Woods MeganDr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): It is my pleasure to take a call on this bill. I would just like to acknowledge Pink Shirt Day when members across the House are united on taking a stand against bullying.After 9 long years in Government this is all this Government has got. This is what it dishes up in an election year bribe Budget. Does it do anything to address the big deficits that we have in this country? Does it do anything to address the housing crisis? No it does not. Does it do anything to address overcrowding and the stretch on our schools? No it does not. Schools in my electorate in Christchurch in Wigram are some of the most at-capacity and over-capacity schools in that city. Does it deliver for those schools? No it does not. Does it do anything to address the $1.7 billion gaping hole we have in the health budget? No it does not. Does it do anything to address the number of police that we need in our communities that the police themselves are saying we need? No it does not. This does not rebuild the social fabric of New Zealand. Instead all we see is a package of regressive tax cuts that do nothing to rebuild the kind of society that we want New Zealand to be.Well Labour is a progressive party. Labour is a party that stands for values and ideas where we do have a strong social fabric where we do not think it is acceptable that we have people who are now forced to bring up their children in a car. We do not think it is acceptable that children wait 12 weeks to see a mental health specialist after expressing suicidal thoughts—12-year-olds. Is that the kind of society we want? We do not think it is acceptable that we have overcrowding in our schools and that we can no longer hand on heart in this country say that we have a free open-to-everyone public education system.What will these tax cuts do? For some people they will deliver $1 a week. It is the One Dollar Bill Budget". That is what it will deliver for some of the lowest-paid people in this country. What the members opposite are trying to dress up—they are trying to throw the kitchen sink at this but let us actually just look at the tax part of this legislation that we are debating. We in this House are all going to get a good decent tax cut but for some of the lowest-paid workers in our country that is not what they are going to get. They will not get anywhere near the amount we will be getting. Those low-income earners will still be having to dip into their pockets—$200 a year for school stationery bills because this Government has underfunded the operational budget of schools and is doing nothing to address that. They will still not have access to a good public health system when they need it. The Government still has done nothing to address the housing crisis; instead it has thrown the short-term solution of an accommodation supplement at it. But the simple fact is that we do not have enough houses.What we need is a vision and some fresh thinking in this country and that is what a Labour Government will deliver. A week and a bit ago Andrew Little stood up at the Labour Party congress and showed what that is. Let us have a think about what it is when we think about the need for New Zealanders to have warm safe houses. What is Labour planning to do about that? We are planning to give back the subsidy that this Government has cut from homeowners to help them insulate and warm their homes. This bill and this Budget do nothing to address those things. Where is that? Instead what it is doing is it is giving high-income earners money at the expense of those earning less.We want to give those mid-income earners those people who have struggled to buy their own house whom this Government does not think need any assistance—we want to help them be able to insulate and warm their houses. We think that is a priority and that is what Budgets are about. And for Labour it is about rebuilding our health system. It is about rebuilding our education system. It is about making sure that we have a housing system that works for all New Zealanders so that nobody has to bring up their child in a car."