Lees-Galloway Iain: Biosecurity Amendment Bill (No 2) Customs and Excise Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third ReadingsText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLees-Galloway Iain: Biosecurity Amendment Bill (No 2) Customs and Excise Amendment Bill (No 2) — Third Readings[Sitting date: 21 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3929. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North):I was expecting another National Party MP to get up and tell us why this was such a wonderful bill but those members have given up. They have completely given up. We have exhausted them and they have realised that they have got nothing positive left to add to the debate tonight because they know that they are on the wrong side of this debate and they know that the public have found them out.This bill the “Border Processing (Arrivals and Departures) Tax Bill” is a metaphor for this Budget and this Government. First of all it is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The Government has been telling us all night that this is somehow going to raise more money for biosecurity—the money raised is going to be applied to biosecurity and we are going to have a wonderful new more robust biosecurity system because of the money raised from this. But that is not true at all. This money is not all going to go towards biosecurity or at least the money raised here is simply going to replace money that has been spent on biosecurity before. Parties on both sides of the House have made a priority of biosecurity for years. There is nothing new about this Government talking about biosecurity being a priority. It is a priority for the Government and it is a priority for us because we know that biosecurity is so fundamentally important to our economy. It is pure smoke and mirrors. There is nothing in the way of additional funding for biosecurity as a result of this. Just like the rest of the Budget this bill is smoke and mirrors.Secondly it demonstrates a Government in absolute disarray. Government members have not been able to tell us tonight whom this new tax is going to apply to and who is going to pay this new tax. They have not been able to tell us what it is going to be spent on and they have absolutely no idea how much this tax is going to be. They are passing a new tax under urgency at quarter to 10 at night and they have got absolutely no idea how much it is going to be. On Thursday it was going to be $16; then by the first reading speech tonight it was going to be $20; by the second reading speech tonight it was going to be $22—they have no idea. This Government is in absolute disarray because it cannot honestly come to this House. It has come to this House and it is implementing a new tax without knowing who is going to pay it what it is going to be spent on or how much it is going to be—a Government in disarray.What this is of course is a new tax. Remember the promise—remember the promise: “No new taxes”. Look at that lovely picture of John and Bill there smiling lovingly into one another’s eyes and promising the country no new taxes. Well right through this Budget we have had three new taxes. It is the Government’s first Budget after the election—the election where it promised no new taxes—and this Budget has introduced no less than three new taxes. Why has the Government introduced three new taxes? Because it is failing to get the books back into surplus. This is not new money for biosecurity; this is freeing up other money so that the Government can desperately clutch at any straw available to try to get the books back into surplus. That is the truth of this. That is what is going on.Hon Simon Bridges: Let’s get a clutch of that hair.IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: Hey Simon Bridges can talk about hair as much as he likes. Half of the country’s oil production resides in the hair of that man. No wonder he is the Minister for it—he is its primary consumer. This is a new tax and the reason we have got this bevy of new taxes from—oh he does not like it!Hon Simon Bridges: I raise a point of order Mr Deputy Speaker. I take personal offense at those comments. I have been getting a lot of good comments about this new hairdo.IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: Oh dear. Government members do not like it all do they? They have got to find any way to try to interrupt a speech that actually points out the truth of this Budget the Budget that introduced three new taxes after they promised no new taxes. Any little way that they can to squeak the numbers back into surplus—the surplus that we have got to wait until next year for just like we had to wait until last year. This bill is a broken promise just like the rest of this Budget. This bill is a broken promise and it is a sneaky new tax which is what this Budget is all about. New Zealanders have seen through it. New Zealanders have absolutely seen through this Government. It promised no new taxes. It promised to get the books back into surplus. Promises promises—always around the corner always next year. You have got to wait wait wait under this Government because this has been the Budget of broken promises and sneaky new taxes. This bill is an absolute metaphor for that.This Government is in absolute disarray. It has had 7 long years to get the books back into surplus. It was nine surpluses on this side of the House and none—not one—on that side of the House. 9 nil—9 nil. That is the truth of it. That is the truth of it. The people of New Zealand are coming to understand that when it comes to economic management you cannot trust the National Party to run the Government books back into surplus. You cannot trust the National Party on its election promises because it will promise one thing—it will promise no new taxes and then it will introduce three just like it promised not to put GST up and then put GST up. No one can trust that Government any more—no one can trust that Government and this bill is just a metaphor for the whole thing. Of course we are opposing this bill. We are opposing the whole Budget because it is a broken promise to the people of New Zealand. They can see through it. This is step one towards the end of this Government and a Labour-led Government after 2017.