Bennett David: Debate on Budget Policy Statement 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Bennett David: Debate on Budget Policy Statement 
[Sitting date: 13 March 2013. Volume:688;Page:8493. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East) 
: 
 We know that Shane Jones is back in this House because he gave us a glorious speech in which he was going to go through five points but he did only three. What happened to the other two? What about that Shane? Leave the House now—I know he cannot remember the other two. He does not know what the other two were. The Labour Party does not know what the other two were. It got through only three. That is about the limit of the Labour Party at this time. It is good to see Shane back. Shane is— 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Order! The member knows that he must use the member’s full name or his title. 
DAVID BENNETT 
: It is good to see Mr Jones back. He is a respected member of this House. It is just that we want to hear the full plan Mr Jones not just part of the plan the next time you get up to speak. 
The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson) 
: Order! Order! The member is now bringing the Speaker into the debate. He has been here long enough that he should know the Speakers’ rulings and the Standing Orders. 
DAVID BENNETT 
: But he did say one thing that was very interesting. He said there needed to be an injection of capital ideas and a friendly face. He is talking about the Labour Party when he is saying that. That is actually about the Labour Party. It needs an injection of capital ideas and a friendly face. Mr Jones knows that. He knows what the Labour Party needs. He has been on the backbench. He has seen what it needs. He knows what the Labour Party needs and he said that today. He talked about three things today: the Resource Management Act roading and Latin America. The Latin American bit—once he got on to the dung-beetle that was the end of the speech. I know that that is about the limit of it but you know good on the Labour Party for at least trying through Mr Jones in that speech. 
We heard from the New Zealand First Party. The New Zealand First Party wants to bring in its own form of communism where everything in this country is made by the New Zealand First Party everything is done by the New Zealand First Party and New Zealand is self-sufficient in every way and in every manner. Is it not glorious to have a New Zealand First Party that can deliver everything for everybody all the time and not have to pay for a thing? 
And with the Green Party well we have not really heard much from the Green Party today but that will be coming up in the next speech I would imagine. The Green Party is the party of the Opposition parties in this House that actually says what it thinks. The Green Party out of all the Opposition parties actually comes up with an idea. The Green Party comes up with the idea of printing money. The Green Party goes out there and says that we can print money and it will solve our problems. Why not? The Japanese are doing it. The Spanish are doing it. The Portuguese are doing it. The Greeks are doing it. Why not do the same as all those countries that are in the poo? Why not do that? The Swiss are doing it and that is all we need. The Swiss are doing it. We should do it because the Swiss are doing it. 
Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga 
: Afghanistan’s doing it too I think. 
DAVID BENNETT 
: Is Afghanistan doing it? It probably is—printing someone else’s money. In essence the Green Party has a plan. It is dodgy it is wrong but it has a plan. The Labour Party and the New Zealand First Party are going to support that plan because they do not even have a plan. The New Zealand public understands that that plan is wrong and they understand that it will not work. 
The National Party on the other hand has a plan and the Budget is where we put that plan out. 
Andrew Williams 
: A cunning plan. 
DAVID BENNETT 
: And it is a cunning plan. If we have a look at that great city of Hamilton—that great city that is booming in this country—it is a great example of that plan. It is a plan where we have delivered the infrastructure for that city—the link to Auckland. The growth that you see in the north of Hamilton is the result of the infrastructure this Government has delivered for the people of Hamilton. 
Andrew Williams 
: Best thing to come out of Hamilton is the road to Auckland. 
DAVID BENNETT 
: That is the road to Auckland. The road to Auckland is the link to Auckland—this member from north Hamilton it is very good to have you in this House now. That is the essence of growth: a Government that provides the infrastructure and provides the environment for people to grow and to prosper. That is what we are doing in Hamilton and that is what we are doing for the whole of New Zealand. 
Le’aufa’amulia 
 Asenati Lole-Taylor 
: What about the houses? 
DAVID BENNETT 
: There is a lot of housing going on in Hamilton and it is great. Come and see the electorate and you will see that growth. 
New Zealand has a good plan. It is a plan delivered in this Budget. It is a plan that is working. New Zealand is in the best position of many of the Western countries in the world. We are doing well. The public knows that and they support this. The Opposition does not and it does not have any plan. There is nothing you can find on the Opposition side. Thank you.