Coleman JonathanHon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Minister of Health): What great entertainment for people on a Wednesday night just after dinner. They can tune in and hear Mrs King spouting a whole lot of bluster. They will be waiting for the Powerball draw at 8 o'clock and this is a great lead-in. What Mrs King has done is just make up a whole lot of stuff. She missed out all the highlights of the Budget but what I did really appreciate you know is that she is doing some great media monitoring for me. She seems to read just about every article about me she can find and I think that shows an Opposition spokesperson with a lot of time on her hands. I found one article on Mrs King it was a New Zealand Woman's Weekly profile and all I really found out of substance in that one was this. Here is a quote: In pride of place on her bedroom shelf flanked by an encyclopaedia of erotica is the autobiography of her US counterpart Hillary Clinton." Well I think Mrs King rather fancies herself as the Hillary Clinton—it is all true; you can go and google it—of the New Zealand Parliament. That was a disappointing speech because apart from all the things she made up you have to balance those with the bits she left out. Well in terms of bits she made up—$1.7 billion. She says there has been a $1.7 billion cut. Well in actual fact the health vote has gone up $4 billion under National over the past 8 years. I mean any idiot can look at the vote and see that that has happened so how Mrs King can go around with a straight face and say that $1.7 billion has been cut—Hon Annette King: I can because it's true.Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: It is completely untrue. Mrs King once again has made it up. But when you look at some of the highlights of this Budget look at this: $2.2 billion over 4 years which is going to deal with the cost pressures it is going to deal with demographics. There is money there for primary health care. Mrs King is very concerned about primary health care but she forgets to talk about the free doctors visits for under-13s that this National Government has delivered. You know these are the fantastic initiatives we have got in place to actually make sure that some of our most vulnerable people in New Zealand get access to services that they need. These are things like in this Budget $18 million for the Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes initiative and the $12 million for primary care mental health triaging. There is a lot going on that is very good. But one of the real highlights Mrs King one of the things that you failed to deliver is bowel screening. In a long period of time when Mrs King could have rolled out a bowel screening programme—the Labour Government talked and talked about it and do you know how much money it put into it? It put in zero dollars—zero dollars. After 9 years in office they started talking about it and they put in nothing. This Government this year is rolling out a bowel screening programme that is going to save 700 lives a year. It is going to screen 700000 people aged 60 to 74 every 2 years. But look what really sums up that speech is that Mrs King is all about money. There is nothing there about policy so her whole argument in health as it is for her party in education is "Oh this group didn't get this or this didn't get that." There is no focus on services; no focus on making life better for New Zealanders. Mrs King is in there slamming social bonds. Do you know what? She will never try anything new or innovative that is going to deliver a result. She will never try to raise the bar because Labour with its tradition of mediocrity—100 years of mediocrity it will be celebrating tomorrow—will never try anything new to get the result whereas my colleague Bill English as Minister of Finance has driven that social investment approach. He has driven trying to try new things like social bonds to deliver results. Hon Annette King: And it fell over. It fell over today.Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Mrs King wants it to fall over. She is not interested in the results because her record as Minister of Health was so woeful I am really surprised she still wants to show her face in this Parliament. You know under her the money was doubled; the electives went down by 2000 per year. It was pathetic—absolutely pathetic. In fact the Dominion Post wrote in September 2005 that it is hard to believe that any Government could put so much money into the health system and make it worse. And that was all Mrs King. Mrs King goes around and she thinks she is the greatest health Minister ever but do you know what? She does not even understand—Hon Annette King: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. This is the Estimates—the Minister's Estimates—and he has now spent considerable minutes talking about when I was Minister of Health 11 years ago.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): Yes—[Interruption] Order! Maybe I need to stand on a chair. I am on my feet. The Minister is responding to quite a speech I must say that the spokesperson gave and she has now used a point of order to interrupt the speech that he is giving in reply. So he has the floor and he will continue.Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: I would just say she is right; it is about the Estimates. My recommendation to Mrs King is she should spend less time reading that Hillary Clinton autobiography she should not open up that erotica encyclopaedia and she should get herself a copy of Vote Health and put it by the bedside. That is what she should be studying each night because she does not understand Vote Health. I can tell you that this is a great Budget. It is focused on results. It is delivering for New Zealanders."