Brownlee GerryHon GERRY BROWNLEE (Deputy Leader—National): That speech was the most excellently delivered load of self-congratulatory drivel I have ever heard. Unbelievable! Unbelievable! An attack on the Leader of the Opposition for wanting to create jobs for New Zealanders and then the suggestion that that wasn't the highest priority for any Government at the present time. That is a speech that only had one salient point in it. Release the list because New Zealanders need to know what is in that list of 800 projects that could save jobs. What is in the list of projects that Shane Jones and Winston Peters—maybe—and a number of others in that Government will be going around the countryside announcing over the next couple of weeks waiting for their time to use taxpayer money to announce a job that will create jobs just for campaign purposes.There are 200000 New Zealanders—plus—on the jobseeker allowance now. There are more who cannot get on the jobseeker allowance even though they're out of work because their partner is still in work. There are more still who've lost part-time work and casual work is all but gone. Then just in the construction sector 200000 New Zealanders are receiving the wage subsidy but that all comes off very shortly. What happens then? There might have been a chance to retain that skill base to keep it moving to keep it working if there was a better plan delivered from the Government if some of the projects that they are spouting great support for were actually put into place so that they can deliver those jobs. What have they done so far out of the 800? Thirty just 30 projects. And the Prime Minister stands in the House and says Oh that's only just a little bit of it. Look what we did in January. Look what we've done in education. Look what we've done around health." Well what they've done is make big big announcements and no action to follow because if everything was all right we wouldn't have 200000 construction workers on the wage subsidy. We wouldn't have the industry leaders—in their entirety—coming out to say that there is a problem that it's causing stress; that businesses will have to slow down businesses will have to close down aspects of their business and businesses will put people off. Meantime if you've got a bit of spare time write to the Deputy Prime Minister and tell him that you love nature and are quite interested in the Antarctic. You might get a trip! You might get to post pictures on your social media!Well at least it keeps a few people in work trying to find a way to get the Official Information Act responses out that tell you nothing. This idea that there can be a slowness to those shovel-ready projects is a complete disgrace. So many New Zealanders would have gone to work this morning wondering if their job will be there tomorrow or next week or the week after or when the wage subsidy ends.That's not a country that is going to have a population enthused about its future. It's a country where there is fear—not only for the loss of jobs because of the retraction in the economy—but now it would appear well that's how many New Zealand First people will get back if they get anywhere near winning a seat because that's the only way they'll get back. There is fear also that apparently we could have some regional shutdowns in the very near future. How cynical is that? How cynical is that—to be saying to New Zealand what a great job everyone's done on the COVID-19 stuff but don't look at the economy. Don't look at that. Look at the tree over there. There's a squirrel running up it. In that squirrel is the possibility of some of the country being locked down again some regions being shut down all sorts of other things being done. But then of course we're told that if we want to prevent community outbreak we should have the app in place. We should all be wandering around telling the Government where we are what we're doing who we're seeing. Well I think that that is a Government over there that is taking a hugely cynical view of the New Zealand voter. Taking all the time they want to come up with the programmes they say are funded; coming up with just 30 out of 800—800 out of the thousands that were put forward by local bodies but only 30 of them are out so far. That is not the basis to go to the electorate. This is a country where people—New Zealanders—are not cynics and they will see through that."