Coates BarryBARRY COATES (Green): Talofa lava ile fa'asamoa lau afioga Mr Speaker. I rise to speak about the Budget. To me it is a little bit like a dirty river. You know occasionally it looks nice and sparkly on the surface but if you dive down into the details it will make you sick. What is more it is going to I think get this Government into trouble. Let me just run through an analysis of this Budget. I think it is a classic election bribe. The key question is this. There is money being paid to those people who need it—and there are people who desperately need the help from this Budget—and those people need to ask where the money came from. Where did this money come from? How come the Government has this surplus that is now being paid as an election bribe through tax cuts and Government grants? The answer comes from some analysis done by Victoria University and the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. What they did was an analysis of the Budget based on real terms not just nominal money and based on per capita spending which is what should be done to provide a realistic comparison.What they found is that between the Budget time and 2021 education expenditure rather than increasing as the Government would have us believe will fall by 7.9 percent. They found that health spending will fall by 7.5 percent. They found that core Government services will fall by 15.1 percent. And one of the measures that the Government seems to regard as a measure of its own success and performance is that it is putting $1 billion into incarcerating more people in prisons. That is a measure of failure not of success. Even more tragic from this Budget is that it shows such a lack of vision and ambition to meet the challenges that New Zealanders are facing today. In those areas that I talked about—in healthcare the Green Party and Labour are undertaking an inquiry into aged care in New Zealand. What we find out from people across New Zealand is the failings of our health system—and why? Because there is not enough money to keep pace with people's needs. The work by Professor Bagshaw shows that there has been underfunding to the extent that 29 percent of people are having unmet needs for their GP and primary healthcare and a further 9 percent cannot get surgery or secondary care.In education we see teaching assistants paid virtually the minimum wage and not enough teachers and teaching assistants to help those with special needs. We see child poverty remaining high in this country. We see emergency housing being required for people so that they do not have to live in their cars. We are seeing the most unaffordable housing in the world. We are seeing gridlocked transport in Auckland as Aucklanders spend more time in their cars than they do on holiday.We see a 20 percent increase in our emissions our greenhouse gas emissions and runaway climate change from this Government. We see failure in conservation such as in the report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment today and that is a function of 9 years of neglect of the Department of Conservation with constant reorganisation and budget cuts. We see that 62 percent of our rivers we cannot swim in because they are going to make us sick and we see anaemic economic growth on a per capita basis of around 1.1 percent. What kind of record is this from the Budget? What we see is that people are heading into this winter in cold and damp housing or they are homeless or they are struggling to pay the bills. We deserve better. On 23 September there will be an election. The Green Party has solutions. We want our chance to stand here and produce a Budget that will meet these challenges of the future and raise the level of ambition for all New Zealanders. Thank you.