Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Madam Speaker. I would refute that last comment by the previous speaker Ingrid Leary.Hon David Bennett: Refute the whole speech.SAM UFFINDELL: I would probably do that as well—thank you Mr Bennett—around this Government and their astute approach as it was called! Let's make sure Hansard includes the sarcasm on that—that they are astute managers of the economy and looking after people. The way you look after people is to run the economy properly keep inflation down and keep the cost of living down and it's through a growing economy that you can then deliver the services that people need. We've seen six years of blown Budgets under this Government and this is another one.As we look through the Appropriation (2022/23 Supplementary Estimates) Bill and Imprest Supply (First for 2023/24) Bill—it's a bit of a mouthful—what do we see? We see another blown Budget under this Government. And we haven't seen anything in here to address the issues that are coming up. We don't see any attempts to address the significant spending that this Government is undertaking. We don't see anything to address the significant Government spending—the back-office spending. There's no public service delivery targets. There's a continuation of what I would call poor spending after poor spending. And we've seen operational spending up 80 percent since 2017 and I would challenge anyone in New Zealand whether they have seen an 80 percent lift in public services.I just want to run over a few figures so it's perfectly clear for everyone—and I'm sure there are many—watching at home around the situation here. Pre-COVID net debt—which is a term that's often used these days—was $5.4 billion. The Treasury forecast for 2024 is that it will be at $91.2 billion. That is a significant sum and interest needs to be paid on that.When you're Moody's and Standard & Poor's and you're looking at how New Zealand is managing the economy—and they are looking at it and they are starting to suggest that we need to get a little bit of a wriggle on and take the situation seriously or we may face a downgrade. The way things are looking interest repayments will be our fourth-biggest expenditure going forward—after social welfare payments and super after health after education it will then be interest repayments. That's a really poor place to get to. Kiwis work really hard and they didn't get a lot out of this Budget and they certainly don't want to see their hard-earned tax dollars going towards paying down a very big debt that this Government has built up.We've been in deficit for a while now. We're not expected to get back into surplus until 2026 under this Government—it's only a minor one: half a billion. And I'm sure that won't actually eventuate because we've seen it blown every time too.We heard core Crown expenses get mentioned today. I just want to go over some figures here because in 2017 core Crown expenses according to the Budget Economic and Fiscal Update were $76.3 billion. The Estimates for next year are at $137 billion and that is a significant increase in spending with very little delivery. This piece of legislation shows that this Government doesn't have a plan to tackle the real issues which is the cost of living crisis it's the inflation which we heard was transitory—it clearly is not; it is set in. We are in recession. The papers and the Government don't like to talk about it much but we are in recession. Our peer countries are not in recession but New Zealand is in recession.So National has a plan to get us out of recession. It has a plan to deal with the cost of living crisis. It has a plan to restore fiscal discipline. It has a plan to provide tax relief to hard-earning New Zealanders who are doing it really tough in the middle of a cost of living crisis. We've got a plan to lift incomes. And we know that sound economic management is what we need if we are going to be able to afford the healthcare the education the police the justice and the defence services that New Zealand desperately needs. If we are going to be able to build the infrastructure that we need then we are going to have to get our books into order.We've seen it six times in a row: this finance Minister and this Government are not capable of delivering the stability and the sound fiscal management that New Zealand needs. I thought Nicola Willis spoke extremely well in her speech earlier today—number two speaker—and I really look forward to her hopefully taking the reins soon because we are in crisis at the moment. We are in a crisis under this Government and I oppose this bill very very strongly indeed. Thank you.