Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Oh thank goodness that's finished. Oh wasn't it dire. Now that member who's resumed his seat Mr Kelvin Davis has boasted that this Budget delivers for Māori. Well if only. There are two Māori I saw it delivering for. One was the Rt Hon Winston Peters and the other was the Hon Shane Jones. They're the only two Māori I can see who got anything out of this Budget—and by goodness are they smirking. They certainly didn't give anything to anybody else.I'm going to start off by saying this: I have a bone to pick with the Rt Hon Bill English because he shouldn't have left the economy in such a good state. It's all his fault for letting these people—these fools in charge—come in and just borrow and spend and tax and spend. This Budget is a fail—it's an epic fail. I'll tell you why it's a fail. Have a look at KiwiFail"—"KiwiFail" otherwise known as KiwiBuild: 100000 homes we're being promised over 10 years. We're down to 1000 in one year. You cannot build 100000 homes in 10 years with 1000 in the first year.I can see why the Prime Minister today—and I've got a bone to pick with her too. She stood up here and she said in Parliament that she wanted to be proud of New Zealand. So she's not proud of New Zealand is what she was telling us? She said we should be looking at and rebuilding our international reputation—that's what she said. That's more important to her than anyone else. Well I've got news for her this new Prime Minister: I'm proud of New Zealand. Everyone on this side of the House is proud of New Zealand and we don't need some group of schoolkids in Paris to tell us we should be proud of New Zealand. This country is a great country.And I've got news for the Rt Hon Winston Peters the big winner out of this Budget. He said he wanted to make New Zealand great again. Apart from the obvious stealing of someone else's slogan this country is great Mr Peters. This country is the best and the greatest little country in the world and the only thing that could make it greater would be getting rid of him and his Government. Everything else is pretty fine.I want them to have a little bit more aspiration in their Budget. They started off by saying that KiwiBuild was going to add to the residential market. It turns out they're just going to take some developments that were failing they're going to stick a KiwiBuild sticker on it and they're going to call it "a KiwiBuild we've built for you house". The trouble with that is dear old Treasury. I mean they're so pesky when you're in Government aren't they really? They come along and they go and burst your little bubble. Well what they're saying in here in this Budget Economic and Fiscal Update dated today is that actually we're going to have half the residential building activity going on than they planned six months ago—half. We're going from 5 billion to 2.5 billion. That is an epic fail—even more than Phil Twyford's told us about. It is a total fail of this Government and this Budget.Let's get to some more of these fails shall we? Health: we heard today a big skite—the biggest health budget ever. But when the Hon Simon Bridges pointed out—very reasonably I thought and in very nice tones—to the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern that no no actually we gave more to health to last year than what she has this year she came back with some sort of talk about "Well it was only the TerraNova settlement." I'm sorry; these are the people who work in the hospitals who work in the rest homes—Kiritapu Allan: You tried not to pay them though!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —and the people who do the job and she thinks they're "only". I guess the next thing we're going to have is an announcement from Ms Kiri Allan from somewhere or other that they're not actually decent jobs. I bet they're going to say that. So Jacinda Ardern might think they're "only" but actually some of us on this side of the House think they're good people and they deserve a decent salary.Now let's have a look at one of the other little housing epic fails shall we? How are they going to pay for these new State houses they say they're going to build? Well let me tell you how because I know you want to hear. Well they're not going to borrow themselves; they're going to make old Housing New Zealand do the borrowing. So Housing New Zealand has to go into hock for $2.9 billion to private lenders—so in other words international banks. You know those foreign banks—those ones? You know the ones. They're going to have to borrow because they're still going to take the dividend from Housing New Zealand. You remember all those years and years of "How can the National Government take dividends?" And then as part of that as well what they're doing—Chris Bishop: That can't be true.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: It is true Mr Bishop—it is true! The other thing they're doing is they're going to make Housing New Zealand pay for these houses as well as borrow almost $3 billion on their books—against some of the houses for the poorest people in New Zealand they're going to take $900 million off Housing New Zealand to help pay for this. So that's $900 million that's not available to carpet homes to deal with insulation to look after people in them. It's $900 million not available for looking after people who are the poorest New Zealanders. And that Government over there thinks they're doing just fine and "let's all skite about how we want to make New Zealand great again." It was great until they came in.Let's have a look at the oil and gas industry—let's have a look at that. Let's all get on a plane to Paris to go and announce to a group of school kids that we're better and more virtuous than anyone else in the world because just like France we're going to stop all oil and gas exploration. Well what a great announcement except of course France has never had oil and gas exploration. And so really why didn't Jacinda Ardern just say "I'll tell you what. We're going to stop all our nuclear power plants." It was exactly as effective in terms of France because of course France relies on nuclear power. They are actually exporters of nuclear power. So while she's off there virtue signalling and destroying 8000 jobs in the Taranaki province alone—high-paying jobs worth twice any other jobs—what's she doing? She's going around saying "Let's do over our own energy and resources industry so that we can all look good on the international stage." And that's what she told us today: it's all about the international stage. I remember another Prime Minister who was very interested in the international stage she did very well in the UN. But I don't know if that's what her plans are.Let's have a look at this billion dollars a year for tertiary students. You know remember the election promise of first year tertiary education being free? Sensible people have said to me "Well if you're going to do something like that wouldn't you do it on the fourth year? Wouldn't you do it on the third year? Wouldn't you do it on the year when they're actually doing something?" So how many more students are going into tertiary education now with one year free? Tell me—tell me. Any of you—guesses? Well I'm going to tell you. There's no more; there's actually 900 fewer—900 fewer for a billion dollars a year. Now that is what you get when you've got a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade guy in charge of finance—[Interruption] The only people who can. But a billion dollars for a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade!You see when we were in Government—we came into Government in 2008 and we came into the global financial crisis. We were told—we were shouted at from this side of the House—that we would have a decade of deficits. That's what they thought they were leaving us. And by goodness did they do everything that they could! That's what we were told. We had to borrow. We had to borrow as a Government because we had to borrow. Otherwise people would have lost their benefits. The poor would have been poorer. We did everything and we increased the real value of benefits for our most poor New Zealanders. We did that during really tough times. This lot have come into Government when we've left them surplus—so much money in there for them—and what have they done? They're borrowing some more and of course they've got Housing New Zealand borrowing—for goodness' sake. Seventy-three billion dollars' worth of borrowing through Government agencies under a Government that should be awash with cash and they're spending everything."