Scott AlastairALASTAIR SCOTT (National—Wairarapa): Overpromising under-delivering. We've heard a very good list of things that were not done by the Labour Government—not in the Budget. But of course they're all about rhetoric. It's all about saying stuff that they will do at some point and even Mr Hipkins said today that the promises he hasn't kept are not broken promises; they're just some things to do later to do at some point. There is no urgency by this Government to do anything that they promised to do. Instead well let's just look at one example. Let's just look at one sector. Let's look at education. Apparently there's a 45 percent increase in the education budget we heard today in question time. Where has that money gone? It's gone to the tertiary students who do not need the money. In fact it's been proven that there's been no new students turn up as a result of having a free year's education. Ineffective—$2 billion wasted down the tubes. Why on earth couldn't the Government use that money more effectively?Why has there not been more funding put into early childhood education for example? Why has that money not been used to alleviate or to keep the promise that was made regarding school donations—targeted where the money can be utilised effectively? But instead it was used in a universal grant that is given to people like myself. I have a first-year university student in Auckland who will get her first year free—her older brothers they went. They were going to go. She was always going to go. All the kids that have gone to university they were always going to go but the Labour Government have chosen to waste more than $2 billion and leave early childhood education for dead and leave school donations without changing them whatsoever.The other promises that have been broken—we heard them today in question time. Where's the money for the doubling of refugees? Where's the petition that was asked to be signed during the campaign by my opposition—Mr McAnulty? He gathered signatures tried to gather signatures for doubling the refugee quota because that was a policy that he was going to stand up in Parliament and advocate and demand—that there be money for these refugees that needed to be brought into New Zealand for their benefit and for the benefit of New Zealand. A culturally fantastic idea but what a disgrace that that was all hot air a broken promise rhetoric that does not mean anything. In fact the New Zealand public is learning quite quickly not to believe anything that that Government might say on the street corner or in a policy or perhaps even in Parliament. The credibility of this Government is waning fast and they can only blame themselves. We've got the police officers—another broken promise. We've got money—well where's all that extra money that's going into the district health boards? It's not. There is no extra money. In fact there's less extra money than what the National Government had promised. So the Government has cut back on health expenditure only because Winston Peters needed the $900 million to be invested in foreign affairs. You see the problem here is there's money to burn. We left it for the Government because we set them up. In fact Mr Parker sounded today like he'd done all the work. I mean it was quite obnoxious actually hearing Mr Parker claim that this fantastic surplus and the fact that the economy's in great order is due to the Labour Government.Hon Willie Jackson: It's true.ALASTAIR SCOTT: Mr Jackson says it's true. He's been there six months and he's claiming that the surpluses the never-ending surpluses the increasing surpluses were all down to the good work of Grant Robertson and that is just laughable. Again it just undermines the credibility of the Government when they make such claims because it is clear to the man on the street that it's nonsense. It is just a nonsense.So unfortunately there's a lot of the taxes that it was promised were not supposed to be coming in. They're here—the petrol taxes—and they're only hurting those that need to be supported the most.