SpeechHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Well we're going to look after all New Zealanders solve all things for everybody all at once all without any costs and all without any implications and all because we're so perfect and aren't we lovely? And shouldn't we all believe in the all-powerful Government of the day?Well that's the Labour rhetoric that those members of Parliament have been told caucus after caucus by their senior leaders: Don't worry about the economy. Don't worry about your seats. Don't worry about any of that. It's going to come right. The economy is going to come right." Do not listen to Grant Robertson. He's been feeding you that line all year. It's time to wake up.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! The member will come back to this particular bill. It's not a general debate.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Well this bill is for all New Zealanders at all times and to be all-conquering. That's what the Labour Party is saying and it is a dream. They are falsifying the future for themselves and they have got reality coming in a few months' time.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! The member will come back to this bill. He's spoken for a minute—not actually about this bill. Come back to the bill.Hon DAVID BENNETT: OK. If we—Erica Stanford: Terisa Ngobi didn't talk about the bill.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Ha ha! Yeah. Yes but if we look at the bill it is classic Labour Party policy. It is centralisation. It is taking from communities that have actually invested in those assets over time putting it into one pot and saying that it's going to solve all the issues that the country faces. That's the Labour Party's plan.The reality is first of all you're taking from councils that have made good investments. Secondly they can't answer the question about how much it will actually cost to do up the really big things. How much will it cost to do up the stormwater in Auckland? They can't answer that. They refuse to answer that because they know it's well in advance of any money that will come from putting all the rural communities that have done well with their water schemes together to pay for those big urban costs.Shanan Halbert: Which ones?Hon DAVID BENNETT: Which ones? You ask and OK we'll go through all of the ones that submitted and many of them are—South Canterbury: in that area many of those submitted that they had a perfect scheme. Whangārei was a great example. That member's from Auckland he's in the Greater Auckland water scheme now and Whangārei came to the Finance and Expenditure Committee and said "Our water scheme is really good. We've invested heavily. We don't need to now cross-subsidise Auckland's under-investment." That is what Whangārei said and Whangārei is the council that came in front and did that. So when that member asks what councils submitted and what did they say well that's what they said. They all said also that the Minister came and saw them. He did this glorious tour you know around the country and was listening to all their views. But then the legislation was completely the opposite—completely the opposite. Never took any of their views into account. It was false. It was just an attempt to placate those communities. That's what they were doing.This is a symbol of the failures of this Labour Government. It shows all the hallmarks of everything they've failed at. It's late it's centralised it doesn't work it's unfunded and it's got no actual direction to it. It is just a wish list on a piece of paper. That's all it is and that's all they've got because they don't know how to do anything. They haven't delivered one thing in Government apart from destroying the New Zealand economy and that is the only thing that this Labour government will be known for.This bill is really just an example of what a failure they've been. It's a disaster for water services in New Zealand. It's never going to see the light of day. It's going to be reversed in a couple of months' time. It's a complete sham waste of time—whatever you want to call it. At the same time any real issues in the water scenes of New Zealand haven't been dealt with by this Government when they should have been dealt with. So there's no way we're going to support it."