Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Mr Speaker. Can I just start by congratulating the member who's resumed his seat Fletcher Tabuteau on his recent elevation to the role of deputy leader of New Zealand First. He's the third one with whom I've always had quite good chats. The first was the Hon Tracey Martin followed by the Hon Ron Mark and now himself. So congratulations Mr Tabuteau. I hope you last longer than the previous ones. I think it's always good to see young blood coming through.I think on the other side—I've heard some great speeches today on this side of the House and on the other side but the best on the other side has actually been from Michael Wood MP for Mt Roskill—socialist though it was. But I thought it was a good speech and I thought Michael Wood should be teaching some of the current Ministers how to give a speech. He's referred to various things but I thought one that I have to pull him up on is that he did refer to a comment that—he's made some sort of comment about how Budgets create jobs. Well only if one is still in printing actually because Budgets don't create jobs. What creates jobs is business. Business creates jobs and it is business that must not be destroyed by any Budget statement or any Budget or any Government. It's business that actually creates the jobs and it's the workers who help to create that business.But also what's needed in that business is capital and we have a Government at the moment whose Budget Policy Statement is very focused—is very focused—on how to take more money off people who earn their money and save their money: more taxes. We just have to look at some of the statements in this Budget Policy Statement. There's a statement along here that the Government will Ensure a progressive taxation system that is fair balanced and promotes the long-term sustainability and productivity of the economy." Well then it goes on: "Taxation is an important tool for rebalancing the economy". Well we know what that means. That means not rebalancing; that means ripping the guts out of small business day in day out until they become even smaller business—microbusiness—and they're out the door. That's what that means.We see a statement here: "The Government believes that we need a better balance in our tax system to support the productive sector and ensure all taxpayers are paying their fair share." Well who would argue with that except what that really means—what that really means—is ripping the guts out of business ripping the guts out of mum and dad business owners and making sure that they don't just pay their fair share but they pay for all of the rubbish that this particular Government wants to do.They've made some big promises—big promises—about what they're going to do; they've been very quiet about how they're going to fund it. So instead what we see here is a statement where—and I'm quoting—"Recent transport investment has been overly focused on a handful of expensive roading projects selected for political reasons rather than on improving the whole transport system as an integrated multimode network." Well could they just please stop using stupid words like "multimode" or "integrated"? Why don't we just have "comprehensive" and "progressive" all at the same time because you have to have "comprehensive" and "progressive" and "multimode" and then all of a sudden it's going to work.Well how about this: who's paying for those roads? I can tell you. It's not coming out of Budgets; it's coming out of the National Land Transport Fund which is funded by the petrol taxes on the petrol that we buy to put in our cars and it's funded by the road-user charges where the diesel users on the roads—they're paying for that. They're specifically paying into what always has been a hypothecated fund specifically to fund those roads and yet we've got a Government here that's trying to talk in its Budget Policy Statement not about what it's going to do with the Budget but what it's going to do with the normal taxation funds but what it's going to do with the money specifically paid for and taxed on constituents in Papakura and constituents in Albany and constituents who are paying day in day out for this particular fund the National Land Transport Fund.And where is that money going? Well remember there's an accusation that there have been expensive roading projects selected for "political reasons". Well we know where it's going don't we? They're going to rip off the New Zealand road users to pay for a dopey trolley up the electorate of the Prime Minister. So don't talk to me about political decisions—that was entirely a political decision.Let's have a look at one of these so-called political roading decisions that the Government wants to talk about. Just let's talk—shall we talk about the extra lanes on the Southern Motorway from Manukau from Hill Road through to Papakura. Is that a political decision? Ooh I don't think so. I think the people who are coming up that road going to the airport or the people coming down to work for Manukau or the people going the other way—I don't think they think it's a political decision stuck in the two lanes each way on a road that is one of the major arterial routes of our particular transport system. I don't think they think that's political; they think it's strangely enough necessary—necessary needed. I often thought what would happen to these poor people caught in this traffic in this gridlock—what if someone was trying to have a baby in the back of an ambulance or in a car would that be a political decision? Would that be a political decision? Would it? No I don't think so. That would be called a necessity. Would it be in fact something that's just for that? No it's not political.And how about Mill Road—how about Mill Road? Yes it does go through my electorate but actually it is again the only way through other than the Southern Motorway. So if there's a crash on the Southern Motorway at the moment through Hill Road through to Papakura or Drury it's two lanes each way—that's all it is. If you get a crash on that if you get something overturned all of a sudden everything blocks up and the only other way through is Mill Road and yet it's referred to in this Budget Policy Statement as a political decision—no "political reasons" paid for by the way not by Budgets but by the hypothecated fund specifically taken off of users of petrol and diesel.Let's have another little look in this Budget Policy Statement. I was looking for anything here that was going to deal with child poverty—not a dicky-bird other than to say that they'd look at child poverty. I'm not quite sure how they'll look at it—what through a lens through a window through something else—but what it won't be doing with child poverty—what it won't be doing with child poverty—is actually a damn thing.Hon Damien O'Connor: You should have been leader. Why didn't they pick you? Why didn't they pick you Judith? They should have picked you.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: And it's great to hear the Hon Damien O'Connor finally speak. I thought he'd like to speak about what they're doing to the mining industry on the West Coast. I thought they'd like to talk about Te Kuha mine where the metallurgical coal is. I wonder if he wants to talk about that—nothing in here about what they're doing for the people of the West Coast. Not a dicky-bird in here about the West Coast and should there be anything about the West Coast? Well I would have thought so.What I can tell that member from the West Coast though—I can give him some good news: the West Coast will very soon have an excellent MP. Maureen Pugh is coming back and Maureen Pugh knows who puts her into Parliament: it's the people on the West Coast not the Hon Damien O'Connor.Coming back to this Budget Policy Statement yet again can I say "Where's the money in here for law and order?" No no we know who's going to be paying for all these dopey schemes from the other side. It's actually the victims of family violence the victims of serious crime because this Government has spent already—before it's even had its hand in the till it's already spent the money that should be going to keep in prison the worst recidivist violent and sexual offenders and methamphetamine sellers that this country has seen. Instead that Government wants to let them out nice and early—30 percent early. It's an utter disgrace. Instead they just want to buy votes use other people's money and rip off our road taxes."