Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I think there's a definite pattern emerging out of the debates on this Budget that go across the House. On the Labour side they talk about how much money they can spend; and on the National side National talks about outcomes. Frankly Willie Jackson—Hon Ginny Andersen: Cuts! Cuts! Cuts!Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Well we'll come to that. We'll come to that Ms Andersen. Willie Jackson talks about pūtea. What he was really talking about was poaka because the amount of pork that's in this Budget absolutely sums up the Labour Government. For six years they have put the word wellbeing" on the front of Budget documents. Well I simply ask this to all New Zealanders: do New Zealanders feel better off or worse off under a Labour Government?We can talk about prescription charges. Frankly I don't need it. Millionaires don't need it. People getting the winter energy payment who are on six-figure salaries don't need it. I daresay Mr McKelvie would agree with me. But I ask this: what's the point of removing a $5 prescription charge if the poor patient can't even get to see a GP and has to wait for months for a first specialist assessment the waiting list for which has gone up by tens and tens of thousands of dollars? What about the cancer patient who can't even get in for a definitive diagnosis much less the prescriptions and treatments that they need? Elective surgery has ballooned out to a disgraceful level.Don't even start me—Barbara Edmonds talks about Pasifika. What is the immunisation rate for our young Māori and Pasifika? It has drastically dropped on Labour's watch. The previous National Government took a disgraceful rate of childhood immunisations—from about 65 percent—and brought it up to 95 percent. It didn't use people's situation as an excuse for not making them better and we've gone right back down to the 60s. It's a disgrace.So we can talk all we like about how much money is being spent in the health sector—most of which by the way is being spent on a socialist centralised model; half a billion dollars to take away local decision making and centralise it into Wellington. It's a pattern with Te Pūkenga it's a pattern with three waters it's a pattern with a number of—Harete Hipango: Te Whatu Ora.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Yes Te Whatu Ora. Exactly. Let's talk about education. If they want outcomes—if we want our young to be better off—what about the woeful attendance rates at our schools? What about the significant reductions in numeracy and literacy when compared with other countries that we have observed in the last 5½ years? And the industrial action continues in our education system.We've talked about law and order incessantly because people despite what the Minister of Police says do not feel safe. They don't feel safe despite the—I don't know how many police; I don't think we've got to 1800 yet. But the question is not how much money not how many police but how they're being deployed. In straitened times technologies were deployed to enable front-line police on the watch of the previous Government to remove 1.2 million hours of non-contact time. That's the equivalent of putting 600 police on the beat. That's what a sensible Government would do.It's about outcomes not money. We see that in—well I was going to say in economic development; actually it's in the non-development of our economy because we don't have an economic plan under this Government. I'll tell you which particular industry is being enhanced by the industry transformation plans that this Government is now going to spend over $200 million on. It's the consultancy industry. It's the contractors and consultants that have been paid something along the lines of $75000 per page to write a report. Reports that have very little and have been criticised extensively for their lack of imagination and the fact that millions and millions of dollars are going to consultants. Not a single original idea.Well I've got a good idea. How about we create the conditions for businesses and Kiwis to thrive and then just get out of their way? How about we reduce regulation encourage proper productivity—not fair-pay agreements and ridiculous increases in minimum wage that are driving the inflation that create the wage-price spiral that we're seeing and that we won't get out of until we change a Government? Well those people who don't feel better off will have a choice and it's coming soon."