Davis KelvinHon KELVIN DAVIS (Minister for Māori Crown Relations: Te Arawhiti): Thank you Mr Speaker. That was a very bland and uninspiring five minutes that we will never ever get back in our lives. But Mr Speaker I'd like to thank you very much for giving the Leader of the Opposition an extra 30 seconds because it gave New Zealanders an extra 30 seconds to realise why they don't like him—because he is bland and uninspiring. But of that 30 seconds that he got he was only able to use up 12 of those seconds so his speech writers didn't actually factor in that he might actually get a little bit of time. Even then he can't even deliver the pre-prepared speech with all that much panache. It was bland. It was uninspiring.But just before I get into the guts of my speech I'd just like to acknowledge what we heard in question nine with my colleague Damien O'Connor the Minister of Biosecurity Agriculture who has done an incredible job in getting New Zealand to the point where we have almost eliminated Mycoplasma bovis from the country. If we do achieve it that will be the first time anywhere in the world that something like that has been achieved. I just think that even though it was question nine we sort of glossed over it it is a huge achievement from this Government. Just to think about how much that has saved the country because the effects of Mycoplasma bovis were devastating on us.This Government is just getting on with the bread and butter issues that matter to everyday Kiwis while on the other side of the House they spend time on their Twitter tirades. Now I didn't actually see the Twitter tirade that emanated from the other side there today but so many people were laughing about it that I actually had to ask exactly what went on. But there was a Twitter tirade—while we're getting on building roads and houses and everything in between well the National Party can't even tell you how their policies add up and it's quite telling that that Twitter tirade was all about criticism of them and their fiscal black hole.Now the National Party have a history going back to Steven Joyce about fiscal black holes. Remember the $11 billion fiscal black hole that he accused us of having and it wasn't the case. Then there's Paul Goldsmith with his Bermuda Fiscal Triangle" where they want to cut taxes reduce debt but carry on spending. It just doesn't add up. But in July of 2017 we released a comprehensive fiscal plan ahead of the general election and yet now it's August—it's August and we hear nothing but crickets chirping from the other side. No fiscal costings. And yesterday the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions they estimated a funding shortfall of between $3.3 and $5.2 billion in their plans and that was the point of the Twitter tirade. Instead of justifying or showing how their figures add up they didn't. All they could do is just try this Twitter tirade that demeaned the fact that Grant Robertson had a meeting in Copperfields with somebody—oh my God hiding in plain sight! Oh there's the start of the conspiracy theory if ever I saw one. The Minister of Finance had a meeting in Copperfields hiding in Copperfields where no one would see them. Spooky spooky. So that was the genesis of the Twitter tirade from the National Party. Nothing at all about saying "This is how our plans add up this is where the money's coming from." but it's just a big rant about some sort of conspiracy that was dreamt up in the depths of Copperfields.We know that for National to be able to do whatever they say they're going to do there are going to have to be cuts to all the services that are really important to New Zealanders—health cuts education cuts housing cuts. I just want to acknowledge my colleague here—Megan Woods—and the work that she's done in the housing field: 12000 public homes with another 6000 on the way to being completed when we know that we entered Government and there was a deficit of public housing and we wondered why there was a housing crisis in New Zealand. We have spent the last five years just fixing up the mess that we inherited but now we've built on it and I'd just like to acknowledge Megan Woods for the wonderful job she's doing making sure that New Zealanders are housed."