Mapp Wayne: General Debate 
Mapp Wayne: General Debate 
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Dr WAYNE MAPP (National—North Shore) 
: 
 The biggest mistake that last member made was to refer to good Labour Ministers. I want to look at Labour’s front bench and my theme is a theme that was picked up by Colin James earlier this week. Every single one of them has failed. Mr Sutton will get two protests this week: one by apple growers one by Federated Farmers tomorrow. He is a failure. Mr Mallard presided over the disgrace that is the National Certificate of Educational Achievement. Mr Maharey presided over a $239 million bungle over Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Mr Hodgson presided over a billion-dollar bungle over the Kyoto Protocol. Mrs King has health waiting lists that we cannot even see the end of. Dr Cullen is the man responsible for a 67c tax cut. Finally there is Prime Minister Clark; she is presiding over failure. 
The point is this: one cannot go to the country and say there is a marvellous $7 billion surplus then on the other hand say that people cannot have a tax cut. The public do not buy it the public do not believe it and that is why this Government is going down the tubes. 
Labour is now so desperate that it is using public money to boost union membership in the public sector. It has made a whole pattern of special payments to its Public Service Association (PSA) mates in the public service. Let us look at the recent record. Courts staff get a lump sum of $640 provided they are members of the union. The whole purpose of that of course is to get more members for the union. But it gets a lot worse than that. At Work and Income the bribe is $1200. That is way more than the union fee. It says to members of the public service that the only way to get a wage increase is to join the union. That is the kind of corruption the kind of bribery that this Government is now indulging in. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member cannot allege corruption. He knows that is out of order. There have been a number of Speakers’ rulings on it. I ask the member to come to order. 
Dr WAYNE MAPP 
: I certainly allege there have been all sorts of incentive payments to boost union membership and that is frankly discriminatory. But it gets even worse than that. Labour is now offering two extra leave days to boost total holidays to 5 weeks—but only to union members. What kind of example is that for the private sector? No wonder Government spending is going through the roof! 
Of course Labour does get a pay-off. We have only to read in this month’s  
PSA Journal. 
 This is what Labour’s union mates are now saying. The PSA says there is a neutral public service but this is what it says in the June editorial: “… I can tell you that the PSA executive board and congress believe the success and wellbeing of the union—and that is all of us—rests on the re-election of a Labour-led Government.” That is the pay-off is it not? The Government pays extra money to its PSA mates and it gets that kind of propaganda—paid for by public money. That is the kind of disgraceful behaviour we are seeing from this Government. 
This whole magazine is shot through with propaganda. The Government members could not convince a single member of the public that the Budget was any good so what do they do instead? They get the PSA to print seven pages of blatant Budget propaganda. To cap it all off what does it do? It puts photos of Helen Clark in the magazine. Yes it is all here including special photos of Helen Clark—more propaganda. Finally it caps it off with Mr Ross Wilson that impartial member of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions praising the Government and criticising National. 
That is the whole point; public money is being used for surreptitious blatant Labour propaganda. Well I say to those hopeless members on that side that it will not work. If the best they can do is get their union mates—because no one else will do it—to propagandise they have failed.