Bayly Andrew; Rurawhe AdrianGENERAL DEBATEANDREW BAYLY (National—Port Waikato): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Well it's been an interesting 24 hours in the House of Parliament of New Zealand I must admit and I think we'd be interested in actually maybe talking about more prosaic matters. I thought what we're actually observing is a Government that is starting to look like it's in a little bit of trouble. You know if I look across the other side and say What are the issues that seem to be surfacing after 42 months of this Government?" it is where we've got issues with COVID and we've seen certain strains coming through on that and I'll talk more about that shortly. Housing: I see the Hon Megan Woods here who was talking about that before. We've got issues with gangs and how they've been dealt with. We've got health issues and that's a significant one because how these have been dealt with is very significant and I see Mr Faafoi there the Minister of Immigration. I know he's not dealing with the issue of immigration well because all of our electorate offices have been flooded with people who are not getting a proper and timely reaction or response from the Government. But I thought today we might talk about delivery—something a bit different just a little bit different. So I thought it would be useful just to ask ourselves: what has this Government achieved in 42 months? The first thing that I'd like to note is we've got 10000 more bureaucrats that have been employed under this Labour-led Government over the last three years. I've got to say the small cost that has come with that is roughly about $1.2 billion so that's a good delivery! And I would have thought with the Minister of Finance if he was looking for a bit of extra money—and I'm just looking at my finance colleague here—if he were to go and find some money that would be a pretty good start. Of course we had the 340 working groups. Some have been delivered I think—probably more likely delivered to the bottom drawer because they're just not going to happen and they are a waste of time anyway. We had a Prime Minister who proudly banned oil and gas exploration and sailed off into the wind went off and met President Macron and Angela Merkel in Germany and said what a wonderful thing it is. So what's been the downside? Well we've seen energy prices go up fourfold—400 percent; fourfold—or actually slightly more than that since that announcement only a few months ago. We've got a Minister who's so keen on spending over $5 billion on a scheme that is so worrying the electricity and energy markets that they are putting on hold now a lot of their projects because they just regard it as a kahuna of a project that will make such an impact they will not invest in new renewables and that is why we're seeing power prices going up four times. We're seeing rents go up by 120 bucks a week. I thought this was a Government that's caring but of course the most damaging thing about that is that these are the people that are the most vulnerable people in New Zealand. These are the people some of which will be hoping to save for their house and of course a high rent is not going to help that. So we've got lots of these things coming through. But the most worrying thing for me is all the projects that are not happening. We've got the Mill Road project in Auckland in my electorate and in Judith Collins' electorate. We've got the Melling interchange which looks like it's going to be postponed. We've got the Penlink one that's likely to be delayed. We've got the Auckland light rail project. We've got the housing: 871 of them out of the 16000 that have been promised but that of course haven't been delivered. And that weird comment today about "institutional muscle memory of building houses"—I just don't get that. Then we've got today the Deputy Prime Minister wanting to set up and talk about his new delivery unit and of course where is the detail behind it? It is based on a UK scheme. It actually got brought in initially got removed and has now been brought back in. Here we've got a Labour Government trying to—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."