Guy Nathan; Rurawhe AdrianHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): I'm here this afternoon to make a contribution and talk about Budget 2018. I think when we reflect back we will all remember in the House the passion that our leader had from this side of the House the Hon Simon Bridges when he addressed this Budget. He had passion and he really pulled apart this Budget of 2018 as one of broken promises more borrowing and more taxes.If we think about what we're dealing with right now let's have a look at some of the facts. Really when you analyse Budget 2017 and Budget 2018 to do with health which has been a big focus of the debate over the last wee while in the House and indeed out in the community it's pretty much like for like in health spending. Of course what we heard the Government saying was that everything was broken in the health system and there's going to be a massive injection in Budget 2018. Well actually it's about on level-pegging. What's really interesting—one of these broken promises and there's many of them—is that Labour campaigned that there would be a reduction in GP fees and it would be universal and it would benefit about four million Kiwis. Indeed some who are focused on health may have indeed voted for Labour in the campaign. Then what we see and now experience is it's very targeted. It's going to benefit about 600000 New Zealanders—one of the broken promises. Also as Mr Ngaro talked in the House this afternoon focusing on Stand Children's Services health camps. I've got one indeed in my electorate of Ōtaki. It's been there for a very very long time. There's also one in Roxburgh. So an emergency meeting was held because they were getting no love from the Government. You would think that for a small amount of funding they would want to support these health camps in Roxburgh and in Ōtaki. So the mayors came and met—I'm not sure who it was but it was probably the Prime Minister or the Minister concerned. When I read the public comments from my mayor the Mayor of Kāpiti K Gurunathan he said it's a shocker for a Government that's said to be committed to children's welfare." And then the Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan said it's a "calamity for the disadvantaged."And in my particular case in my electorate of Ōtaki Stand Children's Services have gone and purchased a property in Paraparaumu so I think there will be a transition and we can still look after these disadvantaged children which is fantastic. I'm hearing that there may be a delay from when the funding dries up to when they're able to move into the home. But importantly you would have thought when you have a big-spending Government that's focused on health that you would want to support the most vulnerable in our community—but not so.And then if we think about some of the things and the challenges that hard-working New Zealanders are facing right now isn't it amazing that petrol prices are looking like they're going to go to $3 a litre very very shortly. On Waiheke today there are reports that it was $2.51 a litre and that's before the regional fuel taxes and the excise come on. Remember this is a Government that said no new taxes dancing around on the head of the pin. Fuel prices are going to jump potentially to $3—$2.51 in Waiheke $2.40 down in Wānaka—and it's a massive variation even in my electorate of Ōtaki.It's fascinating to see Megan Woods ganging up on the multinationals and saying "This isn't good enough and we're trying to change the Commerce Commission Act to have some more powers of investigation." Well what is the Government doing right now when this is going to impact on hard-working New Zealanders trying to get the kids to school trying to get to work trying to get to the doctor's appointment? Are they going to scrap the excise charge that's going to come on on 1 July? We will wait and see with bated breath but don't hold your breath for too long.The cost of living is sneaking up and of course hard-working New Zealanders were looking forward to National's tax changes which were going to benefit them to about a thousand bucks a year—that's all gone. Business confidence is down—down by about 23 percent—and it's no wonder when you have changes that the Government made on oil and gas. That has sent a real chill through the business community and regional New Zealand. There are no real growth policies in this Budget and that is a real concern for the business community—the people that help drive the New Zealand economy forward. Ultimately their taxes mean that the Government can make choices in infrastructure and roads and schools and the like but we've got R & D tax credits and no real growth proposals or policies in this Budget.We've got uncertainty in regional New Zealand about immigration settings. In the campaign we heard "Oh big cuts we're going to reduce it all." And then of course no sooner do political parties get into office and they realise it's quite difficult on the other side of the House. When you move around the country like I do it's very hard to get seasonal workers to go and pick these crops.So there is going to be an economic slow-down; we know that. Treasury is forecasting—when National left office over the last two years we saw 10000 jobs created a month; now they're forecasting 4000 jobs a month. This is the start of the slow-down. And while the Government and Grant Robertson have squirrelled some money away in the Budget for the next couple of Budgets it wouldn't take much for an economic shock to have quite a sizable impact. Then we've got changes through the Overseas Investment Office. That's also had a chilling impact on investment coming in from overseas as well.Importantly I want to talk about the primary sector as well. This was a Budget that was fairly flat for the primary sector pretty much raiding from Primary Growth Partnership and irrigation funding and sprinkling it back through into more trees and a few other initiatives as well. But when you think about the challenges with Mycoplasma bovis—and we're waiting for a decision on Monday next week—it was really interesting to see that the Government didn't choose to put a heap of money into strengthening the biosecurity system. We got it up to almost a quarter of a billion dollars in Budget 2017 when we were office—and that included $18.4 million invested into the core strengthening of the biosecurity system—and this Government Damien O'Connor chose to only invest $9.3 million. So that is surprising—the biggest surprise I thought in Budget 2018 for me.I've reached out to Damien O'Connor this week to indicate that Mycoplasma bovis is very big. It's spreading throughout the country. We should park the party politics and try and work more constructively together because this is going to have and it's already had—and I don't mind the fact that I have been in this House and publicly saying that the Government needs to do more. Compensation's been too slow and it's good to see that the Government has now reacted and is moving faster in that space. Banks have been circling and since I've been raising that I'm hearing from farmers that they've had a reprieve.But this is about supporting rural communities and farmers to get back on their feet and the decision that is going to be made on Monday is going to be all about whether it's long-term management or eradication. We now know because of the spread of it it's going to cost more and indeed it is going to take longer. But this is really bigger than party politics and collectively industry Government industry leaders farmers and politicians in my view need to try and work more constructively together.So I would summarise this Budget in the last half a minute or so by saying it's a very disappointing Budget. It's all about new taxes even though they stood in the election stump and said no new taxes. It's all about more borrowing and it's all going to impact on middle New Zealand. We're seeing that now with rising fuel prices. We see the winter energy payment which is going to all superannuitants is not going to occur for another couple of months. So I'd say—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order! The member's time has expired."