Ball Darroch; Tisch LindsayDARROCH BALL (NZ First): It is a pleasure to rise on behalf of New Zealand First for the first time this year. I am hazarding a guess that I will be standing quite a few times up until the election because the National Government has wanted to make some changes in the social services area and boy do we need it in this country. The problem that we have got at the moment though—and Sarah Dowie's speech actually reminded me of much of what the Prime Minister's speech was and to be honest much of what the rest of the National Government members' speeches were and that was: everything is awesome blah blah blah everything is awesome! That is pretty much what it is.Let us not get things wrong. New Zealand is a great place to live. New Zealand is a great place to live and there are some good things to say about it. But the problem and the habit that the National Government has got itself into that I have experienced over the last 2½ years of being an MP is that all it talks about is the good. It never mentions the bad and it certainly does not mention the ugly. Well New Zealand First is here and the other Opposition parties are here to hold the Government to account and to point out what the bad parts are that the Government is trying to do to point out what the ugly parts are that the National Government is doing.I recall last week that members like Mr Bayly stood up and made a list of where New Zealand was on the OECD for ranks of different things whether it be prosperity transparency economic development or whatever he said on his list. The fact of the matter is that it is good that we are there in those high echelons of the OECD rankings but first of all we should be. That is where New Zealand should be. It is not that National put us there; it is National's job to maintain us being there. So when its members start rattling off a list of where we are in the OECD rankings that is just the job that is expected of it as the Government. That is the job that is expected of the Government to do year in year out.What the Government members failed to mention are all the bad lists. What about the bad lists and the ugly lists? How about we start talking about youth crime? How about we start talking about where we are ranking on youth suicide in the OECD? It is absolutely outrageous but there was not one mention from the PM and not one mention from the National Government members. And the reason why they do not want to mention any of the bad and they do not want to mention any of the ugly is that if they mention it then they acknowledge it and if they acknowledge it they have got to do something about it. The National Government does not even want to touch any problems—any bad or ugly problems—with a barge pole.How about we talk about something that came up in the House earlier on today about the neets" rate—youth who are not in education employment or training. Ninety-one thousand—91000—15- to 24-year-olds in this country are not in a job not in any education and not in any training opportunities. What is going to happen to those 91000 kids? They are going to end up being reliant on the State. Not only are they reliant on the State now but they will be in their futures. The biggest problem with that is that it is an increase of just about 20000 young people in 1 year. That is just under 2000 per month. We heard Steven Joyce stand up here when I was asking questions during question time today about it and he did not even want to acknowledge it. He was making excuses about the survey and the information that we got it from.I have not even mentioned child poverty yet but there is a whole list of issues that New Zealand needs to be addressing that the National Government is not addressing.I just want to quote something—and it is not like National or the Ministers or the members do not know about these bad or ugly things; they just do not want to acknowledge them. I have got a Cabinet paper—advice given to the Cabinet social policy committee—that was signed off by the Minister for Social Development and the Minister of Justice and I want to quote something. It says: "Justice Sector agencies are working together to address a range of shared challenges including rising rates of serious crime a rising prison population high demand for alcohol drug and mental health services worsening over-representation of Māori in the justice system and inter-generational patterns of offending."But we have not heard any of that kind of stuff and this is the most important stuff that the Government needs to start acknowledging. It is the most important stuff that the Government needs to have plans to tackle. But there was not one mention from the PM not one mention from any of the Ministers and I guarantee you from this point forward there will be not one mention from anyone in National about what they need to fix. Because once they acknowledge that they need to fix the important things that I have just read out and all the other lists that we are failing on then they need to fix it and the New Zealand First Party is here to hold them to account and to ensure that they fix those problems. Thank you.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call—Todd Muller 5 minutes."