Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Thank you Mr Speaker. Early this morning the National Party launched our education discussion document—the sixth of eight policy discussion documents that we're going to be releasing. I'd like to take this opportunity to do a big shout-out to Nikki Kaye. She has put in two long years of incredibly hard work to get to this point. This is what we call a recipe for good government because we do the hard work in Opposition so that we are ready to govern with strong ideas to move this country forward.This Government should take note because they've also been following a recipe. It's a recipe I like to call lame duck Government". As it turns out it's a recipe for disaster. The preparation time? Nine very long years of rotating through many many leaders.Dan Bidois: They did nothing. ERICA STANFORD: They did nothing. They had a whole bunch of infighting. They were just lazy and they didn't do the grunt work. That's the problem—no grunt work like what we are doing. It's become completely apparent to the whole country that these guys came in and they had absolutely no idea what they were doing. They're trying to backfill with 300 working groups at the cost of millions and millions of dollars to generate ideas that they're not even using. Let's take the Welfare Expert Advisory Group—42 recommendations; three taken up. The education task force with the central idea of education hubs—gone. Michael Cullen and the Tax Working Group—thanks but no thanks.The ingredients? A very easy-to-source bunch of extremely incompetent Ministers. There's a smorgasbord of them in front of me. Let's take Julie Anne Genter who has difficulties with stationery and writes secret letters. Carmel Sepuloni—in two short years she's overseen 22000 more people on the dole a doubling of the housing wait-list a doubling of food grants and now we see gang numbers are up 26 percent. David Clark is having to bail out district health boards left right and centre. He's got fewer elective surgeries in the last 12 months than the previous 12 months emergency department waiting times are up and we've had a measles outbreak with vaccines that haven't been forthcoming.Jenny Salesa the "Minister for Vaping"—she's had legislation from us with regulations around the vaping industry on her desk for two years. So if you're out there and listening and your kid is addicted to nicotine through vaping go and have a chat to Jenny Salesa.Iain Lees-Galloway—welcoming drug dealers and recidivist drink-drivers into this country with open arms while overseeing a ministry where wait times for New Zealanders trying to obtain visas for their loved ones has gone from 33 days to five months to 10 months in cases that are coming to my office. Meanwhile he's got a ministry with a lack of staff to process visas a revolving door of staff who keep leaving because they're so disaffected and that Minister is directly responsible.Phil Twyford can't build houses can't build light rail and now he's going to move the port apparently.Stuart Nash—1800 new police or maybe it's 1800 additional new police dancing on the head of a pin while the police commissioner is directly contradicting him.Grant Robertson—despite trying his best to be jolly and cheery he can't hide from the facts. We've got growth rates that have halved plummeting business confidence interest rates heading into the negatives productivity that's completely flat-lined job growth that's gone from 10000 a month under us to 10000 a quarter under these guys and an economy that is shaky at best. But hey at least his airline puns are first class. Kelvin Davis Shane Jones Clare Curran—the list goes on.The method? Wheeling and dealing flip-flops kneecapping broken promises backtracks overpromising under-delivering mishandling and cover-ups. We have an executive chef who sprinkles fairy dust and then flits overseas with the Rt Hon Winston Peters who's suing people left right and centre. In fact I would suggest he's making the perfect "sue-chef" kneecapping the Government at every opportunity to try and prove to them that he really is the one in charge. Too many chefs. It's all served up with a side of sad wilted Greens who shackled themselves to the left and watched New Zealand First who only got 24000 votes more than them get a $4 billion doggy bag. How embarrassing for them. They were left with a hundred million dollar Green Investment Fund which in two years they haven't even spent a single cent of. They've got no cameras on fishing boats Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary is off the table plastics are piling up urban beaches are unswimmable they're still burning more coal than ever and greenhouse gas emissions are going to continue to rise through to the mid-2020s.While this unholy concoction may be served with a smile it leaves us with a very bad taste in our mouths. New Zealanders deserve better than a lame duck. We have put in the prep in Opposition. We have the recipe for success and we will serve it up come 2020."