Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well Megan Woods is meant to be the Minister of energy. That was about the most low-energy speech I've ever seen to lead off the general debate from the Labour Party. Her heart wasn't in it and you can see the fire in their eyes going out. As the weeks go by you can see the energy dimming. You can see that they are staring at 14 October and wondering what is going to happen and they know in their heart of hearts that the Government's time in office is coming to an end. The reason they know that is because they are falling apart. You can see the tension in their eyes and you can feel it in the Chamber. The Government started this term with 65 votes and they're now down to 62. Add on the Greens: they started with 10 and they're now down to nine because Elizabeth Kerekere has defected. And what a week Chris Hipkins has had. He got on a plane to London and he probably sat back in his business class seat turned off his phone and said I might watch a movie and just relax a bit. I've got a long way to the King's coronation." He would have hopped off that plane at Heathrow taken the old phone off flight mode and his phone would have just bounced around the cockpit because it would've gone bzzt-bzzt bzzt-bzzt. He had the chief whip on the line: "Please call immediately." He'd have had his chief of staff on the line: "Must talk immediately. Something's happened." He'd have Willie Jackson: "Boss please call. Something's gone wrong." He'd have all of his MPs calling. I'll tell you who didn't call. I'll tell you who there was no missed call from on his phone when he took it off flight mode after landing: no missed call from the Hon Meka Whaitiri to explain to him as Prime Minister why she was leaving the Labour Party and defecting—as it turned out a little bit by accident to the Speaker and to the public—to the Māori Party. We're still yet to get the call. We're all actually a bit none the wiser and they're yet to have a conversation. Then we get to the events surrounding the Hon Kiri Allan who decided that it was acceptable to turn up to a Radio New Zealand private function and make remarks criticising Radio New Zealand. We are yet to know exactly what she said because Radio New Zealand won't release the transcript of what she said and we heard that Willie Jackson's defence of that in the House this afternoon was to say that it was a private function. Well Ministers are always Ministers and for the Minister to turn up and say that it's acceptable to not release that is wrong. This Government is a shambles. Whether it's Meka Whaitiri whether it's Kiri Allan whether it's Elizabeth Kerekere whether it's Marama Davidson the incompetent Minister of homelessness who can't actually get money out the door to help homelessness—and we've all forgotten about the Hon Stuart Nash who of course was thrown out of the Cabinet in disgrace only a few weeks ago. I think Chris Hipkins is on to his sixth or seventh or eighth Cabinet reshuffle in about the eight weeks he's been Prime Minister. We've now got the Hon Jo Luxton who's been pushed up into the ministry. Glen Bennett will soon be a Minister—the guy who's no longer going to be the MP for New Plymouth. Tangi Utikere is sitting there as the whip. He's awaiting his turn to enter the ministry. What is happening is the Government is falling apart and we've made it really clear in National today that the coalition of chaos that would ensue from a Labour - Greens - Māori Party Government will not take the country forward. The Māori Party believe in having a separate Māori Parliament in having a parallel criminal justice system and in stopping full and final Treaty settlements. They don't believe in having one person one vote. They don't believe in that basic Kiwi value of equal suffrage—of one person one vote—and equal citizenship and today's Māori Party is not the Māori Party of Tariana Turia and Tā Pita Sharples. They are different. We cannot work with them in Opposition. So as the Government falls apart as the Government loses Ministers and MPs and as the Government descends into chaos we are making it really clear for New Zealanders the choice. A vote for the Māori Party is a vote for three more years of chaos; it's a vote for Labour the Greens and the Māori Party. Only a strong party vote for National can change this country and get it back on track."