McClay ToddHon TODD McCLAY (National—Rotorua): Well not even Phil Twyford's colleagues believe that you can live under a press release or one of his announcements because when he says with great pride that they've just announced a few houses that's not the 10000 every year that they promised. It's not going to be the 100000 over 10 years that they promised. He's become the Minister for Kiwi Announcements" certainly not KiwiBuild. That's symbolic of a Government that after 11 months is looking like they're tired and they are a shambles.It's one thing for him to be talking in most of his speech about the Opposition but we didn't hear a lot about the challenges they have holding three parties together in Government. It's a Government in shambles. The Greens have their heads down on most of these issues. They're swallowing rats as fast as they're chucked from one side of the Chamber over towards them and it is a Government that is lacking cohesion. It's certainly not seeing the strong leadership that the country is used to over an 18-year period and they have a crisis of ideas. But by golly they know how to spend taxpayers' money. They know how to spend the money.You see the biggest problem they have is we have a Prime Minister that can't say no to one of the parties in Government—just can't say no to one of those parties in Government. We've a Prime Minister who made a speech last week to deal with business confidence. Two days later the record low levels of business confidence came out and she has a Minister in her Government from a coalition party that actually rained on her parade. Not even one of Phil Twyford's press releases could stop what a member of the coalition Government did to detract from the Prime Minister's speech that very few if any of the business community have taken any solace from.She said in that speech jokingly that she is New Zealand's biggest employer. Well Mr Speaker let's have a little look through at the people I suppose she directly employs because she appointed them and gave them ministerial warrants. It's a very long list. You've got Clare Curran. You've got Meka Whaitiri. You've got Shane Jones Winston Peters and I tell you after the answers in the House today Acting Prime Minister Kelvin Jones—we'll add him to the list. They're all—Hon Dr Megan Woods: Kelvin Davis.Hon TODD McCLAY: Kelvin Davis. We'll add them to the list. Yes that's a point. Nobody knows his name when he's standing there acting on her behalf.Well let's go through them one by one. Clare Curran just stood in this House and answered questions. When asked about her Gmail account she said "to the best of my recollection". Well to Minister Curran that's what got her into trouble to start with. Her recollection either isn't there—it's not befitting of a Minister or it's just not convenient for her to come to this House and answer questions and tell people what's in her diary.I think there's a long way to go in this but there shouldn't be. The Prime Minister should hold her Ministers to account as Helen Clark did and John Key did and when a Minister has misled her not on one occasion but on a number of occasions as New Zealand's largest employer she shouldn't say "Just move offices; it's proportionate." She should say to New Zealanders "That's not good enough for me to have confidence in you. As New Zealand's largest employer I no longer have confidence in that Minister." Anybody who watched Clare Curran in the House today certainly can't have confidence in her.Meka Whaitiri—this isn't an employment issue. This is an issue of a Prime Minister that has appointed Minister Whaitiri to one of the highest positions that you can hold in this country and to say that it's an employment issue and that the Minister has gone home for a few weeks to her electorate is frankly not good enough. The Prime Minister has to have asked her what happened and she either accepts her position or she doesn't. She either believes that Minister or she doesn't. She can't say in this House "I won't give an answer because it's an employment issue." Certainly for the poor employee that needs all the support they should get in the very short time in working in this Minister's office they need to look at it from an employment point of view but the Prime Minister needs to hold that Minister to account.Then this week we have Winston Peters saying that actually the Government's policy is not 1500 refugees. The Prime Minister is saying that it is. Winston's saying she is wrong. The Prime Minister says "Well it hasn't gone through Cabinet." Nobody knows what's happening over there. Nobody can believe that Winston Peters and the Prime Minister talk to each other over these things. It is a shambles and it's not going anywhere quickly."