Ngaro Alfred: Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Ngaro Alfred: Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading 
[Sitting date: 24 May 2012. Volume:680;Page:2507. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
ALFRED NGARO (National) 
: 
 As a new member of Parliament I stand in respect of older members of Parliament more experienced members of Parliament for the things that they say. I take them very seriously. But I now start to think about the credibility of the things that were just said by the member Ruth Dyson and I take her to account for talking about the lack of transparency the lack of engagement and the lack of consultation. If this member was to look even now on the National Party website she would find the information there. On the Ministry of Health website those members would find the information there and on the Beehive website they would find the information there. But here goes it gets even better. In the press release from Minister Ryall it was there. But here are the Ginsu knives. Here are the Ginsu knives. You will be saying this: did we consult— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Order! 
ALFRED NGARO 
: —did we consult? This is what we did— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: Order! When I stand you sit. 
Hon Jo Goodhew 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am absolutely certain that I am hearing a chant from the other side of “lies”. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch) 
: I am the judge of that and Alfred Ngaro will continue. 
ALFRED NGARO 
: Thank you Mr Speaker. But here are the Ginsu knives for you. The word “consult” was what your lips would be saying so this was what the National Government did. An hour before the Budget was released there was a conversation with who else Grey Power. That is right—Grey Power. 
There has been a lot of talk about “Where is the plan?”—somebody talking about “Where is the plan?”. Well you know we talk about “Planet Labour” and I wanted to find out where “Planet Labour” was. So I went to the portal. Here is the portal: it is the Labour Party website. When I went to the portal when I went to the Labour Party website guess what I found? It said that it was an organisation in review. It was going out to ask—who? Its members. Do you know why? Because it wanted their views. Here is what it said: “We want your party for your views for our future.” But it gets even better. On the website the leader of the Labour Party is there Mr David Shearer. What is he doing? He is playing a guitar. I think he is singing the song “Ten Guitars”. Hang on I have just heard a newsflash: it is now “Nine Guitars”. That is right. It is no longer “Ten Guitars”; it is “Nine Guitars”. 
OK back to the Social Security (Long-term Residential Care—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill. This bill is about responsibility this bill is about sustainability and most important this bill is about continuing to subsidise the needs of our older people. It is about increasing Government spending by $82.4 million. I could keep going on and on but I think the point serves itself. We support this bill.