Ross Jami-Lee: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoss Jami-Lee: General Debate[Sitting date: 23 September 2015. Volume:709;Page:6938. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany): There is something wrong in New Zealand politics right now. There is something wrong in New Zealand politics right now because the Leader of the Opposition the guy who wants to be the Prime Minister of this country came into this House and asked the Prime Minister of New Zealand about pandas. He had no other issues to raise. He could not come up with any policies himself that he wanted to promote. There was nothing real nothing of substance to attack the Prime Minister on. He wanted to ask about pandas. For goodness’ sake! Does the Leader of the Opposition and the Labour Party have nothing better to talk about?The second significant question we had from the Labour Party was from the bright young friendly face of the Labour Party. When she asked a question she was complaining about a speech the Prime Minister gave promoting a policy that he feels passionate about. What is wrong with the Labour Party when those are the only issues that it can come up with? Do we hear Labour members talking about jobs any more? No we do not because this Government has created 199000 jobs since 2011. We are creating jobs. We have seen 11 quarters of job growth in this country 18 quarters of economic growth in this country and the reason why we do not hear them talking about that much anymore is that we are succeeding in providing more opportunities for New Zealanders.Did we hear them asking about health and the fact that there are more New Zealanders getting access to elective surgery? When I go out and about in my electorate when I go around the country like other members on this side we do not hear people talking about scurrilous little issues that Labour members raise in question time. People talk about the fact that they want more jobs—the jobs we are delivering. They want to see more operations for seniors in this country and we are delivering those with 50000 more operations in the past 6 years.People want to hear more about education and about the fact that more young people are achieving in our education system. [Interruption] When people like Iain Lees-Galloway went to the election in 2008 they left us with an education system where one in three children were failing and were not getting National Certificate in Educational Achievement level 2. [Interruption] Mr Iain Lees-Galloway if you want to shout out about something that is what you should have been complaining about—the one in three children who were failing. Under Anne Tolley and now under Hekia Parata more children are getting educated. More kids are coming out of our education system with qualifications and four out of five kids are getting an education that they can be proud of.Iain Lees-Galloway: Are they getting work? Where are the jobs?JAMI-LEE ROSS: Absolutely they are getting work because 200000 new jobs have been created in the last 2 years.Do we hear Labour members talking much about housing anymore? Do they raise housing as an issue in question time? I did not hear housing being raised in question time today. The reason why they did not raise housing in question time is that we are developing and seeing more houses being developed in Auckland. We are seeing more young New Zealanders getting access to housing in our country. That is another thing for us to be proud of. We have seen 84 special housing areas established in Auckland with the potential for 40000 new houses in Auckland in those special housing areas. We are seeing young New Zealanders getting better access through the HomeStart scheme. Those are positive things for this country.Do we hear Labour members talking much about law and order anymore in question time? I did not hear them talking much about law and order. The reason is that crime is coming down in this country. More police officers are on the street in this country. Reoffending is dropping in this country. New Zealanders are safer in this country.There is something wrong with the Labour Party in this country. They do not focus on the issues any more. They are always saying no to positive things that will help this country. They have a leader who enjoys the support of less than 10 percent of the MPs on their side.They are facing a Government led by an individual like John Key who is impressive on the world stage who is leading this country through great economic growth greater than that of many other countries we compare ourselves with. He is leading this country to get more jobs. He is leading a Government that is balancing the books getting the books back in shape. We have a Government that is working. We have an Opposition that is no longer focused on the real issues and that is what New Zealanders are seeing night after night on the 6 o’clock news.