Faafoi Kris; Mallard TrevorHon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Civil Defence): Can I begin by acknowledging and congratulating our Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern—the boss—and Clarke a former flatmate of mine in my student days but we'll leave it at that for the arrival of young Neve last week. We hope that they are relaxing at home enjoying some time off—a change of mode for the Prime Minister but well deserved.Can I just begin by responding to one comment from the previous speaker Nikki Kaye around transparency and put that in the context of one example that has stuck out for me that I remember very well from the last term of Government where all through some documents about a housing roadshow just two lines were deleted. For the life of me I couldn't understand in the context of the documents why these two lines had been redacted from all these documents. You know we could have left it alone or we could have pursued it. We did pursue it but we still didn't get any traction on the lines that were redacted apart from where one official I think made a mistake and didn't redact those two lines in an email. It said We want to make sure that there's this Government-funded roadshow because one of the National Party MPs at the time was thinking about running for a by-election and wanted to lift her profile." Now I wondered why you would want to have that redacted and why the Government would want that redacted so if you're going to start throwing around stones about transparency you'd just better be a little bit careful about your track record in the previous nine years.So as well as acknowledging the boss I'd also to acknowledge one of my colleagues in the House who is with us today because we went and did a tour of the Wairarapa together and that is my friend Kieran McAnulty.Kieran McAnulty: Top bloke—top bloke.Hon KRIS FAAFOI: Ha ha! We started our day at Carterton went to Masterton and finished it up in Dannevirke. One day in about 2½ years he will make a great member of Parliament for Wairarapa because the current guy is making an absolute meal of it. We also heard from the previous speaker about dismantling of what we hold true here in New Zealand but I just want to take a moment of time from last week where the National Party went back to the 1980s and Alastair Scott the current member of Parliament for Wairarapa—I hope he's not the policy chair for them—made some utterings in this House which if you're worried about accusations of dismantling from this side of the House this guy's taking it to another level.In the front page of the Wairarapa Times-Age at the weekend and I quote "National's associate finance spokesperson is unapologetic" for saying Governments shouldn't own hospitals and questioning whether they should own schools and "says there needs to be a debate about what governments should own." So if that's a debate that's happening in the National Party caucus room in 2020 we know what's going to happen. We absolutely know what's going to happen because that's the chair of the National Party policy council Alastair Scott and the National Party caucus was talking about selling schools and selling hospitals and not owning roads again. That's a pretty solid three-plank campaign for them to put out and I absolutely know the result that'll happen.But he doubled down—he doubled down. Alastair Scott didn't stop there. He said "Just imagine if we sold $30 billion worth of housing assets and gave it to 65000 tenants and said 'See you later. Find a place to live.' " So not content with selling hospitals and schools he said we should just give away the housing estate. This is the man from Wairarapa who no one recognises in his own electorate who is driving the policy platform of the National Party for the next 2½ years. It's very rich to sit on that side of the House and accuse us of dismantling what has been built up over decades when the policy chair of the National Party the MP for Wairarapa says we should sell the hospitals sell the schools and sell the houses. If that's what the National Party wants to do to pull its policy together for the next 2½ years then I say bring on 2020.On 1 July—not too far away—in the short space of time we've had in Government in this coalition we're going to start helping families in a very meaningful way. On 1 July hundreds of thousands of more families will get support through Best Start; new mothers and families—thousands of more families—will get $75 more a week. So if you want to talk about dismantling talk about the guys who want to sell the houses the hospitals and the schools.SPEAKER: Just before I call the member I just want to indicate to Matt King that you're not allowed to eat in the House."