Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Madam Speaker. I'd like to begin this session by congratulating you Madam Assistant Speaker Dean on your elevation to the Chair and to also extend the congratulations to your fellow presiding officers. I look forward to fair adjudication in this House as we expect from good speakers like yourself. Once again congratulations. I would also like to extend my congratulations to the Hon Priyanca Radhakrishnan on her elevation to Minister for Diversity Inclusion and Ethnic Communities. However I'm a little bit saddened that it is the first time in this House where the Minister of Diversity Inclusion and Ethnic Communities is outside Cabinet. I'm a little bit sad about that but I know that she will be very able in her execution of her role and I will support her as a member of the ethnic community. I look forward to meeting her at many ethnic community events which I'm sure will actually keep her very very busy indeed. I'd like to now go to the comments that were made by some of the members opposite and also I'd like to congratulate all of the new members of Parliament by the way. I heard some of the speeches last week and I just wanted to congratulate some of the members who are present in this House. Earlier the Hon David Clark was talking about how there were five-point plans that this Government had but I didn't quite hear the five-point plans actually. What he went on about was investing in people. He talked about our students—you know we needed to invest in our people and that was one of the tenets of this Government. I think what the Speech from the Throne was talking about futureproofing of the economy accelerating the recovery—these are words; these are not actual plans. To me when people talk about investing in the future and our students it is talking about education outcomes and we can say that the fact is in the last three years when our students graduated from high school they did worse than the cohorts that went before them. They are worse off in their reading writing and maths and this is something that we need to actually focus on. They are getting worse and this Government has actually failed in their attempt to do better. Earlier the member from the Green Party—the co-leader the Hon James Shaw—was talking in his speech and I found his speech rather ironic. He talked about the lack of infrastructure including the mouldering schools he said and yet he was part of the Government—he was a Minister of the Government—that actually delivered apparently on those infrastructures or lack thereof to those schools that he was talking about that had failed. He is actually making a judgment of his own performance for not delivering for New Zealanders and yet he's also responsible for the $12 million of funding to the Green School that is growing crystals. How many of those infrastructures that he thinks that we should be funding could have been funded out of that $12 million that he actually gave out? Sinking millions on consultants is something that this Government actually does well. You know they sank millions—actually hundreds of millions—on consultants and working groups and advisory panels. They sank millions on the slow train to the airport on Dominion Road that I'm still wondering what's happened to. That's the kind of advancement that this Government is talking about. The plan should really be a plan and I have not heard details of their plan; just fancy words. How are they going to reduce debt—the debt that we're going to be lumping on our children our future generations which this Government seems to think is actually OK. Debt is fast-growing. It is one of the most significant things that we need to worry about in this country. Government doesn't make money. Government does not earn an income—well they do actually through taxes. The hard-earned taxes that people actually pay is how Governments spend and this Government is set on spending millions and billions of the hard-earned cash of our taxpayers and completely wasting that. I hope that they will stay focused and do some work.