SpeechFLETCHER TABUTEAU (Deputy Leader—NZ First): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise on behalf of New Zealand First this afternoon. Unfortunately the topic is the National Party—and I apologise to those on this side of the House. I don't often get up. I love to talk about the good work that this Government is doing. But it just so happens that everything seems to have come to a point in the debate where the National Party needs to be held to account. And so I begin with the shadow spokesperson on finance Mr Goldsmith the man who has written tomes books on the history of—what is it?—tax and economics in New Zealand. And yet just yesterday or the day before—Chris Bishop: One day he'll write the history of this crap Government.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: —he releases a document Mr Bishop that could best be described as a beer coaster or a pamphlet. In fact it was Richard Harman in his publication Politik who spoke about the lack of depth in this policy publication and the lack of a conversation on macroeconomic policy.And so here we are today after a morning of contradiction from the shadow spokesperson on finance and the Leader of the Opposition who can't quite decide what good debt looks like in a Government don't understand—Clayton Mitchell: Confused.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: They can't come to a conclusion; they are confused as Mr Mitchell has pointed out. What their pamphlet shows us is that the National Party has a vision for the future of this country that sadly draws on the failed past of National Party politics and especially from the reigns of Key and English.In fact it was quite wonderful to hear the words of former Minister McClay in his contribution to the House this afternoon where he borrowed from another foreign source—I think that foreign source was the former British Prime Minister Cameron—when he used the metaphor of a bonfire. He spoke about a bonfire of legislation and—what?—regulation. The irony—the irony—of that call of a bonfire by the National Party is that what they would burn mainly comes from one of the biggest pieces of legislation that came through this House in the last term of that Government in the health and safety legislation. They were on this side of the House and insisted that they were there to save lives and that this legislation would save lives.And yet for the past two years members on that side of the House through the ability of members' bills have come through the House with members' bills to unwind the very legislation that they introduced to this House because it was the biggest burden—and I put it to the House—the biggest burden on small business in particular that this country has seen in its modern history. And that is exactly what the National Party introduced to small business and business in New Zealand and they are going to put it on a bonfire—an unfortunate metaphor—and what they are going to do to stoke the heart of that bonfire with their legislation that they brought to this House.The National Party has lost its way. Actually just as an aside on that pamphlet there's no conversation about the regions. The only statement about the regions from the National Party is She'll be right. She'll be right."Kieran McAnulty: Hands off.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: Yeah hands off. That was their approach before and what did that achieve? Nothing. And that's why I'm so proud to be part of the Provincial Growth Fund and the work that we're doing there. So confusion reigns between Goldsmith and Bridges. In fact what they want to do in their pamphlet is—they've said they want to push the retirement age out. They want to take away from retirees. They want to make it harder to retire. That's the solution to the problem according to National and they want to take away the—well let's put it this way with the limited time I have left. I have so many points in the limited time I have left: more tax cuts and give it to the rich and cut facilities and services to the New Zealand public. Unbelievable. Thank you."