Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): What finger did that Minister lift? What hard decision did that Minister make when in his own backyard the Cadbury factory closes down and 360 jobs disappear from his community—not a whisper not a mutter not a finger lifted.The only real surplus we see from that Government is a surplus of spin—an absolute surplus of spin. All it gives us is a surplus on a piece of paper. That is all it is worth—the paper it is written on. The surplus they keep referring to means nothing to real-world New Zealanders living week to week. New Zealanders across this country have watched for nearly a decade as that party has cut as it has slashed and as it has burned. Week by week month by month and year by year those National Party members have lost touch with real-world New Zealanders. They do not know what is going on in the real world.That pursuit of a piece of paper surplus has meant for example that mental health issues have risen suicides have risen across the board and we still have the highest teen suicide rates in the entire world. All the while that that is happening this Government in the pursuit of a piece-of-paper surplus has slashed the budget for mental health and suicide prevention. That is what a surplus means to that Government. People now see that this paper surplus has led to longer waiting lists at our hospitals although to be fair you have to wait on a waiting list to get on the waiting list because the numbers are so bad now.Even the current promised increase in police numbers—and we have not heard anything about that lately—does not bring the level of police up to the level they were at when that Government took control and had power over the books for the Police. Even the promises do not bring us back to the start of when they took over. It is an absolute farce and it is wrong to suggest that they are doing something for our regions and people in their homes. Literally—literally—people are less safe in their homes and drugs especially P have spread rampantly throughout this country.I was informed only last week from the Police that gangs and their memberships are growing like weeds across New Zealand at historic numbers and that comes back to our police numbers and the opportunities that those gangs now have. Across the country station after station is closing down and the wait that people are forced to endure is getting longer. I have been told that in Northland with the current staffing provision even if a policeman or policewoman is dispatched immediately on a call the wait can still be 40 minutes—40 minutes in a person's time of crisis.Contributions to the Cullen fund were stopped to achieve that paper surplus. The opportunity cost of that short-sighted decision has meant a loss of $22 billion to that retirement fund—$22 billion. For nearly 10 years the Government not only has done nothing about Government debt but has grown it exponentially. It now exceeds $100 billion. This National Government's paper surplus has destroyed lives and families. It has been overshadowed by the largest debt this country has ever seen. Aucklanders are now spending 4 weeks in traffic every year. And that is because—Rt Hon Winston Peters: How many?FLETCHER TABUTEAU: Four weeks in traffic every year because this Government just lets in the equivalent of the population of Rotorua every year and does nothing and spends no money on infrastructure. Auckland and actually the rest of the country is choking up. It is absolutely choking up. This Government needs to stop talking about its paper surplus and acknowledge the real world and real families. Bill English needs to own the fact that his—his—term of cuts has led to and will lead to even greater poverty not only in our homes but in our businesses. Thank you very much.