Jones Dail: Budget Debate 
Jones Dail: Budget Debate 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
: 
 Helen Duncan one of the Labour members who preceded both the previous speaker and myself made a speech based on the slogan “We’re keeping our word”. There is nothing original in this Labour Party. That was the National Party theme song in 1978. What a dull boring bunch Labour Party members are. 
Hon Member 
: And you would know. 
DAIL JONES 
: I would know. We kept our word and we were re-elected in 1981. How boring Helen Duncan is! How boring Michael Cullen is! 
Ron Mark 
: She’s a Nat. 
DAIL JONES 
: Well maybe she is a Nat in disguise but there is nothing original on the part of that Labour Party. Of course in thinking about keeping our word I note there is a novel way of doing that in the Labour Party. I heard Lynne Pillay’s speech. She said that in 2007 there would be seven secondary schools in Waitakere City. I started to think then to count and I worked out that currently we have Rutherford High School Kelston Boys High School and Kelston Girls High School—those two I think in the new Waitakere City—Henderson High School Green Bay High School Massey High School which makes six and Waitakere College. That is seven. We have seven colleges there now. She is going to keep her word—there will still be seven in 2007! What a wonderful election campaign—we will have seven secondary schools in 2007 and we have seven now. 
That indicates of course that that Waitakere member has no idea about Waitakere. She probably does not know where it begins or where it ends unlike those of us who have worked in Waitakere in one way or another since 1975—as I have done spending nine of those years as a constituency MP. The situation so far as schools are concerned is that Waitakere is one of the fastest growing areas in New Zealand and we need not one but probably two more secondary schools there. Massey High School’s roll now is about 2300 and it gets $2 million in overseas students fees. That situation in Waitakere City is a disgrace on the education scene at the moment and the member has totally disgraced herself in so far as her discussion about being a constituency member.  
I have asked the Minister of Education what he is doing about a new school in Waitakere City. All members will recall how he told his officials not to tell me what was going on and then I ended up with the entire file which told me the situation about the lack of progress over another secondary school in Waitakere City. I hope I am right about those seven schools. Kelston Boys High School and Kelston Girls High School I think are on the boundary but it seems to me that currently there are seven schools in Waitakere City. 
Mrs Pillay also said that this Labour Government was going to provide State housing for people in Waitakere City and we all know why that is necessary. It is because of all the immigrants coming into that city and New Zealanders are missing out. The waiting lists are full of immigrants who slot in on the lower levels of the State housing points system and State houses are being built in Waitakere City and given to new immigrants. The Hobsonville housing—all those houses taken up by the Air Force—will be taken up now by immigrants. 
Jill Pettis 
: Where was that member born? 
DAIL JONES 
: I have never had a State house. When I came to New Zealand I could not believe that someone would give a family a State house. My mother could not believe that education was free and insisted that I went to a school where we paid. The State has not paid for my housing or for my education other than—and I am very grateful for it—my university education which I believe I have put to good use. I have worked since 1961—43 years non-stop. I think if all New Zealanders set that sort of record we would be doing very well. I hope that answers Ms Pettis’ question. 
Another example of the sleight of hand of this Labour Party when it says: “We’re keeping our word” is exemplified in our sherry and port tax. That Minister Jim Anderton— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: You mean the students’ drink. 
DAIL JONES 
: It is when students go up to the bar after the game and say: “The sherries are on me”; “Pass the port”; “We’ll all pass the port.” after a game of rugby. 
John Carter 
: “Have a madeira m’dear”. 
DAIL JONES 
: “Have a madeira m’dear” and “a madeira for you m’dear” for all the girlfriends! Port sherry and madeira—the students love them. 
The “Keeping Our Word” scenario has been brought up and in that respect I share what Jim Anderton told the wine industry. I quote from a statement put out by the industry: “To make matters worse this ill-conceived policy was rushed through without consultation—consultation the industry was promised in writing on more than one occasion by the Hon Jim Anderton in February of this year. It is a serious injustice that this promise was not kept.” So Jim Anderton does not keep his word and this Government does not kept its word when that word is required to be kept. 
Again from a Waitakere City and west Auckland viewpoint generations of wine growers will be put to the wall as a result of this Labour Party’s policy and Lynne Pillay does not care. Really she does not even know. Let us be frank about it: she does not know how many high schools are in the area. She does not know any of the wine growers and she does not know the problems associated with generations of “Dallie” wine growers in general if we can say that word—Croatians who have made a substantial contribution to New Zealand by working all their lives as gumdiggers and then by coming down into the west of Auckland as workers. They have their port stored and their sherry stored—it takes 2 to 5 years and more to store sherry. Now they may as well pour it down the drain. All their capital has been destroyed in a stroke by Jim Anderton. 
This Labour Party Government if it wants to can rush legislation through the House with no trouble at all. It can keep us here until 10 past 5 in the morning. The leader of New Zealand First and myself were here at 10 past 5 one morning fighting that port and sherry bill. We know who our supporters are and we know the support we get on this issue for that product one way or another. We were here fighting away and that morning the vote was: 13 New Zealand First 10 National and three ACT. We were here fighting for our supporters— 
John Carter 
: No nine for National. 
DAIL JONES 
: Sorry. One of them was not conscious. Was one of them not conscious? 
John Carter 
: We can’t remember! 
DAIL JONES 
: Oh they cannot remember. We are here to support the people who vote for us the people who are being ripped off and attacked by this Labour Party. They are people in the last years of their life who like a port or sherry. This Labour Party does not like older people and I do not know why. 
In respect of young people we heard earlier today that the Child Poverty Action Group is concerned that 300000 young New Zealand children have not been helped by this Budget. Labour members should take the opportunity to read that report. 
Debate interrupted.