Wagner NickyHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. This is a Budget of broken promises. Labour sold its soul and its pocketbook to Winston Peters and now they can't keep the faith with their own voters. Such poor spending choices: no universal cheaper doctors visits those 1800 extra cops on the never-never no funding for school donations and a whole heap of new taxes from this Government that promised no new taxes in its first term.How many Labour voters voted for tax deductions for pretty horses? How many Labour voters voted for a new embassy in Stockholm? How many Labour voters voted for a political slush fund focused mostly on Northland and Shane Jones' backyard? Labour raised expectations promised the earth and hasn't delivered.Every sector feels short-changed. The teachers say The Government is only putting band-aids on the problem." The social workers say "More could have been done to tackle urgent social challenges". The medical students are disappointed with the broken Budget promises. The midwives say "This is the final straw. I can't do it any more." The problem is that I don't think it's going to get better with any of the next Budgets. Significant policy changes: the suffocation of the oil and gas industry and its well-paid jobs the cancellation of irrigation projects and the Primary Growth Fund an increased tax burden and actually the madness of increased borrowing in good times is all taking its toll. Even Treasury's most optimistic economic forecasts are not as rosy as they were pre-election and independent economists are even more pessimistic.And now for an example of where this Budget hasn't delivered: let's consider arts culture and heritage a sector championed by the PM who is hugely enthusiastic about the importance of the arts and the access for all New Zealanders. The sector had expectations that artists arts organisations and arts events would be promoted would be supported and would be funded but they were sorely mistaken.This Budget includes a mere 2.6 percent increase on the so-called inadequate funding of the past. Creative New Zealand the New Zealand Film Commission the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Te Matatini get zip—no increase at all. Worse than that—the very worst thing—is that such a small percentage of that measly amount of new money is actually going to artists or going to support New Zealanders to enjoy the arts. Eighty-five percent of that new funding is going towards bureaucracy and bricks and mortar half a million dollars more—more—for ministerial servicing and $3 million more for policy advice. Labour has three Ministers in the sector but they need more money and more people to tell them what to do. And finally there is $1.3 million so that they can keep their eye on the agencies that they fund.So in summary less than half—a half—of 1 percent of the tiny 2.6 percent of increased funding for the arts is actually going to be spent on the arts. The Government talks the talk raises expectation of funding for arts but spends on bureaucracy. So for a party that promised so much for the arts they've only delivered for the PSA—and no that does not stand for "poor struggling artists." Thank you."