Foster AndyANDY FOSTER (NZ First): Thank you. This debate started with the words that times are tough" and they are tough. They're largely tough because of the last three years of mismanagement.I'm going to give you a little graph here. This little graph here shows you the level of Government debt going up from 2020 to 2023 and it exactly mirrors the rate of inflation going up. People might glaze over when you talk about GDP and GDP per capita but the reality is that we are going backwards per capita. That means that in real terms—real terms—we actually earn less than we used to a couple of years ago. We are going backwards. You see that at the supermarket. You see that with rising costs rising rents and you see that with mortgage rates as well. Those things hurt New Zealanders. Retail sales are down eight quarters in a row—eight quarters in a row. We are still borrowing to pay for our lifestyles because our current account deficit is running at $30 billion a year—$30 billion a year we are borrowing to pay for our lifestyle. The last Government spend 80 percent more but I don't think it delivered 80 percent more. In fact I think it barely delivered anything more. What it did leave is more divided than ever.This is the first general debate we've had since the Government completed its 100-day plan. We've heard a lot about that. But what I do want to say is that this is a coalition that is working collaboratively and constructively together. I think it is working very very well. We're delivering on what we collectively campaigned on we're delivering on our coalition agreements and we're delivering real change. We're taking our country back and we're getting out country back on track. As the Hon Chris Bishop said earlier we've essentially achieved every single one of our 49 items in our first 100-day plan. Even that well-known friend of the Government Stuff gave us a 100 percent pass mark except for one thing. They said we hadn't introduced the five objectives for our health system. Guess what! That's been done in the last few days as well. So I think we're doing pretty well there. It's been about removing strangling ideological legislation reducing burdens and the cost of red tape removing poor-quality investment—for example Auckland Light Rail—and reducing wasteful spending of hard-earned taxpayer dollars. What we are focused on is getting our great country moving forward more productive than ever. What's been great is that after the first 100 days of hard work we've been able to hit the road and been able to talk to and more importantly listen to lots of great New Zealanders up and down the country. I have to say what I saw is a lot of excitement that there's a breath of fresh air. There's new management that people are looking forward to and a greater sense of freedom to be the people that people want to be. Our team's been out and about as well. I've got a lovely picture of us all there out and about around the country. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs the Rt Hon Winston Peters our leader has been reestablishing New Zealand on the world stage after three years of neglect. Matua Shane Jones has been meeting with productive industries and focusing on getting things done up and down the country. The Hon Casey Costello has represented New Zealand as the Associate Minister of Police in the UK. The Hon Mark Patterson has been meeting rural communities farmers and supporting the future of wool and fibre and looking at gold mining as well. Jenny Marcroft Jamie Arbuckle and I met with the marine farms sector. That's a really exciting industry. What we heard about is great innovations and great work that they are doing in looking after the environment better. One of the other messages that we got—and this is a real support for fast tracking—is the difficulty not only of consenting but of re-consenting. That's something that I think that we need to do much much faster and much smarter. We met with mayors and civic leaders and we asked them: how can we help you? We looked at Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) projects again up and down the country water reservoirs water storage water treatment civic libraries making a difference and that was the last of course contribution that New Zealand First made between 2017 and 2020. We met with key infrastructure providers educators and social housing providers. We heard a bit about Kāinga Ora (KO) today. We heard concerns from social housing providers who are providing transitional housing but what KO is doing is they're taking the most needy the ones who actually need the social housing support the wraparound support and they're taking those people away from that and putting them in permanent housing. What could possibly go wrong? And it does. We heard from downtown Auckland businesses saying how thrilled they are to see the police back on the beat and even chasing crims through town. That is great to see. They're seeing a breath of fresh air. We met with small businesses and hospices and what I can say is they love being heard. They want to see vision. They want to see certainty. They want to see action. They want to see inspiration. We finished off with a wonderful Fielday in Feilding. All three of the parties in the coalition represented there none of the Opposition which was shameful and our leader the Rt Hon Winston Peters speaking to a mass crowd of 700 people gave a state of the nation speech. This country is under new management and our country is loving it.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."