Cosgrove Clayton; Borrows ChesterHon CLAYTON COSGROVE (Labour): I did enjoy the animation around that speech. It was a good run for the next reshuffle in Cabinet to try to get the senior whip Jami-Lee Ross up there. But let us deal with a couple of the issues that the senior whip in the National Party talked about. He did not talk about the half a million New Zealanders who get a dollar a week in this Budget—a dollar a week. He did not talk about that and suddenly there is a bit of a hush and a bit of silence over the Government benches. He did not talk about that. He talked about law and order and the police. It was his Prime Minister then Minister of Finance who said that prisons were a moral failure and yet the Budget allocation of course builds a brand new prison. There is a massive allocation for a brand new prison.Michael Wood: Social investment!Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE: So while Mr Ross talks about—as my colleague Mr Wood says—social investment that is the nature and the definition of the Tory social investment: another brand new prison. But he failed to talk about the half a million New Zealanders who will receive a dollar a week out of this package. He failed to talk about the single person on a minimum wage who gets yes an extra $11 in tax cuts but who loses $10 from the removal of the independent earner tax credit and then ends up with a dollar a week. Oh no he forgot about the forgotten New Zealanders. He did not mention that. And the Government members have gone silent of course looking down at their iPads and their cellphones and their very important papers because of course they do not want to deal with those forgotten lost and lonely souls. That was not mentioned as Mr Ross praised Hekia Parata as he praised Minister Adams or as he talked about social investment.He forgot of course when we deal with healthcare in my part of the world Christchurch where since the earthquakes erupted in the last 6 years the neglect the mismanagement in respect of mental health the cutting of funding—go and ask David Meates if he were allowed to speak as CEO of the district health board (DHB) if he were not muzzled if he were allowed to tell the truth and have his own view without ministerial interference. Go and ask David Meates of the Canterbury DHB about the difficulties in mental health the stretching of resources. Go into any school in Canterbury and ask the teachers and the principals about the symptoms that are manifest 6 years later in respect of the mental health of kids as a result of the earthquake and the resources that are stretched. But of course that was not part of the National Party script. That was not part of the sort of animated colourful loud speech from the senior whip. He forgot about the lost and lonelies the half a million New Zealanders who get a buck. It is not even—I do not know what is a stick of gum these days? It is probably worth more than a dollar.But of course when we were in Government delivering surpluses every year for 9 years I remember as associate finance Minister being attacked by Bill English. I never thought I would be attacked as a Labour member for being tight on the public purse which of course when they inherited the global financial crisis set these guys up royally to deal with that. But you will not hear that as they have gone silent. Is it not interesting? It is very silent all over there. Where are the interjections? Where is the moral courage from the member for Invercargill or Queenstown or wherever he is from Todd Barclay who was interjecting on the back of the senior whip's speech? Where is the moral courage and the sort of bombast? Oh no it is not there any more—it is not there any more.So I challenge them as we do go into an election campaign. There will be a debate about how the largesse is spread across the populace—that is always the case in an election campaign in New Zealand—but I have to say to those members: I do not think I am that good but if I can shut them up in 5 minutes if they cannot stare each other in the face if they have to look down at their iPads and their papers because a few facts about the lost and lonely New Zealanders are put to them then I hate to think how they will deal with the populace in an election campaign.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Jenny Salesa—a 5-minute call.