Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): Thank you Mr Speaker.Jami-Lee Ross: Oh this'll be good.ALASTAIR SCOTT: This'll be a very good contribution by myself and I'd like to start by first of all—we're a team. Some of us are a team across the House and I'd like to comment firstly on Grant Robertson's contribution. I agreed with part of it. He talked quite positively about the state of the economy he talked about the unemployment rate dropping to 4.4 percent he talked about the growing economy—all good things. He could have talked about 10000 new jobs a month being created—all good things. He could have talked about the $19 billion worth of surpluses that were before him—all good things. I thought he was actually going to say Thanks to the National Government"—thanks to the National Government he Mr Robertson is able to do so much that he otherwise wouldn't have been able to do. Thanks to the National Government the situation is that there is money to invest money for New Zealanders. Just remember—and I know we do on this side of the House—this is taxpayers' money. This is taxpayers' money that is being collected from hard-earning Kiwis.Mr Lees-Galloway talked about the housing crisis but we heard today that in the next 12 months there will be 1000 houses—1000 houses—being built by Housing New Zealand. One thousand houses—half a dozen small to medium sized enterprises could build more than that. A thousand houses in 12 months is pathetic. It's not going to solve any housing crisis imagined or real that this Government reports on. Housing New Zealand is a $65 billion asset and they can produce 1000 houses in the first 12 months.And then of course the question today in the House was how can we have new young people enter into the housing market? Well Housing New Zealand will sell those houses. When we were in Government it was such a terrible thing to sell State houses but we've had an admission already that these new houses built by the State will be sold—will be sold to the private sector. Well there's a little bit of a flip around.Now of course some of these things that the Government is talking about are going to require more than the $19 billion that was given to them on a plate by the National Government so they've gone out and committed to $10 billion more of borrowings. They've gone to commit to the Cullen fund—that was mentioned by Mr Lees-Galloway. Now we can only commit to a Cullen fund if we either borrow more or we tax more. So the question for Mr Robertson—or Mr Lees-Galloway because he's very keen on contributing to the Cullen fund—is how much are those two individuals going to borrow today to invest in the ASX or the New Zealand Exchange on their own behalf—on their own behalf? How much are they going to borrow to invest in the equity market? Because that's what they are planning to do on behalf of the New Zealand taxpayer. That is what they're planning to do on behalf—Darroch Ball: Productivity.ALASTAIR SCOTT: —see on that side of the House—"productivity" Mr Ball talks about. You borrow money to invest in a sharemarket because of productivity. I ask that member how much money is he going to borrow today or tomorrow or next week to invest in the New Zealand or the Australian or the New York or any stock exchange around the world? If he's not interested in borrowing himself why would he expect the taxpayer to borrow and have the Government borrow on behalf of the taxpayer? Quite an outrageous situation.The other thing we've got going is that that Government talks about supporting the regions—what a lot of nonsense. They want to tax the regions to pay for the Auckland roads. It's very clear. It's very simple. They try and appease the provinces by having a lolly scramble run by Mr Jones. Now we know on this side of the House that lollies are not good for you—lollies are not good for you. There are no vitamins there's no protein they make you fat and they make you lazy and that is what Mr Jones is planning to do. He's already distributed a few little lollies here and there to his favourite pet projects—no accountability no understanding. He's stripped money from the Primary Growth Partnership and he's stripped money from the Crown Irrigation fund—both funds sensibly invested in the regions—for the benefit of his own fund."