Ross Jami-LeeJAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany): It didn't take New Zealand First long to start clapping like trained seals did it? They used to sit over there and they're all the tough men of the Parliament standing up for the regions—Rt Hon David Carter: Ron Mark didn't clap.JAMI-LEE ROSS: Oh no Ron Mark didn't clap. He's still hurting a little bit. Tracey Martin's still hurting a little bit too and the Labour Party will be hurting for signing up to Winston Peters. We were smarter—we were smarter; we didn't do that. Fletcher Tabuteau—when I walked into the Chamber I heard him talking about more exports more exports apparently. He's the guy that sat on the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee for month after month opposing free-trade agreements. If he really cared about exporters he would have been supporting free-trade agreements. But no New Zealand First hate free-trade agreements. They don't support the exporters. They don't support the regions either. The Budget they've signed up to and the coalition Government that they've signed up to will see the regions deserting them and it will see their vote going down and I suspect they're going to be questioning their decision making leading up to this Budget.The reason why this Budget is going to be a fail for New Zealanders is because it will lead to more tax it will lead to more borrowing and it will lead to more spending that won't grow the economy it won't grow jobs and it will hurt New Zealanders in the back pocket. I'm pleased that I came in and am speaking after a New Zealand First member because the big win for New Zealand First is not trees it's not provincial growth; it's nothing like that. It's not jobs. Their big success in this Budget is diplomats. Their big success in this Budget is lining the carpets of embassies seeing more diplomats getting out there ensuring that the people that Winston Peters likes hanging out with get some support when it's actually people that go to the doctor that won't get the support that was promised by the Labour Party. It's people in the regions that need jobs and need support and need education that won't get the support from the Labour Party. New Zealanders will be paying more in the back pocket for that.The jobs that were being seen under National in sectors like the oil and gas industry and the agricultural industry they are being hurt by this Government and this Budget is an example of that. We were seeing 10000 jobs a month being created under the National-led Government. We saw us getting the books back in order. We saw growth in the economy. Grant Robertson whilst he's been able to deliver a Budget that he feels proud about the fact is he was able to deliver a Budget because we got the books back in order we set the circumstances up we ensured that there was growth for New Zealanders.Greg O'Connor: No we're paying the bills now man—we're paying your bills.JAMI-LEE ROSS: There's Greg O'Connor. He used to be the man that cared about police officers—no longer. Greg O'Connor you're failing the police. Greg O'Connor you are a failure to the New Zealand Police. [Interruption]DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! [Interruption] Order! Mr O'Connor there is a Standing Order that says you cannot interject from a seat other than your normal seat in order to get an advantage. A normal interjection is fine but that is way over the top. I do apologise for interrupting.JAMI-LEE ROSS: Oh no I don't mind Madam Deputy Speaker because he's failed New Zealand police officers. He used to be the big champion of New Zealand police officers but here he is now a Labour MP—sorry Mr O'Connor you're now accountable because the Labour Party promised police officers on the street; they promised 1800 new cops. They're not delivering. Stuart Nash has no idea how many there'll be how much it will cost or when it will be delivered over.The New Zealand Police and people in New Zealand are being failed by this Government on law and order policies. Greg O'Connor now the MP for—which electorate?—Ōhāriu; Greg O'Connor's people are now living in a less safe country because they won't build prisons and they're going to let people out. They believe in letting people out and letting them out on bail.Hon Andrew Little: Disgraceful.JAMI-LEE ROSS: Disgraceful. Andrew Little—I liked him. He was far better as Leader of the Opposition. Andrew Little did a better speech as the leader of the Labour Party during the last Budget than Jacinda Ardern did. She was the great hope for the Labour Party. Well I actually enjoyed Andrew's speech last year better but Andrew's now moved down the rankings a bit and he's the guy that's going to be leading—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Full name—full name.JAMI-LEE ROSS: Oh sorry Andrew Little. Andrew Little the former Leader of the Opposition now justice Minister is about to let people out on bail and go out and commit crimes that will hurt New Zealanders. That's the legacy that he's going to be leaving New Zealanders when they've spent three years in Government.I want to turn to the transport sector because that's an area that I care quite passionately about and I know something that New Zealanders care passionately about too is how much tax they're going to be having to spend. Transport's not a big winner in the Budget speech because a lot of the transport work's already been going on. The key element of Labour's transport plan is ramping up fuel taxes. New Zealanders will be paying more—$25c a litre—in extra fuel taxes under Labour's policies. People out there in the regions are going to be hurt by seeing their taxes having to be spent at the petrol pump more. They're not going to see the infrastructure improvements. They're not going to see the roading that would lead to economic growth. They're not going to see the projects that would lead to jobs being created in the regions and they're not going to be seeing success for them on the transport basis.Hon Julie Anne Genter: Aucklanders are fucking thankful that someone's finally going to get some rapid transit network.JAMI-LEE ROSS: The big transport plan for the Labour Party is a light rail system—trams running down Dominion Road. That's right Julie Anne Genter. You've done well: trams down Dominion Road. That'll be great for the people that she likes to have coffee with in those cafes in Ponsonby but the people living in the regions that have to pay the taxes for those trams running down Dominion Road—they're going to be paying more they're not going to be seeing more roads they're not going to be seeing more transport benefits for them. Yes they're putting more into safety; I admit that. They're putting more into safety but they're still taxing people to fund trams down Dominion Road. The Green Party did well out of that particular transport plan.The New Zealand First Party have failed the regions. So when people in Waikato—they were expecting more roading. They will be paying more in taxes at the petrol pump. Well will they see their road? No they won't. Will they ride the Dominion Road trams? No they won't. The people in Christchurch—they're expecting more Christchurch roading improvements. They'll be paying more at the petrol pump. Will they be seeing more roads? No they won't but they'll be paying for those Dominion Road trams. The people in Tauranga that were expecting the Tauranga Northern Link to go ahead: will they see that Tauranga Northern Link go ahead? No they won't. They'll be paying more in tax for Dominion Road trams. So people around the country are going to feel ripped off by this Government when it comes to transport. Every time they go to the petrol pump and they see petrol prices heading towards $2.50 $3 a litre they can blame the Labour Government for making it even worse.Phil Twyford admitted the figures in the House. We questioned him in the House on his transport figures. He admitted that there was a $5.35 billion cut in transport funding when it came to State highway improvements. Sure he doesn't like roads of national significance but they led to economic growth they led to economic opportunities for the regions and they led to safer roads for New Zealanders to drive on. When those people from the New Zealand First Party go up and swan around in Northland they should talk to people about whether they're happy with the transport policies of this Government when it comes to Northland because they're not. They're not getting the roads they need they're not getting the economic opportunity they're not going to see jobs and they're not going to see success for their community. That's why this Government will continue to fail New Zealanders.I also want to talk about health because health is supposedly according to Grant Robertson the big winner in this Budget. They're putting less extra funding in than we did last year. Supposedly we were the big failures in health. Well I'd have to say the country will be hoping that Jonathan Coleman comes back to Parliament because he did a far better job than David Clark ever did. The supposed gap in health funding that they campaigned on that they said they're going to put into extra district health board funding that they said they'd put into mental health funding—it's not there. It's not there.The health sector would have been better off with a National-led Government. The health sector would have been better off people would have had more operations people would have had more access to doctors and people would have had better hospitals had a National-led Government been here. Labour has broken their promise in health just like they've broken their promise in tax just like they've broken their promise about what they'd be delivering for New Zealanders.So this is a Budget of broken promises. This is a Budget where the Labour - New Zealand First - Green Party Government is failing New Zealanders. It's a Government that's delivered a Budget that will see more people paying more in tax at the petrol pump and in other forms. They won't see the job creation they won't see the economic growth and they will feel let down by this Government.I was proud to be a National member of the National-led Government under John Key and Bill English as we delivered Budgets that took us through difficult times but invested in those priority areas. It was a Government that delivered surpluses in the end a Government that was able to get the books back in order. We were delivering better education opportunities for young people we were delivering more operations for New Zealanders we were delivering more jobs for Kiwi families and we were delivering what would have effectively been a tax cut for every single New Zealander. So when people look at this Budget and they see the failure on the other side and they compare what they could have had they're going to be disappointed with what they do have under this Government. Three years' time Simon Bridges as Prime Minister—it'll be a totally different Budget under a National-led Government.