Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. I guess that actually sums up the Government: a lot of talk hot air and delivers nothing. That member Kiritapu Allan talks about how offended she was and she actually talks about certain things that we have apparently said that were derogatory. She is offended. I suppose I am offended that she actually thinks that pork-barrel politics is something that she supports that after three years of doing nothing as a Government finally they're throwing money into communities purely for the purposes of an election year.Earlier my colleague Michael Woodhouse was very articulate in his estimation and his analysis of this bill. In terms of the imprest supply bill obviously that is something that we need to make sure that we pass because the Government expenditure needs to continue but the Budget the Estimates is something that we need to seriously look at. We need to collect revenue as a country and how does a Government collect revenue? Taxes. How does the Government actually pay for things? The money that the Government spends on everything including the Provincial Growth Fund the $3 billion that the Hon Shane Jones is actually very proud of and that member who just sat down is actually very proud of apparently and offended that we're calling it pork-barrel politics—it is done as a result of collecting taxes and in this instance borrowing huge amounts to pay for them.One of the things that I'd like to highlight to the House is that often when the Hon Shane Jones actually dishes out—what did Michael Woodhouse call it? Kete poaka. I quite like that: kete the basket of money that he—and Shane Jones actually talks about pūtea. He talks about pūtea quite a lot. He does like that word and I think it's actually a good word because that could be used for good and well-meaning and well-purposed spending by the Government but apparently it's not because even the Auditor-General has actually criticised the transparency issue.But that transparency issue has existed in this Government for a very long time. I in my portfolio wanted to find out what that Minister was spending $50 million on for enhanced digital connectivity in the infrastructure investment package announced earlier on 1 July and the reply I got today—if I can actually enlighten my colleagues in the Chamber—actually says Final decisions are still being made around the exact breakdown of projects to be funded by $50 million for digital connectivity." That's typical of the answers and lack of planning that this Government dishes out with the money the huge amounts of money that they're dishing out to the communities. Apparently they're planning this. If they were planning it they should've researched it just like the Minister of broadcasting when he was talking about merging Television New Zealand and Radio New Zealand. When he took it to Cabinet he hadn't even done the business plan. He hadn't even done the business case. I am still waiting to find out what that plan is. That was last year.This year the Minister announced $15 million to improve connectivity in the rural areas. COVID-19 has actually highlighted the issue of people who had lack of connectivity. It also highlighted the importance of connectivity and what a good deal of work the previous National Government actually did: the UFB that the National Government rolled out—the ultra-fast broadband—the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) 1 and RBI 2 and even the mobile black spots that we started and actually rolled out to the country which the Government continues to grow in terms of the numbers of people who are connected. I actually applaud that because we need to do more in that space.I was hoping that in the Budget the Minister would actually announce a bigger punchier announcement in terms of what he was in fact going to do what this Government was in fact going to do for the people who had major difficulty connecting. In the rural communities we had many many people who complained that when they're trying to do their business from home when they're trying to educate their children from home they did not have connectivity that was useful for them. The Minister and the Government should have responded to that but no $15 million rural—Simon O'Connor: How much?MELISSA LEE: Fifteen million dollars only. They were planning on extending the rural connectivity issue but I don't know how far $15 million will actually go because it really doesn't go very far when you're actually talking about rural connectivity issue. Even WISPA: in order for them to extend it's going to actually cost in excess of $150 million to do so. Extend fibre—it's going to cost about $400 million.I think the Government has lacked ambition when it comes to connectivity and it is very important to think that there are many businesses in the sector of broadcasting and media that have actually failed. There are a lot of people who are out of a job. During COVID I had to actually deal with a constituent who was a part of an employer of the Bauer Media Group who had lost their job. This young lady had just bought her first home and she could not see the future—she had just bought her home and she lost a job and she was on a wage subsidy. She didn't see how she could actually continue to pay her mortgage and she was about to lose her job. There are many stories like that.But this Government continues to talk about how they're looking after New Zealanders. This is the Government that has promised so much including the delivery of the light rail that goes down Dominion Road—yes? They were going to spend so much money and yet it's now cancelled. It basically shows the example of how this Government lacks the planning lacks the foresight and lacks the gumption and the honesty to deliver on what they promised. They actually talk about borrowing as a good thing. Yes in a crisis we need to borrow. We don't have the cash to actually spread out to everyone and pay for everything. Yes we know that but there needs to be a plan when they are borrowing to spend. When they don't have a plan and when the spending is actually not targeted it is the future of our children and our grandchildren who will be indebted and they have to actually pay that debt back. I would like to see the next National Government show this Government up by actually showing what planning targeting and responsible spending is.One of the things that I wanted to talk about was that recently COVID-19 has actually meant there are many constituent cases that have actually come to all of our members' offices—DEPUTY SPEAKER: It would be nice if they related to the Estimates.MELISSA LEE: This Government talks about how they're helping a lot of people through their spending and it is very clear that there are some people who actually miss out on that Government spending. It would've been very very nice if they actually considered that export education industry which a lot of New Zealanders are part of. It's a $5 billion industry that many ethnic communities are involved in. We have actually suggested that the borders could be controlled better. We can actually work through the security screening the testing and maybe opening up to export education students because they're here on a long-term basis—often a year sometimes two sometimes here on a degree three or four years—and they could actually pay for the testing come and do quarantine and they're going to be here for a long term. But they haven't even considered that. It's a $5 billion industry with tens of thousands of people who are ultimately going to lose their jobs as a result and this Government are not even planning are not even considering because they say "Oh it's COVID-19; it's too dangerous." Maybe perhaps if they put some thinking into it perhaps if they actually consider the ultimate result the outcome for these people who are in fact hurt as a result of COVID-19 perhaps they might have some plans for those people who are desperately in need of the Government's help.DEPUTY SPEAKER: This is a split call. I call Fletcher Tabuteau."