Adams Amy: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeAdams Amy: General Debate[Sitting date: 04 May 2016. Volume:713;Page:10755. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon AMY ADAMS (Minister of Justice): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. So we have had a 2-week adjournment and we are back in the House again to reflect on what has happened over those 2 weeks and on the busy news cycle. A lot is happening in New Zealand and overseas and what is Labour focused on after 2 weeks of news cycles? It has worked itself into an incandescent rage over the totally unacceptable situation that our Prime Minister knows people! My God! He knows people and sometimes the people he knows actually come and talk to him. What an outrage! What an outrage! We have got a popular Prime Minister who actually goes around the country talking to people about what is on their minds. I mean how do we stand for it? What an outrage! I am surprised there has not been a commission of inquiry. Perhaps it is just that actually the Prime Minister knows people they like him and they want to converse. Perhaps that is so foreign that Labour members do not see that as a normal state of behaviour.While Labour members are working themselves into their little apoplexy over there this Government is focused on getting on with building and delivering what will be Bill English’s eighth Budget. What I can tell this House is that it will be another Budget that shows this is a prosperous country with a sensible moderate Government with a plan for success for everyone right across this country. Already we have seen some of the signs of that have we not? We have seen the Prime Minister announcing today $124 million over 4 years into Pharmac. And as the Prime Minister noted today in question time that takes Pharmac’s budget under our Government from $650 million to now $850 million making sure that year on year our investment in health and access to medicines has continued to climb and will continue to do so.We have seen the announcement in the last week or so from the Minister of Revenue about the $184 million small-business tax package. I can tell this House that I know that in my electorate where small businesses are absolutely the engine room of the economy this has been hugely well received. I think it shows very very clearly why this Government is so well connected to what is going on in real New Zealand. We are out talking to people we do listen to the people who come up to us and tell us what is going on and when small business said to us that it needs a bit of help to come up with a tax system that works better for it we sat down and made a way for that to work—$184 million into the small businesses of New Zealand and I can tell this House that there is much more to come.When the eighth Bill English National Government - led Budget is delivered later this month it will be another sign of what is setting New Zealand apart from countries we compare ourselves to. Just look at Australia. Australia put out its Budget yesterday and what do we know? Its unemployment rate is still higher than ours. The “lucky country” is still struggling to get its unemployment rate near ours and it is forecasting massive deficits for many years to come—massive deficits. And New Zealand under Bill English’s stewardship under the John Key - led Government is one of the very few countries that is projecting surpluses now and in the years to come and that is a tremendous effort from a Government that has worked hard to increase investment in education increase investment in health support small business and support our exporters into new markets. And yet we are delivering surpluses and we stand in a very very good position.The only policy we have heard out of Labour while we have been getting on and making things better for New Zealanders who are actually driving the employment growth in our country is that it wants to move universal superannuation to 18—at 18 it is going to start. At the last election Labour wanted to make the superannuation age 67. That did not work so it said: “Let’s roll it out at 18. Let’s make every single New Zealander eligible for universal blanket superannuation from the age of 18.” What a genius idea! And there was not one costing anywhere in the policy—not one costing. We know that this could be $54 billion a year. So all you are seeing from Labour frankly is a whole lot of nonsense—uncosted unfunded. At least its members wrote that one themselves and it was not plagiarised from anywhere. No one else would write it.In the meantime Anne Tolley is getting on with overhauling our Child Youth and Family system—a system that has been broken for years—and it is one of the most important things we can do to fix the social system in New Zealand. The work that Anne Tolley will lead in Child Youth and Family is the biggest thing we can do to improve the lives of vulnerable young New Zealanders prevent the crime of the future and help to ensure that the brighter future we have been building for 8 years now is truly there for every single New Zealander. I cannot wait for Budget day.