Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Thank you very much Madam Assistant Speaker. Never before has a Government been elected with so much high-sounding rhetoric so many good intentions so many promises but with such little idea about how to implement those intentions. Let's be clear: the Labour Party did not expect to win the last election because they went around the country spraying promises and money around like confetti. They went around the country promising $20 million here for rare diseases—[Interruption] ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] Order! I know it is Thursday afternoon but can I please just have the opportunity to hear the speech being delivered. Thank you.CHRIS BISHOP: They went around the country—$20 million for rare diseases here we'll get rid of school donations in the first year we'll do first year free for tertiary students and polytech students and we'll massively increase early childhood spending. And then they came to adding them all up and we said Actually your numbers don't add up. We've got some experience at this. We think there's a fiscal hole." and they mocked us and they laughed and they said "Oh you don't understand economics. You don't understand finances." What do we find? We find a Labour Government in power. We find that they are borrowing more they are spending more and they're taxing more. I mean we are in this very strange situation where the Government books are in outstanding shape thanks to the hard work of us in Government and the global economy's going well the New Zealand economy's doing well and the Government is going to borrow more—the debt track's blown out—they're going to spend more and on top of that we've got five new taxes. There's one tax cut. You've just got to own a good-looking racehorse so you know kudos for that I suppose but we've got five new taxes.So I want to go through the rhetoric and compare it with the actual reality because that's what the Government will ultimately be held to account on. Does their reality do their policies mesh with what they're trying to do with their high-sounding rhetoric? Well the Prime Minister says she will put children at the heart of everything this Government does and in their first six months what have they done? They've got rid of charter schools—charter schools that are helping out some of those kids who need support the most. We've got rid of Aspire Scholarships—$3 million; $3 million Aspire Scholarships cost. They take kids who are successful and have ambition and potential from low-decile communities and place them into other schools. Gone—$3 million. Jenny Salesa said the money will be better spent in the education system. Do you know how much that is extra per kid in the system? It's 14c a year—14c a child. I think we could have kept them. No money for KidsCan. They'll shut down the children's health camps. And you know what the worst thing is? The worst thing is the fees-free policy because it's $3 billion over four years for fewer students. I mean get that. It's unbelievable. It's a $3 billion policy that does not increase participation. It's just quite remarkable. What that means is there's no money for the Aspire Scholarships there's no money for the health camps there's no money for the cheaper GP visits and there's no money for early childhood education—from a Prime Minister that says that the early years are the most important and we've got to invest in the early years—and it's $3 billion going to kids who would probably most likely go to university in the first place and gain that degree and the income premium that comes from that. The Prime Minister is giving them a bribe because that's what it is. So that's how the rhetoric does not mesh with the reality.Then we get to the police which is my area—1800 new police. This grand promise—they're going to put them all on the beat; 1800. By the way just as an aside they said the 1800 new police would cost $40 million. That's what the Prime Minister said—$40 million. We said "No that's not right" and again they laughed at us and said "You don't understand how Government accounts work." Well guess what the Budget said it would cost? An extra $298 million which is not quite what we said which was $252 million but it's actually more. So that's just an aside. The 1800 new police—except actually it's not 1800 new police; it's 1100 front-line police 880 of them funded by National in Budget 2017 and it's over five years not three years. And Stuart Nash essentially admitted that to the House earlier so it's another broken promise.School donations: I know my colleague Nicola Willis is upset about that. And early childhood spending? They want to invest in the early years. The early childhood education budget increase funded volume growth. It funded roll growth. Chris Hipkins went all around the country in the last year saying he was going to massively increase spending. This is a Budget from a Government that does not know what it is doing and it is a Budget of broken promises."