Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): Earlier in this afternoon's contribution we had a Minister stand up and ask the New Zealand public to judge the National Government by its actions. I think it was symptomatic of a Government and MPs who are now in a vicious cycle of self-denial and a belief in their own spin machine. I want to talk to that. More and more we see—the New Zealand people see—that this is a Government that will not be defined by its actions. Rather it will be defined by its inaction.This Government refuses to make decisions and by its inaction we will know it. GST on imports distorts and disadvantages the market especially for our smaller and regional retailers. I note the Government's lack of action on the Auckland housing market and the subsequent fallout as the bubble grows to encompass towns and cities neighbouring the Auckland crisis facilitating an unnatural unwelcome and unnecessary growth in homelessness. Never has a Government defined itself more by its lack of action—on tax evasion for example. As confidence in and respect for our economy and our political system spiral downwards this Government spends years refusing to act or to do anything about it. By its inaction we will know it.For years month after month New Zealand First has raised the issue and brought it to the Government's attention that international corporates were using and continue to use New Zealand's economy as a tax haven. Gun runners and drug dealers use New Zealand to hide their money. Nothing—nothing—happened. More and more despite this Government's frenetic and copious inaction do the people of New Zealand know it for what it truly is. Its inaction on the Electricity Authority's ruling around the latest pricing methodology will shut down business in our regions and our regions will lose jobs. There is no way that is a debate; that is the truth of the situation. Yesterday after a police investigation about money-laundering was published finally this Government's inaction highlighted—and I note—that this is merely the tip of the visible iceberg of money-laundering in New Zealand.For years and years New Zealand First has tried repeatedly to get some action from that Government on money-laundering in New Zealand. From around the world people and corporates have been using blatant loopholes in our system. They have been using our law—or lack thereof in fact—to launder dirty money representing criminal activities of all sorts and every magnitude. At the beginning of the year for example on behalf of New Zealand First and angry New Zealanders I asked the Government what it was doing about money-launderers using the New Zealand property market—our homes—to hide and launder funds and in doing so hugely inflating prices and distorting our New Zealand property market such that it has so severely hampered our economy.Our economy is teetering on an edge because this Government refuses to act and do anything meaningful about the housing bubble. It is compromising our futures. It is compromising what little economic activity we have. It is creating a homelessness epidemic and it is shutting out the next generation from homeownership. Not only has the New Zealand public and New Zealand First been ignored by that Government; we were attacked by the Minister of Revenue in fact who called our very rational questions in the House on this issue irrational and claims without substance. Minister it was a billion-dollar problem then and it is more and more of a billion-dollar problem now. How substantive do you need the problem to be before you acknowledge it and do something about it? The Prime Minister admitted yesterday he cannot and will not do anything substantive about money-laundering in New Zealand. He will not do it now because it might correct the housing problem.How is that for inaction defining a Government? There is homelessness intergenerational theft and an economy teetering on the edge. This Government needs to act. It needs to do something now but I think New Zealanders in the future will define this Government by its inaction and not its actions.