Little Andrew: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLittle Andrew: General Debate[Sitting date: 06 April 2016. Volume:712;Page:10242. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition): Well that comes from a Government that claims it has got so many ideas it can only talk about ours. That is what it has now come to faced with big problems. Can it give an assurance that it will buy back the Kiwibank shares if they are offered up for sale by the Cullen fund or by ACC? It cannot even give that assurance.And it talks about the young unemployed—the young unemployed have bloomed under this Government over the last 8 years. The average level of unemployment for the 18 to 24-year-olds is now up to 15 percent—that is a National Government achievement. But like with all of the National Government’s failures those members always have to turn it on somebody else so now we are responsible somehow for their failure to get to grips with the ambitions and the dreams of young New Zealanders. Those members are doing nothing have done nothing and will do nothing which is why New Zealanders now know they need a change of Government if they are going to have a chance for the future.There is one question that New Zealanders are asking this week: who is the National Government governing for? Who is it there for? Because what has become blatantly obvious to every New Zealander who cares is that that mob over there does not care about ordinary New Zealanders. They do not care. And we have Mossack Fonseca to thank for the fact that this Government’s abject failure to deal with the tax fraudsters and the tax dodgers of the world—it has done nothing about it. It has done nothing about it. We know what those members’ response is so the Prime Minister is saying “Oh it’s all too complicated. Kiwis don’t worry you will never understand.”—of course he does because that is the industry that he comes out of. Doing dodges doing dodgy deals coming out of the finance sector—he loves that stuff. That is him. Of course we would not understand it.Those members are arrogant they are out of touch and they do not care—they do not care. So they say: “Oh don’t worry we’ve got full disclosure.” Never mind that you will never find out who settles these foreign trusts who the beneficiaries are or how much the assets are worth—we will never know any of that under this Government’s full disclosure regime. There is no need for any of them to file a return so we will never know exactly what is going on. And “Is it a tax haven?” we asked and the Government said “No we’re not a tax haven.” but this is what the experts are saying. This is what McVeagh Fleming a reputable Auckland law firm tells its clients: “New Zealand is not seen as a ‘tax haven’ country so the use of a New Zealand trust is generally not perceived as a means to avoid tax or as being tax aggressive.” which is lawyer-speak for “Come ’ere because you can be a tax dodger and we’ll be tax aggressive.” That is exactly what that is saying. And then what do others say? Another one says: “It should be noted that New Zealand does not have a central trust registry thus offering a considerable degree of privacy”—secrecy—“and flexibility.” This is the Government’s full disclosure regime.And do you know what? Those members do not care about it. They do not care about us becoming a harbour for the tax dodgers and the wrongdoers of the world. They do not care about it—they do not care about it. And the only question then is exactly who is this Government looking after because now it has become pretty obvious. We should not be surprised. This whole thing about tax dodging and inexplicable financial arrangements is exactly what John Key stands for. He does not stand for the hard-working New Zealanders or for the hard-working New Zealand business people starting with their small businesses and trying to grow them and trying to get capital finance so that they can generate those new jobs and generate a bit of wealth for themselves by doing things the honest way which is what Kiwis are always good at.Those members do not care about this stuff because that is not the world they live in. They live in a world that is about looking after the mega-rich and the mega-wealthy who add nothing to New Zealand. What has John Key said? “Let’s be the Switzerland of the South Pacific.” he said. “Let’s get the European mega-rich down here. They can build their mansions.” And the rest of us? We will tug our forelocks and we will do as we are told and polish their shoes. That is the New Zealand future that John Key has in his mind. That is his vision for New Zealand.It is not a New Zealand that is about hard-working Kiwis doing their best and doing the best for the country they love and that we love too. That is the National Party vision. It is not about good things; it is about the dodgers and the shirkers and those who owe no allegiance to any country or to any people. We do not want a bar of it and we will not have a bar of it because the Labour Party stands for those who do good things for those who work hard and for those who want a great country.