Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's with much pleasure that I'm talking in this debate. Of course we all heard Mr Robertson earlier struggling with this concept about how you balance the books in New Zealand. He likes to term it Bermuda Triangle". But of course I think what's happening now is they're starting to see the shonky economics that Mr Robertson has been perpetuating for the last five years. This is a Minister that has just overseen one of the worst cost of living crisis and the member who has just resumed her seat Ingrid Leary she talks about making it harder for women when the cost of living crisis is exactly what is going to make it harder for women and their families. That is really where it is hurting at home—the money; trying to make ends meet—and we've got thousands of people now vulnerable because of the cost of living crisis.I think the issue around what Mr Robertson was talking about—he has trouble with the concept of how to balance the books. I think the Mood of the Boardroom survey just very recently is showing that people are now understanding the shonky economics that he has perpetuated. I am reminded of the great saying by Lincoln: "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all the people all of the time." That is coming home to roost for this Government and for this finance Minister. This is a man this finance Minister who has overseen the doubling of New Zealand's debt. It's increased by over $60 billion—Todd Muller: That's outrageous.ANDREW BAYLY: —and it's going to continue Mr Muller because for this Minister of Finance even though he's taking an extra $41 billion of new additional tax every year that is not enough. He is going to continue to run a deficit this year and the next year and that is why this Government is in such trouble—because it spends like mad.Of course what that means is that New Zealand has had the second-highest response to COVID of which some of it I've got to say has been OK. We've had $60 billion spent of which $25 billion went to help people to pay workers in their businesses and of course that was a good thing because as some of us know—unfortunately not enough in the Labour Government understand—it is the small businesses that drive this economy that create the taxes that ultimately leads to us as a Government being able to fund new schools new hospitals all the things that we need to do in this country. So apart from the $25 billion of spend that's happened over the last 2½ years you've got to ask: where has the other money gone? All right let's be generous; there was probably another $10 billion that he spent that was OK. That leaves another $25 billion that has been spent by this Government over the last 2½ years and not one person in this House would be able to identify any big strategic change that has occurred as a result of it. It has just disappeared into the wind never to be seen and of course that's $25 billion of additional debt that future generations have to pay down.So I have to ask: what has that $25 billion that's been spent—that no one knows—resulted in? I'll give you some examples. If we'd taken that $25 billion and said "Let's do the cross-Auckland harbour tunnel." that's roughly about $10 billion. We could have done that; we could have committed to that 2½ years ago. We could have funded all of the infrastructure transport needs for Wellington—roughly $6.5 billion; the total programme. We could have ticked that off. We could have funded the new Dunedin Hospital. I know it's under way but it's about $1.5 billion. We could have said "Let's do it and let's do it in a hurry." We could have funded—and I've got Mr Muller here down in Tauranga—the new motorway State Highway 29 from the Kaimais down to the port. And of course that would have driven some economic gains but don't worry about that. That's probably another billion bucks. And on my reckoning I'm at $20 billion. I've still got $5 billion to spend. And that is the scale of undisciplined spending.SPEAKER: The time for this debate has expired.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."