Kaye Nikki: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKaye Nikki: General Debate[Sitting date: 25 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18874. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon NIKKI KAYE (Minister for Food Safety):I was out door-knocking at the weekend as I have been for the last 3 years and what I want to tell you is I have seen a change. When I was walking up the streets I really expected to hear people say they were voting for different political parties but what we heard was yes they were voting for National and there were a few people who were voting for the Greens but people were not declaring for Labour. I have been door-knocking for a number of years now and it actually dawned on me when that Labour Party list came out that when you have nearly a quarter of candidates in the Labour Party not willing to associate themselves with that party something is seriously wrong. We have a very clear choice at this election. We can vote for a party where there is not a whole lot of confidence in its leader where you do not have a united team where you have policies done on the hoof and where you have flip-flops all over the place. But if you compare that with a party that has a leader the Prime Minister who has the extraordinary confidence of New Zealand and who has delivered over a very difficult period there is only one choice at this election and it is party vote National.What people are saying to me is that it is really clear: all of the rhetoric that comes from the left-wing parties says we do not care. Well I am going to run through some of the reasons and some of the policies that show that our party has done more for our most disadvantaged than any of those Opposition members did in their time in Government. Under our Government there have been six successive increases in the education spend—$857 million in the last Budget. Under our Government there have been six successive increases in our health spend. We have programmes: $20 million for rheumatic fever and a second cochlear implant for some of our most disadvantaged. We have got breakfast in schools. In terms of early childhood education there is another $155 million which is particularly for some of those children who may never have had access in terms of their families before.In this Budget there is $284 million to help build more modern better schools. In terms of our record with young people we have incredible results: almost 25000 young people were placed in employment and training under Youth Opportunities. There are 13000 jobs that were created under the 90-day trial period. We have invested $148 million in wraparound services for youth. So to those members opposite who continue to claim the rhetoric they always have done that we do not have a strong social conscience they are wrong. The reason that our party is polling at over 50 percent is not only that we are a standout economy in terms of bringing our country into surplus in one of the most difficult fiscal times ever—particularly we believe we had the largest hit of any developed nation in the world in terms of the Canterbury earthquakes. You combine all of that and you see us in surplus but then you see the extraordinary social investment we have made.The Deputy Prime Minister made the point that just because other parties are claiming they are going to spend more money that does not mean they are going to do the best for New Zealanders. Under our Government there are more immunisations more children have got National Certificate of Educational Achievement level 2 and more Māori and Pacific students than ever are getting those results.So what we are really clear about is that under our Government with less money we have done more. We have helped some of our most disadvantaged New Zealanders we have got our economy and our books in order and we also have a united team and a Prime Minister whom we believe in. That is the difference at this election. Why would you vote Labour if a quarter of its caucus members will not even put themselves on the Labour Party list? We have a leader we believe in. We have delivered for New Zealand. We have the best policies to deliver for another 3 years. Party vote National.