Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. Democracy is the greatest form of Government that humanity has ever invented. It allows the citizens to peacefully send little messages to a failing Government at the ballot box and sometimes before then through the polls. The polls are crystal clear when it comes to a message on this Government. Right direction versus wrong direction New Zealanders increasingly say that this country is going in the wrong direction. The gap between ACT and National on the one hand and Labour and Greens on the other is closing closing closing—now only 10 seats with two years to run. ACT is driving that change with some old-fashioned democratic habits of listening to voters a 46-stop Honest Conversations Tour that has been packing halls from Ōāmaru to Stratford. Up and down this country people come to say We are sick and tired of the way this Government treats us with contempt and makes promises and announcements but never follows through."The year of delivery with no delivery. Then there was the year of the vaccine. This Government couldn't organise a vaccination at a pharmacy—that's not a joke; it is literally true. People are looking at a Government that is constantly distracted by gesture politics. It wants to ban gay-conversion therapy. It wants to ban hate speech. It can't enforce the laws that have already been made. New Zealanders up and down this country are sick and tired of a Government that is busy banning new things when it can't keep them safe on the street. When women in central Auckland and central Wellington say "I don't go outside my apartment after 10 o'clock because it is just not safe on the streets of New Zealand's largest cities at night." is it the time for the Government to be cracking down on gangs cracking down on crime or is it the time for the Government to be constantly seeking diversions?On Saturday this weekend there were two meetings. One of them at the Auckland Town Hall the Labour Party and Government held what could only be described as a "rally" apologising for immigration policy before Jacinda Ardern was born. Down the road in Sandringham at another meeting politicians from every political party were listening to today's immigrants separated from their children for over a year by this Government's immigration policy today. Their apology would have so much more substance if only they were committed to dealing with today's infractions.In between central Auckland and Sandringham I could take you to any number of places where people are living in motels—4000 children living in motels because this Government was elected to fix housing but has fundamentally failed to do so. There are too few homes for the number of people living in this country and the Government has failed there comprehensively.What are we going to do about it? Well throughout this three-week recess that Parliament has had the ACT Party was not only listening—going up and down New Zealand 46 meetings packed halls thousands of people—we were responding with positive ideas for a better tomorrow: how to crack down on gangs with gang injunction orders that have worked in Britain and the US instead of giving gangs money; how to get homes built by sharing GST on construction and the jurisdiction of the council giving the consent for it to happen; funding infrastructure; opening up land for the future of New Zealand so that the next generation has a pathway to being part of a property-owning democracy; and painting a pathway out of COVID-19—out of COVID-19—that is intelligent that works with private enterprise that has a proper conception of risk uses technology and gives New Zealanders certainty about the future that we are facing. And where was the Labour Party? Apologising for things that happened a generation ago.Here's the thing: not one Labour MP was there to hear those immigrants suffering today. That is shameful. Thank you Mr Speaker."