Lee DeniseDENISE LEE (National—Maungakiekie): Well it well and truly is the year of non-delivery and broken promises. And how do I know that? It is because today marks the six-month anniversary of the Government's failure to act on their own pay equity for women legislation. On 14 May six months ago today the Equal Pay Amendment Bill was reported back from the Education and Workforce Committee. It has been languishing on the Order Paper ever since and the Government is refusing to debate it and vote on it. Actually though it's longer than six months; they've been in Government for over two years and it's never been a priority. This is a bill that was copied nearly word for word from my previous member's bill and is supported by all the parties here in the House. Go figure—every single party supports it. But they've blocked and voted—if you look back in history—our bill three times in the past which could have been passed into law by now and have made tangible progress for all the women in New Zealand.This is a very important issue for millions of women across New Zealand who want progress. If they feel undervalued there's a process that they could use to argue for better conditions but this Government is making them wait. I have a question for the Minister for Women and the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety: why is this legislation held up? It's on the Order Paper; what's happening to it? The Minister for Women said We want to get this right." when I questioned her in the House a few weeks ago. We do know there are a couple of large pay equity claims sitting in courts right now. Are we waiting for a couple of vocal unions to complete their process and everyone else—all the other rest of the women in New Zealand—are on perpetual standby? Is that the reason? We'd like to hear and we'd like to know the answer. Women in New Zealand deserve to know the answer.Pay equity is one of the countless areas where this Government has failed to deliver. Aucklanders they're stuck in congestion paying increased fuel tax and not getting anything in return because we can't see what the Government's transport programme is actually delivering. To make it worse local projects are on hold because they're waiting to see what this Government's plan is. Onehunga wharf the rejuvenation of Onehunga's town centre are all stalled because they need to adapt to this Government programme that's not happening with light rail specifically. The Government can't even get that off the ground. We're supposed to have it halfway to Mount Roskill by now.The Government's failure to build the Environmental Protection Authority - approved East-West Link means that a huge number of trucks are driving on residential and suburban streets in my area every single day. And then they're pushing ahead with the outdated old Māngere Bridge—only a $25 million bridge that's about to start construction any day. And they're doing that when they don't know what these other two projects that I've just mentioned—light rail and East-West Link—are doing. Why would you do that? It's an absolute dog's breakfast of misalignment and bad planning. Really I'll tell you what the plan is: the other side are just making it up as they go along. Now compare and contrast this: their track record and what we're doing in Opposition. This morning we launched our education discussion document. It's our sixth document and we've got more to come. It's absolutely packed full of ideas on how we can fix the education system. We're doing the work. We don't want to flounder around and we want to get back into Government next year 2020 because we've seen—in fact all we've seen are broken promises and non-delivery from this Government."