Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. I'm looking forward to taking my 10 minutes this morning I'm just trying to work out where I might start—there's a plethora of issues to prosecute.Look you know it's always good to start in a speech maybe with some wise words or learned words from wise people. I'll start with a gentleman one Jamie Strange the Labour Hamilton East MP who announced his retirement and who said yesterday I feel I am better suited for Government than Opposition."—"I feel I am better suited for Government than Opposition." Of course Mr Strange announced his retirement because he didn't want to go into Opposition. And see the Government backbenchers sit there and they wonder why their colleagues are leaving ahead of going into Opposition when they stand up and offer 90 seconds to a bill that no one wants—one of the most unpopular bills that I think I've seen come before the House in the eight years I've been here. And then you've got Labour MPs openly saying they're retiring because they don't want to be in Opposition next year. And they scratch their heads and say "Why are the polls tanking?" Well I'll tell you what the polls are tanking because the public does not trust you anymore. You'll spend more time standing next to sports professionals getting photos than you will standing up in this House and defending your own bill. That's what you're doing at the moment.Hon Dr David Clark: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. I don't think it's appropriate that the member says that you cannot be trusted Madam Speaker; I think you can. Both you and I are retiring at the next election. I wish you well and I think you're done a disservice with that comment.MATT DOOCEY: Speaking to the point of order—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): No no no thank you. I just want to do this right so I'm just going to take a bit of advice.Look thank you for that point of order. And yes it is the last day of school and it's a contentious bill and it's getting a bit willing. I'd like the House to reflect first of all on not bringing the Speaker into the debate. But also let's not just skate too close to that line of causing offence in the House. I don't think we're there in this instance but I'd like us to play between the posts.MATT DOOCEY: Thank you very much Madam Speaker. In my view I do not believe the public trust this Government when they do things like they've done with this bill. People will be looking at this speech and wondering whether it's live or on demand. And I must say my on-demand speech from last week I thought was pretty good so I'm not surprised they're watching it again. But in fact we're actually live because we are debating another bill that was tabled three hours after they rammed through the Water Services Entities Bill last week. Three hours afterwards they drop a 200-page bill that amends the legislation we passed this week.And then they wonder why the public is trusting them less and less because how is the public to trust this Government when they play games like this—a bill that's in fact an omnibus bill that's going to amend 25 Acts. It inserts 275 new clauses. It amends a bill we only passed last week. And I remember speaking in this House with the first sequencing of all these water bills using the analogy that we were flying a plane while we were building it and now you can see why that actually was happening—because the Government did not want us to see the design of the plane in advance or its destination. That's why this has been drip-fed through.But what I can say to the people listening today is make sure you make a submission on this bill. Some 88000 people made a submission on the Water Services Entities Bill and as we know only 227 were heard. They only went round the country for five days. My plea to the Government is to make sure you hear a lot more submitters for this bill because mark my words you are going to get tens of thousands of submissions. The reason why: people don't want this bill and that's why you're going to receive a lot of submissions on it. We get lectured by the Government MPs who get up and say for their 90 seconds "Well if the Opposition had taken time to look at this bill"—"taken time to look at this bill". What part does the Government play in actually not putting the bill through last week? Why did you split the bill up? Still haven't had one Government MP—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): Order! Order! Please don't bring the Speaker into the debate. This is a very willing debate and the Speaker does not wish to be included.MATT DOOCEY: Apologies Madam Speaker. But we would like to hear from the Government callers today if they could just squeeze it in to their 90 seconds: why is this bill before us on the last day of Parliament? A submission process over the summer break. Answer that. And what I want to know is: how are we now in a position where we had three waters and now we've got five waters and now it's five waters and some parks? Look at the headlines in the Christchurch Press this week: "Three Waters entity expected to take control of swathe of Christchurch red zone". The water entity is going to take ownership of ratepayer-owned land and they the ratepayers will now have no control over it. This is going to be interesting isn't it because up and down the country parks of New Zealanders are going to be taken over by the water entities.I think this bill starts opening up some serious questions about the detail of this bill. It's no surprise now why they won't speak to it and why it was held back from last week and they slip it in this week as well.Look at the stuff that's coming through around water charging—that is going to be interesting. I'm looking forward to the select committee process to interrogate—in fact what are the intentions of the Government around water charging? Because they're quick to say "Well maybe no further increase to rates." But how is that going to be charged? And look at the compliance and enforcement: obtaining information including entry to places without a warrant. That will be interesting. There's a raft of detail in here that in fact the Government MPs have challenged us "If they only read the bill." Well that's an interesting comment. So maybe the Government MPs could stand up in their 90 seconds or even beg the whip that they can do two minutes and actually explain some of that detail for the Opposition MPs—or maybe for the public listening it is a debate. Maybe we could hear in detail around the water charges around the compliance—Barbara Edmonds: Do your own work.MATT DOOCEY: "Do your own work." I heard. Ha ha! All right it's up to me now to fill in the blanks from the Government of course. It's not for them to go out and sell their own bill. Of course not! Because they're a one-party State. They don't need anyone else. They don't need a mandate from the public. No. It's up to everyone else to fill in the blanks because of course they're right. They don't need to defend themselves because they're right.Hon Nanaia Mahuta: You know it.MATT DOOCEY: Here we go. And this is it isn't it? This is the arrogance we're hearing more and more from this Government. So it'll be very interesting to hear the details around that from the Government MPs. Because I'll tell you what there's a lot of people really concerned with what's happening with this bill at the moment. And as we know there's another a bill ahead of us after this one is passed as well which will even implement more detail and more reach under three waters. So I would encourage the Government MPs in their call today to actually explain to New Zealanders some of the things that you will be passing today. Because you've put down a challenge to me about reading the bill I'll put a challenge down to you: have you read the bill?ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jacqui Dean): To me? OK this is the third time I have got to my feet to ask the speaker not to bring the Speaker into the debate. The member has 45 seconds left and wouldn't it be a good thing if the member didn't bring the Speaker into the debate during that short time.MATT DOOCEY: Apologies Madam Speaker. So in closing this is a good example of an arrogant Government who chose not to put this bill through last week. They didn't want to reveal the detail on purpose and then they wonder why the public in my view is trusting this Government less and less. And that's reflected in the polls at the moment as they crawl to the end of the parliamentary year becoming more and more unpopular as their colleagues leave because they don't want to be in Opposition."