Pugh MaureenMAUREEN PUGH (National): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. Well it almost seems like a bit of a comedy show here tonight listening to some of that rhetoric from the other side. But of course something that we've become accustomed to is rhetoric from those Government benches.I want to reference some comments that were made in the Prime Minister's statement. But first I'd like to set the scene by reminding this House of something that was said by her in January this year where she promised to run a factual and a positive and robust election campaign. Know us by what we do." she said. But three weeks later standing in this House in her Prime Minister's statement she's telling tales of hospitals that are run down and sewage running down the walls and the Middlemore DHB had to come out in public to deny that as a matter of fiction. So when you start to hear the Prime Minister making up tales—and that one has become a bit of a folklore story from that side of the House—can we just put the record straight this Labour-led coalition Government? Middlemore Hospital did not have sewage running down the walls. Get it right. I'd like to talk about some facts—facts about delivery not facts about rhetoric. And I'd like to quote the Salvation Army something I do in this House almost every year where two weeks ago they said and I quote "There was a whole discussion around being transformative and the year of delivery I guess we would question whether there has been actual delivery and change especially for those on the poorest incomes." I think that says it all. There was a lot of discussion a lot of rhetoric around the year of delivery but the actual delivery and real change on the ground did not happen.For instance this Government said that by the winter of 2018 no one would be sleeping in cars. They said 100000 houses will be built over the next 10 years. The facts: 15000 people vulnerable people are now on a waiting list for public housing. That's a 39 percent increase. Now we all know that everyone deserves to have a roof over their head and be warm in the winter. We all know that. We all know it needs addressing. But what we don't know is how that Government is going to fix it. Words won't fix it no matter how many times you say it. And benefit numbers—what a nightmare. There are 27000 more people on job seeker benefit in this country than when National was in Government—27000. This aspirational Government over here said it would get immigration settings right and I heard my colleague Stuart Smith talking about that before. In the provinces we actually know what a nightmare that is when you're trying to get workers to come to farms to come to tourism operations and they are now costing—they over there on that Government side—these businesses because we have a real skills shortage in rural New Zealand. And they're finding it harder and harder to stay here when they get here because the Immigration Service has ground to a slow crawl and they're not processing applications in a timely manner.I want to talk about some of the other issues this Government has and I want to talk about the significant natural areas project that's under way. But I also want to give credit to the Government for one of their fails because I think it's one that's not going to get any criticism from me and that's the no new mining on conservation land. Another big fail and well done. I'm pleased you failed. In the last two years there's been more mining applications approved under this Government than under the previous National Government. Now how ironic is that? Twenty-one mining applications approved on conservation land since the Prime Minister's Speech from the Throne. Thank you conservation Minister for being so ineffectual so hog-tied by coalition pressure and especially with the gold price at such a high. How can anyone take this Government seriously?Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m."