Loheni AgnesAGNES LOHENI (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to take part in today's general debate. I'm sorry that I interrupted that list. We are about seven weeks out from Christmas but clearly and sadly many New Zealand families are not going to be having much Christmas cheer this time round. We've heard already today and this week through Ministry of Social Development data that food grants have doubled. What an indication that is. That is quite a significant indication that things are on the decline for New Zealand families. These are the same families that have faced rents going up and fuel going up. The price of electricity has gone up as well. The other quite sad fact under this Government—and it has been noted here already by my colleagues—is that number around the jobseeker benefit. I know members on the other side of the House have stood there and tried to point their finger at us and say that we are bashing beneficiaries that we're stigmatising but actually this works in the Government's favour because actually victimhood is your currency. [Interruption] Yeah that's right. Growing greater dependency of New Zealand—SPEAKER: Order! AGNES LOHENI: Oh yeah it's hurting but more people more New Zealanders are on benefits. You love it. You're creating victims and you love it. I'll say it again—[Interruption] Oh I'll say it again: under this Government victimhood is your currency. SPEAKER: Order! AGNES LOHENI: So for anyone under 25 who is not working what an indictment. This Government should be going flat tack to get young people into jobs and you've just quoted Mana in Mahi I don't know how many times. If Mana in Mahi was working that number of young people on benefits would not be going up. So that's not working. It is about jobs because they are opportunities. It's about a path a pathway to a prosperous life. It's about a pathway where you can learn resilience and learn some life skills and personal responsibility and it's building character giving them some purpose to get on to a better path for themselves and for their families. For the Labour Government to put out a two-minute video listing so-called achievements that anyone else would call creative accounting—I'll list off some things for you. I've got a list as well. SPEAKER: Order! Not me not me—repeatedly. AGNES LOHENI: I've got a list for the members—not for you Mr Speaker. So here's a list—yeah here we go. Oh hang on first off: KiwiBuild—how about that. KiwiBuild did nothing and couldn't meet the targets. Broke the no new taxes promise; instead introduced seven new taxes. Broke the 1800 new police promise. Gang members up—gang members up 26 percent. Petrol prices have gone up. Rent has gone up. State housing wait-lists are through the roof—so you can't deliver on housing. Oh hang on I've got some more: triple the number of people are living in motels; increased young people on the benefit at a five-year high; no new roads—that's right; no new roads—failed to attract any new students in your fees-fee policy. Oh and delivered an oil and gas ban that will actually increase emissions and also delivered record low business confidence. So let's pick up on that last one. What makes it worse—the situation I've listed off—is that our economy is stalling. We've had economist Cameron Bagrie saying that businesses do not trust this Government. They are actually really nervous. So with all indicators saying that we should be roaring our economy is not roaring. Businesses are nervous. They're not going to put their hands in their pockets to invest and that is clearly because they don't trust this Government. They trust this Government to actually tax them more to interfere more in their businesses and to destroy relationships between business owners and employees. That's what businesses know under a Labour Government. That's why they're not confident they're not going to spend and our economy is going to continue to stall.