Uffindell Sam; Kuriger BarbaraSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Madam Speaker. I was quite happy actually to hear the member over the other side of the House talk about using technology and growing the economy and exporting out to the world because that's exactly the right attitude. So thank you for having that and I wish the rest of your colleagues also shared that. It's a shame you're leaving.But let's look at the current state of this economy. We have got inflation at 7.2 percent and it is not transitory. We have got real wages which are down no matter what fudging we hear around that. A lot of that is domestically driven with immigration constraints constant regulations being piled on to businesses and all of these costs add up driving up the costs of workers and that's having a real issue in everyday households. Government spending is up a staggering $1 billion a week. That is unbelievable. That is reckless. We've got the large-scale asset purchase programme and when yields moved on that—we're now in the hole for $9 billion on that. It doesn't get talked about a lot but that is a big problem. And $60 billion spent on COVID—some of it very good; some of it not so good. Net debt is up. It's very hard to meet the big response that we need to Cyclone Gabrielle and the big infrastructure requirements that we have because we just don't have that money around any more. We had the opportunity and I believe that this Government has squandered it. We have constant taxes coming on with the regional fuel tax the IPS tax the jobs tax which is off the table for the moment; interest deducibility and this has been passed on. We saw rents up $575 now up 43.5 percent since this Government came in not the 35 percent the Minister said at question time.And you know what? New Zealanders are probably happy to pay taxes if we are getting First World services but as my colleague Nicola Willis said we just aren't. You know health is looking abominable. We have got thousands waiting over 24 hours in the emergency departments. We've got 80000 people waiting for an operation. Education—you know over half of our kids aren't turning up to school. Two-thirds of them are failing basic literary and numeracy tests. And we've also got emissions up. I mean that is a pretty sad indictment on a Government that declared a climate emergency to have emissions going up. So we are paying a lot more the Government is spending a lot more and yet we're getting worse outcomes. And I would be able to spend more of my taxes if I got First World public services and I'm afraid that we are not.So if we look at the Government's wellbeing objectives and we see them here in the Budget Policy Statement they talk about a just transition. Well we're now importing three times as much coal as when Labour came into power. Physical and mental wellbeing: we know the health statistics—I've mentioned them before—are very bad. Mental health statistics are out the gate and that is a really sad indictment. We are a divided country at the moment and we have got a lot of people feeling the impacts of this Government's policies over the past few years.The future of work—I mean we've looked at swamping businesses with a lot of regulations. Māori and Pacific peoples—and it's really sad to say it but they are feeling the brunt as are our most vulnerable throughout society as a result of this Government's mismanagement. And talk about child wellbeing—you know this is what our former Prime Minister wanted to get into politics for and we've now got more kids growing up in motels than we've ever had and that is a damning indictment on New Zealand. So if we want a Wellbeing Budget let's focus on growth. Let's be positive. Let's look out there at the world because we are not going to get rich and lift incomes for all by expecting the Government to drive all of that because the Government doesn't drive it. The Government doesn't create growth. What the Government needs to do is set the expectations and then get out of the way and let the private sector and the NGOs develop that. Let's develop our technology. Let's export those services. Let's develop high-paying high-skilled jobs in New Zealand and take that to the world. When we do that we will have a Wellbeing Budget. We will be able to have first-class education first-class healthcare—all of those things that our parents' generation and beyond used to have and yet New Zealanders growing up in the 21st century don't. And New Zealand parents now are looking at this country and saying I'm not sure if I want to continue here. I might go and look over at Australia" or "I might go and look somewhere else." So if we want a Wellbeing Budget let's make sure that we've got the mind-set right. Let's not make the mistakes that this Government continues to make and let's grow our economy and lift incomes for all and the people to do that are the National Party.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Barbara Kuriger): Helen White—this is also a five-minute call."