Dean JacquiHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Mr Chair. It's a pleasure to get up and make a contribution to the finance and Government administration sector. I just want to make a comment around the contribution made by the Minister who's just resumed his seat Stuart Nash around the R & D tax credit. I'd invite him to take a call and explain to the committee how those small businesses particularly start-up businesses of which 50 percent at some time during the course of the month go into debit—so they go into the red generally about the time when they have to pay their accounts and they are waiting for their debtors to pay them—are ever going to fund R & D research. How are they ever going to do that? If the very reality of small business in New Zealand is that what small business needs is access to good-quality capital to grow their businesses how is an R & D tax credit ever going to be of any use to them?So is it the case then that Labour are looking after the big end of town of business who perhaps arguably don't necessarily need R & D tax credits? It's just a question I ask and the reflection I would say to do with that is that maybe they're not as well connected to the business community as they think they are. And that perhaps is also borne out by the fact that as business confidence is tanking the Government seems to be taking on this Pollyanna-ish" attitude that "All is well all is well. Don't worry about the business confidence surveys. You're being too negative."Well the business confidence surveys one after the other after the other after the other are tanking. I'd like to see some acknowledgment from the Government that all those business surveys aren't as wrong as they seem to think they are. Regrettably—regrettably—we will find out in due course won't we as the cost of living just keeps increasing; our GDP keeps decreasing; and our economy slows as it is already doing. Unfortunately for the people of New Zealand we will find out in due course.The other feature of this debate which I found really interesting is the pride with which Government members and Ministers say "I've got more money." We heard it from the Minister of Defence: "I've got more money." he said. "I've bought some more planes." he said. Well he might have got the money but it is not his money and that is something that this Government has very quickly forgotten. It's not their money. It is taxpayer money and how are they going to get that? I know they are going to tax people more. So it's the same old Labour Government we've come to know: more tax more spend; more tax more spend. Meanwhile there's a bit of a starve going on in some of the votes that are just quietly tucked away in this Estimates document. I refer to Vote Internal Affairs where it is noted that "The department has initiated a Stewardship and Organisational Sustainability Programme to prioritise its spending and identify trade-offs necessary to address [certain] pressures." What? What the? I thought that this was a Government that was going to spend more and support the agencies of Government and New Zealand—except when it comes to the Department of Internal Affairs. And why does that matter? It is because one of those points where cost pressures are being felt is that one thing that Internal Affairs can do to boost profitability and sustainability and growth: RealMe. But it's starving RealMe. What's RealMe? It's an ID which will make life a whole lot easier for individuals and businesses in New Zealand. What are they doing? They are quietly starving Internal Affairs. So I just have a view that this Government speaks out of both sides of its mouth.Just finally in my last few seconds what is it with the cancellation of the parliamentary accommodation strategy? What is it where we have forgone $3.5 million because the Speaker of the House changed his mind about a very good very long-running programme around the redevelopment of the parliamentary precincts? It was $3.5 million—gosh this Government is absolutely washing in cash if it can afford to make that kind of financial decision."