Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): It is a pleasure to rise on behalf of New Zealand First to speak to this the Appropriation (2016/17 Supplementary Estimates) Bill and the Imprest Supply (First for 2017/18) Bill. I just want to start by acknowledging Mr Nash and his contribution. He openly called New Zealand First policy development for the decades-old problems that the country is experiencing fresh". I just wish that he and the Labour Party would acknowledge the source of their policy development.In more acknowledgment I would like to give the greatest insult I possibly can give to Mr Bishop because he deserves it today. He deserves it today. The greatest insult I could give to Mr Bishop is that he sounded exactly like the former Finance and Expenditure Committee chairman. He sounded exactly like Minister David Bennett. That is a sad indictment on Mr Bishop. When I was new 3 years or 2½ years ago I thought Mr Bishop had a lot of smart things to say but he summarised not only himself but the National Government and just how tired it really is. It was an indictment on Mr Bishop.What I would say—Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: So on to the Budget—on to the Budget.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: Oh I am just replying—oh sorry Mr Deputy Speaker I do not mean to contest your ruling but I am just replying to speakers who have spoken before me. On to the Budget—Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Well just because they were breaking the rules it does not give you a licence. Have a crack at the Budget before you have a crack at them.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: Oh come on. OK Mr Deputy Speaker. I will attempt to acknowledge the contribution from Minister Joyce then and I will try to relate it to the Budget. He struggled but I will try to do that myself.He actually changed the position of National's spin because he said it was an appropriations bill that is delivering for New Zealanders. Now I do not know whether you noticed but that is actually just a very subtle but important change for National because just a few days ago at a conference the Prime Minister said it was delivering for all New Zealanders. Now the message has changed. Clearly with this Budget and with the imprest supply legislation and with the appropriation supplement that we are seeing in this bill Mr Joyce does not think he can at least deliver for all New Zealanders. The Government has got a problem and he does not want to say it in case we actually ask some fair and reasonable questions about how he is doing that for the homeless of New Zealand and those waiting on waiting lists to get into our hospitals just as a short example.In recent days the Prime Minister whilst undermining his integrity built up over the last 20 years or so showed us two things: the bored and tired political campaign that National will inflict on the New Zealand public best typified by the tweet he gave out: "We lead a Government that is delivering for all New Zealanders."—this is what he said. There were actually a few people who thankfully asked the question of what he means by delivering for all New Zealanders. There is something not quite right about that. It was a blatant throwaway line that means nothing and it is typified by not only the Budget that Mr Joyce in his lolly scramble released earlier this year but in this appropriations supplementary estimates bill.The other thing he suggested—and this is more to what Mr Joyce was saying earlier in his contribution. That is to say that Mr Joyce spoke about what the Government is delivering for New Zealand and he used some wonderful words and some wonderful terminology and he quoted GDP as the members opposite are oft wont to do. But let us just dig a little bit deeper. He spoke about a surplus. I put it to the House that any clown can set up an expenditure and revenue column and tell the country what they are going to spend and then anybody can not spend what they said they were going to spend and call it a surplus. That is what this Government has done with these numbers.I will just go through—he talked about building and housing. From the bill on the Christchurch rebuild there was money in this bill allocated for the Government to give to the council. I think it was over $2 million. If you look at the supplementary estimates bill and the schedule you will see that that money—$2 million—was not given. So there is an example of how a Government can obtain a surplus. Health safety and—sorry Mr Deputy Speaker—weathertightness. Weathertightness was the other one. There was $4.2 million allocated to weathertightness in the Budget but in this bill—not spent. The Government wants permission not to spend it and that is what that Government is going to pass today in this House. It is just I put it to the House unacceptable.Years of woeful neglect have left this country massively ill-prepared for the mass immigration that this country is seeing coming through our borders every day with a population the size of Rotorua coming into New Zealand every year. What has the Government done about it for the last 3 or 4 years? Absolutely nothing except encourage this unsustainable number coming into the country. What has that meant? Minister Joyce spoke about being the infrastructure Government but what he failed to mention is that he has not spent a penny on core desperately needed infrastructure just to cope with the huge increase in population here in New Zealand. We are talking about a population the size of Rotorua every year. So how many schools does that represent? There are 12 schools right there. Have that many schools been built in Auckland or around the country just to cope with that? No. Police health education hospitals clinics GPs police on our streets—it is just not happening and now all of a sudden the Government is in catch-up mode and telling the country that it has got more construction out there than ever before. It is pitiful and it is woefully inadequate but the Government is trying to sell it to the country like it had a plan; it did not. It is in catch-up mode.One of the best examples to typify that was the Budget spending not allocated to 65000—ah here it is here. Over the next 5 years demand for construction workers will be 65000. They will need to be trade qualified. The Government has cut tertiary funding. The Government has no real plan and from the legislation we are debating—supposed to be debating—today I took this as one example of the irony of the situation. We need more skilled workers. We need people to build more homes—actually we need the Government to take accountability and we need the Government to take ownership of that and have New Zealanders build homes. But here is one ironic example: we need all of this by 2020 and we see from this bill we are debating today that the Government held back $2 million on transportation for public schools. How does that work? This is contributing to its so-called surplus. That is how it achieves a surplus: $2 million that it is not giving to our kids who need to get to school. I bet you anything you like that that adversely and disproportionately affects our rural and regional kids who want desperately to get to school but my goodness this Government makes it incredibly incredibly hard for them. It is so frustrating to speak about it in the House. District health boards (DHBs) were another example I took from this legislation. There was $5.5 million held back from health and disability support services from the Bay of Plenty District Heath Board the DHB in the area that I live—$5.5 million not handed out from this Budget to health and disability support services. There was $6.3 million held back from Capital and Coast District Heath Board $7.4 million not spent on Counties Manukau and $8 million from the Waikato District Heath Board. All of that I put it to the members opposite helped to create the surplus that they are so proud of. That is the reality for this country and we do not have the money being spent on infrastructure that we need. The spend so far is not going to catch us up to the start—when this Government started—and we need so much more for New Zealand. Thank you."