van de Molen TimTIM VAN DE MOLEN (National—Waikato): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Missed opportunity—that's what springs to mind first and foremost. This Budget was a huge opportunity. There was huge potential for our new Government to make New Zealanders proud. It was absolutely underwhelming what they've delivered for us.I must say going through this budgeting process for the first time I was really excited. I was really looking forward to hearing some of these things and whilst I would have loved to have been on the Government benches that wasn't the case. But I thought Well hey this Government has got $34 billion to invest in the future of New Zealand. Surely they're going to have plenty of fantastic policies—plenty of great things for everyday New Zealanders." and yet what have they delivered? They have absolutely underperformed with this fantastic opportunity they've been presented with. Huge surpluses—they had so much available and on top of that they were borrowing another $10 billion to add to that massive cash pool. New Zealanders deserve better. They have been severely let down by this Budget and although the Government did every effort to decrease expectations they have actually underperformed those decreased expectations significantly.It was interesting to note that the Prime Minister herself said that she's not proud of New Zealand and she wants to be proud of New Zealand again. Well I'm proud of New Zealand now. This is a fantastic country that has a fantastic history. We've had a great past nine years. The economy has been in a fantastic position and yet the Government squanders that opportunity to make it even better still and all we're hearing from the other side is attack—attack about what's coming from this side of the House. No attempt to try and justify or explain why it's fantastic. It's just "try and pick the Opposition to pieces." Well that suggests that they don't even back their own Budget. They can't even have confidence.You can look across the House now and see all those heads hanging because they all know that they have severely under-delivered on this opportunity. Look at agriculture—and in the Waikato that's a major industry for us; we're proud to be a heartland of agriculture in New Zealand—and they have significantly under-delivered again. Biosecurity as we've just heard from Mr Yule is a fantastic area that is hugely important for all of us as New Zealanders and yet we're seeing that investment cut by 50 percent as we're seeing such a focus on Mycoplasma bovis.Simeon Brown: By how much?TIM VAN DE MOLEN: A 50 percent reduction Mr Brown. That is outrageous.They get up here and tell us that we are not doing enough for biosecurity and then they cut it in half. Where's the sense in that? That is outrageous and disappointing for all of rural New Zealand. On top of that they decided that actually they need to break apart the Ministry for Primary Industries because it wasn't doing a good enough job. Well OK so what have they done? They've broken it into four new segments and they've lifted the cost to run it. What's the point of that? Adding more cost into bureaucracy and what are they gaining from it? They're stripping the funding to achieve that actually out of the Primary Growth Partnership. So on the one hand they're saying we need more innovation in agriculture if we're going to change the way we farm and we're going to be better at managing biosecurity and yet they're cutting that very funding in the research and development space for the Primary Growth Partnership. It does not make sense.And then we come to the family side. Well our families as we know are paying now a thousand dollars more in tax than they would have been. They've been given an untargeted "spray and walk away" winter energy payment. And of course there is the broken promise around the $10 cheaper doctors visits. Kiwis should be and rightly are disappointed in this and this Government will find that you cannot talk your way out of something you've acted your way into.Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: I miss Lindsay Tisch.TIM VAN DE MOLEN: Feel free to write that one down Mr Lees-Galloway. Think about and reflect on it because I think you'll find that you have sorely disappointed New Zealanders across the country—broken promises. We're seeing priorities left right and centre—and they haven't got them right. We hear about diplomats and foreign aid and hey these things are great if you can afford to do them. But they're sacrificing so many other key areas that they could have—could have—made a fantastic contribution on. Roading is another massive one for the Waikato. The expressway projects have been cut—three of them—and yet we hear the New Zealand Transport Agency saying we've got six of the 10 highest-risk rural intersections and they're not doing anything with these projects to support it. It is a huge missed opportunity and it's disappointing to see."