Garcia PauloPAULO GARCIA (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. Thank you for this opportunity to speak in the general debate. I give voice to all migrant families—especially first-generation migrant families in New Zealand. Whether Filipino or Indian Chinese or Pacific Pacific or European whether living in New Lynn or any other electorate I speak for families often with young children with parents who are both working very hard—many times possibly working two or more jobs and long long hours. These are the people who keep New Zealand moving and who allow other New Zealanders to live their lives to the full. This scenario is actually also true for all young families living in New Zealand with parents who are aspirational and who are focused on giving their children the best opportunities for their future who are ready to work hard and prosper and who wish only to be allowed to enjoy the fruits of their hard work to live in vibrant communities to be able to easily travel from place to place and to have their children well educated and graduating into our country where opportunities for work are there and available to them. When this is true for any family their costs will be and their hard-earned money will have been used to the very last cent in providing for their families' needs and for some even in sending money overseas to their relatives in their home countries. At this stage when everything has been spent will hardly anything be available apart from money spent on costs for housing and accommodation for transportation and for food for the families. Living arrangements can be quite bare and all wish for solutions. Yes we all wish that solutions were as simple as increasing the minimum wage or having cash handouts through benefit payments. Such solutions however create problems of their own: expansion plans and salary increases are held back and an increased dependence and mostly also a generational dependence on the benefit. Now especially it becomes harder still when new taxes including fuel taxes are imposed especially when no new taxes were promised in the lead-up to the 2017 elections. So we ask where is the integrity in that especially when other promises like more affordable and available housing and better roads and transport—including light rail to the airport in Auckland—have failed or have been delayed beyond what had been promised? We must ask again where is the integrity in that? How could promises like these have been made when presumably there would have been an opportunity to prepare to think things through and to be ready with a plan that could be effectively carried out over the nine years that those Government members had been in Opposition? It seems that with all the discussion and the talk and the reference to the rhetoric of nine years of neglect actually that nine years of neglect does apply to them. My wife and I have been involved in parent education for over 20 years and one of the key teachings to build integrity in children is to say what you mean and mean what you say and to not make any promises unless you know well that you could deliver and make good on the promise. Responsible parenting means you will have weighed all options studied and thought through your plans and made sure that you could deliver. Although this may be a very simplistic analogy—SPEAKER: Order! PAULO GARCIA: —in itself—SPEAKER: Order! PAULO GARCIA: —if New Zealand were a family—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member's time has expired.