Upston Louise: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeUpston Louise: General Debate[Sitting date: 10 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:11869. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō):One would have to stand in the House this week and ask what the most important issues are for hard-working Kiwis. Well according to the Labour Party it is whether or not its caucus of—how many—33 has enough women or actually whether there are too many men. That is the issue that it has been talking about day after day after day. And you know what? It could not even count. It could not even count the number of women it has now so good luck with getting to your 45 or 50 percent—I hope you can count by then.Let us actually quote from one of its own. JosiePagani who was a candidate for the Labour Party says that Labour is “stuck talking about ‘man-bans’ and social engineering rather than jobs and social mobility. How have they let this happen again?”. I think that says it all. It just shows actually how the Labour Opposition is so disconnected. It is so out of touch. It is not listening to hard-working New Zealanders. This side of the House knows that John Key’s team is leading in the issues and getting results in the areas that matter to New Zealanders: having safer communities having higher levels of education having more of our youngsters in education in the first place having more jobs and having an economy that is growing.This week the National Government actually reported on its Better Public Services targets. Not only do we talk about things; we deliver results. We deliver results in the areas that matter to hard-working New Zealanders. So last week up and down New Zealand Labour supporters were picking up their jaws off the floor when instead Labour was talking about man bans. It was quite interesting because to quote one of the other commentatorsKerre McIvor said in theHerald on Sundaythat policies count ovaries do not. So clearly the Labour Party cannot find any policies it cannot find anything that resonates with New Zealanders so it is going around counting ovaries. Well I do not think that matters to hard-working Kiwis.On this side of the House—and I am proud to be a female member of the National caucus—we measure on merit and performance. Not only do we select on that basis; we then measure the results that our Ministers are achieving. I want to—[Interruption ]I was not going to go there but let us do it. There is a bit of a competition in the National caucus and that competition is who gets to stand against Sue Moroney in the next election because in every single seat she has stood in our majorities go up—our majorities go up. So there is a competition—a demand competition—for who gets Sue. When it comes to the Christchurch East selection which is coming up I actually think that the Christchurch East selection has driven this man ban because Labour does not want Clayton Cosgrove as its candidate. It is kind of interesting if you look at who are the ones who have come out with the letter this week. If you look at some of the names involved and if you look at the list that Labour put up last time and how that 50 percent would have worked—surprise surprise—David Parker Shane Jones and Andrew Little would not have made it based on a fifty-fifty list. So they are actually only covering their own butts.I am really proud of the Better Public Services results that our Government is achieving. If you look at our line-up of strong women Cabinet Ministers they are looking after the areas that count for New Zealanders: looking after justice looking after police looking after corrections looking after education looking after a whole range of issues like social development looking after families looking after children—those are the issues that matter to New Zealanders. That is why I am proud to be sitting on this side of the House delivering results not focusing on petty things like whether we have got enough men or too many or what they have got between them.