Ross Jami-Lee: Supplementary Estimates — Imprest Supply DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoss Jami-Lee: Supplementary Estimates — Imprest Supply Debate[Sitting date: 24 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18827. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany):I am pleased to take what I think is the final call in this appropriations debate. I am pleased to take the final call to talk about the good work that the Government is doing and the funding that will come from this appropriations legislation and how it will assist the Government to continue to deliver the results for New Zealanders. We are delivering results for New Zealanders. New Zealanders know when they head to the polling booths in less than 3 months’ time that they can trust this Government to keep delivering the results. I think when they look at which side of this House they can trust to deliver trust to keep their word and trust to do the right thing for New Zealanders they know that the John Key - led Government can deliver for New Zealanders.I have been listening in the House through most of the debate and have listened to the speakers from the other side. You would not think when you listen to speeches from the other side that in this country we have one of the fastest-growing economies in the OECD. You would not realise listening to speeches from the other side that 84000 New Zealanders in the last year gained jobs and in the next 4 years 170000 New Zealanders will be gaining jobs. You would not realise from the speeches from the other side that in the last 2 years average wages have increased by $3000 and unemployment is on its way down. Unemployment will continue to go on the way down and wages will continue to rise as well.I see the Minister of Education is in the Chamber. Let us just remind ourselves that 6 years ago the Labour Government left one in three children leaving school having been failed by the education system. Minister Parata and Minister Tolley before her have changed the education system in this country and now New Zealand children are achieving at higher rates than they ever did under the Labour Government. Those National Ministers of Education who have delivered for New Zealand children need to be congratulated. Crime is coming down. Unemployment is coming down. Reoffending is coming down. Wages are going up. More people are coming off the welfare queue. This Government can be trusted—trusted—to deliver on the things that we say we are going to do.All of a sudden the Labour Party has decided that it wants to focus on the issues that matter. We have been focusing on the issues that matter for 6 years now—6 years now. All of a sudden Labour decided 2 months ago when its members were talking about cups of tea and short trips to the airport that those were the things that mattered. Now all of a sudden when the trust and the integrity and the problems of the Labour leader are called into question they change their tune. They get back in their boxes. They want to start talking about the issues that matter.Sue Moroney: Oh smear campaign! National Party smearing—as they do.JAMI-LEE ROSS: I see that we have Sue Moroney squawking over on the other side. In the last couple of days the Labour list came out. The people on the other side through this appropriations debate will probably be hoping that they will be able to participate in the appropriations debate next year. I have got a bit of news for Sue Moroney because at her list ranking on current polling she will not be here next year to speak in the appropriations debate. For Sue Moroney to be here next year Labour would have to achieve 25.6 percent. At current polling this will be the last time Sue Moroney can squawk in this appropriations debate. Raymond Huo is up the back. He is actually not such a bad guy. He should have a higher list ranking. Certainly I am sure he thinks so. For Raymond Huo to be able to participate in next year’s appropriations debate Raymond Huo and the Labour Party would have to get 29 percent—Sue Moroney: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. This is a debate about the estimates. I know that the Government has not got much good news of its own to trumpet—Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Look I have cautioned the member before about using points of order to make an attack. That is quite out of order. The member started by making a point about the relevance of comments. That was a good point of order. Then she spoilt it. I will let the member continue but it is the estimates debate.JAMI-LEE ROSS: That point of order is probably the last contribution that member will be making in an appropriations debate.We are delivering. We can be trusted. In health in education in law and order and in the economy this Government is delivering. I know Sue Moroney is having a difficult time because the party in this Parliament that is delivering higher paid parental leave for New Zealanders is the National Party. The National Party is delivering higher paid parental leave. The National Party is the party that is delivering an extended period of weeks for New Zealand families to get paid parental leave. That just does not sit too well with Sue Moroney because she knows she will be leaving this place in a few months’ time having failed on that particular policy.I want to touch on housing briefly too because Mr Phil Twyford before the dinner break wanted to talk about housing. Apparently the Labour Party talking about delivering 10000 houses a year is a great big achievement that it is going to be able to deliver. We are already delivering consents at an average of 13000 per year. The interventions the Labour Party is promising in Auckland will not work so the extra regulatory requirements it will be putting in place will actually harm the housing system in Auckland. The best way to deliver on housing which Mr Twyford has not worked out is for the Government to put the regulatory framework in place for the private sector to deliver more houses and that is what we are doing.This country is enjoying higher growth. New Zealanders are seeing that they are coming off the welfare queue getting into jobs and being able to deliver for their families because they are having higher wages and a more productive economy—an economy that supports regions like Taranaki to be able to have strong economic growth. When we look at the other side those members are opposed to growth they are opposed to supporting the regions and they are opposed to New Zealand being a fast-growing economy. New Zealanders know they can trust the National Party and the John Key - led National Government. I am looking forward to seeing what New Zealanders come up with in the polling booths in less than 3 months’ time.