Smith StuartSTUART SMITH (National—Kaikōura): I believe it's not my turn but I'm going to take it! So thank you very much Madam Speaker. There's been a massive spend-up in this Budget.Matt Doocey: I wouldn't want to talk about the Budget either!STUART SMITH: Well that's right. It is hard to actually be positive about this. We saw this earlier with Ayesha Verrall in the House and I did feel for her. My colleagues have been making the point that in the six years since this Government's been in expenditure on the Budget has gone up by $50 billion—where it was $28000 a household; an 80 percent increase—and we are no better off. We've got rising crime our education system is failing and of course our health sector is a complete and utter mess.I wanted to focus on some of the issues that come from that and I'll come to that in a minute but I think the warnings that have been touched on by the Hon Gerry Brownlee just before about Treasury giving warnings about this Budget have pointed out that the finance Minister has a track record of overspending on the Budget of $600 million. Of course the Governor of the Reserve Bank came out and kind of saved the finance Minister's bacon a bit by while raising the OCR by 25 basis points giving soothing words about there being no more rate rises. However Treasury's warning in those Budget papers about the finance Minister overspending by $600 million every year after a Budget has not fallen on deaf ears. I see that one of the banks today has come out and said there will be another rate rise. That's quite contrary to what the Governor of the Reserve Bank said and that's something that we should listen to.I think the disenchantment with the Government and the anger out there is really palpable. I had Erica Stanford in my electorate on Monday night. I didn't spend a cent on advertising and we had a huge crowd inside a pub to hear her. People are angry I can tell you that—they're not angry with us—and I don't feel good about that. All this money where's it going? The wasteful spending we heard about that. I thought I'd give you some examples. The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) spent $300000—$300000—on a TVNZ climate change special. Is that good investment of our taxpayers' money? I would argue it's not. They spent $470000 on the world carfree day. That's another waste of money. But it gets worse: $2.8 million on telling us all to have shorter showers. Now I would have thought with the mood on that side of the House they would want to have longer in the shower not less time in the shower! And the mental picture that was put up with the memes of poor old Grant Robertson on the shower story is quite quite amazing! They've spent $3.4 million on EECA campaigns on Google advertising. I think that's outrageous. But of course the worst is the $600 million they are giving in corporate welfare to large multinational companies.In the case of New Zealand Steel that company made a $3 billion after-tax profit in 2021 and they gave them $140 million of our money—money that we have all paid. They only got that money out of the carbon credit scheme which we've all paid for by paying more for our petrol—when people are paying in a cost of living crisis and then it goes on corporate welfare. We've had so much with those 14000 more bureaucrats $1.8 billion but it is finding money in weird places and those weird places are where the Government is spending it themselves. Don't lecture New Zealanders in a nanny State way about having shorter showers; save the money in your own backyard first. They're wasting money on stupid things and New Zealanders have really had enough of it. They are absolutely fed up with this Government.Anna Lorck: Go on have a cold shower every morning!STUART SMITH: Well I know Anna Lorck has a lot of cold showers and it's quite clearly not good for her. Anna Lorck: What? What? Go on!STUART SMITH: My case in point. Fine—if you want a cold shower that's fine but don't tell us what to do. I like a warm shower and I will have my showers for as long as I like. Thank you Madam Speaker.