Mark RonGENERAL DEBATERON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. The question is that the motion be agreed to and the question is going to be answered very firmly on 23 September. But before I get into a bit of a reality check for this outgoing Government I want to on behalf of my colleagues in New Zealand First thank you Mr Speaker and thank all of the parliamentary staff for the wonderful support that they have given us whether they are in the Parliamentary Library whether they are in security or whether they are the messengers in the House. And we are mindful and thinking of those staff who have departed the Parliamentary Service over this last triennium. I also want to specifically thank the wonderful New Zealand First staff up in the offices right now listening to this contribution.It is ironic that on this day in 1930 in the United States President Hoover gave a press conference where he announced plans to combat drought and economic depression. Last week New Zealand Labour leader Jacinda Ardern gave a speech where she announced plans to create a drought and cause economic depression. So it is food for thought. Is Labour's food and production tax on water an economy-crushing $100 a cubic metre as Stuart Nash told a meeting in October 2015? Is it a $500 million increase in food prices as per what Mr Parker told Radio New Zealand last week suggesting 10c a cubic metre which actually raises $583 million? Is it perhaps one or two cents" a cubic metre which Grant Robertson told The Nation 4 days later which increases food prices by $58 million to $116 million a year? Or is it in fact all of the above? Hon Member: We don't know.RON MARK: We do not know. Like questions for comrades done at the behest of the Australian Labor Party Labour here is in a tangle of its own making and thoroughly deserves to be so. It gives Coca-Cola a free pass but wants to make milk more expensive at the counter. It is probably appropriate that it wears the same colours as Coke being the party now we know that says: "Let's do this." We are saying that it is really the party that says: "Let's tax this."So what about the incumbent Pepsi of New Zealand politics: the National Party—although some would probably want to call it the "International Party" because it seems more interested in other people offshore making oodles of money in this country than in hard-working New Zealand business people and workers. Some might actually call it the "Globalist Party" because it represents everybody on the globe except people here in New Zealand.The "Party of the brighter future."—well that did not work out too well did it? Now it is the "Party delivering for New Zealand." The question is: delivering what? Since December 2008 merchandise exports—after big words about free trade the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement cul de sac and export booms—have grown only 1.5 percent in real terms after 9 long years of this Government. This proves that Mr Joyce is now the Basil Fawlty of finance Ministers—whatever you do do not mention the imports. In December 2008 national median house prices stood at $330000; in July this year they blew out to a whopping $518000. In December 2008 migration was 3814—that is net—but this year in June it exploded to 72304. People are totally hacked off with open-door immigration driving up house prices and creating infrastructure chaos which negatively impacts on the regions as we now know in Woodville.So while National walks around praising itself as an economic genius saying "real after-tax wages have risen 19 percent under their stewardship" it omits to mention that inflation over this period was 14.4 percent. There is a lot more we could talk about here but my colleague Fletcher Tabuteau will. We are so looking forward to 23 September when the people will get a chance to pass judgment on these statistics."