Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Well thank you very much Mr Speaker. This is a Government that is falling apart. Yesterday we had introduced to the House a KiwiSaver tax bill and I said to the team when we found out about it I said I reckon we'll wait till Thursday and they'll do a U-turn. This is so crazy and so dumb that—after introducing a ute tax and a petrol tax and a tenant tax and a capital gains tax and all the other taxes that Labour's introduced—there's no way that this Government would slap a $100 billion tax on Kiwis at a time that KiwiSaver accounts are doing it a bit tough." I said "There's no way. It is crazy. I'll give it until Thursday."I was wrong because where are we? Wednesday—gone by lunchtime. The KiwiSaver tax? "Gone-burger". At 1.15: "We've just put out a press release. Oh we didn't consult properly." Even though it's been consulted on for literally months the Government's invented a reason. And we know why: it's because 20000 people—and counting all the time—have signed National's petition because Kiwis are sick of being fleeced by this Government and they said "No enough is enough." So a humiliating U-turn by this Government.And what have they got? Grant Robertson spent five minutes of a general debate speech in a personalised attack on the leader of the National Party. And then the second speaker in the general debate William Sio spent five minutes talking about Christopher Luxon. He's in their heads—he is in their heads—and they know that the National Party is back and they know that the National Party was not going to stand up for this addiction to spending that is the raison d'être of this Government. The National Party is standing against Labour's big-spending addicted-to-spending agenda.As Nicola Willis said in her contribution it shows a real contempt for taxpayers. Twice in the last two weeks have we seen a contempt for taxpayers. Once with the KiwiSaver tax the $100 billion secretive stealthy tax on New Zealanders' KiwiSaver accounts. And then the second display of contempt for New Zealanders was the cost of living payment. This is something that has to be seen to be believed: money that is being sprayed around the world. If you thought KiwiBuild was bad "KiwiSpray" is even worse: money that is sprayed around the world to French backpackers who were here 15 years ago who'd forgotten they even picked fruit over summer in Cromwell to wealthy investment bankers in London. And look some of my best friends are investment bankers in London. I'm telling you now: they don't need $116 paid into their New Zealand bank account; they're doing quite all right thank you very much. And of course dead people.So this shows contempt for taxpayers. Have we seen an apology? No. Have we seen any admission of failure or fault? No. Have we seen any attempt from the Government to find out exactly who is and who isn't getting this "KiwiSpray" payment? No absolutely not. All we see is contempt and disdain for hard-working New Zealanders.But while we're talking about U-turns we welcome the Government's KiwiSaver tax U-turn. I'm surprised it happened within the space of 24 hours but there's a few other U-turns we need. I think the Prime Minister will be regretting her decision to make Chris Hipkins the new police Minister or new-ish police Minister. We should be doing a U-turn on that because we've learnt that ram raids are up 500 percent and I note that the police Minister didn't refute the premise of that question as Kiri Allan the justice Minister did this morning. But then we had the extraordinary claim from the police Minister today that he's been too busy to meet with victims of ram raids of which there were five overnight in Hamilton on Monday night by the way. He's been too busy. Why? Oh because he's been reading his paperwork and "visiting important stakeholders". Well what is a more important stakeholder for the police Minister than retailers who have been the victims of crime like ram raids? There is no more important stakeholder for the police Minister and it shows contempt. So let's do a U-turn on that.Let's do a U-turn on wasteful and inefficient and incompetent Government spending. This Government is fiscally incontinent. They've never seen a tax they don't want to implement and they've never seen a Government programme they don't want to spend more money on. Let's do a U-turn on the cost of living payment but more importantly let's do a U-turn on this tired hopeless and useless Government and kick them out of office as soon as we can."