SpeechBARRY COATES (Green): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou. I rise to address this bill. This is about the Supplementary Estimates for the current Budget. Since it is about the Budget this is about confidence in the current Government. What I want to do is go back to the speech from Bill English when he was Minister of Finance to look at what the Government's priorities were for this Budget that we are commenting on and to look at the degree to which the Government has met those priorities and what these revised estimates are therefore about. The finance Minister at that stage said that there were four priorities and I will run through those.The first priority was a growing economy. But you know if you look at the economic growth figures in GDP—gross domestic product—per capita they have fallen for the last two quarters. We are in a technical recession. That cannot be called a growing economy. Even that level of growth is there only because it has been propped up by housing speculation which has seen house prices rise again by 6.7 percent over the past year and by the foreign students debacle where foreign students were brought into New Zealand under false pretences and under fraud and then the foreign students were victimised and blamed for the fraud. We have seen massive tax breaks for foreign investors. We have seen multinational companies not paying their fair share of taxes and all sorts of tax breaks for wealthy individuals. As a result of this economic mismanagement New Zealand is slipping down again the OECD's ladder of productivity which is the real measure of our productive economy. What we have seen is that the economy is not growing and even that anaemic non-growth is founded on unsustainable foundations.The second priority was fixing the infrastructure. What we have seen on that is a continued obsession by the Government on roads even when the benefit-cost ratios have been very low. For example in Auckland we have seen further Government opposition to the City Rail Link and a delay in finding the mechanism where Aucklanders can at last escape the congestion that sees them spending more time in their cars than they do on vacation. That is the kind of under-investment over 9 years of this Government that has led our infrastructure to be horribly horribly under-invested. We see it in the regions where regions are struggling with growing numbers of tourism but without the money to be able to invest in tourism infrastructure. Where we have seen the Government putting money is into prisons. What an indictment of Government policy that is that more and more prisons are required for the Government's failure.We have seen an obsession from the finance Minister on social investment—the third priority. The social investment package was so badly managed in fact that community-based organisations and NGOs were being asked to divulge confidential information about their clients at the stage where Government departments were still sending out that confidential information to other people without proper controls.Finally the fourth area of priority was investment in health. As we have seen there is under-investment in health under this Government totalling about $500 million a year according to Infometrics. We have seen the gross neglect of mental health so that teen suicide rates in New Zealand are amongst the highest in the world. We have seen neglect and underfunding of aged care that leaves our older people with no proper care facilities.This is a situation where the Government does not have the numbers. It should not be allowing Todd Barclay to vote in Parliament. It does not have the numbers. It does not have the mandate. It does not have the confidence of the New Zealand people. We are proud of our America's Cup team we are proud of our All Blacks we are proud of our Black Ferns but we are not proud of our Government. It is time that it left and there was a change of Government. Thank you.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Michael Wood—5 minutes.