SpeechHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. Who knew there was a census fest? Not I until the Minister of Statistics told me about it. But I will say this: Harry Styles did more to promote Census 2023 than the Government has because up until last night it was New Zealand's very best kept secret. Until Harry told the country that we were actually having one most people didn't know. Now I hope very much that Census 2023 is a success but I have much more hope than confidence because it really has been very poorly promoted.Now I will also start by answering questions that Dr Russell said. Why is it that all those other OECD countries have inflation like ours? It's generally because the OECD countries made exactly the same mistakes New Zealand did by getting the printer out and quantitative easing up the wazoo and having a Government that has overseen profligate spending.What we really need is a Government that does what every single one of the 5 million New Zealanders that it serves has had to do and that is to control costs because times are tough. The only person who's benefited from that inflation has been the Minister of Finance who seems to think that because the tax take is high he can continue to spend on things that are simply not adding value.We've heard a lot from speakers on the other side about how much more money—we just heard it from Dr Russell—they're spending on this that and the next thing. That is not a virtue. The public do not care how much money the Government is spending nearly as much as they care how much the Government is achieving and on that the Government is failing dismally.It's failing in health. It's poured a lot of money into health. Waiting times access to treatment is going down and down. It's put lots of money into education. What's happening in education? Well who knows? We'll get the whiteboard out and find out. But there's a huge difficulty in just getting our kids to school and when they are there when compared with those OECD nations they are simply not achieving.Anna Lorck: Can you ever say anything positive National? Honestly it is just the most depressing argument.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: So much more money; so much little delivery. Oh the MP for Tukituki is doing yet again another demonstration of why she's going to be thrown out on her ear in just seven short months' time—and a very good replacement is on its way.Let's talk about law and order. They crow about police numbers even though they haven't delivered them. Well this is a really good example of where productivity matters because I was a police Minister in 2015—that year that so many police Ministers over there say Oh the funding was flat-lined." Let me tell you what we did in that year: every single front-line police officer was given the technology to keep them on the beat and to prevent them from going back to the station to fill in paperwork. What that did was save 1.2 million hours of police time on dead-weight administration costs. That's the equivalent of putting 600 more police officers on to the front line. But they don't talk about that; all they talk about is how much money they can take out of Kiwis' pockets and spend on their behalf. What Kiwis really want is results and those results only come from a National-led Government.As economic development spokesperson I've been following the progress of the much-lauded industry transformation plans that Stuart Nash has been overseeing. I found the answer: the industry that's been transformed most by these industry transformation plans has been the consultancy industry because more than $8 million has been spent on consultants to prepare plans. That's part of an expected $44 million of planned spending—maybe more—on those so-called transformation plans. What's been the output? Very very little. Lots of drafts. Lots of discussion documents.Chris Penk: Lots of minutes.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Lots of talking points. Chris Penk: Lots of memos.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Lots of memos probably and a few Cabinet minutes as well Mr Penk. But the industry that's been transformed the most by this Government has been the likes of KPMG Deloitte and Pricewaterhouse. They're good people. They do a good job. I'm a chartered accountant. I used to work for a KPMG associate. But they must be embarrassed by the amount of work that's coming their way from a Government that creates 14000 more bureaucrats and still cannot get the job done without outside assistance. Well that just shows that after 5½ years this country deserves better and it's coming in October this year."