Goudie Sandra: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 
Goudie Sandra: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 
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SANDRA GOUDIE (National—Coromandel) 
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 The domino effect has begun and nothing portrayed that more than John Key’s charismatic speech in the House yesterday. It was also portrayed by this morning’s  
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 photograph of Helen Clark sitting all alone in this House surrounded by a sea of empty seats. That was the photo that everybody saw in the  
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. So I say again that the domino effect has begun. 
Guess what? The “no new slogan” Helen Clark has a new slogan: sustainability. Would members believe that it was mentioned at least 33 times in one speech? I have to say that I think her speech-writer would have been cringing. What about the word “accountability”? Was that mentioned in the speech? 
Chris Auchinvole 
: Was it? 
SANDRA GOUDIE 
: Well actually no not once. Not once did we hear the word “accountability” yesterday. Not only did we not hear the word “accountability” but nor are we getting any either because this Government does not know the meaning of the word. Accountability has been missing in action from Helen Clark and her Ministers for the past 7 years. I have to say that I am sure Lianne Dalziel is very aware of that word. No wonder Georgina Beyer would rather go dancing. Labour does not know what accountability means yet the State Services Commission says that accountability is the state of being accountable is to be liable is to be called on to render an account is the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected and is the requirement to explain fully and accurately all or any aspects of one’s own performance or that of one’s staff. I am sure that Lianne Dalziel’s story is one we are all very aware of. 
However if the definition of accountability is not clear enough for members I can recommend a good book— 
The Accountability Handbook: A Guide to the Accountability Process 
. Members will find that in the Department of Conservation. I heartily recommend to the Labour members that they would do themselves and the public more good if they stopped reading fiction during their holidays and doing up houses under questionable circumstances and actually took an interest in what people really want. 
Time and time again we see disastrous money management countless examples of buck-passing and failure to take responsibility by this Government. The accountability hall of shame is growing bigger by the day. Lianne Dalziel is in there but pride of place in the accountability hall of shame is not Lianne Dalziel it is Helen Clark who left two police constables to take the rap for speeding to make sure she caught a flight to Wellington for a rugby test. A survey at the time showed that a majority of voters believed that the Prime Minister should have stepped forward over the speeding issue. Fifty percent of Labour supporters believed that too. But did that prick her conscience? No. Helen Clark’s reaction was that the police were in charge of the motorcade. 
Recently what speeding has Helen Clark been doing? She has been running as fast as that speeding motorcade to distance herself from the Taito Phillip Field affair. It took a threat by Taito Phillip Field to jump ship to force her hand and then it was straight into damage control and the arms of the Greens. That is Helen’s worst nightmare and I have to say that it does not seem long ago that those two girls were at each other’s throat. Can members recall that those two girls were at each other’s throat? 
Damien O’Connor is keeping his head down over the Taito Phillip Field affair. We are still waiting to see the audit report that he promised would be out in December and that will show his appalling lack of oversight of problem gambling service provider contracts. 
Lynne Pillay 
: What? 
SANDRA GOUDIE 
: I am sorry. Am I not speaking loud enough? Damien O’Connor—he is the one. He is going up into that accountability hall of shame. 
Of course add the Department of Corrections to the list—another shambles with Damien O’Connor again at the helm. The list of incompetencies and sheer negligences within his department just gets longer and longer. Crime is up by 6.9 percent over the past 12 months. Violent crime is up by 10.2 percent. The list goes on and the department’s financial review shows that it has gambled millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on cost blowouts on prison contracts. It is absolutely shameful. Labour apparently did not have a clue how much the Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Prison would cost to build until 3 years after the work began. How nuts is that? As for the Parole Board we have another vote of no confidence in the same Minister as innocent lives are lost and no one steps up to take responsibility. No one is accountable. Damien O’Connor is another one to take pride of place in the accountability hall of shame. 
Parekura Horomia—well well well—is another star failure who is a shining light in that accountability hall of shame. I tell members that this is just a litany of failure. Under this Minister’s stewardship Te PuniKokiri has crashed and burned with the Auditor-General highlighting a failure to meet the ministry’s own operational guidelines. This is from a Minister who admitted that advocating for Maori is tiresome. He said that in this House. That is what Parekura Horomia said in this House—that advocating for Maori is tiresome. This is extraordinary. So here is another Minister who will be in the accountability hall of shame. 
The list goes on. Steve Maharey is another Minister in meltdown—this time over the much vaunted 20 hours of free childcare. That is another empty promise another flawed policy with only one in five providers surveyed offering the 20 hours of free early childhood education. Early childhood education providers have quickly spotted that this is a lemon. That is exactly what this policy is. That is another Minister in the accountability hall of shame. 
Of course my favourite is Chris Carter. How could we forget the debacle over the Whangamata marina in my own electorate? Chris Carter has left taxpayers to foot the bill for his blatant disregard of the process. I am pleased to say that the community of Whangamata was not prepared to back down. It took on this arrogant Government and won and Chris Carter was sent packing from Whangamata with his tail between his legs in yet another embarrassing backdown for Labour. We have to look at housing as well. That is another failure for him. 
Jim Anderton Minister for Biosecurity is another failure. He is up to his neck in it. Michael Cullen—the “Minister of Greed”—has gouged New Zealand taxpayers and racked up a huge surplus. He proposed a mortgage tax only to have the idea declared dead in the water by Helen Clark. Just like the mortgage tax proposal and like Mallard with his waterfront stadium Michael Cullen is indeed a dead duck. 
The only shiny beacons in this House are my National Party colleagues who are doing such an excellent job of addressing the real issues with some basic Kiwi values: individual freedom and choice personal responsibility strong families and caring communities. That is what matters to New Zealanders like the young mother who wrote to me only this month. 
Chris Auchinvole 
: What did she say? 
SANDRA GOUDIE 
: She said that Labour is making it so hard to teach our children what is morally right that we have become a nation of over-the-top PCers and that we care more about what others think than about doing what is right. That is what that young mother said. She said that lots of people know what Labour is up to and that they are trying to fight it at every turn. She said that the Government just does not listen and that she is disappointed disillusioned and very scared about her future her children’s future and her grandchildren’s future. She said that this Government has done so many disgusting morally wrong things during its term and she asked when it would end. My reply to her will be that there is only one team in Parliament that is prepared to be accountable that knows how to manage money and that cares about people. That team led by John Key is the National Party. “It’s always better in blue. Party vote: National.”—that is what I will be telling that young mum.