Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. That speech from the party that gave us Chinese-sounding names" the party that bagged migrants in the last election and now they're lecturing us—fascinating isn't it? I do want to acknowledge the Leader of the House Chris Hipkins for acknowledging the role that the Opposition has played in helping them keep their legislative process on track. Many here will remember Minister after Minister coming down into the House filibustering their own bills taking 10 minutes a call. You know who I felt sorry for? It was the Government backbenchers—they weren't even trusted to filibust their own bills; they had to bring the Ministers down.The adjournment debate is about endings. I think ironically this side of the House would probably feel like the year should last another three or four months—Hon Member: What?MATT DOOCEY: We could go another three of four months the momentum is there. But then you have a Government that's happy to pull up sticks. The Ministers' Crown cars are waiting in Museum Street they're waiting for the adjournment debate to end because they've had enough.This has been a year of a failed socialist experiment. It's been littered the whole year with this failed socialist experiment. The people that are going to suffer are the hard-working New Zealanders; the quiet hard-working New Zealanders who see all their hard-earned gains taxed increasingly by that party and then they go and spend like a drunken sailor. Fees-free: didn't even meet its targets. KiwBuild: less than 300000. We had a development in my electorate of Waimakariri private builders building high-spec four - double bedroom internal garage houses right next to KiwiBuild houses. The private market was selling them cheaper than KiwiBuild. This Government has failed at every step of this year in this failed socialist experiment.I'll tell you what their internal polling will be showing what ours is showing for the region of Canterbury and they'll be worried. I'll tell you what in Canterbury we've been fleeced and forgotten. You won't find a Government Minister coming into Canterbury.And then what was Chris Lynch told by the Prime Minister's press secretary? You'd need another 15 March to get her back on the Chris Lynch show. There's nothing that winds up Cantabrians worse than $5.5 billion that was stolen out of State highway funding and redirected to Auckland public transport. Cantabrians the grafters of this country that punches well above its weight for GDP and we are funding to go to Auckland. Cantabrians don't like that and that's why your polling for Canterbury will be showing the same as well. Cantabrians are feeling fleeced and forgotten. I do want to finish on some positive notes. First I want to acknowledge the senior whip for the Opposition and the National Party Barbara Kuriger—huge leadership she has shown over the last year to navigate our way through what's been quite a treacherous Parliament over the last 12 months. I want to acknowledge also my colleague down the road there Todd Muller for the work he's doing in the agricultural space. I represent a semi-rural and peri-urban area and I know how tough farmers are getting it at the moment. They're getting kicked by this Government. Todd Muller's been out there for months on end public meeting after public meeting—good old-fashioned politics. He's getting out there and getting in front of the people that he's serves and I know that at each farmers' meeting he's getting 100 to 150 farmers. They're the ones that are delivering this economy in New Zealand. They're the ones that this Government is kicking. Finally I want to acknowledge you and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I have been in a role where I've had to interpret the ups and downs of how you allocate supplementary questions. At times I have reflected and I have wondered what the Opposition attack dog Trevor Mallard would have done with a Speaker like you and I have questioned and thought about how he would respond and whether there were any lessons for the Opposition maybe in early next year about how we respond to your refereeing of question time. To all the parliamentary staff thank you very much for enabling us parliamentarians to serve the country and what a great country it is. Thank you Mr Speaker."