Collins JudithGENERAL DEBATEHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. It's always a pleasure to rise in this general debate. Well my goodness! What an interesting afternoon we've had. We've had a Minister come to the House and tell us all that he takes full responsibility for reading a file about a convicted drug dealer who was refused parole and who was associated with the Hell's Angels gangs—he is someone who is clearly quite a dangerous person—and he has taken full responsibility for not spending any more than 45 minutes reading the file and coming to a conclusion that he has now overturned.Well 45 minutes. Gee we've spent more time on the debate than what that Minister spent on that file—more time. We've spent over an hour and he now tells us he spent less than 45 minutes. Could have been 15 could have been 10—who's to know? What we do know is that for some reason he granted Mr Sroubek or whatever other name he's using these days permanent residency even though he hadn't even asked for it.As an electorate MP I like many others am constantly putting in requests for residency for people who are genuine but who have at some stage overstayed or there's some other particular reason—because of their age or whatever—that they're not wanted by the Department of Immigration. These genuine people look askance and they ask us What do we have to do?" The best advice obviously is to become an international drug dealer to be connected to the Hell's Angels to get yourself imprisoned and to find a soft touch like Iain Lees-Galloway. That's pretty much it really and I say that with all cynicism because frankly that's pretty much it. I am appalled by that. Having said that I'm also appalled by the nonsense that is KiwiBuild—the ridiculous situation where in the Marfell suburb of New Plymouth a community housing group wants to build houses and make them available at just over $300000 to people on pretty low incomes so that they have a rent-to-buy scheme to help people to become homeowners themselves. I would have thought that's something we would all want to see. I've seen these schemes operating elsewhere and they do work. They take quite a lot of management. They take quite a lot of wraparound service but they do work. Instead what we're told is Housing New Zealand's rejected all of that. Instead they want to have houses built for over $400000 to sell them to middle-income earners or quite high-income earners for over $400000. What has gone wrong here when a Government that says—and it should be—it's for the people full of kindness and everything rejects an opportunity for community housing to come in to help people to get their little stake of New Zealand that is theirs and that they can leave to their children? What is wrong?Then we have what's happening up North with the meningococcal outbreak—and I say that because it's very hard to say I have to say. Particularly even after just a glass of water it's very hard to say. But what we do know: one of the things I can say that the National-led Government in the last nine years did really well was focusing on immunisations. I particularly remember the work that was done in the Counties Manukau district around immunisations particularly for populations that were under-represented in immunisations at that stage. I well remember that we refused to have different target rates for different people. We decided that every population group should be treated the same and every population group should have the same target which was around 100 percent. Then we published those targets and we published those results and we ended up with almost all children—some of the highest immunisation rates were with Māori and Pasifika children who had previously been at the lowest end.That's what we need in Northland. We need a National-led Government again. We need to acknowledge the great work for Dr Shane Reti that he has been doing in bringing this issue to the House and the total lack of commitment from the Government to those young people those children and families when they knew about this situation for months and they've only now told the families what's happening and they're only now getting the vaccines in. We can give $10 million to Papua New Guinea for vaccinations—and I do support that—but how about we start at home? Northland would be a great place to start with vaccinations. And by the way let's tell people what's going on in their community. Instead of just telling the health professionals tell the people who likely or possibly will become infected. Let's look after them first."