Adams AmyHon AMY ADAMS (National—Selwyn): Well it has not been a great start to the year for the Government you'd have to say wouldn't you? I mean here we are. In January the Prime Minister came out proudly and said Well never mind the first sort of 14 15 months of our term—this is going to be the year we get some stuff done." Then what did she do the very next day? The first item of business in the year of delivery she came out and said "Do you know all those KiwiBuild targets? Yeah nah just kidding. We're not actually having those because we can't meet them." So that was the first item of delivery.Then we had a $2.5 million Tax Working Group that was going to deliver the greatest reform to a fair and just tax system. What did we get after 18 months of Michael Cullen on a thousand bucks a day and the Prime Minister telling us this would be the great transformation? Oh now they don't believe in it any more. No they're not going to do any of that—none of that's actually happening.Then on Friday we've got the Welfare Working Group coming out. Again about another $2.5 million of a long working group with all of the worthies in a room trying to figure out how to fix the working group and I can tell you now that there will be zero action on the recommendations of that report. I tell you now that it'll be another report where the only delivery this Government knows how to do is set up a working group consult consult and then do nothing—a do-nothing Government.This isn't the year of delivery; this is the year of deterioration. Every single core stat that actually talks to the well-being of New Zealanders is getting worse. You can talk about well-being all you like Mr Robertson—you can stick a well-being bumper sticker on your Budget as much as you want—but the numbers don't lie. Here's what the numbers are telling New Zealanders about actual well-being. Child poverty—the Prime Minister said child poverty was what she was all about. Well there are nine child poverty measures; seven of them have got worse under this Government. Seven of nine have gone backwards—and by the way seven of nine got better under National. There are now 4000 fewer jobs in our economy. Now this is an economy that's growing. There are more people here but we have 4000 fewer jobs for the people in New Zealand. KiwiBuild—what a shemozzle that has been. Wasn't it going to be 10000 houses a year? I'm sure they said 10000 houses a year. Well they're 18 months through their term and what have we got? Thirty-three—33 houses—an utter fail.The census for heaven's sake. The census the core data building block of all of our systems of Government and funding—they have made a complete omnishambles of the census. The Minister is still in utter denial as to whether the census is viable or not. He still stands in the House and tells us it will be the best census ever. I'm sorry Mr Shaw wake up. You're the only one who still thinks it.Then look at today with the revelations from Nicola Willis. Waiting times for special education services and early education—this Government told us that 76 days is too long and they would halve them. What's happened? They've almost doubled. That is not improving that is not delivery that is not well-being; it is total and utter incompetence and it is letting down the people of New Zealand. It is the very opposite of well-being.You don't have to look very far for the story to go on and on. The Provincial Growth Fund—every single day it seems that Shane Jones is caught out in another mess of his own making—Brett Hudson: Another dodgy deal.Hon AMY ADAMS: —no process dodgy deals no transparency hidden funding. This week we learn that they've tried to give money to companies who haven't even asked for it. That is how desperate Shane Jones is to get some runs on the board. No jobs of any note being created no projects being delivered—all we're seeing is dodgy process from a dodgy and incompetent Government.This is not the year of delivery; this is the year of debacles. It is the year of decay. It is the year of actual well-being getting worse and worse under this Government and I have no doubt that the people of New Zealand see through the spin. They see through the nonsense and they know that when you've now got 300 percent more people needing emergency housing help things are getting worse; things are not getting better. They know that when you've got 13000 more people on benefits 70 percent more people turning up for emergency hardship help things are not getting better; they're getting worse. So if this is the year of delivery then the rest of this country will be saying "Bring on the election." because the incompetence the failure the debacles and the arrogance we're seeing from this Government isn't helping the well-being of New Zealanders at all."