Stanford EricaERICA STANFORD (National—East Coast Bays): Well if you have ever wondered what Grant Robertson does all day—because clearly it's not growing the economy solving our cost of living crisis or reining in his wasteful spending—what he does is he sits in his office devising new party slogans for the National Party that he then emails around to all of his colleagues and says Don't forget to use this every chance you get." Then he has the audacity to stand up here and suggest that the National Party will make cuts to the education budget at the very same time that schools around the country have been emailed by the Ministry of Education saying "Tools down. Stop your builds. Actually you need to pull back on that school hall; that's not going ahead. That gymnasium? That's not going ahead. You're not getting as many classrooms as you thought you were going to get." Cuts in every direction—SPEAKER: Order! Sorry to interrupt. Is there a Minister in this House?Hon Dr Deborah Russell: Yes.SPEAKER: Oh sorry. Sorry to interrupt.ERICA STANFORD: That's OK—cuts left right and centre to school builds because this is a Government that cannot deliver and cannot deliver on their promises. At the same time in this Budget they're promising hundreds of new classrooms. They are completely unable to deliver on the promises that they already made to these schools because we're seeing cuts left right and centre.Now on the theme of a Government that talks a big game but just cannot deliver despite their holier-than-thou claims about reduction of migrant exploitation we now have the worst situation we've ever had in terms of migrant exploitation in this country. We have an influx of low-skilled no-qualification no-English migrants who are being exploited. They are the victims of scams aided and abetted by poor Labour immigration policy that is teamed with terrible implementation at Immigration New Zealand (INZ) that has caused our borders to be porous.The drawbridge has not only been lowered but the castle walls have been knocked down and someone left the back door open. Three hapless immigration Ministers—in just under a year—that are totally blind to the Government's actions and how the Government's actions have caused what can only be described as a humanitarian crisis. Story after story in the media highlighting the scale of the problem: "Migrants cheated out of money in New Zealand work visa scam" "Migrants pay thousands of dollars for visas only to be left without jobs" "Immigration job visa scam" "Recovery of visa being paid for by migrants $30000" "INZ scheme 'breeding ground for migrant exploitation' "—hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of migrants being exploited. It is being reported every single day and yet these Ministers have their head in the sand.Anu Kaloti from the Migrant Workers Association said that she is being "inundated with calls from migrants who are being exploited". A simple search online shows scams on TikTok Facebook YouTube videos and adverts in their hundreds: "No English job guaranteed and a pathway to residence" "No skill no qualification required"—and with multiple emails to my office from people who work inside Immigration New Zealand pleading with me to do something. This is people who work at Immigration New Zealand saying that "within Immigration New Zealand staff morale around the AEW risk management is below zero"—from the department itself.All of this evidence of migrant exploitation and this Government that talks a big game but just cannot deliver because we remember the immigration reset speech in 2021 delivered by Stuart Nash: "We want to send a strong message that the migrant exploitation is unacceptable in New Zealand. We want to put a stop to migrant exploitation." Despite the big words despite the big promises it is worse than it has ever been.Despite all of this evidence despite the slew of headlines these Ministers so divorced from reality are not asking the right questions. Andrew Little on TV last week said "I am satisfied the regime we've got in place is working." Well let me tell you why it is not working. This is a Government who has 24000 businesses; they say they're going to accredit to stop migrant exploitation. They have checked 2 percent of them—497 have been checked. By their own admission they're only going to check 15 percent. They're giving out job tokens that are now tradeable commodities. These migrants are paying up to $40000 for one of these tokens.Hon Andrew Little: The member's making it up.ERICA STANFORD: Oh the Minister says I'm making it up? Minister Little why don't you go and speak to some of these people? On the weekend I met with 18 of these employers—18 of these migrants who are being exploited.Hon Andrew Little: Why does the member make things up?ERICA STANFORD: I'll tell you what Mr Little wait till Q+A this weekend because they are going to tell you exactly what you should have been asking the sector but refused to do so because you've been blinded by your officials who tell you what you want to hear but you're not going to the sector—Hon Andrew Little: Making it up.ERICA STANFORD: —and asking what's actually going on. It has been reported in the media these things.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Little—ERICA STANFORD: The Minister needs to do better."