Brown SimeonSIMEON BROWN (National—Pakuranga): Thank you very much Madam Assistant Speaker. Chlöe Swarbrick the previous speaker just sat down and said that it's going to get better. Well let's ask the question: is it going to get better? I came to this House as the member of Parliament privileged to represent the electorate of Pakuranga and the question that I have is: what is this Budget going to do for the hard-working taxpayers in my electorate? Well firstly I thought how could we describe this Budget? What could we call it? The first name I came up with was the tax hike Budget" because this Budget fails to address the growing problem of bracket creep. Every year as incomes go up New Zealanders are paying more and more tax not because they're getting richer but because incomes are going up and the brackets are not being changed. On this side of the House we believe that those who work hard should be able to reap the reward for their effort and we need to address that. This Government has failed to address bracket creep in this Budget. The second name for this Budget could be the "coalition of chaos Budget" because that's what they are—a coalition of chaos. On one side they've got this $1 billion for a regional development slush fund and on the other side only $100 million for green investment. The ideology seems to be 100 percent one way and 10 percent the other. I'd like to ask the Green Party whether their embassy in Stockholm will have plush carpet and wood panelling on its walls because they seem to be feeling that that's what it should be. This is a "coalition of chaos Budget" with ideas all over the place and no clear strategy other than to buy the support of the coalition to keep it together. We could also call it the "spray and walk away Budget"—spray and walk away. I'd like to remind New Zealanders of the fact that $2.8 billion—[Interruption] ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Settle! Order!SIMEON BROWN: —has been thrown at free fees for tertiary students. They don't like hearing this but they've spent $2.8 billion on free fees and how many additional students have gone to university this year? How many—100? No 900 fewer students have gone to university this year—$2.8 billion. What are the priorities on the other side of the House? But there are more names you could give to this Budget. There are so many more names you could give to this Budget. I like this one: the "free electricity for millionaires Budget". Yep the "free electricity for millionaires Budget" so they can go over to the Gold Coast and have a nice holiday in a warm part of the world and have free electricity at home for their house which is not using any heating. Hon Andrew Little: So are you going to can it? SIMEON BROWN: That's what this Budget—and another point which Minister Little might like to know is that winter apparently starts on 1 July. So I don't know what the people down in Queenstown where it's snowing are feeling today. Winter has already begun but the winter energy payment won't start until 1 July. Those in my electorate who qualify for this payment are wondering and questioning what on earth this Government thinks about scientific facts such as when the seasons change. This is the anti-science Budget if you ask me. They don't understand when seasons change. There's another name for this Budget. It's the "broken promise Budget". They've broken promises left right—well no they don't have right; just left left and left they have broken promises. School donations innovative learning where all schools are to have innovative learning environments by 2030—well where are they in the Budget? Nowhere. They've cut public-private partnerships (PPPs) for school property development. Well on one side of the ideological drift of this Government they're happy to have PPPs to build a road north of Auckland but they're not happy to have a PPP building a school. What on earth are they thinking? They've got no idea. They're ideologically unintelligible. I'd like to finish by talking about the children. They could have funded $3 million for the Stand Children's Services down in the South Island and they have failed to in this Budget. I stand with the children. I stand with Stand Children's Services in my electorate of Pakuranga. I'm proud of the work they do. They need to fund the children's services up and down this country if they really believed—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! Your time has expired. I apologise."