English Bill: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeEnglish Bill: General Debate[Sitting date: 16 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6679. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Prime Minister): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Today it is almost 1 year since the National Party won the 2014 election and went on to form another strong stable Government with our coalition partners whose role in that I want to acknowledge as well as the way that they have underpinned a stable Government for New Zealand. It is not quite 1 year; it is 4 days off which is more days than the number of policies the Labour Party has announced. In fact that is 3 more days because it has announced one.Hon Steven Joyce: Oh what was that?Hon BILL ENGLISH: Well the economy has been softening lately and there has been a bit of concern in the public about what is maintaining its growth. The Reserve Bank made the observation last week that one thing maintaining growth in the New Zealand economy when dairy prices are down is migration which we know to be actually at record highs in total. The Labour Party has announced one policy—it has been a busy year for Grant Robertson—and the one policy is: reduce migration. It is one of the things that is holding up the economy and helping it grow and the one policy the Labour Party has decided to announce is to reduce it.Well there have been one or two other sort-of polices. The other one is: if you have a Chinese name you are not allowed to bid at a house auction in Auckland.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Brownlee.Hon BILL ENGLISH: Brownlee is out. Well we could go through it all. It does not seem to have worked though because all those thousands of New Zealanders who have Chinese names—some of them are turning up to the auctions and still bidding. So there we have it—one policy and one sort-of half policy.Well as someone said to me on the way in to the House the definition of “red peak” is Labour polling 30 percent. Well actually the fifth leader is polling almost as well as Phil Goff—five leaders ago—when he lost.Hon Steven Joyce: Progress.Hon BILL ENGLISH: Well that is progress. In the world of the Labour Party that is progress.Let us compare that with the John Key - led Government. Let us compare that. I have got only 3 minutes left to go through the things that we have implemented in that 1 year but I will just mention one or two: free doctors visits for under-13s and the first increase in benefits for family households in 43 years. We have tripled the internet speeds—tripled the internet speeds. We are on a path back to surplus that is for sure. We have had the largest longest best-organised infrastructure spend that the country has ever seen.There is a further long list of achievements but the good news is that there is more to come. This is only year 1—only year 1—and that is what the Labour Party has not quite figured out. It is in year 8 of being a stale irrelevant Opposition; we are in year 1 of being a focused energetic creative Government. That is how it is. Out ahead of us is a continuous building of innovation in New Zealand business for instance. We have really only just got started after 8 very successful years.