Faafoi Kris: Budget DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFaafoi Kris: Budget Debate[Sitting date: 02 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4193. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana):It is a pleasure to speak as Labour’s last speaker in this Budget debate. I would like to thank Tim Macindoe for two things. The first thing is that he realised that well within 8 minutes of his own speech he would be asleep so he set himself an alarm. He set himself an alarm. He fell asleep but with 2 minutes to go Tim Macindoe’s alarm went off. That tells you the story of this Budget. This is a tired Budget from a tired Government that has fallen asleep not only just at the wheel but at the chief whip’s speech. Eight minutes into it he had enough. He had to set an alarm and that speaks volumes for this Government and this Budget. I would also like to thank Tim Macindoe and wish him well for his career post the 2017 election as a standby judge for Dancing with the Stars—as a standby judge for Dancing with the Stars. Because with his performance of scores out of 10—inaccurate by the way; inaccurate—that is pretty much all the chief whip for the House has got.Accuracy is something that is very important to me. I want to be accurate in the way that we have described this Budget. Some of my colleagues have said that this Budget lacks vision. I do not think that is quite precise. If your vision is that you can tax it you can sell it you can charge for it and you can make a profit out of it then this is the Budget for you. I thought I had seen everything in this Budget but to wake up this morning and to hear about this Government with its plans for social bonds I thought “This has gone too far.” This is a serious issue. This is a Government that wants to help people make profits out of the treatment of mental health patients. I have thrown some accusations at the National Government before but to think that this is not a good old-fashioned Tory Government when it wants to charge or help companies make profit out of mental health provisions in our communities—it shows you just how true Tory this Government is. It shows you just how true Tory this Government is.Where is the vision in this Budget for children in my electorate of Mana to dream to succeed? For those children who are vulnerable for those children who come from Housing New Zealand homes and private rental homes where their families are struggling there is no vision in this Budget. Let us look at those many thousands of constituents of mine who live in Housing New Zealand houses. Where is the vision for them? There is none. The only vision for those families is that this Budget allows this Government to sell off swaths of Housing New Zealand homes. I came from a State home too just like the Prime Minister who sits over there. I am proud to say I grew up in one. That State home let me get here. It was an anchor in my community. But that Government over there wants to take that away. That Government wants to take that away—to take that opportunity away from many of those families from many of those children who want a good affordable warm house to live in. Those members sit over there and they are quite happy to do that.Where is the vision for helping our families save? Well there is none. It is the eighth time in this Budget that this Government has taken a crack at KiwiSaver—the eighth time. All those 2.5 million people saw the benefit and the incentive of the $1000 kick-start that is now gone for anyone who has not already signed up. I made the point during the Budget debates that some of the members across the House have already signed up to KiwiSaver. I know we are not allowed to read speeches but for the purposes of accuracy I want to read the roll of honour of people who voted for getting rid of the KiwiSaver kick-start but who have probably already taken that $1000. So here it is: Amy Adams Todd Barclay Maggie Barry Andrew Bayly Chris Bishop Simon Bridges Gerry Brownlee David Carter Matt Doocey Sarah Dowie Te Ururoa Flavell Craig Foss Paul Foster-Bell Marama Fox Paul Goldsmith Jo Goodhew Joanne Hayes Brett Hudson Nikki Kaye Nuk Korako Barbara Kuriger Melissa Lee Tim Macindoe Todd McClay Ian McKelvie Mark Mitchell Todd Muller Jono Naylor Alfred Ngaro Simon O’Connor Hekia Parata Parmjeet Parmar Alistair Scott Scott Simpson Stuart Smith Lindsay Tisch Nicky Wagner Maurice Williamson Michael Woodhouse and Jian Yang.Those people have already signed up to KiwiSaver. They have signed up to KiwiSaver and they have got their $1000 but they are going to deny future generations of this country their incentive to start their KiwiSaver programme. They have taken your $1000—they are all sweet they are good but they are not going to let future generations of Kiwis sign up to KiwiSaver and have their incentive to start their savings regime from a very young age. My simple message that I will continue to say to that side of the House is “Give it back.” Give it back. Give it back. If you are quite happy to sit in this House and say that we do not need this anymore—that is not an incentive. There is not an incentive anymore to sign up to KiwiSaver. Give the money back. Give the money back. There is a deafening silence from that side of the House. There is a deafening silence.Is it not a strange strange coincidence that the first year of savings from getting rid of the KiwiSaver kick-start is about $175 million? What is Bill English’s proposed surplus for the next financial year? It is $176 million. So with one fell swoop getting rid of that KiwiSaver kick-start the Government has landed itself on a surplus. But hold on a minute. We have been here before. The Government has said that we will get to surplus. Again this is a Government that has said we are in surplus. It is a complete and utter fallacy that this Government has ever delivered a surplus. Again for the records and for accuracy it is not 9 nil; it is 9 negative 7. The Government has been there for 7 years and has not delivered one surplus. Government members sit over there saying that they are the great economic managers of New Zealand and this Government is working for a better New Zealand but they have not managed to deliver one surplus. This Government has not delivered one surplus. So in the interests of accuracy it is not 9 nil. I want it put into Hansard that the last Labour Government delivered nine surpluses and Bill English has not delivered one. In fact he is on negative 7—that is how bad this Government is.We were told just before the election that there would be no new taxes. Well in this Budget there are three new taxes. If you are going to go overseas and come back you are going to get charged a new tax. Of course the Government calls it a levy—let us google “levy”. Let us take the chance to google “levy” as the Prime Minister said. Is it a tax or is it not? Well that was the debate. Google “levy”—bang! It is a tax. If you go through the airport you are going to get charged $22. Were Kiwis told about that? No. If you have got a broadband internet connection or you are a mobile user you are going to be paying a levy or tax on that. Also we can go into the debate about a capital gains tax. The list member from Palmerston North has already said it is a capital gains tax when the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister said it was not.This is a tired Government. This is a tired Budget. It is a tired Budget from a tired Government that has fallen asleep at the wheel. I want to thank Tim Macindoe. We had to wait 15 hours to get to the truth and his alarm went off because he himself had fallen asleep. That is what happened 8 minutes through the speech—I think he was probably asleep for 15 hours especially through his own members’ contributions. This is a Budget that lacks vision. It is not tackling the real issues that matter to Kiwis. They are around housing—and if you want to know our plan make sure you do something about investing in Housing New Zealand and building some houses. Nick Smith would not know a thing about that. I would love to go to one of Nick Smith’s consent-warming parties because that is all he has delivered. That is all he has delivered. In education we are seeing Government members crowing about extra investment. The Government cut the education budget. What we have seen today—and this is a serious issue—in health is where this Government’s real DNA lies. It wants to help people make profit out of looking after people with mental illness. Is that the kind of Government that New Zealanders want? I do not think so. We know what is going to happen there: the easy cases get taken and the profit gets made and those that are too hard get left and nothing is done with them. That is the real DNA of this Government. This is a tired Government. It has run out of ideas and is asleep at the wheel and Tim Macindoe’s alarm clock absolutely confirmed that.