Moroney SueSUE MORONEY (Labour): I am going to uncharacteristically join the National Minister Paul Goldsmith in condemning this Budget as he did. This Budget completely failed to fill the gaps and the deficits that National has created over the last 9 long years. My good colleague Peeni Henare has hit the nail on the head. That failure in Auckland actually shows the failure that the Government has had in investing in infrastructure right across this country. The Government has managed to spend in the last 9 years about $9 billion on its roads of national significance and somehow while spending $9 billion of the public's money has managed to make congestion worse has managed to make the road toll worse and has managed to emit more and more carbon emissions.So what is that about—spending $9 billion to make things worse? That motorway that Peeni Henare talked about—that is not a motorway. That is a car-park. Aucklanders are spending their entire annual leave entitlement sitting in car-parks on the motorway. They are sitting in traffic and congestion and not going anywhere. So productivity is worse after that $9 billion has been spent. In this year's Budget under the title of the Government's goal to reduce congestion in the five major cities what it says is not on track". "Not on track" is what this year's Budget says about reducing congestion in the five major cities after that Government has squandered $9 billion on the roads of national significance.I think the phrasing is really important. It is not on track because that Government is failing to take a balanced approach to transport and ensure that it does get things on track and that it does invest in rail as well as in roads. Taking a balanced approach and taking an approach that actually invests in public transport as well as investing in roading would be a much better way to go. But no the Government has not learnt a thing because in this year's Budget it is taking the same old failed approach—the same old failed approach—and it is time for a fresh approach.I want to spend my remaining couple of minutes talking about Hamilton because someone has to. The Hamilton to Auckland commuter train service ought to have been funded in this year's Budget. It is long overdue. It will cost only $1 million and the Government could not even see its way to do that. Nor is the much-promised Waikato Medical School funded in this year's Budget. The local MPs from the National Government are fond of talking that up. They say they wholeheartedly embrace it. Well they have failed to influence the Minister of Finance. They have failed to influence the Minister of Health to ensure that that venture got off the ground.Also in Hamilton news in today is that in the last several months at Waikato Hospital in just the emergency department alone 20 nurses have resigned—20 nurses in our emergency department which is stretched to the hilt have left because they cannot cope with the stress of working in National's underfunded health system. So that is what is happening. We are losing our best and brightest because they cannot cope any more with the failure of that Government to invest properly in health to invest properly in our infrastructure.So what else do we read today about what is happening in Hamilton? Well today we read that yesterday in Hamilton there was a brawl outside a vege shop a place where they sell food because the shop owner has armed his staff with baseball bats. He has armed his staff with baseball bats because he knows that if they have problems in that vege shop they will not get a response from the police under this Government's undervaluing and underfunding and under-resourcing of the policing system in places like Hamilton. So they have taken matters into their own hands and guess what happens next? That is what this country looks like under a National Government. People outside a vege shop brawling with baseball bats against each other because of shoplifting that is going on in that shop.This is not the country that I believe most New Zealanders want. The country that they want is the sort of country that is going to be delivered only by the fresh ideas and the fresh approach of the incoming Labour Government. I look forward to that."