Doocey Matt; Dyson RuthMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a privilege to rise on behalf of the National Party to oppose the Prime Minister's statement and to support the Leader of the Opposition's amendment that this House has no confidence in the Labour-led Government because in just two short years it has plunged New Zealand into deficit and failed to deliver on any of its promises." I must say how good was Simon Bridges in his speech in the debate on the Prime Minister's statement? How good was Simon Bridges? The reality is that with this Government littered with failures over the last two years it's a failed socialist experiment—that's what this Government's been. KiwiBuild the primary growth fund and fees-free have delivered no housing and have got no new tertiary students in and they have been wandering around the country giving out money purely for votes. This Government has been a failed socialist experiment. Being a proud Canterbury MP I remember a time when the Canterbury rebuild was a top priority for a Government. The last National Government made it one of its top four priorities. We had John Key the Prime Minister and a Cantabrian and we had Gerry Brownlee leading it as the Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration. We had the Hon Amy Adams and the Hon Nicky Wagner senior Ministers driving from the front bench to make sure the second-biggest city in New Zealand that punches well above its weight in GDP was rebuilt. What we have now is one Canterbury Minister on the front bench—the Hon Megan Woods—who's getting rolled. We know that don't we because in the last infrastructure announcement Auckland got over $4 billion and Canterbury got $159 million. How is that fair? Billions for Auckland and a few million for Canterbury. Cantabrians are being fleeced and forgotten under this Government and are no longer a priority. No longer are we in Canterbury a priority. What about the press secretary of Jacinda Ardern the Prime Minister who told Chris Lynch that we would need another March 15 mosque shooting before the Prime Minister would come back on his talk show? That's where this Government is lacking. It's failing New Zealand. It's failing Canterbury when Canterbury needs it most and how much money has this Government spent out of its $300 million promised for Canterbury? Not one dollar and this week they've rehashed their announcements for the stadium. That was announced 2½ years ago. What has this Government done in the last 2½ years? Sat on the $300 million and dangled it as a carrot and we've had the stadium stalled—the Metro Sports Facility. You can't even get a car park for the hospital off the ground. What you have is people having to park miles away from the hospital and take shared transport with wheelchairs and crutches for sick people because what you've promised you haven't delivered. This Government has not delivered in 2½ years. It's a failed socialist Government and I'll tell you what it's causing in the regions and in my area of Waimakariri. On 9 February we had one of the first protest rallies Waimakariri has ever seen: 400 people turned out at Owen Stalker Park in Woodend. That might not sound like a lot of money to you guys from the big metropolitan cities but for a small town where there's only a few thousand people 400 is a lot. They were turning out on Waitangi weekend. Why? Because the Government failed to commit to the Woodend bypass. Why has the Woodend bypass been taken off the table? Because under the Government policy statement for transport this Government has stripped out $5.5 billion of State highway funding and redirected it to public transport initiatives in Auckland that haven't even eventuated. So why are people in Christchurch and greater Christchurch and Canterbury suffering? Because you're redirecting State highway funding to Auckland. This town has a motorway running through the centre. It has had a 20 percent increase in vehicle movements in the last two years because of the growth in that area. It's now topping 20000 car movements a day going through that State highway that goes straight through a town. Parents take their primary school kids across that motorway every day to school. We wanted it pedestrianised and to have lights and do you know what the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) said? They came in and said "Well that's good but you're going to have to apply to an oversubscribed budget." That's NZTA coming in and telling us that the Woodend bypass is now off the table because there's no money. We're even having to beg for safety improvements where you've got a motorway of 20000 cars and trucks going through the centre of a small rural town and you've got elderly telling me that they don't even go to their medical appointments any more because they don't want to cross the road to get the public bus. Local businesses are saying that people are not stopping any more to go to their shops because they don't want to get back into the traffic. That is what's playing out in regional New Zealand. You have failed regional New Zealand and this is why. You can say what you want in the beltway of Wellington but it's your policies under the Prime Minister's statement that are failing Canterbury and that's why people are turning out and protesting that you're not listening. Do you know what the real kick in the guts is? That the Woodend residents' group has joined up the Make SH1 Safer Committee. It's made up of the primary school principal the head of the Woodend residents' association the head of the Pegasus residents' association the community board chair and the Lions president. They wrote to the Minister of Transport Phil Twyford. They didn't say "Look we want you to guarantee it in one meeting." They wanted to come up here at their own expense and just tell him what they're encountering in that town and your transport Minister refused to meet them. He won't even meet them. That's where you are failing. This Government has failed in the last 2½ years. I just want to finish on what should have been a success for this Government: mental health. You championed mental health. You told New Zealanders that you would make a difference and that's the problem with a Labour Government: they tell people in election time "All you need to do is vote us in. We will make a difference." Well for $1.9 billion do you know what? Under the annual reviews we've just been through for the DHBs—Hon Poto Williams: Suicide commission—that's making a difference. Mana Ake's making a difference. MATT DOOCEY: Mana Ake—yes what a great programme for Canterbury. We have 16 regions in New Zealand; you've rolled it out to one. At this rate it's going to take you 48 years. Piki pilot for 24-year-olds—you've rolled out to Wellington. There's $1.9 billion for mental health and do you know what? After the annual reviews we've just received at the Health Committee child and adolescent wait times in the DHBs have gone up 40 percent in the last two years. People in the DHBs are saying they haven't seen any of the money. It hasn't flowed down yet. They don't know where it is. So stand up and say how much of the $1.9 billion you have spent to date and under your own inquiry that said we needed to move access from 7 to 20 percent how much access have you improved? Your own Minister won't answer that question. How much access has been increased in the last 2½ years? Mental health was supposed to be a strong point for you and now you are failing to deliver on mental health. Mental health will be categorised as another KiwiBuild another fees-free and another primary growth fund failure. I find that difficult because you raised expectations. You told people in the last election you were going to make mental health a key plank. Yes you've got this figure of $1.9 billion but in the last two years under your Government the wait time for child and adolescent family services has increased 40 percent. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): Could I just remind the speakers again not to bring the Speaker into the debate. This is a split call I understand."