Te Māngai o Te W'are. I am pleased to take this call on the Appropriation (2017/18 Estimates) Bill. I think that after 9 years of Government the National-led Government along with its support parties has failed to deliver with this Budget. It is playing catch-up in housing playing catch-up in health and playing catch-up in education and it is actually time for a new innovative approach—a fresh approach—and that is what a Labour-led Government would be delivering if we were delivering a Budget.I think the tax cuts in particular—I want talk about that. It reminds me of what George Orwell wrote in his book Animal Farm: All animals are created equal but some are created more equal than others." This is what this tax cut regime delivers because the top 10 percent of income earners receive the total amount exactly or similar to the lowest 50 percent. That is not fair—it is not fair. It is poorly targeted and I do not agree with it. I am proud that the Labour Party is the only party in this House that voted against that kind of regime. I would never vote for a watered-down version of the families packet that it should be and that the Government has failed to deliver. So I stand here in this debate and say that I am proud that we listened to the concerns of the people and the concerns that they told us about in my electorate Te Tai Hauāuru and others throughout the country. The concerns that they had were about housing health jobs for the rangatahi and education. Those are the things that they told me and I am glad that we put their interests first ahead of these poorly targeted tax cuts.The Māori Party has made a big deal about all this money that it has supposedly secured for kaupapa Māori issues. Well around 1 percent of the total new spend in this Budget has been targeted for Māori initiatives. I want to talk about that because as we always hear in this House there are a number of areas we are particularly not doing well in. For example the number of homeless people living in this country a huge number of those—40000—are Māori families. They are living in garages and cars and caravans they are two and three families to one house—that is not sustainable. It is not sustainable and I go back to my point that if we want an equal outcome for all of our people no matter who they are sometimes you have to put the funds—actually always—where the issues are and this Budget fails to do that miserably because 1 percent of the new spend is going to a particular group in New Zealand that needs a lot more than that.We have heard in this debate so far that only 11 new houses have been built. I would imagine that my predecessor the Hon Dame Tariana Turia who released the housing policy in 2014 would be very disappointed with the outcome over the last 3 years that through that initiative only 11 houses have been built for Māori whānau—and this after the Māori Party voted to sell off State houses. How does that happen? How is that good for our people? Well I will be going back—I have attended a number of meetings in my electorate and the people are dismayed about that fact. That is something that is not going away. It is a fact that I am going to repeat because our people—all New Zealanders—deserve better than that. Nō reira tēnā tātou."