Clark DavidDr DAVID CLARK (Labour—Dunedin North): The previous speaker Jami-Lee Ross talked about a contest of ideas and I think those watching on the TV will find it deeply ironic that all of the ideas that he debated in his speech were Labour Party ideas. He may have got them wrong and he may have sent us off in the wrong direction but he had nothing—absolutely nothing—to say about what the National Party would do if it is the next Government. It has been here for 9 years.He talked about unemployment and he talked about our industrial relations policy and tried to say that that would create employment issues. The Labour Government had unemployment at the lowest in the Western World when it left office. After the global financial crisis unemployment went up. It is now higher than it was during the global financial crisis because of this Government's stewardship. That is what a track record looks like on industrial relations policy from that side. During the 1990s unemployment was between 7 and 11 percent—it jumped up and down. It has stayed high; this Government has high unemployment. A Labour Government believes in full employment tries to get there and puts policies in place to make sure people do have work. That is the contrast that we need to see today.This side of the House does have fresh ideas. After 9 long years of failure on that side of the House all we can see when National members are proposing how they are going to boost the economy is the rocketing sales of tape-recorders down in Clutha-Southland and a job creation scheme in National's electorate offices down there. That is their fresh idea. That is the only one we have seen recently. We certainly heard nothing at all from that member Jami-Lee Ross.While we are on the Bill English de-Barclay" I think we need to examine whether we can now have confidence as a country in our Prime Minister. He was caught telling the truth by the police but no one else caught him out in that regard for quite some time. He told this House that he knew nothing of the affair and that he knew nothing about recorded tapes of private conversations which look like they are illegal activities. He said he knew nothing about it. Finally he was caught up telling the truth when the papers and the statements to the police were released. That is a failure of moral leadership. We saw it with the Treaty of Waitangi celebrations up in Northland where the Prime Minister did not show up—again. Every time there is trouble he ducks for cover. There is no moral leadership with this current Prime Minister. We have a Prime Minister but I am afraid we do not have a leader.Hon Maggie Barry: Matt McCarten? How's Labour dealing with Matt McCarten? Where's your leadership?Dr DAVID CLARK: Contrast that with what happens when Andrew Little faces up and deals with the matter that the Hon Maggie Barry raises. Andrew Little owned the issue and apologised. It was peripherally done in the name of the Labour Party and he got on and dealt with the issue. He made sure that those volunteers were accommodated appropriately and looked after.I heard Jami-Lee Ross claiming that they have no volunteers in their party. Well I am not surprised with ideas like his—with what he was trying to put across. He was trying to say there were no unpaid people working for his party. I am not surprised with the set of ideas he tried to bring across in the House today. There were zip—zero zilch—new ideas. After 9 long years they are out of touch.We need a fresh approach and that fresh approach will involve making sure that we fund services properly and that we get on with building new houses. Stop the excuses. Stop the excuses about not building houses about how the market will set the prices and about how people will come across from Australia which we heard today. Goodness me! Nothing—everything but a policy on building houses. The Labour Party wants with the KiwiBuild project to build 10000 houses a year and make sure that Kiwis have access to affordable housing.In the health sphere we want to make sure that policies are in place to deal with the rising crisis in mental health. We know that the need for mental health services has gone up 60 percent in the last decade and yet that Government has funded less than half of that amount for support services. It has gone up only 28 percent in that time. When you have demand on hospital services going up and you do not fund those services they get cut. We have seen that in terms of many kinds of services in the health sector. We have seen it with hip and knee surgeries. We have seen it with cataracts. We have seen it with plenty of other services. Over half a million Kiwis could not afford to go to the GP last year because of rising prices—$42 is the average price now to go and see a GP. That has happened under this Government's watch. Health services are becoming less accessible to the New Zealanders who pay taxes and expect to have adequate access affordable access to quality healthcare.We will also put money into education and make sure every kid has the opportunity to get ahead. The Labour Party believes every New Zealander should have a world-class education at their local school and will give opportunities post - secondary school too working towards 3 years of free post - secondary education.This party believes in the future of New Zealanders. We believe in strong public services and in making sure every Kiwi has the opportunity to get ahead."